Evening star., 1943-03-14

city, but we couldn't leave We put on
our gasproof clothing and waited"
Later on, she was glad to be busy.
It's always better when you're work
ing" she explained. You don't count
the minutes between bombs. You know,
they usually come In threes, each one a
little closer than the last. After the sec
ond bomb we used to all lie down."
1t was found that If the workers stayed
at their posts too long they were apt to
collapse, so the Red Cross provided
enough workers to keep everybody on a
more or less regular shift. Of course.
that didn't keep the workers from volun-
teering when the bombs came close to
home. Mrs. Lockhart remembers an off
night when incendiaries fell in her own
block and she had to help the injured.
That is one wonderful thing about
this Red Cross training" she commented
IF the only thing we had been taught
was to press our thumb against a bleed
ing wound, we might be the means of
saving a mans life I know of one oc-
casion when a man died just because no
one knew how to stop the bleeding He
just bled to DEATH
Mrs. Lockhart came to this country in
November, month after her own home
had been blasted by land mine With
in few weeks of her arrival she had
signed up for the Red Cross nurses aide
course. Now she is working at Emer-
gency Hospital
Another of the VADs on loan" from
Britain is Miss Yvette Baillieu, who took
care of evacuated children in a country
town. Occasionally, the town was bombed.
Miss Baillieu again is with children. This
time, however, they are the sick young
sters of Children's Hospital.
Among the $50 Red Cross nurses aides
now on duty here are housewives, debu-
tantes, working girls One of them is a
tall, attractive model who works half the
week at department store and the other
half carrying food trays, answering pa
tlents' bells, filling water pitchers and
doing the dozens of small services that
graduate nurses no longer have time
to do.
Meeting Nursing Shortage.
The Red Cross is training nurses aides
as fast as possible. Usually, four classes
are running at the same time. Since
Pearl Harbor there have been "a classes.
Before Pearl Harbor there were six
AS more and more nurses go to the
fighting fronts, as training of student
nurses is stepped up, the Red Cross is
trying to meet the nurse shortage with
the aides who cannot give essential med
lcal care, but can do so many other
things that the nurses still on duty in
the hospitals can be relieved of the rou-
tine.
Six months ago the Red Cross thought
it might need 500 nurses aides. Now it
knows it needs $500. 1t is looking for
more women like Mrs. Colbjornsen and
Mrs. Lockhart-women who take it for
granted that they are expected to do
their share toward winning the war.
You can go IN training to become
a Red Cross nurses aide bp registering
from 10 am. TO ~ noon MondGy,
Thursday or Saturday at Walsh
House, 2020 Massachusetts, auenue
NV, or at Chamberlain Vocational
School, Thirteenth street and Po-
tonlac auenue Sc, during the same
hours on Tuesday or Friddy
And remember-you can also help
these mome7a help Others by contrib
uttno TO the Red Cross driue for
G,555, 400 here. From this tund comes
the money tor equipping Clussroons.
instruction and supervision tor the
Red Cross nurses aides.