TRIED NURSES
NEEDED FOR 11
STATE AND TERRITORIAL DE
FENSE COUNCILS ASKED TO
HELP SUPPLY DEMAND.
EFFICIENCY IS REQUIREMENT.
Authorities’ Advice Against Short
Courses and Declare That Instruc
tion Should Ik* Adequate to Meet
Exigencies of Situation.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 18.—
State and territorial councils of na
tional defense are urged to assist in
providing an adequate supply of
trained nurses for military and ci
vilian purposes.
The council of national defense has
sent the following to the several
-late and territorial councils of de
• The committee on nursing of the
coral medical board of the council
ot national defense asks your co-op
:ion in meeting the nursing prob
- which have arisen because of the
i
-The object of the committee on
T nursing is to insure a sufficient and
a,; quately-trained supply of nurses,
;h for military and civilian purpo
and both for immediate needs and
for the demands of a long war. lo
,.;n omplish this purpose, the commit
t . investigates the supply of nurses
v • . n is available at present and
spectively. and recommends poli
cin' regarding the training and use of
max The committee acts in close
■ a-h with all branches of the nation
>v< rnment which have to do with
•..•sing matters (especially army aud
-•;;-vy nurse corps and the American
!. , Cross, the latter now being the
* i suiting agency for all nurses en
; ; ir.g federal service of any kind),
a : its policies have their indorse
»• e nt.
Help in Two Directions.
“The state councils of defense can
•.• in two directions:
"(l) On the positive side, by en
couraging hospitals to increase facil
!::.-s for the thorough training of
n. uses and by stimulating women to
i:.’ advantage of these.
rJ) On the negative side, by dis
co raging makeshift schemes of
tr by short-term hospital cour
- s. v. l ich are at present unnecessary
iikelv to result in harm.
I
I
I
“The second of these lines of as
-tance is as important as the first;
• ■ two can scarcely be separated and
i ::1: best be carried on together.
“The committee on nursing points
u that the fully trained nurse is the
racial factor in America’s war-time
a/ - fug program. Only fully trained
scs are being taken at present by
riit surgeon general for military serv
■ e; such nurses must also continue to
tW". t tire serious needs of the civilian
population.
A long view of nursing needs can
.od should be taken. Strenuous ef
must be made now to insure a
i unuous and increased supply of
tii ■••■-uglily trained nurses in the fu
tui-. Tins requires:
1
t
"(a) 'i hat hospitals which possess
. '.( !< nt clinical material to give
competent instruction shall be en
couraged to increase their facilities
for the thorough training of nurses,
'n many cases, hospitals can provide
additional facilities without extra ex
panse to themselves, provided the pub
lic necessity is appreciated by all con
cerned in their management. In oth
er cases, inadequacy of living accom
modations alone may prevent hospi
tals from taking on more pupil nur
ses, and in such cases the loan of
near-by houses may solve the prob
om. In still other cases, special fi
nancial aid to enlarge training fa
cilities may be necessary. In order to
open up another important source of
additional training facilities hospitals
should be encouraged to make ar
rangements with standardized visit
ing nurses and other public health ac
tivities whereby the training material
I
which these have at their disposal will
be made available for pupil nurses.
“(b) That young women, especial
ly those with the advantages of good
education, shall be encouraged to en
ter regular hospital training courses
in order to insure the maximum use
of training facilities. The appeal to
| their interest should emphasize the
i element of war service and make
j clear what are the real nursing needs
of a long struggle; the advantages of
nursing as a permanent profession
I can also be pointed out. If those who
take up the thorough hospital course
I arc of good general education, it will
be easier to adopt such methods as
the earlier graduation of pupil nurses,
should these methods become neces
| sary as a last resort. The committee
on nursing has already taken steps to
appeal to the interest of women,
through numerous circular letters
sent out from its office. There has
been an increase of about 20 per cent
in the applications for entrance into
i
training schools.
Short-Term Courses.
“The committee on nursing be
lieves, on the basis of its investiga
tions to date, that the establishment
of special short-term courses in nurs
ing in hospitals is at present inadvis
able. Some of the reasons for this
have already been indicated under the
first head, others readily suggest
themselves.
The committee believes that such
courses are at present unnecessary. A
continuous supply of thoroughly
trained nurses must be maintained,
re d training facilities must be kept
impaired for this purpose. It is
thoroughly trained nurses who will
he primarily required for our mili
tary forces. Even in the case of a
- l-ious emergency at home (as from
an explosion), the situation must be
met. as formerly, by the rapid tem
porary mobilization of fully-trained
nurses by the Red Cross.
The committee on nursing, there
fore. asks that the state councils,
while taking the positive steps noted
under the first head, assist it by dis
couraging the establishment at pres
ent of special short-term hospital
courses in nursing.
A further feature of the program
of the committee on nursing, which is
wishes brought to your attention, is
the thorough survey of the nursing
resources of the country. This sur
vey has been authorized by the coun
cil of national defense. It will sup
plement the investigations already
made by the committee on nursing
and will cover trained and untrained
and volunteer workers.
PARIS INCREASES
PAY OF EMPLOYES
ADVANCES ARE MADE ON AC
C ()l XT OF STEADILY MOl'NT
ING COST OF LIVING.
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 16.—
The ; .unicipal council of Paris has
adopted the report of one of its com
mittees concerning an increase in the
-■nlaries of municipal employes. Those
\r. ns in the employ of the city re
ceiving h'ss than 3,600 francs ($605
at normal exchange) per annum will
he entitled to an increase of 540 francs
;.s]04); those whose annual pay is
between 3,600 and 5,000 francs (be
tween $605 and $966) will receive an
increase of 360 francs ($69); the em
ployes of the city receiving more than
5,000 francs but not more than 5,360
francs ($1,034) will receive an in
crease sufficient to bring their annual
pay up to a total of 5,360 francs.
Moreover, on account of the in
creased cost of living there will be a
daily allowance of 3 francs( $0.58),
for all employes of all grades and
: classes in the permanent employ of
the prefecture of the Seine, the pre
fecture of police, and affiliated serv
ices. This sum is in addition to 30,
000,000 francs ($5,790,000) previously
voted in the shape of allowances for
the increased cost of living.
ADVICE.
This good advice for every one
I’m teaching,
P’s practice that makes perfect, son
Not preaching.
Millie—Paw, what is a rapid cal
culating machine?
Paw—A gas meter, my son.
GIIS PIPE IS
NVOKED TO
EDWARD CHRISTENSEN, PRESI
DENT OF LABOR UNION, SUF
FERS SCALP WOUND.
C. R. RHODES WIELDS WEAPON
Dispute Occurs Over Occupation of
Auditorium for Skating Rink, and
Agreement Is Finally Made to Re
fer Issue to Court.
to skate or not to skate was the
question that involved in a fracas C.R.
Rhodes, a skating rink man, who de
clares he had a lease on the auditor
ium of the Labor temple, and Edward
Christensen, president, and Jack Suth
erland, secretary of the Alaska Labor
union, who contended they could re
scind and had rescin ded the lease.
Rhodes in support of his contention
yesterday morning disturbed the
peace and quiet of the Sabbath day by
bringing into play a length of gas
pipe with the consequences that
Christensen was carted to the hospi
tal to have four stitches taken in his
scalp and Sutherland is nursing a
right arm so sore from a blow it stop
ped that he can scarcely move it.
Following the successful wielding
of the gas pipe, Rhodes held posses
sion of the auditorium and no further
effort was made by the officers of
the union to eject him. They tried to
reduce him by famine. Their block
are of the building was defeated
about 10 o’clock this morning by
Rhodes’ father, who laden with a
breakfast, tossed aside several guards
in front of the builuing and broke in
the front door, smashing the glass
parts in pieces.
Thereupon the union officials in
voked the aid of Unted States Com
missioner Leopold David and United
States Deputy Marshal Harry Kava
naugh. Their intervention brought
about an amicable settlement of the
controversy.
Rhodes concluded to refer to the
law any claims he might have had to
a lease of the audtorium. The union
offered hm $450 damages for rescind
ing his lease, but he refused to ac
cept it. He and the union agreed to
share the property damage occasioned
to the labor temple. No criminal com
plaints were filed.
An agreemnt was enterd into be
tween the Alaska Labor union and
Rhodes last December in regard to
leasing the labor temple auditorium
for a skating rink to open March 17.
Saturday the union at a meeting de
cided that it did not want a skating
rink in the building for the reason
that the rink would hurt the business
of the hotel up-stairs.
That part of the agreement of lease
upon which the union relied in deny
ing Rhodes the right of entrance into
the building is as follows:
‘‘The parties of the first part (the
Alaska Labor union) further agree
in consideration aforesaid to deposit
in escrow with the Bank of Anchor
age at the date of the execution and
delivery of tbs lease the sum of $450,
on condition that in the event that the
party of the second part (C. It.
Rhodes) is not permitted to peaceably
enter said premises under the terms
and conditions of this lease without
let or hindrance and fully to ail in
tents and purposes to enjoy the entire
term thereof, then and in that event
the said Bank of Anchorage shall turn
the said $450 over to the said party
of the second part as liquidated dam
ages.”
DISPATCH FROM TORREON SAYS
THAT REVOLUTIONISTS
HAVE SCORED SUCCESS.
EL PASO, Tex., March 16.—A dis
patch from Torreon, Mexico, states
that Villa revolutionists have captured
the city of Durango, the capital of the
state of that name.
Job work at The Times office.
POLICE TO HELP
ENFORCEMENT
OF DRAFT Li
PEACE OFFICERS THROUGHOUT
LAND WILL CO-OPERATE WITH
WAR DEPARTMENT.
WILL WATCH FOR SLACKERS.
Postmasters Also Receive Instruc
tions to Give Every Possible Aid to
Members of V'arious Local Exemp
tion Boards.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.—
Under the plans of the war depart
ment every police official, high or low,
throughout the land will become a
part of the army building machine,
and this great agency will be put in
operation from 5,000 separate points
through the local boards. The atti
tude of the government is clearly out
lined in the new regulation on this
subject:
rl hose who fail to return the ques
| tionnaire, or to appear for physical
examination, or to report change of
status, or to report for any duty, or
to perform any act at the time and
place required by these regulations or
by the directions by local or district
boards in pursuance thereof, are guil
ty of a misdemeanor under section fi
of the selective-service law. Under
authority granted in section G of
that law, it is hereby made the duty
of all police officials of the United
States and of any state or any coun
ty municipality, or other subdivision
thereof, to locate and take into custo
dy such persons and to bring them
forthwith before local boards to de
termine whether their cases shall be
reported to the federal department of
justice for prosecution, and to serve
the summons to witnesses issued by
local oi- district boards.
Classed as Deserters.
Persons who, after induction into
military service, with intent to evade
such service, willfully fail to report
to local boards for military duty, or
fail to entrain for a mobilization
camp, or who absent themselves from
i entrainment or from their parties of
selected men en route to a mobiliza
tion camp, are deserters and are sub
ject to military law. It is hereby
made the duty of all such police of
ficials to apprehend and arrest such
deserters and proceed against them.
A reward of $50 is payable for the
apprehension and delivery to a mili
tary camp, post or station of a desert
er from the national army when the
person making such delivery presents
the certificate of a local board.
l ost Of lice Uthciais.
Not only has the provost marshal
general set in motion the great police
organization of the country, but the
i postal authorities will work hand in
hand with the local boards in every
direction.
The following is the order of the
president calling on the postal au
thorities to aid in this great work:
“Postmasters and all postal era
| p’oycs shall promptly forward all
mail of local boards, district boards,
and other officials connected with the
administration of the selective service
law, bearing the frank of provost
marshal general.
Aid to Local Boards.
“They shall also give every aid to
local boards and other such officials
in securing the address of registrants,
and, upon request of local boards,
postmasters shall furnish to them
the forwarding address of all regis
trants whose mail has been forward
ed to an address in possession of the
postal authorities, for the confidential
use only of the boards and persons
charged with the administration of
the selective-service law and these
rules and regulations.
“Upon the request of the governor
of the states postmasters shall receipt
to local boards, upon a list prepared
by the latter, for any of the notices
prescribed by these regulations to be
mailed by local boards to registrants.
All such notices shall be delivered to
the post office arranged in the order
in which they appear upon such list
so to be signed by the postmaster.”
This has been supplemented by an
order issued to 56,000 postmasters by
the postmaster general as follows:
“Postmasters should exercise every
effort to make delivery of letters ad
dressed by local or district exemp
tion boards to registrants under the
selective service act and particularly
the notices which those boards send
to registrants calling them to places
of entrapment. Serious consequences
ensue to a registrant who fails to re
spond to this latter call, as the law
classifies him as a deserter, and un
less an explanation is made he must
be dealt with as such. It is there
fore of the greatest importance that
postmasters see that such notices
reach the addressees if possible.”
KAISER HAS MANY
VICTORY MEDALS
DESIGNS OF 580 KINDS COMMEM
ORATE VARIOUS ALLEGED
SUCCESS ON BATTLEFIELD.
LONDON, March 16.—Germany hat
produced 580 different war medals tc
commemorate various alleged victor
ies during the war. Copies of abou
half of them have been obtained bj
the Victoria and Albert Museum i
London and are now on exhibitioi
there.
: Before April, 1916 the German gov
I ernment had issued more than ;
' hundred popular-priced “victory med
; als” of various kinds. These wer.
j struck off in light silver and sold t<
the public for a small sum, bearing
inscriptions recording such exploits a;
1 Zeppelin attacks on London, the bom
bardment of British coast towns and
battles on the western front. Many of
the medals bear portraits of popular
heroes of a day or two.
AN HEIRLOOM.
A prerevolutionary mansion is to be
preserved in Albany as a historic
shrine, says the Brooklyn Standard
Union. This was the home of Gcr
Philip Schuyler, who was in comman,
of the continental troops in the victor}
of Saratoga in 1777. The house hao
been erected 15 years before and stood
in the open country within what atv
now the city limits. The estate, with
its ample grounsd and negro slave
quarters was known as “The Pasture.’
After their surrender at Saratoga
General Burgoyne and other British
officers were held as war prisoners at
his home by General Schuyler. Wash
ington, Franklin and Lafayette were
entertained there, and in the man
parlor General Schuyler’s daughter
Elizabeth, was married to Alexander
Hamilton, whom she long survived
after the fatal bullet tired by Aaron
I Burr at Weehawken ended the life oi
Washington's secretary of the treas
ury.
I
INTERNED GERMANS AND AUS
TRIAN CIVILIANS IN ENG
LAND AGGREGATE 29,000.
LONDON, March 18.—British cas
ualties for the week ending Saturday
aggregate 3,562. This number in
cludes 875 dead.
During the first week in March, the
casualties numbered 3,343 which was
the lowest number of any week for
several months.
Lord Newton, of the war office, an
nounced today that 25,000 German
civilians and 4,000 Austrians are in
terned in England besides prisoners o
war.
STUNG AGAIN!
“I’ll have the law on them city slick
ers,” said Hi Meddegrass, as ne finish
ed reading the letter he had just re
ceived at the post office.
“‘Did they fool you again,” Si?’”
asked the Postmaster?
“Yes, gol ding ’em,” admitted Si. “1
seen a advertisement in a paper that
said: ‘Howe to Make Hogs Pay. Send
Us $2 For Our Sure Method.’ And I
sent the $2 and I got this here reply:
‘Never sell a hog anything unless he
pays for it in advance.’ ”
MERCY.
Some girls in London, Ohio, can do
things that Louies Cant.
FOURTEEN NATIVES IN SCHOOL
AT SITSITN \ BUY DOLLAR
MEMBERSHIPS.
BEEN WORKING TWO MONTHS.
Several Articles Still Remain Uri^(4d
and Are At Office of Superintend'
ent Arthur H. Miller in the Alaska
Building Here.
Fourteen one-dollar American Red
Cross memberships were purchased
today by Arthur H. Miller, superin
tendent of Indian schools for this dis
trict for as many natives attending
the Indian school at Susitna station,
which is under the direction of Miss
Katherine G. Kane. The natives who
have been at work on articles of their
own manufacture for about two
months, sent them to Mr. Miller here
to be sold to the public and each na
tive wanted $1 of the amount derived
from the sale of the article made by
him or her to be applied to the pur
chase of a membership in the Nation
al Red Cross.
Miss Kane, the teacher, has ex
uded a particular effort to impress
upon her scholars the necessity for
them to do their share in aiding the
United States to win the war against
Germany.
Mr. Miller, whose jurisdiction ex
tends over the district embracing the
Copper river country, the Aleutian isl
ands and the Susitna valley, is highly
gratified at the efforts of the native
scholars, and commends them in his
report to the bureau of education at
Washington.
Several articles remain at Mr. Mil
ler’s office in the Alaska building
awaiting sale. The names of the na
tives who have purchased member
ships are Mrs. Antone. Nona Stepan,
Susitna Jumbo, Anna Shin, Mary Ste
pan, Miss Mona Stepan, Bobby Efim,
Annie Rooney, Susitna Calligan, Gos
samer, Jokko, Stepan, Kalinda Evan
and John Evan.
JUST PIECES OF PAPER.
Apropos of a recent financial mag
nate’s downfall, a depositor remarked
to a bank official that he thought thaf
the man in a subordinate position who
handles large amounts of cash is sub
jected to a greater temptation than
the “high financier.” “Not so,” was
the answer; “I was a paying teller for
ten years, and I can assure you that
j handling cash in large amounts is ab
solutely like handling simple pieces of
paper with numbers on them. It is
the mathematics of accounting that in
terests a cashier—the keeping of
those bits of paper in perfect order.
The question of what he might do with
the hills never enters a busy paying
telier’s mind.”—The Outlook.
i
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 16.—
It is the opinion of the United States
food administration that the gross
maximum profit for wholesalers in
flour should not exceed from 50 to 75
cents per barrel. The profit to retail
dealers in original mill packages
should not exceed from SO cents to
i $1.20 per barrel, depending upon the
j character of service performed. Where
retailers sell in amounts less than the
original mill packages, the gross pro
fit should not exceed one cent a pound.
Any profits in excess of these or in
excess of those obtained in prewar
times will be considered cause for in
vestigation. Substitutes for wheat
flour should not be sold at more than
a reasonable advance over actual pur
chase price of the particular goods
sold, without regard to market or re
placement value at the time of such
sale.
NAMES IS NAMES.
I. Fish lives at Crab Orchard, Ky.