The Mankato free press., 1922-06-23
YOUNG LADIES AND
THAT NURSE stunt
PROFESSION TO COMPARE
WELL WITH OTHERS
CAREER FOR MAIDENS
They Are Making Nationwide
Crusade For Health Along
With Red Gross.
CLARA .. MOVES

How does the procession or
nursing compare, as career, with
other vocations open to the very
modern young person of today"'
Tnis question l have ~been asked
to analyZe and answer for the Oene-
fit OF the rising generation. Broadly
speaking there is probably no other
profession that offers such variety
in scope and such pinnacles Of pro-
gress to scale as that for which
Florence Nightingale blaZed the way
less than one hundred years ago.
Mankind Well Awake
Never before has mankind been so
awake and aroused to the necessity
of health education. Prevention OF
disease, conservation of the life for
ceS, scientific care of children, com
munity as well as individual hy-
giene-these are subjects of univer-
sal anG momentous importance
throughout the civilized world today.
Constructive, positive thinking and
planning along health lines have re-
placed the conception prevailing a
generation ago that disease and pow
erty and misery were mysterious
DEGREES of divine Providence, to be
endured with passive resignation.
A nation wide crusade for health
and efficiency is on-a crusade which
has been extended by the American
Red Cross Nursing Service to every
country of Europe where Red Cross
activities have been operated. AS a
result higher standards of living
and nobler conceptions of the duty
of the more fortunately c1rcum-
stanced toward the poorer peoples of
earth have been established through
out the near east and in the less
progressive countries of central Eu-
rope; while along forward step has
been taken, insuring for the future
an adequate nursing personnel to
carry on what the American REQ
Cross has begun, by the establish
ment of schools of nursing in War
saw and Pozan, in Poland, in
Prague, Czecho- Slovakia, and at the
American Hospital at Constantinr
pie.
Red Cross nurses have laid down
the principles and guided the course
of these European schools from the
beginning and the American Red
Cross has contributed generously to
their support.
In South America also American
nurses are greatly in demand for
similar pioneer work, while in our
island possessions in the West In
dies, and in the Philippines higher
health are everywhere. be-
ing set UP under the sponsorship OF
the highly specialized graduate
nurse from the states.
Nurses Great Part
For it is the nurse who will be the
chief administrator in this world
wide program for health and happi-
ness. Her trained and disciplined
mind and technical skill, broadened
by her wide contacts through the
public health work which is a part
first class school of nursing, will en-
able her to interpret the laws or
health in every land and instruct
the family how to apply them in the
home and in the community.
The nurse goes forth, the evangel
of better living conditions and the
maximum of personal efficiency and
well being for all, into private home
and public institutions, into schools
and industrial plants, into crowded
city slums and into the remote rural
districts preaching the gospel OF
good health and disease prevention
and insuring to the little ones and
to those that are yet unborn their
rightful heritage of sound health,
sanitary surroundings and fair
chance in the world as they grow
up.
No power in the social fabric is
more potent for far reaching better
ment that the graduate nurse. She
is the creator of higher conceptions
of living, the conservator Of child
hood, the minister OF mercy and re-
lief, and the universal educator who
imrarts to all with whom she comes
in contact the most precious secret
mankind may aspire to learn-the
knowledge of how to keep WELL