Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1918 — INDIANA ASKED TO GIVE 1,500 WOMEN NURSES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ASKED TO GIVE 1,500 WOMEN NURSES

Indiana has been callea upon to give 1,500 women between nineteen and twenty-five years old for student nursing. “I believe that announcement is sufficient to guarantee that the number will be forthcoming,” said Governor Goodrich in a statement issued Tuesday. United States army esays we must select and train 25,000 of our best young women for the task of nursing those of our fighting men whom we know are certain to experience the havoc of highly scientific warfare. We know that through the skillfulness of the medical profession and its hand-maiden, the trained nurse, it has been possible to reduce fatalities, even midst the most terrible frightfulness, to a miniumum. As human life is valuable, is worth saving, even when and poisonous gas have torn, mained and tortured, it is incumbent on us to use every possible means .of preserving it. Especially in anticipation of the day when man power will have a greater significance than ever in. the history of civilization, it is important that we save from the wreckage every precious one. ... I can think of no more cmvincing proof of patriotism, no surer manifestation of a desire to help, to stand shoulder to shoulder with her brother in this war—which is first of all for the honor and virtue of womankind —that the women of Indiana should heed this call, and enroll promptly and sincerely to the end that Indiana’s record should continue unqualifiedly perfect in support of every movement that has to do with the winning of this war.