El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-06
NURSES WANTED
FOR RED CROSS
Drive This Week Seeking
to Induce Trained Women
to Work cover There. F."

A drive for the enrolment OF grad
uate nurses FOR Red Cross work is on
this week. Meetings are being held at
the different local hospitals 10 arouse
the nurses to their duty. Several have
signified their intention OF register
ing some have already done so.
The 1913 graduates Of all the city
hospitals received blanks. Following
the state board examination for regis
tered nurses. held ia May. some OF
these graduates signed Up for Red
Cross nurses Since last fail 10 ii
Paso nurses have gone into the United
States service at camps throughout
the United States. Ten are graduates
from Hotel Dieu and three from Prov
idence hospital Eight signed for for
eign service They expect to leave
soon
Before a nurse can be sent TO
France. it is necessary that she get
some military hospital training i'm this
country. This better equips them Tor
service over there"
Age Limit Is wide.
The age limit for nurse 10 regis
ter is ordinarily from q TO IS years,
inclusive. il a woman has the de-
sired requirements and is in perfect
physical condition,the age viii not al
ways interfere
W. Z. CoIHnge. Of the 9Th Canadian
battalion. who returned about a year
ago from the trenches, where he lost
his right arm, addressed the meeting
held at Rolston hospital Wednesday
afternoon He deeply Impressed his
hearers as he told OF the splendid
treatment rendered him by the Req
Cross boys who gave him first aid in
the trenches when he was wounded.
BE told the nurses not TO pay any
attention to stories 20 the effect that
nurses are mistreated by the enemy.
That is only German propaganda, 20
ne said I'VE boys take our hats off
TO you nurses. You are just as im-
portant in this war as we are. and we
can't get along without you, he
added.
DR. W. L. Brown then introduced
Miss susan X. Lane. Red Cross nurse.
who is in service at the base hospital
at Fort Bliss She urged the nurses
10 sign up and 80 where duty called.
She said next 10 the soldiers and sail
ors comes the nurse.
Nurses Urged to Register.
Jessie y. = Mcdonald. r. ~ secre-
tary Of Ell Pas0 committee Red Cross
nursing service. also urged the nurses
TO register. She exnlained the need
Of nurses in the home defence nurses
association, which is branch OF the
Red Cross nursing service authorized
by Miss Jane A. Delano. national Red
Cross chairman This organization is
composed OF those nurses who are
over age, married or by any other
reason are Handicapped from belonging
TO the Red Cross. They can do a pa
triotic duty by belonging 10 this de-
fence, look after the sick at home
and let the graduate nurse 50 70 the
front. said the speaker.
Miss Mcdonald holds the blanks FOR
enrolment, and any graduate nurse in
the county can secure them from her.
She resides at sol North Florence
street The same speakers were
present at meeting held at Provi-
dencc hospital Thursday afternoon
Local Nurses in Service.
The FL Paso nurses who are now
5oing active service IN the various
and camps I'm the United
states are Hiss Margaret p. DOYLE.
Miss Alta Hancock Emma Schertz.
Ruth Hills, Anna DOerner. Nary 3
Robinson, Elizabeth TaroeE. Hazel
8elknap. Alice Green. Ruby Coving-
ION, Margaret Schertz, Alpha Black
md Mrs Mildred Daley
There are several older graduate
nurses IN II PasO who enrolled as Red
cross nurses long before the thought
u war existed. and but very few o.
hem are eligible for active service.
1hey are Miss Jessie =. s. Mcdonald,
FRS Florence Cameron, Airs. Alice i.
dasteller, Mrs T. II. FlotO. Misses c.
le ia Rosa Pauline Schuuk, Louise
Dietrich, Emily D. Green, Emily i.
Jarrett, Ida Roger. Florence A. Young,
Angelo De CUR Mrs Minnie De Isle.
Three Waiting Call
Those who have been enrolled in
he Red Cross and are waiting for a
all into service are Miss Mary 3.
cooper and 1Irs. Pauline Rogers, who
enrolled recently, and Miss Anna
IS alker. who enrolled some time ago.
Proposes short Course
Stanley Stoner. .leld director Of the
Red Cross in the southwest division, {
rom ST. Louis, who is on a tour OF /
Inspection OF camp cantonmeuts. !
md who was in II Pa.so Wednesday
md Thursday. proposes short
nurses aid course be established over
he entire country 10 prepare nurses {
o take the places OF the graduate
lurses who VIII enter the Red Cross I
errice. which would require three
months, with an added hospital train [
ng 10 make the nurse efficient TO
.andle the work
1fr. Stoner visited the Fort Bliss
amps Wednesday evening and said (
hat the medical department there was
he best organized and most efficient ]
Il any that he had visited so far.