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Show FIGHTING SISTERS OF FIGHTING MEN Twenty Thousand Nurses Now Enrolled in American Red Cross. Of the eighty odd thousand registered register-ed trained nurses In the United States about 20,000 hnve enrolled as Red Cross nurses, volunteering their services serv-ices nt the front, In cantonments nnd hospitals or in any other needed capacities. ca-pacities. This enrollment is the nursing nurs-ing reserveoof tho United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurso Corps, and from It will also bo drawn contingents for service under other allied flags than our owu. The enrollment goes on at tho rate of 1,000 volunteers a month. On a basis of an army of a million men over 30,-000 30,-000 nurses will be required for active duty In tho present year. Up to the Inst of February over 7,000 nurses had been actually detailed) to duty or were ready for Immediate mobilization. So It Is seen that there are none too many, In view of the requirements re-quirements of the service, since between be-tween time of enrollment and actual assignment to duty tho nurse must undergo un-dergo a period of special study and training for war service, and the work of organizing and m6blllzlng this "army of mercy" Is no small thing. A Nurse Is a 8oldler. Surgeon General (iorgas has called upon the Red Cross to supply 5,000 nurses for tho Army Nurse Corps by June 1, and If this quota Is forthcoming forthcom-ing the total number detailed will have reached 12,000. So the mobilization mobiliza-tion of another 18,000 to 25,000 by Jan. 1, 1010, will bo a big problem to solve. Now, a nurse Is a soldier. She, Is recognized officially by the government govern-ment and Included In those eligible for soldiers' and sailors' war Insurance. Insur-ance. A nurse goes Into actual danger of wounds aud death by shell Are and bomb explosion. Her work Is arduous, exacting, calling fur the Quest qunll-tics qunll-tics of mind and hvurt She is tho right hand of tho surgeon. So, because nursing Is primarily a woman's Job, ttie war nurso Is properly proper-ly the peculiar responsibility of the women of America. While the trained nurse Is urged to volunteer tho risk of her life at the front, the American woman at homo Is commanded by every ev-ery dictate of patriotism and humanity to support her "lighting sister." The nurse fights pain, disease and death, making her sacrlhYo with nmaa-log nmaa-log cheerf ulnewj aud enthusiasm. |