The Washington times., 1934-04-26
SCHOOLS BREED
CRIME, NURSES
+: ARE TOLD
Senator Copeland Attacks
U. S. System in Address
at Convention

at Convention
Attacking the American public
school system because lit breeds
crime among it's pupils" Senator
Royal S. Copeland CD Of New
York, today appealed to 1000
nurses to lend a hand in eradi.
eating the criminal influences on
children.
The Senator, who was chair
man of a special committee on
crime and racketeering, addressed
q Joint session of the American
Nurses Association, National
League of Nursing Education and
National Organization for Public
Health Nursing. in the Washing
ton Auditorium.
Dillinger Cited
Charging that the Dillinger
hunt has been made more or
less of fiasco" because of the
lack of cooperation of Federal,
State and local authorities, he
declared that Dillinger's activi-
ties have crystallized public real
ization that the American SyS-
tenn of crime prevention is radi-
cally wrong.
Senator Copeland urged that
all classrooms in every school in
the country should be provided
with a nurse trained not only
for public-health nursing but in
social problems and character
building.
System Raped
Declaring that "every day,
thousands of boys and girls in
our schools are on the way to
crime because of the failure of
society to intervene" he said
that crime would disappear if
one-fourth of the 10000 million
dollars spent on crime were
spent in providing nurses in the
schools for that purpose.
Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, di-
rector of women's work of the
Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration, told a session of the
American Nurses Association
that many unemployed nurses
have been permanently employed
as a result of CWS projects.
Legislation establishing mini
mum standards for the licensing
of nurses and for ouSting the
medical profession from regula-
ton of nurses was asked today
by Miss AIDA Eldredge, director
of nursing education of the Wis
consin State Board of Health.
Standards Attacked
Attacking the standards set by
the legal and medical profession,
she declared:
"The lawyers keep their stan
dardS for admission so low that
the profession is constantly con-
cerned with the problem Of
eliminating its ShySterS, and
the physicians standards are set
so high by educational require
mentS that the profession is
constantly concerned by the
activities of quacks and takers
outside"
Election of officers for the three
organizations was being contested
closely at the polls, with the re.
suits to be announced tomorrow.
Candidates for the American
Nurses Association are: For pres
ident, A. Louise Dietrich, Texas,
and Susan c. Francis, Pennsyl-
vania; first vice president, Jane
Van. DR.. Vrede, Georgia, and Julia
c. Stimson, washington, D. c.:
second vice president, Mabel Dun
lap, Illinois, and Shirley C. Titus,
Tennessee: secretary, Janet M.
Geister, New Jersey, Helen Teal,
Indiana, and Naomi DeutSch. Cali.
fornia; and treasurer, Emma M.
Mic h OILS, Massachusetts, and
Frances PederSen, Iowa.
League Voting
The National League Of Nursing
Education was voting on the fol.
lowing candidates: For president,
Effie j. Taylor, Connecticut, and
Katharine DenSford, Minnesota;
vice president, Julie c. Tebo,
Louisiana, and Esther Tinsley,
Pennsylvania: and treasurer, Mar.
ian Rottman, New York, and Eli
zabeth Miller, Pennsylvania.
Amelia Grant, director of the
bureau Of nursing, New York City
Department Of Health, is the only
candidate for president Of the Ma
tional Organization for Public
Health Nursing. Other candidates
are::' For first vice president, Ruth
w. Hubbard, Pennsylvania, and
Grace Ross, Michigan: second
vice president, Mary D. Carpenter,
Missouri, and Annie r. WinSlow,
Connecticut; and treasurer, Mi
chael M. Davis.