Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-07
REVIEWS GREAT WORK
OF AMERICAN RED CROSS
State Council of Defense Issues Statement Scale
Which It's War Preparations Are Based-People
of Country Generally United.

1t is estimated by those familiar with
tho facts that never before =; tho his
tory of this country havo the people
generally been SO united in what mi ut
he termed spiritual way as in the
preparations that have been made TO
dissipa,c misery and suffering con-
ncctcd with tho progress Of the war.
These preparations have OF course
taken many different forms. and arc
to-day expressed in various ways. Tho
state Council Of Defense has just is
sued review of some of this work
that shows tho scale on which certain
phases OF it have hccn projected. The
statement il, III part, as follows:
The year 1915 starts OF under the
darkest war cloud that has ever over
hung tho land. Eu. never MAS cloud
oil WAY more splcndidly lined with sill
yer. The furnishing Of that lin,n:
has been iutrustcd hy the government
At Washington to the American Rcd
Cross, and the Rcd Cross is nothing
more nor less than tho whole nation
modified for the great work of
charity.
The Fed Cross begins the work for
laiS under a long roll Of now members.
The :!co noo. 900 war fund raised last
summer has been cut in two by APP
preparations already made. y drive
for second fund VIII be made in tho
spring.
siXTEEN THOUSAND
GRADUATE NURSES ENROLLED
Sixteen thousand graduate nurses
have enrolled with the society, testify
ing their Willingness to GO abroad
with the armies. Already 1911 Ameri-
can Red Cross nurses are in France.
Two thousand one hundred and sew
eaty-eiEht more are at work in can
/ tonmcnts and stations at home. Those
already selected and organized for ser
vice with the military forces, but not
yet modified. number e.S43
This gives a total OF 6,s22 Red Cross
nurses in active service The rest OF
tho 5000 are still engaged in the reg
ular practice Of their profession. But
i majority OF them will become avail
able as quickly a they learn that the
need for their services is Immediate.
and will give UP, in most cases. pleas
ant and wc!l-paying work on private
cases 10 take Uncle Sans $50 month
for the exactins iabors of the base hos
pitfalls in Europe.
There arc not less than 10000 grad :
uate nurses in the country. and it is
estimated thai a fourth OF that -En.-
her viii! he needed next year in the
army hospitals. Yet the regular need
for nurses will continue almost. ii
not quite. rs great as in times OF
pcacc Two or three years OF war
might, result in a shortage OF nurses
that would very seriously affect the
health of the nation.
URGE GIRLS TO
ENTER TRAINING SCHOOLS
Under the circumstances. no moro pa
triotic service can be siver BY any
citizen than that which is rendered by
the girl who enters a nurses training
school. The allied nations have de-
cidcd that none except fully trained
nurses are sufficiently serviceablc lie
hind the lines TO warrant their be-
ing transported 10 Europe. The re
spouse to this situation can already
he observed in an increase this year
of ZOO over tho usual number Of new
students in tho training schools.
Though the nurses aids trained by
the Ecd Cross We're disappointed in
their hopes OF early foreign service.
4 they arc doing no less valuable Wort:
+ III assisting III tho care of the sick
7 in their own homes. thus making avail
able additional nurses for active SER
vice. Patriotic duty includes the keep
/ ing of every one of the 100, o6o,ao0
I citizens OF the nation in maximum
health and good spirits.
I The gray-clad army nursc-wiite
I clothes could not be kept white ri
( the fronts the best and most beau
/ tifu! symbol OF the work OF The Red
I Cross. Eut the society has shown peo-
I pie many other ways of doing thei.
! bit besides the active care of the in
juied and the sick. The Red Cross
I Society provides men and women
everywhere with opportunities by Civ
I ing and by working TO keep warm the
I cookies OF their hearts through all the
( hardness and the discipline OF war.
BED CROSS WORK
! ESSENTIAL TO WAR
There is no more essential war work
than that which is being done by
American women in Red Cross chapter
/ Moriirocms and at home on surgical
BEcnt IiTINkIc ilhnEHEcC