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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

Improving the Condition of the Poor and with
the New York Milk Committee and diet sta
tons.
Tt is carried on under the direction of such
well known obstetricians as Drs. Lobenstine
Hill, Cragin, Edgar, Studdiford and Painter
with number Of prominent women Of the
city in executive positions.
In five of the districts the work is actively
under way-in Zone 8, where the maternity
centre at the Union Settlement is cooperating
with all the agencies of the district, including
the large Berwyn Clinic; in Zone A, with the
centre at the Bellevue School of Midwifery;
in Zone 5, where clinics at Christ House. the
French Hospital, the New York Medical Col
lege and the New York Nursery and Child's
Hospital are planning to work with mater
nifty centre soon to be opened at Hartley
House; in Zone 8, with the centre at the
Woman's Infrmary for Women and Children;
and in Zone Z, where maternity centres are
being supported by the Woman's City Club
and the Henry Street Settlement
The prospective mother is urged to register
early and visit the clinic with reasonable fire.
qaency for the necessary examination and adj
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
What the Law Allows: Concerning Trained Nurses

TIME profession Of nursing the sick, to
adapt the words Of woman who has
long stood at the very head of this pro-
fession, is suffering still from the traditions
of the ancient ''sisterhoods," where self
immolation and not usefulness was test Of
virtue. 1t is largely because of this idea, or
ideal, that nurses have been the last among
women workers to receive attention from the
lawmakers, whose business it is to see that
wage earners protected from the effects
of poor conditions and overwork.
The ideal nurse has always been the one
who satisfied sentiment-the one who sacri-
feed herself the most-the one who worked
the longest after she was tired, regardless of
whether she was really capable of good work
the one whose patience and sweetness held
out against the most discouraging odds.
Yet in California, in burst of common
sense achieved Immediately after the granting
Of suffrage to women, the Legislature passed
bill revoking the ancient custom Of keeping
nurses their feet twelve to twenty hours
out of the twenty-four, and gave them an
eght-hour day during their undergraduate
course in hospital training schools.
Pupil nurses in training schools give their
services in return for the instruction they
ccive, just as medical students do. But their
theoretical instruction is received mostly in
the evenings; and young woman who has
spent twelve hours actively working is not so
likely to get the best out of her studies as one
whose body is not tired out. Therefore 1t is
especially necessary that during their years
Of probation nurses should not bs forced to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

be deprived of the comfort of "seeing always
the same face" at the bedside. Yet presently
it became evident that seeing the same face
was not really so important having fresh,
unjaded mind and spirit behind the face
and soon hospital superintendent who had
opposed the movement because they felt that
It m enet problems fasd ana depicts
easier to get three nurses for eight-hour shifts
than two for twelve-hour shifts. And finally
they said that they wished they had taken
the initiative in the reform themselves instead
of having it forced on them by legislation.
The war is speeding up the solution of diff
culties in this field of work just as it is in
many others. The great need for nurses has
broken down the barriers which kept out
married women and fenced in the others with
rules, restrictions and traditions unworthy of
a girls boarding school, And now in New
nonresident course which does not require
nurses all to sleep under the same roof and
eat at the same board; Bellevue and Kings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

But after the sun and wind and games have
begun to work their way the complaint Of
hungry lads who can't eat enough to last from
meal to meal is worded as follows:
''The pipes to my eatings is too small"
Camping facilities are available for civic,
social and educational organizations. Applica-
ton is made to the Commissioners of Pail
sades Interstate Park, 81 Broadway, New
York City. The organizations admitted to
park privileges pay only the cost of every
thing done for them. The park camp depart
ment solves the problems of food, transpor-
tation and equipment Each society pays
rent based on the depreciation Of property
and per cent interest on the money ex-
pended in building the camp.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

County are training nonresident students on
a forty-eight-hour week schedule; and the
Presbyterian, Bellevue, City, Mount Sinai and
Postgraduate hospitals are all offering
to college women a course covering shorter
period than the usual three years of prepare
ton.
In addition five colleges have established
summer courses in trained nursing-Vassar,
the Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
and the universities of Iowa, Cincinnati and
California. And the Red Cross has decided
to enroll nurses who graduated from regis
requiring them to pass an examination.
It is hoped that these measures will induce
not only girl graduates of high schools and
colleges to take up this vital work, but mature,
experienced women as we'll. Nursing as a
profession is subject periodically to avalanches
many social butterfly feels called to hold a
soldiers hand and smooth his brow, with a
minimum knowledge of what might really do
him some good. But after all, it is real job
"a job of life and death-and the only one
wherein the student is set immediately at her
life task and works at 1t from the start.
For those Of us whose profession is already
chosen along other lines, or who are unable
for other reasons to be nurses, there is an OBJ
vious way to help: Glasses in training schools
here in the city are not yet filled to capacity.
They cannot be filed until some aOay is found
to house the students. Last summer few
patriotic New Workers loaned their homes to
the Presbyterian Hospital for the use of the
nurses. Why should not many more who are
planning to leave empty houses and apart
ments in the city while they are away on va
cations turn over the keys to heads of schools
for young women who are training for the
most essential phase of war work?
We face at this moment no greater need
than the need for nurses, both hero and "ovsr
Tiara"
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vice. She will in turn be visited in her home
and assisted with advice and practical help to
make the surroundings all that they should
be to insure safe delivery and healthy baby.
It is, too, one Of the aims Of this movement
ultimately to develop group Of competent
physicians to care for the 10 per cent of
mothers who have their babies at home, un-
aided by the hospitals. Medical fees should
be larger than at present, and the deficit be-
tween the specified fee and the amount the
patient is able to pay could be met by a fund
to be raised from private sources, by the
city Department of Health, or by system of
maternity insurance, such as obtains in France
and England.
In war time the lives Of babies and mothers
are the only ones that need not be risked, and
obviously the public health officials Of New
York City should take note Of this and realize
that money put into prenatal work and child
welfare is not money SPENT but money invest
ed, and bound to bring profit beyond measure
But the administration at City Hall is looking
so hard at the pennies spent for saving these
lives that it cannot see the dollars gained BY
saving them. So. until the women Of New
York can go to the polls and vote for tina
health and safety of children, there is nothing
to be done but give money and service to this
as to every other form of war work.
There is a field here for those who havs
nothing but service to offer. There is a field.
too. for women's organizations to follow tbs
example of the Woman's City Club and sup
port each district or part of district. And
there is field for real political propaganda
which will serve to convince city officials that
although women voters may divide on prohi-
bition. tariff, capital punishment and labor,
the one point which they all unite is that
babies have the right to . healthy body ana
live mother if it is In the power of civiIix.-
tion TO give il to them.
And Il "a;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

The park camp department builds the
shacks. The same department supplies cots,
blankets and other equipment at much lower
figure than the individual societies could OBJ
tain by doing their own shopping. Every
thing is Of the best quality.
Food is, Of course, the big problem. Twelve
thousand loaves of bread, thirty-six thou
sand quarts of milk fourteen thousand eggs,
thirteen hundred pounds of butter were con-
sumed last summer. All the food is bought
by the park camp department by the carload
and boatload and sold to individual societies
plus 10 per cent to cover transportation and
other expenses. The only complaint heard all
last summer was from one young man who
asserted:
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wv
skirts stroll along
the paths. w h y d o
tears come to ones
eyes at the sight
of sick children
growing strong and
brown?
With children
catching bees in their
hands, playing over
rough ground and
eating green apples,
minor calanities are
bound to occur. But
so careful are the ar
rangements and the
oversight that last
year among the
twenty thousand peo-
pie, many Of them
sickly, there was not
one fatality or seri-
GUS illness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
By MARIE DE MONTALVO

THE winter of 1915 Dr. Haven EN-
erson, then Health Commissioner of New
York City, organized a committee COM
posed OF several physicians cooperating with
the New York Milk Committee to study the
conditions under which women of the city
Dear their children.
1t had been obvious for some time that for
ehe conservation of the race it was necessary
" make some attempt to render available for
tnose OF moderate means the obstetrical care
winch makes child-bearing practically without
Hanger Tor women who can afford to pay for
sae pest medical attention and the most favor
apie environment. But it was not until this sur
'ey was made that it became evident what
Aenace child-bearing is to the lives of women
ana to what extent the chance that babies
WI survive is minimized by the undernour-
.nment, overwork and poverty of the mother
aorlng her pregnancy and the lack of proper
medical care at the time of her delivery.
" has been computed that in Manhattan
sorough ~ to 30 per cent of births are cared
No1 Dy hospltals--and in greater New York
,nsy 10 per cent. The rest are looked after
" mldwives Especially among foreigners) or
" poorly equipped or quack physicians.
physicians who will consent to work for
sne small fees received in these cases are only
so0 oaten badly trained, and so careless and
surred-for at SIS to SIS apiece man if he
hve cannot give very many hours to
Asn oehVery-~that good midwife might be
p'eierabie; for she will give all the time
,sssssary, and the fact that the law forbids
-, 'he use of instruments and corpels her to
' physician where there is abnormality
as protection to the patient.
na. any real improvement in the standards
= Ais work and in the conditions surround
~ prospective mothers, it was voted by DR..
sons committee, would require tho CO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

"The eggs here amt got no taste like they
has in the city"
dietary planned by experts is used as the
basis, although wide latitude in ordering is
given the camps. Vegetables are supplied
from the big park garden. The thirteen hun
dred sheep that sometimes decorate the hill
sides are converted into chops
Most Of the camps are supplied with cooked
meals from central kitchen. More than
twenty thousand piping hot breakfasts, din
ners and suppers, packed in heat-retaining
cans and served as far as twenty miles from
the stove, proved last year the economy of
a community kitchen.
Accidents Might Happen -
But They Don't
r. The age of campers varies from ninety
days 70 ninety years Tallow-faced scrawny
little boys grin at you from among the black
berry bushes. Tragic little poliomyelitis Grip
pies wave friendly greetings from their cots
Girls in khaki boomers tear by with tapping
pigtails. Big Brothers little brothers PLAY
wild-injin among the tree trunks An or
phanage brings it's household for the season.
Christian Associations and Hebrew Associa-
tons gather about each others evening fires.
Slowmoving mothers with babies in arms and
h <o
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ant Sunday Fathers and mothers. toting
heavy lunch bags, settle down with their
broods near the shore. Restless souls in
whom the wanderlust has not been killed
by city life can get real tramping on half
broken trails Boy Scouts are everywhere.
Says one as he hikes by you:
Gee, Pm glad learned to cook last Sun
day"
A single camp for undernourished boys,
carried on in 1915, proved so successful that
the following summer twenty-six camps of
various kinds were going full tilt. These
campers the novel feature of the park.
They make it a twenty-four-h ours-a-day park.
The Air Tastes Strong
The Eggs Do Not!
The experience of camping is not imme-
diately delightful to some of the novices.
1T amt SO big like cockroach, but it sits
on my ear and sings and singsw complained
a much-bitten youngster on the morning after
the first night.
1.-THE air is too strong for me- It's fierce,
its so strong," was description of what we
generally call inconsistencies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
THE NEW CITIZENS POINT or VIEW
NO Keep Off, Signs In This 24-Hours-a-Dav Park

play without knock
ing elbows. One lit
tie mother, sophisti-
C a t e d in city ways,
snubbed h er SIN all
charges for calling it
grass.
"That amt grass"
she unce 81 d.
Don't youse see
there amt no keep
off-o' signs?"
The railroad sta
ton Is called Bear
vi o u n tain. Steam
ers from New York
City, up the Hudson,
are another means
of transporta tion.
Every motor car
owner within a hun
dred miles knows the
way. AS many as
five thousand trip
perS come on a pleas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

overwork on the practical side of their task.
An eight-hour day is long enough.
Of course, this meant that there would be
three shifts of nurses on duty in the hospitals
instead of only two, and that patients would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16
BY MARY ALDEN HOPKINS

n TEW YORK and New Jersey have gone
u to housekeeping together at Bear
Mountain, on the Hudson River, Just
below West Point. Palisades Interstate Park
is the name of the summer home they have
set up. The summer family sojourning there
last year numbered twenty thousand. Any
man, woman or child is eligible as a member.
This is peoples park, paid for by the peo-
pies money.
The grounds cover 10000 acres of wood
land, lakes and even mountains included.
Several small ponds have been assisted to be-
come chain Of stable bodies of water The
boys camps are placed along the edges, con-
venient for water sports.
1--WE make the boat go with two stcks.' a
serious lad explained carefully. eve pull the
sticks way and the boat goes the otherw
All the Joys of Life
Except Asphalt and Cops
Between Bear Mountain and the river is
huge grass playground, on which thousands
and thousands of Sunday excursionists can all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

ME story of the outdoor maternity
Chld's Hospital,
printed this section May e. The
fecty equipped for OF
This work which reaches
bring with babies
charity
civilization
enough human left
If the system the Nursery Chds could
model similar
ona and health work mothers babies
dions surrounding
Obstetrics there should result reduction
mothers of the
rs births
What this to the United States just perhaps fully
those who what
children
n O the Board
the Assojat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-16

is being developed in seven Of the ten zones
mapped out in this city, in cooperation first
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with hospitals, second with the Board Of
Health milk stations, with the Association for
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-26

the poorly drilled but keen-eyed
Americans returned the compliment
by pouring their bullets into carefully
selected living marks. This tradi-
tional American trait was manifested
again in the Civil War, when both
sides produced great numbers of won
derful sharpshooters.
The foundation of civilization In
the United States was laid with the
famous old weapon known as the
Kentucky rifle" The prototype of
this weapon was the fiintlock, manu-
featured in quantities by Pennsyl-
vania blacksmiths as early as 1880.
In the making OF the nation the
rife and the axe went side by side.
Since those early days the descen-
dantS OF the pioneers instinctively
have turned to the rife. In minia
ture form, even If only an air rife,
Il is the favorite toy Of the American
small boy. His elders have chung to
1t for sport and protection and, in
variably, during wars fought by the
United States, the army rife has
played big role.
Curiously enough, American in
ventors did not originate the chief
feature Of the rife that is now making
1t terror to Germans. A few years
before the Civil War, during the Cri-
mean War in fact, British soldiers
experimental with rifles that were
equipped with telescopes. The idea
appealed strongly to Americans, how
ever, and the use of telescope equip
ment was developed tremendously
AaY YIN ~ fho hoffIac nR %ha an ~, eiw<sac
Unfortunately, interest In rife
conflict between the North and South.
It was revived in the late seventies,
through the efforts OF General George
W. Wingate, N. Y. N. c., and the use
OF the American national weapon has
since steadily increased among civil
ians. In 1916, at the time of the
Mexican border mobilization, there
were 1890 separate and distinct rife
clubs In the United States, with an
aggregate membership OF consider
ably more than 100000.
The American soldier has been
trained to the use of the rifle as a
long-range weapon. This gives him
an advantage over the German, who
has never been taught to shoot at
marks more than 400 meters (437
yards) distant. AS a matter Of fact,
their Workmanship Is so poor that
Germans have never taken part In the
international rife competitions at
which crack shots from England.
Canada, the United States, France,
Argentina, Chile and numerous other
nations were entered. The German
military authorities have failed to
encourage individual proficiency.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-26

Red Cross Home Service
Is Friend Of Soldiers Wives

The wife OF an army captain In q
wrge eastern city recently received
rom hcr bank O formal notice to the
efect that, since her husbands name
bad appeared on the casualty lists
from the French front, she could no
longer draw checks upon their joint
account. She was near collapse from
worry without this final distress, and
there seemed to be nobody to whom
ehe could appeal for help against the
entirely unexpected action on the part
Of the bank. The question came to
&he attention Of the Home Service
Section.
She happened to be the wife of a
commissioned officer, but it would
nave been the same so far as Home
Service was concerned IL her account
mad been q pittance and her husband
. private soldier. She was the wife
Of an American fighting for his coun-
try, and that made her troubles the
responsibility OF the Red Cross.
A lawyer representing the Home
Service Section in that city got q copy
pr the letter which the bank had sent
70 her and called upon the vice-presi-
dent Of the bank. The Home Ser
vice worker pointed out, in terms
more or less forcible, that the fact
Of her husbands name appearing on
Q casualty list did not In any way
affect her legal right to her own
money In the bank. He asked q few
pointed questions as to Just why q
bank, supposed to be the friend of
Its clients, should take so much pains
to add to the distress of one Of them
when she was worried by the news
Of her husbands disablement. He
inquired why the wife Of q soldier
should find that she had no legal
right to draw q check upon her own
account because her husband had
been hurt.
The bank official was much sur
prised that such q letter had gone
out and assured the captains wife
pf what she already knew-that the
money in the bank was hers and she
could draw on Il whenever she
wished. He also promised the Home
Service man that no more such let
ters would go out to harrass the
wives Of wounded men.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-26

Recent cabled reports from the fir-
ing line tell Of an American sergeant
who picked OF twenty-five Germans
at long range while the enemy was
retreating across the Marine. This
exhibition Of skill In the use OF q
United States Army rife is an inter-
esting contrast to the carefully
worked out estimate that in the for
mer wars there has been only one
complete casualty to every six hun
dred shots fred. It shows why Euro
pean army commanders have been
about the value Of individual infantry
fire since the American Expedition
airy Forces entered the battle zone.
Since the beginning of the present
war the French and British armies
have paid little attention to the rife
and have pinned their faith to ma
chine guns, bayonets and hand gren-
AIDES. Notwithstanding this fact,
General Pershing invariably has con-
tended that the rife Is by no means
a back number In modern lighting.
During the early days OF his COM
mand In France he issued an urgent
request that every man In the United
States Army be given thorough train
ing in the use OF military small arms
before being sent overseas. The re-
markable skill with the rife shown by
American soldiers In recent battles
and the amazing results obtained by
its use in the heaviest fighting has
not only indicated General Per-
shing's firm stand bat has converted
military experts In the Allied armies.
"At what distance can one OF your
rife experts hit man?" inquired Q
visiting Offcer from the British Army
few days ago. y He was told that
many crack shots In the American
Army should without difficulty hit a
human target at o distance OF from
seven to eight hundred yards.
"If that is true Of many Ameri-
cans" he commented, ''there are
some painful surprises In store for
the enemy. Every German soldier
now feels perfectly safe ut q distance
Of 500 yards from O rife!"
The story OF the Revolutionary war
Is being repeated in the present con-
flict. American troops are opening
the eyes Of European army experts to
the real possibilities of the rife.
When the British forces landed In
America to chastise the colonies they
had little respect for the troops under
Washington's command. They devel-
oped q whole lot Of respect, however,
when they observed the deadly skill
with which American lighting men
used their weapons. British volley
firing did little damage against the
carefully scattered Yankees, but
British troops suffered severely when
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-26
BILLS'S DUE

a Kaiser Is funny bird, In ivory his
minds inferred,
His heart Is a. cold as Winter beer
even doubt IL he can hear.
But won't his little wObbly eyes pop
into space In wild surprise
When Yanks by millions gin to rise
in Berlin where old Bismarck
). lies!
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-26
THE PRUSSIAN GREED

"YOu win take no prisoners. Shot,
no mercy. Show no quarter. Mako
yourself as terrible as the Hun VIII
said: Where our footsteps fall lei
mo- grass grow for q thousand years. n
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-26
Where United States Soldiers
Surpass Armies OF The World
BY CAPTAIN r. ID. La GAR

BY CAPTAIN r. ID. LA GARDE, U. 8. A.
DIRECTOR OF CIVILIAN MARKSMANSHIP, WAR DEPARTMENT
Specially Camp"