Evening star., 1924-11-15


has been the moral and economic
unit Of society, Will be destroyed. or
d t any rate weakened, &nG society
A. off, as in Russia. at a tangent to
the present order.
Care Of sick in Home.
And one great factor. an tncre ing
one with the shrinking of the home
into the kitChcnette, ,S me Z ElC-.l..
OF making adequate provision tor the
care of the sick in the home. In New
York City 90 per cent of the SICK are
still sick in their homes. and | sup
nose q large proportion in Washing
Ton. And as the average period of
sickness per person in a life of 10
years is ono and one half years. the
Ueed OF nursing service i'll sickness
is estimable only by those who are
expert in calculating base ball per-
Centares.
"I suppose that | have signed more
n. n diplomas than any other man
in the United States, and | am proud
10 have made this contribution. even
though il was only on paper. to their
ministry. Though | have never been
in the care of one, my observation
RilOVS me to support what former
President Roosevelt said about
nurses. after his experience with
them a hospital experience, to be
sure. but still an experience with the
same type of nurse. though 7 sup
pose that the Visiting nurse is even
more highly deserving Of this char
actcri2ation). After saying that 1t
was almost worth while being sick
20 meet such people, and making
some rather eXcoriatinc remarks S
about those who make half bake d
criticisms OF the American young
women. he added:
Not Angels. but Trump-.
Seriously. though. it does one
good to get down to brass tacks once
In while. and If any one ever asks
YOU what you think OF the nursing
profession, YOU just tell them that I
said. no. they're not angsls-they
are too practical for that-but
;Tumps. every one OF them.
II think. however, that he need not
have hesitated to finish the sentence
as he began 1t. and call them angels,
for the ministerins angels are the
most practical of beings. Perhaps he
thought of them at the moment in
their trumpet-or harp playing en-
ptoy mentS only Gas is suggested by
the word which he used Unsteady.
But the chief employment Of angels
on earth more closely resembles that
or nurses than any other profession.
so think l dare use both the words
which were in his thought; they
are practical angels and "trumps.'
Ills last word to me reached me
three weeks after his death. out ir
jerusalem, where American nurses
had come to minister in the spirit OF
the visiting nurses here and In the
spirit Of Him srho. healed the sick
there long ago.
1t was in this land that the great
origins and | am glad to bring to you
.ohlSht IN my own person and on
rect that have walked the length and
breadth of that land greetings and a
Sood wish in your campaign from
that cradle of Christendom-that little
land Of the Prophet Elisha. who sent
his servant Gehazi to Law his starr on
the dead child Of the Shunar,Ita
woman and when the servant return
ed saying that there was no life in
me child. went himself to the cham
DOR OF the child. as a visiting nurse.
ana py his own ministrations restored
ne child to his mother: the land OF
Naomi. who took the child of Ruth.
i2io II IN her bosom and SO became
@ @nurse unto the ancestor Of King
David; the land in which the Great
PhySician went about among the
people healing all manner of sickness,
"eSSenSeFS OF Mercy.
1t is to give these ministering an
Seis leave to be your messengers Of
mercy tthe original meaning Of an
Sels), in doing what you would Ike
10 do If you knew how, that this
movement is afoot. Reading an ad
dress OF that great railroad president
and citizen, Daniel Willard. A few
days ago, ! came upon this sentence
III an account of his railroads helm
ing to meet the Lorain distaster. II
was the laconic message Of a diyi-
Sional superintendent who TELEGRAPH
ed TO Chicago: Bring on your nurses
ana II furnish the train This Is the
sort or a message for the people Of
Washington, if l may venture, to sue
SeSt It. to send to this society. Bring
on your nurses. such nurses as have
peen describing, and Wen furnish the
means of getting them where they
are needed"
Eliot WadsWorth. ASSISTANT sec
retary of the Treasury. presided. Miss
Gertrude Fl. Bowling. director of the
visiting nurses in WASHINGTON and
MIS- MONTGOMERY Blair. chairman Of
thes campaign committee. Of the So
c!ets, mad brief addresses outlining
its work, and "Bucky" harris was in
troduced as chairman Of the mems
campaign committee The Army
Band, under the direction of w. j.
Stsnnard, played at intervals throus-
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