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1919. This call represented far more to her then a formal
military command. It meant the needs of the millions of men now
being caught up in the draft, when they should be torn and
bwoken after battle. Behind these soldiers stood mothers, sweet-
as
hearts and perhaps little children. The American trained nurse was
the only woman privileged to serve with the military establishment,
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to all these she was responsible.
On Monday evening April 30th, 1917 at the Joint
session of the National Organizations of Nursing held at the
Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pa., the Chairman of the Red Cross
2
Nursing Service presided over the meeting which was to mark the
4
response of American Nurses to the call of the Red Cross. Always
I
a woman of singular and indefinable charm of pe rsonality, imperial
W
in her heighth and bearing, beautifully gowned, her lap full of
0
roses, her strong quick_moving hands resting on the arms of her chair,
over the four thousand nurses watching her in that great theater came
the almost worshiping pride and love which they were to feel for her.
And when her associate appealed to that audience that they
follow their biothers overseas, from every nurse, leaning forward in
her chair, tense with emotions came their thundering acceptance
of
war service.
Not all of it, however, was full of brilliant color
and inspiration. To her office in Washington came thousands of request
which could not be granted on account of the regulations of the War
Department and also the resulting dissatisfaction and criticism.
Professional questions arose which required infinite tact as well as
immédiate and decisive action. Men and women used to come to
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