Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-21
1000 FAIR NURSES
To CHEER OUR BOYS
Bright, Earnest. Heroic Young
American Women to Train
With Troops.

New York, Sept 20 In % I uited
States Army camps AZ widely separat cd
parts Of the country there will arrive to
d1v. tomIorrow and every few DAYS for the
next several weeks. little groups ~ earnest
purposeful Young women Nany - them
arc very, very pretty III arc strong,
healthy and wcl-cducated and all are
going 70 remain with he army either
here or ~ France FIR tire duration of the
war
They aro student nurses mernbcrz Of
the first training uults of the Aruy
School Of Nursing that has been establish
ed 10 help solve The pr ,plcu Of nursing
the slch md wounded oi tho greater
American army that will br ~ bong
and ~ action by next srrtng tlrradl
more hnn 600 between tho ages If 3
and 81. al graduates of high school cr
college have lccu accept ed - this rtuch
of thc military scrvlcc II he country
wonlaphooa continues - respond 20 the
appeal fer student NURSES now being cert
broadcast hv the Red Cross aud the N Nn-
men : Committee Of the Council nf VA
tona Defense there wl need be- no
fear rs 10 he care that will be gwen 20
any man or hov ot ours who lands 10
a lhospItal, say the women leaders
The Army School Of Nursing together
with the Red Cross enrolment nf he
owl hospital schools through thc lultrd
States Student Nurse Rc2er-.c i ire
answer 20 tho great nursing question hat
confr0ntcd the country when il wa de-
cded to put not less than 900 coo men
under arms
Figures reecIvcd here h> A.le- NJ tde-
l1idc \uttiuc. professor of nur~irR anil
l. Ill. 4 /
man Of the Nursing Committee nf the
Council OF National Defence. how hat
more than 1000 Young women had ap-
piled 20 enter the Army \ur~c school bv
Sept 10 and that unwardS of GO0
actually rad been enrolled
The first thousand are ueginnlng th.ir
training III helping to take care III
casualties IA thc camps to whicl the
training units are attached 81 soon
as they have reached a suitable stage DC
training, they may bc sent 10 Frame. If Il
Is found necessary 10 supplement ne
force OF graduate nurses there tn anN
event they Will receive Two year, train
ing in army hospitals and OBTAIN the de
gree OF registered nurse by taking the
third and last year Of their course in i
civil hospital
Interest IN thIs opportunity for women
To help in winning the war IS 50 wide
spread that nearly 20,000 letters of in
qulry have been received by Surgeon
General Gorgas.
Training units OF from so to 80 students
each have been assigned now to IL army
camps from Massachusetts 10 California
Each unit has a director, an instructor in
nursing. and teaching dietician The
students receive everything free and in adj
ditlon an allowance Of Sl5 a month 4 re-
creatloual director sees to il that they sre
provided with entertainment and sports fcr
their otf-duty hours and there are also
chaperonS available The central head
quarters OF the school are in the Office Of
the surgeon general at " ;lshington. ID C
The dean i Miss Annie NJ Goodrich
the chief Inspector Of army nurses She
is assisted hy large staff
Recruiting to fill the Nursing ranks has
only TO continue as successful a. II has
been. according to the authorities to
make the country secure 9th from the.
standpoint of the army : need and that Of
the evil population. Leaders Of the nurs-
ing profession are gratliled both by the re-
spOnSe of graduate nurses Tor service in
France and that OF students for duty either
IN civil or military hospitals
Including the Is 600 already in actual
service. more than - ,000 graduate
nurses have been enrolled IN answer to
General GorgaS idea for - 900 by
January l. II 1t becomes nectss ary
To supplement tho graduate nurses
abroad with less completely trained wo-
men, il is expected that sufficient num-
Der of the Army Nursing School Students
will be ready in time