Show i Race Prejudice Shows 1 Up In Armed Forces By Jean Bickmore The shortage of nurses in the armed should be no secret to anyone by The need for additional nurses has been Yet in spite of this thousands of nurses who are trained and willing to serve their country have E J been refused entrance into army and navy nurse SIH The Their to a man who is dying on a it Wk matters not who binds his W who saves his life p color is unimportant in the face of But M. a to the deskmen in Washing- ton who head the army and navy medical it seems to matter a great For according to they have consistently refused to accept thousands of the Negro nurses in this country who have volunteered their on the grounds that the average share of colored nurses in the army is equal to the total number of Negro Nurses Resentful Resentful of this especially in view of possible conscription of white nurses the New York State- Nurses association wrote the Surgeon General asking that the limited quota of colored nurses allowed be From the army it received a reply that will be made as places for their use From the navy it received a thank-you-for-your-letter The navy admits no Negro The answers speak for the official army and navy There seems to be a three-fold objection to allowing Negro nurses to enter the armed The first is plain The second undoubtedly is reluctance to commission Negro despite the fact that colored nurses must pass the same examinations and meet the same requirements as white The third is the desire of army officials to continue their policy of race Price too high Race prejudice is a threat to democracy and real Americanism at any But when we are at war the threat is when the lives of young Americans have become the asking price for such a luxury as white superiority and the price is too i |