Show INTELLIGENT NURSES I DECLARED WARS WAR'S GREAT NEED By International News Service v E v YORK May 18 Thc S-Thc The educated ed cd Intelligent ent nurse is one olle of oC the tho wars war's most crying needs need This is the he opinion of oC Goodrich Goodrich Goodrich Good Good- rich federal Inspector of or military hospitals hospitals hos hos- president ent of oC the American Nurse as association as expressed sed toa today in hi an Interview She helped plan th the course of oC study for Cor the Vassar training camp for fOl nurses which opens Juno 21 24 and lasts three months under auspices of oC the lie TIe Red fled Cross College Collego women graduated from the standard universities In the he last ten years aro are eligible to enter the camp but the they must pledge themselves to follow this theoretical course coun c with two years years' practical hospital work When I enter cute the thin army arm hospitals I wl IMi of nr oo II I U WILli i VIi II UD U ui rs U 5 cu I Miss oliss Goodrich I am inspired Sometimes Some times limN 1 am almost oppressed by the lit opportunity for education and help hell that thai lies tics In the lie han hands s of nurses who come comeIn comeIn In Iii dally contact with these the e men Some of oC the lie nur nurses S 'S who lack hack social vision never nc realize the tho splendid id opportunity fur for service lec Think o of nil that could bedone hi be he done clone for our soldiers through direct or ot Indirect Ju guidance and help h by women of intelligence and understanding But it Is not only th the tho o fo r 5 whom the thC women are aie Miss Goodrich Goodrich Good Good- rich emphasized through the thc chilI children chil chill he lie the tho thi next generation dren who ho will ill the they guard the future And nfl upon the responsibility i of ral rais I nurse nur-c rests the lie lag Ing In public health standards It is a pitiful thing that it should have has taken the catastrophe of DC war wal to o make maJ the faculties of ot colleges and educated women women wom worn en see sec the lie great verities of oC a nurses nurse's work 1 We e c should have hac now in lii this country public health nurses In New York City Instead of oC if the tho thousand of oC visiting nurses that are arc urgently I f there were last year yeal less than 00 The number required will Increase steadily aa ns the war goes gOS on for all the theolIs evils o that we wc constantly combat in peace times are ore J multiplied ed by war var In iii n addition there thero will he be added addel tho thio thou thousands and of oC lIi disabled abl 1 and diseased men who return from wa war ivar and who must bp br Je restored to usefulness It If women of oC broad understanding und and thought ht go Into the thc lie homos homes of C the tue people peo po this nursing service ice Pie to ca carry on they thc will Uc lie able to Interpret t fwd Bud re report rc- rc port the facts thc they find This information mation mallon would wealth form orm an nn excellent foundation foun foun- dation muon tot for th the he reconstructive and Ethel social so- so I claf clar legislation which is b bound to conic come I fl fi fier r the war war ar |