The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-11
"En Ardius Fidelis"

to me from over Aegean Seas, hav-
ing its origin at the base hospital
at Salonika. The card is without
color or embossing and conveys
Christmas greetings in ink, un-
der the announcement EN- Ardius
FideliS." This message is doubly
appealing to me for the sender re-
ceived her education that fitted her
for the service OF her country, in
an Ardmore institution and she
represents the one woman out OF
Ardmore (while only a sojourner
here as student), in active service
today. And this gets me back on
a topic | vainly try to avoid-that
OF the dearth OF nurses in Gods
country.
And why? The trained nurse OF
America is the best paid OF any
OF the women in the working
ranks: it is a profession which car
ries with it many honors, much re-
spect and great iddeals. And still
spect and great ideals. And still
nurses?
asked my little step-son, what
are you going to be when a man
and the answer was characteristic
OF the child, Il am going to be
what l can, to do the most good
That this may be his aim, that it
could be the aim OF more, both men
and women.
At the High School some few
months ago, was presented a ser
vice flag on which were many stars
of graduates in war service; girl
| graduates were there any for you?
Not any.
A calamity swept over Ardmore
in October and we. are yet under
the edges OF its far reaching wings
and there was a demand then for
women who could do work as he
roic, as sacrificing and as essen
tial as that OF war service and they
were not forthcoming. There were
calls for the women who could do
the most good, yet homes were
stricken, families suffered and died
and in this wonderful year when
Americans answered the call and
sent her great armies over seas to
the old world to do her part in the
great struggle, women were found
wanting at home. Yes at home,
for while our boys marched away,
our maids hung around their necks
and wept, visited their camps, yet
Madden and Hamilton continued
in the sale OF their best sellers,
high heels at eighteen dollars per
pair and the druggist noted moth
ing in the falling off OF the sale of
the powder puff and America,
great America, with its thirteen
millions OF women, went down on
her knees to that fair galaxy in its
call for nurses.
Many calls come to me in Octo-
ber for nurses; they came from
everywhere; in the dead of the
night distracted calls came to send
a nurse, here, there, in almost every
home.
We Gods and people OF Ard
more! Where were the nurses to
come from? Ardmore has pro-
duced many women and many
' nurses Just two. | recall an in
cidCnt which | still cite-a few
years ago young lady was a pupi
! nurse in Training School and her
brothers persuaded her to relin.
quish her work because they stated
it was too hard for her. In Octo-
Der she was a victim OF the flu, Z
severe case. Her brothers were
distracted-there were SOS calls
Tor nurses, they were frantic, pa
thetic in their appeals. She got
the best we could furnish her, when
another member OF the family went
, down with it, then the same thing
, over again. She too got well. But
r this does not end well, for there is
still the same shortage of nurses
and She the up-rooted would-bC
nurse and her brothers are still
commenting on that scarcity, while
we the nurses who did out darnd-
est and are still doing it and will
: continue to do it, our lives are
made hard, not necessarily by oui
line of work, but because OF tht
women and men who get sick anC
want nurses and will not them
=, selves be nurses or let members o
their family be nurses. The nurse,
lie is not hard, but they live their
= life, not dry nurse it.
S Are we always going to be shor
OF nurseS-arc the women waking
up to the situation are mother,
, and fathers realizing it? In tn,
| heart OF our city on every corne
> block are churches, which send uI
, their spires to the heavens, symbols
OF the aspirations OF their pastor
, within, teaching, directing, Lifting
up the minds OF the laity to noble
4 and higher things and while Clar;
I IS sent to Chicago to study musi,
t and Mary to specialize in the voic,
l production and Helen in art an,
c Elizabeth in school teaching, whil
$ Josephine takes a business course
n how many recruits to that mos
:, appealing call OF the Red Cross ar,
/, gathered in?
i Most mercful Father will ther
not always he with rs tho viSio,