The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-01-02
ORGANIZING FOR RELIEF OF
NURSES ON FIRING Line
Nevada Nurses Ask Aid for Their
Sisterhood Now Engaged In
War Work

The nurses of Nevada formed ar
organization in Reno month ago
The object of this organization is to
meet the requests of the nurses thai
are coming from the front for warm
er clothing. The severe weather In
Italy and Northern France and the
exposure to which nurses are sub.
jected, as some of the base hospitals
are barns and open tents, necessi-
tate the nurses having as warm
clothing as the soldiers.
These same nurses suggest woolen
stockings. soap and wash rags as
Xmas gifts. Soap is at a premium
in Europe
The Red Cross equips and main
tains the hospitals and furnishes not
only the necessities, but comforts for
the soldiers. The nurses realize
$50 a month from the government,
and reports coming from Europe that
their salaries are spent on the suf-
fering peasants before they are
made.
1t is this noble type of American
womanhood that are volunteering
their services for our country. II
can be truly said that the American
nurses will be the saviors of this war
More than seven thousand are now
In Europe and twenty thousand have
been asked for in the coming year.
America has eighty thousand nurses
trained, but with the number that
are physically unfit for the severe
hardships it leaves very small to-
tai
The nurses are not only caring for
the American soldiers but all of the
allied soldiers including German
wounded prisoners.
A report came from the head of
one of the base hospitals last month
saying that sixty-two nurses were
caring for one thousand nine hun
dred and ninty-two patients night
and day; also during the serious sur
gical dressing. The greatest num-
Der of wounded soldiers admitted to
this hospital were one thousand four
hundred, the lowest one thousand
three hundred per week.
1t is unnecessary to say that these
nurses are now drawing heavily on
their reserve strength.
Since forming the organization in
Reno month ago the nurses have
raised $500 TO furnish one OF the
huts that Is being built by the Y. w.
C. A. for the nurses behind the firing
line.
These noble women are compelled
to spend three weeks directly behind
the firing line. after which they are
sent back to the base hospital. For
the soldier who has done his bit"
in the front trenches, a furlough is
granted and he may visit Paris, but
for the nurses there is no respite.
One nurse has already been blinded
by shrapnel and will be sent to the
Y w. C. A. as soon as she is able
to travel.
1t is the present plan of the org
anization to ask the Red Cross to
form a branch to enable them to
send the supplies direct to the nurses
at the base hospitals.
1t is interesting to note while Ne
vada is one of the last states to have
state registration for nurses, it is the
firt state to inaugurate this wonder
full move. There is not red blood
ed American man, woman or child
that should not become a member
CT this organization and give it their
full support. Just as soon as the
Red Cross sees fit to form a branch,
Miss Edith Peale, r. N, Colonial
Reno, Nevada, Chair
man of the Organization will form
a branch in every town in the state.