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FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1918
A CALL TO THE WOMEN
The call that comes from military
officials in France for five thousand
Red Cross nurses at once, and for
twenty thousand additional by De
cember of this year, is easily ex
plained by the statements made by
Senator Lewis in the senate. Accord
ing to Senator Lewis, the United
States now has more than a million
men on foreign soil, and by December
1 of this year will have a number
equivalent to the British army, which,
we may be sure, is more than two mil
lions.
The number of men in France is
no doubt much larger than was ex
pected or foreseen. And the same is
true of the future transport of sol
diers. The German offensive has cre
ated a situation approximating an
emergency, and it has been necessary
for this country to throw itself into
the breach. This necessity implies
not only a speeding up of the ship
ment of men and materials, but also a
speeding up of the work of the Red
Cross. The Red Cross naturally
gauges its program to tit in with the
program of the army, and when this
is suddenly advanced, an equal ad
vance must be made by the Red
-Cross.
i rlle question is primarily, of course,
how are we going to get this large
number of nurses together in so short
a time? It is a question that will not
prove easy of solution. While there
are. still plenty of graduate nurses in
this country, they are all needed, and
needed badly, for civilian work. But
the needs of the army, of course,
supersede those of the civilian popu
lation, so that the probability is that,
after some effort, the twenty-five
thousand needed will be found. But
their going will bring up an even
l.irger problem. Having once sent so
many nurses abroad, we will find our
selves somewhat embarrassed at home
by the shortage their departure cre
ates. Thus, an equally difficult prob
lem presents itself—the problem, not
of recruiting graduate nurses for for
eign service, but that of recruiting
women who can take their places.
There are, of course, a great many
women in the United States today
who are non-practicing graduate
nurses. Some of these are women
who have forsaken the profession of
nursing to go into other professions;
some are those who have merely re
tired; while others are those who
have married, and who gave up nurs
ing after their marriage. From these
ranks will have to come the nurses
who will be needed immediately to
replace the twenty-five thousand who
are going away this year. For some
of these it may involve sacrifice to
go back into nursing, but then sacri
fice is the keynote of patriotism and
victory, and it is not to be doubted
that these women will rise to the
emergency.
But as the army grows the need for
nurses will continue to grow. Per
haps before the end of next year there
will be needed in France nearer fifty
thousand than twonty-flve thousand
■nurses. If the war lasts beyond an
other year, as It well might, the need
■will he even greater. To meet this
constant and probably Increasing
drain we must have thousands of girls
and young women take up the pro
fession of nursing.
No nurse Is accepted for foreign
duty unless she has completed a two
or three-year standard course. It is
useless for well-meaning but un
trained girls and women to think of
going to France. In France the ama
The Intruder
teur is not wanted. The beginner is
more of a hindrance than a help. Only
experienced trained nurses are of
service. But the amateur can save
many lives without going to France,
because every young woman who en
ters a training school for nurses will
sooner or later release a trained
nurse for the service of the army. It
is for this reason that every girl or
young woman who enters now into a
course of training is assisting her
country to ultimate victory as effec
tively and as surely as the fighter
does when he offers up his life for
his country on the firing line.
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SECRETARY F. K, LANE
EXPECTED TO COME NORTH
Advices received through unofficial
sources pay that Secretary of the In
terior Franklin K. Lane .'will visit
Alaska some time about the middle of
July. The information comes through
reliable sources, and is to the effect
that Secretary Lane will be accompa
nied by Assistant Secretary of the In
terior E. C. Bradley. It has been an
nounced officially that Mr. Bradley
will visit Alaska in July, but no of
ficial announcement has been made
that Secretary Lane will accompany
him.
‘‘I have had no advices that Secre
tary Lane will visit Alaska,” said
Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., when
asked concerning the report from the
South.
Secretary Lane and Assistant Sec
retary Bradley have been making a
tour of the West together, visiting
Arizona and other public lands states.
Some time ago an Associated Press
story stated that Mr. Bradley would
extend his visit to Alaska.
The information coming from Cali- ,
1
fornia that Secretary Lane will also ]
visit Alaska is from business men who
know Secretary Lane and Assistant (
Secretary Bradley well. Both the
secretary and assistant secretary are
San Francisco citizens. (
A.
ROAD COMMISSION HEAD :
IS PROMOTED TO MAJOR!
Word has been received at the of- ;
fice of the Alaska board of road com- .
missioners, at Juneau, that Captain
Waugh has been promoted to the rank
of major in the engineers’ branch of
the United States army.
Major Waugh is now at the west
ward, where he is investigating the
road conditions and putting crews to
work where needed.
Major Waugh is a civil engineer,
and for several years he was em
ployed as an engineer in the public
works department of the Philippines
government. About a year ago he
was transferred to the office of public
roads of the agricultural department
at Washington, and assigned to the
work of that bureau in Alaska.
Colonel W. P. Richardson, presi
dent of the Alaska board of road com
missioners from its organization, and
Major Waugh last summer worked out
the consolidation of the war depart
ment road-building organization and
that of the office of public roads, and
Major Waugh received a commission
in the United States army. He is
still a highway engineer in the office
Of public works.
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NEW POSTAL REGUL
Among the new postal orders re
ceived at the postoffice is one re
questing postmasters not to receive
magazines and current literature, two
or three months old, for sending the
soldiers In France and another one re
lating to money orders is as follows:
Postmasters are instructed to in
form patrons desiring to send money
to prisoners of w"ar in Germany,
Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, or Tur
key, or in territory occupied by the
said central powers, that the only
method of sending such remittances
s through the Bureau of Prisoner
belief of the American Red Cross, in
Washington, D. C., which has been '
;ranted a license for such business
>y the War Trade board..
Postmasters will accept applications 1
>n which the regular domestic fee I
nust be paid for domestic money or
lers payable to the “American Red !
^ross,” at Washington, D. C., which in ]
urn will endeavor to forward the :
noney to prisoners without additional ■
sost. Patrons should be requested to
;ive the full name of the payee and the
ocation of the prison when known.
Money orders intended for prisoners
)f war held by those countries which
ire allies of.the United States should,
is usual, be issued on the international
form without charge for tee, marked
‘Payee a Prisoner of War,” and for
warded to the Exchange Office at
Mew York.
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