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Show School Teachers Galled As Nurses by RedCross Salt Lake City employe approximately 735 achool teachers, of which number mora then sbo ara women. For more than two weeks this army has been unemployed owing to the closing of the schools by tha state board of health during the Influenza epidemic. The malady haa continued to spread with disastrous fury throughout the state. Scores of families are prostrate and helpless. They are In urgent need of nurses, and in many cases the situation Is a matter of life and death. . CALLS MOST URGENT. Repeated calls for volunteer nurses have been made by the Red cross and ths health authorities. The teachers of Salt Lake ara drawing thalr ' full salary while the schools are closed. A majority of them are unmarried and have no great responsibility. I Hut only about lav of tha more than too In Salt Lake have so far volunteered in this crucial hour of need. , HUNDREDS ARE SLACKERS. To I'tose 100 la due unlimited praise and gratitude for the great humanitarian and patriotic r.-ork they are performing. Rut tha fact remains that there ara hundreds more who are still in tha slacker class. Ty drawing the ame salary they would If teaching. They ara not expected to work if they are ill or physically unfit. The need for nurses t so urgent that ths Red Cross will even pay them double for their servicea. The tlma Is critical, and tha only thought is the saving of human life. And the teacher who accepts her salary and whilea away her time In Idleness In this crucla. hour Is a slacker who has refused to wsar tha rouea of patriotism. |