The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-30
Marry Curran Wilbur An
nounces Newly Pro
claimed r. @. Edict
NEED FOR THE
WOMEN IMMEDIATE
Girls In France Have
Worked 18 to 20 Hours
Since Recent Drive

Listing Of graduate nurses, ooLh
registered and non-registered, is be-
ing rapidly completed by the North
Dakota Red Cross chapters. and
Executive Secretary Harry Curran
| Wilbur says the preliminary reports
filed at state headquarters indicate
that the big majority of the chapters
will have this work completed by the
end of next week.
Some question has been raised, -
said Mr.. Wilbur, ''as to whether it is
necessary to enroll for foreign serv-
ice. While it is true that there is an
unprecedented demand for nurses for
service with the army in France, 1t is
recognized that foreign service Is out
of the question for many. If there is
a good reason why q nurse does not
enroll for foreign service, the fact
that she enrolls for home service only
is not held against her in any way.
What is. more, many nurses who
have married and given up active
nursing, or who have retired from the
profession for any other reason, by
entering the service at home once
more than thereby release an active
nurse for service overseas or In the
cantonments. When they do that,
their act furnishes a trained woman
worker to minister to our wounded
soldiers or sailors, and the net re-
suit lis just the same as though the
married or retired nurse had gone to
the front.
Lisbon Furnishes Example.
Lisbon has furnished very re-
cent example of this, and the work
that is being done by the Ransom
county chapter, under the direction
of Chairman S.. D. Adams, Lisbon,
shows how the plan works out.
Miss Olive Mills, superintendent
of the Lisbon hospital, was willing
and anxious to render service to the
fighting forces Of America, and in
that way help materially in the win
ming of the war. In order not to
cripple the necessary civilian work
in the Lisbon hospital, however, it
was almost an absolute necessity to
secure some one to take Miss Mills
place.
'sMrs. Al. G. Patterson of Lisbon,
wife Of DIR. Patterson, and a trained
nurse, stepped into the breach and is
arranging to go into the Lisbon hos
pital to take the place of Miss Mills.
Miss Mills has enrolled for service
and has signed up to go November l.
This is the spirit Of sacrifice and CO.
operation all along the line that
makes certain the winning of the
war.
Some camouflage Appearing.
North Dakota has made a splen-
did showing in the enrolment Of
nurses, and the list OF these specially
trained women, who have volunteered
their services to America will be
published from time to time, and the
record kept clear and unmistakable.
able.
There are few, however, who
have furnished no good reason for
not going, but who have put the date
at which they will enter service very
far in the future. When asked by
friends or Red Cross officials if they
are going, they reply We are enrolled
and awaiting cali.
This gives a wrong impression
Under the Red Cross rules a nurse
is not entitled to say she is awaiting
her cali unless the date when she
said she would be available for seFy- |
ice has actually passed. If the date |
when the nurse said she would enter |
service has not been passed, she is
not entitled to say she is merely |
awaiting call, for of course she can |
not be called until that date that she |
herself set arrives.
IF there is any nurse in North |
Dakota who is actually awaiting |
CALI in the sense in which those
words can. really be used, am auth
orized to wire the Red Cross nursing |
bureau, collect, to the effect that this
nurse is available for immediate duty |
and the address to which she wishes |
transportation to be sent. Quick ac- |
tion will follow, and all that is neces-
sary is to communicate with this of
flee.
What Figures Show.
Letters from overseas and official
submitted show that some
nurses worked from 18 to 20 hours a
day following the present. Allied Of
fensive. Nurses who have gone
through such a strain must. have re-
lief, and the only way we can Sc.
cure it for them Is. to get more nurses
overseas.
''The Red Cross has been enrolling
nurses with a view to supplying
Be, 1000 for the army alone by January
{, 1919. During July nurses were
enrolled at the rate of 102 per day,
Ind they have been assigned to the
authorities at the rate of 55
per day.
THE report OF Miss Jane a. De-
ano, director of the American Red
Cross department OF nursing, shows
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