Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-11-14
SCHOOL NOTES

movement, designed to help
weak, foolish, unfortunate man.
kind. Ever since Florence Night
ingale. in 1854, with her "a En-
glish nurses, went to the Crimea,
changed the English camp from
hell TO a comparative heaven,
changed the death loss of the
wounded from 60 per cent to less
than one per cent, the Red Cross
has proved to be indeed The
Greatest Mother on earth, and
has won the respect, the love,
the support of every man and
every organization on the globe.
After the armistice was signed
il was thought that the work of
the Red Cross would be greatly
lessened, but it was soon realized
that, although the big wal was
over, the evils of war are to re-
main with us for some time.
Multitudes of children are in
rags, freezing and starving.
America has no conception of
this fact. A year ago, about g.
J 600 orphan children were collect
ed from the war cursed cities of
Petrograd and Moscow and taken
to Siberia where it was hoped to
scatter them among the many
farmers of that land. In some
way, in the confusion, they were
| forgotten and not taken care of.
Hundreds died of starvation,
other hundreds managed to live
over the winter by eating nuts
and roots. Along toward spring
the Red Cross found them and
took l200o of them to Vladivostok,
finding homes for them. Multi
ply this case by hundreds and
you have the condition of a large
part Of the world.
Then we must not forget the
40, 600 American soldiers on the
Mexican border. They must
have all the help we can give
them. 25, 600 of our soldiers are
in the hospitals today, the wreck
age of our vast army of a year
ago suffering from the Flu"
tuberculosis, she'll shock. gas,
etc. There is still vast need for
Red Cross today.
But most of the subscription
asked for in Lincoln county is
for much needed work in Lincoln
county itself. This is not a new
idea; New Mexico has severa
counties with skilled nurses do.
ing a wonderful work. This
nurse does lust about the work
that a skilled physician would
do. She, in the first place, will
have to be highly trained anC
very efficient. None other will
do. She will not only CAREFUL.
inspect all the pupils Of thu
schools, all over the county, bu
will also visit many of the homes
where needed, instructing moth
ers in the care of heir children
in sanitation, and IN many othe.
matters. Do you say this is no.
needed? By government reports
so to rs per cent Of the children
{ of the United States are more 0.
less physically deficient. Condi
tions are much worse in the coun
try than in the city. Luni
trouble is four time worse in tn,
country than in the city, malnu
triton is worse, mental defect
= are four time worse, heart di
sease is twice as bad, but spina
defects are 20 pecent greater
ear trouble is five times greater
eye trouble is four times greater
tonsilar troubles are five time.
worse, adenoids are three time
as bad. and tooth troubles an,
twelve times as bad. A count,
nurse could detect these trouble
and suggest to the parents wha
to do.
Thousands Of mothers die il
childbirth every year; a nurs0
could give much-needed instruc
ton. The is Il great need TO
training for motherhood. Flo
the child to live is not enough
1t must be properly developed
and cared for, giving it a health.
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