The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-26
NURSES SHOW
NTEREST IN
WAR WORK

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WAR WORK
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continued to grow until now it has a
membership Of 10000 members, the
largest body of women combined in
g one association in the United
States. She also spoke Of the won
derful improvements that have been
made In the hospitals, the training
courses for nurses and all matters
connected with the nursing profess
sion, that have taken place since
the organization was formed Every
state in the union, with the exception
OF Nevada, Arizona and New Mex
leo, now has a law forcing the
registration of trained nurses, de-
clared the speaker and this has a,
wonderful effect in strengthening the
position OF the nursing body. In
speaking of the nursing laws of the
different countries, Miss Eldridge
mentioned that Australia has the best
laws for the nursing profession Of any
country in the world, and that Japan
also has a wonderful system for train
Ing nurses. The fact that Japan is so
much advanced over other countries
Is due to the fact that Miss Lena
Richards, the first American trained
nurse, went to Japan to start train
ing schools after her graduation from
hospitals in this country Miss Rich
ards Is still living and is taking an &C
tive part in the pushing OF the mat
ters of interest to the nursing profess
sion. Some time was also spent in
discussing the new constitution of the
American Nurses association and ex-
planning how the district, county,
state and alunnae associations are
to affiliate with the national organiza-
ton.
Tribute to Miss DeIano.
Special tribute was paid Miss Jane
DclanO, head of the bureau of army
and navy nursing, who passed away
In France, April H. Miss Delano had
been an unceasing worker in this par
ticular branch of nursing work, and
went to France after the signing of
the armistice to investigate the con
diti0ns Of the nurses still overseas.
She was far from weN at the time of
sailing and her death soon followed
her strenuous work, The resolutions
committee resolved to draw up special
resolutions in memory of Miss DelanO
and to send copy to the official pub
LEGATION of the association and to have
meeting. ...... -
Mrs. cIendenning Speaks. >a
the scubject of the address given by
Mrs. Robert Clendenning, president of
the North Dakota Votes For Women
league. ''The Hime has come, de-
clared the speaker, when the women
of our state are not content to sit at
home and interest themselves only in
The coming of the war has changed
all that, and the woman is now forced
to enter the industrial world and find
out what the conditions are that af-.
feet her home and the upbringing of
her children. During the war, women
took the places of men an filled their
places in the industrial world. Sex
was no handicap. ine ask now be-
fore the women is to gather up the
ragged ends and carry on the work Of
reconstruction. The outlook of life
has brOadened, the sympathies have
deepened and the nationalism has be-
come >internati0nalism. The women
of theN world are now enfranchised,
and in twenty countries Of the world
the women have been granted equal
suffrage wit hthe men, IL of these
have taken this action the
last year. The United States is> the
only country that has Jagged. behind
in this respect. Although theSfederal
amendment for suffrage failed to pass
{, congress last winter, victory is at
hand and the women of the United
States will soon have the same pow
er to decide political question as their
brothers. 49,. f
Miss Louise Herman report
ed that 237 nurses of North Da-
kota were in the Red Cross service,
and that 1S9 of these were in active
service. At the outbreak of the war,
there were only q nurses enrolled in
the Red Cross in North Dakota and
"a applications were on hand to be
acted upon. Shortly after the dec
laratiOn Of war, North Dakota had 20
per cent of her registered nurses in
service and that was two per cent
more than any other state in the
union.
Mrs r. NJ. Pollock of the Fargo w.
e. 7. u. gave brief address on the
, work that the w. c. T. U. has ac-
complished since its organization and
said that the widest dreams of the
temperance enthusiasts were reelized
when the federal prohibition amend
ment was ratified last winter. AL.
though this has been accomplished
and there will now be national pro-
1libition, the w. G.. r. U. is not going
to stop until worldwide prohi oition
has been secuted, and steps are now
being taken to have this a fact by
1925.
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