The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-07-23

Dr. Anna HoWa ard Shaw, Chairman
Womans Committee, Council of Ma
tional Defense. calls on nurses to en-
roll for service in the Army and the
Navy. on women to train themselves
for nursing. and on the public to
economic in the use of nurses. in the
following letter:
Miss Jane \. Delano,
American Red Gross.
Washington, d. c.
My dear Miss Delano:
The information that Il definite
campaign for the purpose OF securing
Red Cross nurses is to be launched
is exceedingly timely.
The news from the field of battle,
where our splendid young soldiers
are sacrificing life, and more than
life-the agony of years of suffering,
disappointment and incap&city for
future usefulness in defense OF all
that we, as Americans, hold dear, is
a clarion call to young women to
answer their call with service for ser
vice, sacrifice for sacrifice, and show
themselves worthy of such loyalty
and patriotism, in volunteering by
the thousands to prepare for hospital
service. either at home or abroad,
that our men may receive every pos
sibIe care which women can render
to prove our gratitude for all they
have suffered and will suffer for us
and for our country.
There is no greater patriotic SER
vice which the young, strolg and en-
thusiastic young women who are
graduating from our colleges and
high schools can render their coun-
try than to care for our wounded
men. 1t is a service requiring intel
Iigence, patience and ''nfaltering
courage, the kind of service that will
do for our splendid young women
what the drill and order and hard
ship of field service is doing for our
men. and will make them fit COM
rades and co-workers with them
when the time for the reconstruction
of our national life comes after the
war is ended.
This call of duty is not alone to
our young women to prepare for ser
vice, but to the people everywhere 10
economic in the use of professional
nurses except in cases of serious ILL
ness. The war has so drawn upon
the nurses of the country that there
are not half enough for serious
home cases, and they should be en-
ployed in no other. Every household
should care for its own sick so far as
is consistent with the health of the
community.
The call from our brave men to
our brave young women is: Pre-
pare to care for us when we come
back from the field, battle-torn and
shattered And to the families ev-
erywhere: Economic in the use
of nurses; fit yourselves to care for
home needs, and send to us at once
the nurses already trained; we need
them that we may be healed to go
back to the front and fight until we
win a conclusive peace for you, our
selves and for the world"
Faithfully,
ANNA H. SHAW,
Chairman Woman's Committee, Coun-
ell of National Defense.
The Government is calling for 25,-
900 young women between the ages
of 10 and 35 to join the United
States Student Nurse Reserve. The
recruiting station will be opened at
the Armory on July Goth. Will you
enroll?
Ever since the days of Florence
the nursing profession
has been one OF especial honor. 1t
was never so honorable as it is to-
day. The Army needs every nurse it
can get to keep up with the draft"
The United States Student Nurse Re-
serve is the equivalent of women Of
the great National Army training
camps for soldiers. The Government
will rely upon the student nurses to
fight disease at home, to care for
those injured and disabled in our
hazardous war industries, and to
m alyo thpmc alvoS ready To serve
when the time comes as fully train