Show MISS LIEUTENANT NOW HERE Assimilated Rank Won for Members of Army Nurse Corps After Long Fight There will be bo female officers In th American array army hereafter The art an th nurse has won her tight light for fOl reco lion Salted Salte carefully awn away In a n safe cornor corner cor nor ner of Tiny army reorganization le legislation as us passed hy by both branches of congress Is n neat nent little section conferring the assimilated rank of or major captain and first and second lieutenant on members of the Army AImy Nurse corps The superintendent Is to have hae the rank of major the tile assistant superintendent director and assistant directors the rank of captain the chief nurses the rank of first lieutenant and other nurses are to he be second lieutenants Officially speaking n person holding assimilated rank rani Is one who exercises limited authority of that rank under certain conditions but does not enjoy the full privileges lIeges of the rank It lacks several of the thc elements of absolute I rank It does not call for a n commission commis sion slon and mut It does docs not carl carry the pa pay allowances al al- I lo or the time emoluments of one It makes no attempt to confer the power of ot command IncI Incident ent to ton to a n a line offic Officer r of similar grade The only Incidents of absolute rank conferred are 1 The dignity Incident to the time name of the rank 2 The right to wear the Insignia thereof 3 The eligibility to exercise authority authority author author- ity within the limits units set forth In the thela law la- which are as ns follows As regards regards re re- re- re gar gards s medical and sanitary matters and nil all work In the line of their du duties duties du ties they shall have and fimI shall be regarded regarded re re- re as fiS having authority In and about military hospitals next after the medical officers of the army The movement mo for rank for army nurses began with Americas America's entry Into the great gleat war A series of hearings on the proposition were held heM before the house committee on military affaIrs affairs affairs af af- af- af fairs on April lG 16 April 20 and June 7 I 1018 1918 Nothing Immediately resulted I but the nurses maintained an active bureau in Washington headed by Mrs l Helen nelen Boy Hoy Greeley a New York lawer law law- jer yer When the war was ended and array reorganization was plainly imminent Imminent Im Im- they stepped In n and won More than army nurses saw overseas service during the war All were graduate nurses recruited largely through the American Red ned Cross nursIng nursing nurs nurs- ing lag service Army nurses were wele among the first to represent America on theother the theother theother other side |