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Show FIGHTING SISTERS OF FIGHTING MEN . Twenty Thousand Nurses Now Enrolled in American Red Cross. Of the eighty odd thousand register ed tralued nurses In the United States ubout 20,000 have enrolled as Red Cross nurses, volunteering their services serv-ices at the front. In cautonmenta and hospitals or In any other needed capacities. ca-pacities. This enrollment is the nursing nurs-ing reserve of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps, and from It will 'also be drawn contingents for service under other allied flags than our own. The enrollment goes on at the rate of 1,000 volunteers a month. On a basis of an army of a million men over SO,-000 SO,-000 nurses will be required for active duty in the present year. Up to the last of February over 7,000 nurses bad been actually detailed to duty or were ready for Immediate mobilization. So It Is seen that there are hone too many, In view of the requirements re-quirements of the service, : since between be-tween time of enrollment and actual assignment to duty the nurse must undergo un-dergo a period of special study and (mining for war service, and the work of organizing and mobilizing this "army of mercy" Is no small thing. A Nurse la a Soldier. Surgeon Ueneru! Uorgas bas called upon the lied Cross to supply &.000 nurses for the Army Nurse Corps by June I, anil If this quota is forthcoming forthcom-ing the total number detailed will have reached 12.000 So the mobilization mobiliza-tion of another IS.tKW to 25,000 by Jan. I, WJ, will be a big problem to solve. Now, a nurse la a Mdler. She Is recognized officially by the govern-mem govern-mem and Include) In those eligible for soldiers' and sailors' war Insurance. Insur-ance. A nurse goes into actual danger of wounds Mud death by shell fire and hoiut) eiplonloti. Her work Is arduous. ,exactlnt;. calling for the II nest qualities quali-ties of mini) ami heart. She Is the right band of die surgeon. So, because nursing Is primarily a woman Job, the war nurse Is properly proper-ly the peml'ar responsibility of the w oaten of America. While the trained nuiw Is urged to veleateer t risk of br life at the front, the Americas woman at home Is command! by every ev-ery dictate of patriotism and husMalty to support her "fighting sister." The nure fights pain, disease a4 death, making ber oacrlflce with asaaav tng cheerfulness and enihusiassa, i |
