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Show ARIIY IN NEED i OF MORE NURSES Major General Norman T. Kirk, Army Surgeon General, denies that our wounded men lack the "care they deserve" but he is careful care-ful to point out that it is only because be-cause heroic nurses and doctors work long hours to take care of the men. The General says that expectation expecta-tion of a nurses' draft law has caused a decline in the number of nurses voluntarily enlisting. As of March 3rd the Army had 46,500 of the 60,000 nurses it wants by June 1 and he thinks the urgency of the situation presents waiting for passage of the measure. He calls for a vigorous prosecution prosecu-tion of the voluntary nurse recruiting re-cruiting program. We doubt if there is anybody who cares to dispute the conclusions of the War Department, especially among those who have loved ones on the fighting fronts. Consequently there must be some explanation of the amazing fact that American women wom-en have not volunteered in sufficient suffi-cient numbers to give the Army the nurses that it requires. |