The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-10-20
FATALITIES BY
MARRYING HIT
NURSE CORPS HARD
Major Julia Stimson Says More
Wed From Service Than Any
Other Profession.
DIsAPPRovEs BONUS BILL
AS Long as Army Remains, Just
That Long Will organi-
zation's Work Continue.

Copyright, 1922, By United News
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-Mors
women marry in the nursing profess
sion than in practically any other
profession, according to Major Julia
Stimson, head Of the Army Nursing
Corps The average loss from this
cause, she says. is about so per cent,
and there are never enough nurses.
but many of the women work
after marriage" Major Stimson told
the United News, And Of course,
the beauty Of 1t is, they always have
their profession, and there is always
Il demand for 1t.
The work of the Army Nurse
Corps. as Major Stimson described It.
IS varied as it is valuable. Theirs
is always nursing work to be done as
long as we have armies" she ex-
planned, For there is always a certain
number of sick and injured. not
necessarily wounded. among them.
The average is 8 per cent.
Develop Baby Clinic
'In the army camps we ars just
developing work that Is exactly
similar to that in civn communities.
We serve the wives and families Of
soldiers, do visiting nurse work in
the homes OF the troops, which are
close by, and we are even instituting
baby clinics. This service IS really
just beginning, and Camp Meade il
the location of much Of the expert.
menting.
"Of course there are nurses in Ger
many. with the troops we have left
on the Rhine. (Of the 81 900 Army
nurses, in the uniform during the
var, 10000 served overseas) And then.
a certain percentage of the nurses.
as other officers Of the Army. are
stu lying in institutions Of higher
learning"
Major stimson doese not approve
the bonus.
'I don't believe many of the nurses
want it, either" she said. I'VE have
done our patriotic duty. We need
no pay for it. OF course, where the
nurses are disabled. they are taken
care Of the same as the men who
were hurt.
And then the amount to the indi-
vidual IS so slight in comparison to
the suffering from excessive taxation
the total sum would cost the country
that I believe it Is scarcely worth
while.
"A Federal bonus is a duplication
in many instances, for the States have,
many OF them, already given them
I believe all Of them will before talk
Of 1t is over. And know, because
the records of the nurses are not in
the adjutant generals office, but right
here. When a State bonus Is declared
Or force has to make out all the
cards. And when we hear Of another
State giving one we say: oh, me.
more records
War Stimulated Interest
War stimulated the interest in the
corps, according to Major Stimson.
and the congressional bills granting
better pay and relative rank added
TO the attraction of the service.
Many find 1t interesting because
of the extremely varied types Of per-
sons and work it involves. Work Is
QOIlS WITH oOlIA6 VI LILO OSSb lAAV~oS1t
talent in the country, and there is
hope of travel sooner or later. I'm
til the war, few knew Of the exist
ence Of the Army Nurse. Corps or
the Army School Of Nursing, which
maintains training schools at Walter
Reed Hospital in Washington, q. c.,
and IN Letterman General Hospital
in San Francisco.
Although training in the army
school entails no obligation. Of the
500 graduated last year, ninety-six
were appointed into the corps"
Major Stimson herself, dean OF the
army training school, was q. gradu-
ate of Vassar, and holds an honorary
D. SC. from Mt. Holyoke. While IN
the Army Nurse Corps, in France,
she was appointed chief nurse OF the
American Red Cross in France and
stationed in Paris seven months prior
to the signing of the ar1nistice. Early
in November, 1918. she was appointed
director OF the nursing service OF the
A. E. r.