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    "ocrText": "February 2, 1932\nMiss Helen Teal, Exec. Secy.,\nIndiana State Nursest Association,\n1211 Circle Tower,\nIndianapolis,\nIndiana.\nMy dear Miss Teal:\nIn reply to your letter, we are delighted to\nnote that you are getting into Red Cross affairs and we hope that\nsome one will make a suggestion to the Executive Committee of the\nState Nurses Association when it meets, to nominate you as one\nof the members of the State Committee for the following year. It\nwould be quite nice to have you linked up with the Red Cross Nursing\nService in Indiana.\nAnswering your last paragraph first, I am indeed\nafraid that there has been a great change in Florida since you were\nthere. While there is a great deal of interest in the Red Cross and\nquite a number of enrolled Red Cross nurses in Florida, my visit there\nled me to believe that there was too much politics mixed up in nursing\naffairs in that State. I only wish that we could get away from it\nfor it is always hard to keep the Red Cross out of these State politics\nwhen they exist to such an extent as they do in Florida.\nI am afraid I cannot help you very much relative\nto the choice of books which tell the story of the American Red Cross.\nI still believe that there is no book that can ever take the place of\nthe \"Official History\" even if it does look formidable. It is a book\nso well written and the story is so interestingly told, that it seems to\nme even a lay person might read it with considerable interest if only\nfor the purpose of learning the service women rendered during the\nGreat War. I have found that many libraries were very glad to place\nthe book on their shelves and, of course, we believe that every train-\ning school library should possess it. In some instances the nurses\nhave purchased the book themselves from class funds, et cetera, and\npresented it to their training school.\nOf course, Miss Pickett's book, \"The Origin,\nPurpose and Services of the American Red Cross\" is still popular and\nthe price is popular - fifty cents, and it may be obtained from\nNational Headquarters. Miss Mabel Boardman's book, \"Under the Red\nCross Flag\" is also read quite extensively and may be obtained here,\nI do not know the price."
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