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Miss Josephine Beuchat
Nursing Service
North Atlantic Area
American Red Cross
My dear Miss Beuchat:
As the months go by and we know that we cannot predict any date when
Red Cross nurses will be laying aside uniforms and going back to civilian
dress, I find that there are some principles connected ith the wearing
of a uniform which I do not think you have thought about enough so that
you believe they are of real importance. To me they are very important,
and that is why I em writing you about our Red Cross nurse's uniform today.
I confess that I have been shocked and hurt at certain large gatherings
I have attended where Army, Navy, and Red Cross nurses were together, at
the lack of meticulous observation of Red Cross nurse uniform regulations
in contrast to the Army and avy.
A nurse's uniform stands in the eyes of the public for certain qualities
inseparable from an ideal nurse. A Red Cross nurse's uniform stands for
these qualities and also for those inseparable from war nursing. Briefly,
this--so great a desire to help the wounded fighting man that one is
willing to undergo great danger and hardship in order to do so. The
American Red Cross is as you know semi-governmental. The President of the
United States is our Red Cross President and we act under his orders.
Our Red Cross nurse's uniform, therefore, worn only in time of war, stands
for our government in 3 similar manner to that worn by Army and Navy nurses.
It means that those who wear it conform to a pattern of service set down
by superior officers. Honor, integrity, obedience, unselfish devotion to
duty, courage, that kind of patience which results in unrelenting persis-
tence in our efforts to relieve our patients, the best possible use of
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our intelligence sometimes hard to exercise under the discipline inseparable
from wir; all these qualities are associated with the Red Cross nurse's
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uniform. It is a symbol of them. It is in identification of us with the
great army of Red Cross nurses who went before us and who have left us a
heritage too precious to be talked about very much.
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