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CENTRAL COMMITTEE
NATIONAL OFFICERS
JOHN BARTON PAYNE, CHAIRMAN
CALVIN COOLIDGE, PRESIDENT
JAMES M. BECK
,
BERT w. DE FOREST, VICE PRESIDENT
MRS. AUGUST BELMONT
WIL ,IAM HOWARD TAFT. VICE PRESIDENT
CORNELIUS N. BLISS, JR.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
MABEL T. BOARDMAN
JAMES M. BECK, COUNSELOR
MRS. HENRY P DAVISON
ELIOT WADSWORTH, TREASURER
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
E. B. DOUGLAS
MABEL T. BOARDMAN, SECRETARY
MRS. FRANK v. HAMMAR
WASHINGTON, D. c.
HERBERT HOOVER
MAJ. GEN. M. w. IRELAND
w. w. MORROW
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
July 30, 1924.
GUSTAVUS D. POPE
JOHN BARTON PAYNE, CHAIRMAN
MRS. HENRY R. REA
JAMES L. FIESER, VICE CHAIRMAN
JOHN D. RYAN
ERNEST P. BICKNELL, VICE CHAIRMAN
GEORGE E SCOTT
REAR ADMIRAL E. R. STITT
ELIOT WADSWORTH
ROLL CALL RED CROSS NURSES DEFENSE TEST
Dear Red Cross Nurse:
On the 12th of September, 1924, on behalf of the War Department
the Surgeon General of the United States Army has asked the Red Cross to call
the Roll of our Red Cross Nurses, as part of the Defense Test of all organized
military groups, as well as the citizens of this country. This is the first
practical test of the peacetime working of the National Defense Act. It does
not mean active service, it does not mean giving up your work, but it does mean
that you are expected to report to the Committees under which you are enrolled,
or to such other headquarters as may later be designated, either in person, by
letter, telephone or telegram. No nurse need be put to any expense, beyond a
two-cent stamp or telephone call, or if she has been particularly tardy, she
may need to pay for a telegram.
Regardless of age, occupation, or present physical condition, you
are expected to answer the Roll Call on that day exactly as if you were called
into active service. Each nurse enrolled in our service appreciates that its
primary purpose is a reserve to the Army and Navy Nurse Corps, and therefore
should be prepared to answer a call of this sort whenever it may come. It does
not mean war, but it does mean preparedness and efficiency. If our enrollment
stands for this, do not let your failure to answer the Roll Call not later than
the morning of the 12th of September, preferably a few days before, bring crit-
icism upon the whole service, as not measuring up to the purpose for which it
is organized.
Please pass this word on to your sister nurses, watch the public
press, the nursing journals and the Red Cross Courier for general information,
and whatever you do keep constantly before you in some conspicuous place the
words Report September 12th. "Here" !!
Here:
Very truly yours,
Stack
Clara D. roys
Street hew Haven Com.
Chairman, National Committee,
Irene E. Etcach
Red Cross Nursing Service.
Secretary Local Committee,
Red Cross Nursing Service.
and mark return this letter "Here sign your name and address
to Grace Hospitall if time permits, if not send
tele graph or telephone to same Col
8110
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