Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-05
$4,000 NURSES WANTED
FOR RED CROSS worn
Government Urges Signing Up o.
Basis of One to Every Hundred &
Boys Registering Today B

Trained nurses are urged to register foS
Red Cross work in an appeal issued by ~
American Red Cross at the suggestion ~
the Government The nurses asked 10
sign up on the basis OF one nurse for every
100 boys who register today for military ssrvs
ice
There Is said to be no immediate danger
Of drafting skilled nurses into the service Of
the country, but an individual and personal
call is to be made on all nurses in effort
"a enlist their services
The personal canvass of nurses. according
to Miss Susan Francis. head OF the PennsyI-
vania.Delaware division of the Red Cross, will
be part Of the campaign now under way for
26.OOO recruits before January I.
NO nurse Of military age and physical re-
quirements should remain In industrial
position
This is the attitude of the National RED
'ross Society, which declares that the need
for nurses in saving the lives Of soldiers at
the front and of minster.ng to the wounded
is so intense that as many as possible must
be released for this service.
record has been kept in training schools
ana registration bureaus throughout the
country of graduate nurses. Committees will
oe organized to make personal visits to these
nurses with the view to explaining the need
and urging upon them the vital necessity OF
ofering themselves for duty abroad should
'htlI HpIllt ties ana tnelr nealtn permit. Th0
campaign VIII be as personal the cam
patgns for money in Liberty Loan and Red
Cross fund drives. A
In the present campaign four purposes are
paramount: First. the enrolment of all grad
uate nurses of military age and phyeicaf
qualification for service behind the lines, Sec.
ond, the enrolment of married nurses to take
the places here Immediately of those with.
drawn. Third. the enrolment of applicants
for civilian and military training schools for
tho n1i an - &I,a
to do without nurses not absolutely needed
In the home and to use nurses by the hour
when occasion arises that they may be
released for service in the places Of those
Withdrawn from constant service
Miss Francis is assisted in directing the
activities OF the hygenic section Of the dlvi.
sion by a large local committee, Including
trained nurses either at present engased n
hospital service or graduate nurses who ara
at home. but hold themselves ready for vol.
unteer service Fl
Her assistant is Mrs. Ellis Schnabel, whose
volunteer service exemplfes the personal sac
Tirlce asked or the women of the nursing pro-
fession Mrs Schnabel was formerly Miss
Elizabeth Hatfield who was known to the
nursing profession in western Ohio and IN
Brooklyn as a hospital superintendent ana
training school teacher. Mrs. Schnabie II.
giving her services to the Red Cross al
though she continues to manage her horsaa
ana do all her own housework in the intertYa
between her duties as chapter superyisor.
1T is my duty" she said. THE sacrifco
Of my time and the extra effort necessary n
conducting my home affairs are nothing -
comparison with our country's need" Fl
Others on the committee serving locally
with Miss Francis are Miss Martha LafYertG
Miss Sara NJ Murray. director Of thu penIfS
sylvania Training School for Nurses; Wifs
Dorothy Ferree. secretary o: the comrnitt46z
Miss Carolyn l. Milne. principal Of the trafns
ing school OF the Presbyterian Hospital; lfinoi
Eva Hood. principal Of the Hahnahan TrafnS
ing school; Miss Elizabeth Miller supArtsas
tendent Of the Polytechnic Hospital Mo-
Annie p. Laughlin. superintendent Of Hry1
Mawr Hospital; Miss NJ. Louise SnyAees
superintendent of the University Of Penneyf-
L. Kratz. a graduate of the MedIco.rshg 8