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Better Use Them Now
Almost every community in the nation has
made elaborate plans for celebrating V-Day
in Europe. Whistles are to blow, mass meet-
ings assemble, and prayer services start.
May we suggest, without in the least be-
ing sarcastic, that now would be a good time
to start the prayer-meetings?
Take a look at the headlines. If ever we
needed an outpouring of our people’s devo-
tional spirit to help us through a critical
stage along the road to peace through vic-
tory, now is the time.
If ever we needed to close the stores and
assemble with a single-minded purpose on
some common meeting ground, it is right at
this moment, which we believe to be the
most critical and momentous in the history
of this war, not even excluding D-Day.
If we have any plans for mass prayers in
observance of an occasion of tremendous and
historic importance to us, we would do well
to forget about V-Day and put them to work
right now. ___________________________
A Worthy Enterprise
Something is going to be done about pav-
ing and improving North Eighth street, lead-
ing to the city cemeteries, at long last.
Under leadership of Street Commissioner
Tom McWhirter, funds are being raised to
put nine inches of gravel on Eighth from
Walnut to the city cemetery, with a jog north
to Cedar Hill cemetery. Property owners
along the route have signed up their share,
the city will ante its part, and public do-
nations will take care of the balance. Total
cost is around $3,100.
Surely no worthier enterprise could be
imagined. Various individuals and groups,
including this newspaper, have urged for
years that steps be taken.
North Eighth is not only rough but usually
dusty, or sloppy by turns, full of chug-
holes and otherwise neglected, whereas it
should be one of the best streets in town.
We imagine the present plan calls for top-
. ping the street in due time, to abate the
dust nuisance. But it should also include
the beautification of the way leading to the
burial grounds, by the planting of trees and
shrubs, and the installation of adequate
street lighting.
We hope Commissioner McWhirter’s ef-
forts are backed by the citizenship generally,
and that enough money can be raised to do
a good job of paving with enough left over
to carry out preliminary beautification
plans.
“several large American groups on the 70-
mile Belgium-Luxembourg border.” ,
This is no time for recrimination, for de-
spair and certainly not for optimism. Our
men are fighting back with high courage,
and many of them are dying in their tracks
rather than yield. .
If there is a disposition to criticize the al-
I lied high- command for getting caught flat;
- footed, this much should be remembered: It
is always possible to break through a battle
line not buttressed by defensive works
you can bring to bear on it enough offen-
sive power, and are willing to squander
lives and run the risk of retributive disaster.
I Obviously the Germans had the power,
- they took the risks, and they achieved re-
sults. These results are not decisive insofar
as final victory is concerned, but they may
well be decisive 'insofar as prolonging the
war well into next year is concerned.
Barring a total breakdown of the German
push and an allied counterattack that would
crush the elements thus exposed, we have
suffered a serious backset—temporary it
may be, of long-range consequence it may
bit is a shock to all those Americans who
have been expecting total victory at any mo-
ment for the last six months or so. It is a
keen disappointment for those who had been
building high hopes on victory not later than
the spring. It is a tragic delay along the road
to eventual victory for those hardy souls who
have realized all along that the wars
bloodiest battles were still ahead of our men
in any case. 1
But it is no warrant for despair, for loss
of faith in our fighting men and their
leaders. , , . .
Rather it should have the sobering effect
of making us realize something we should
have known all along—that while every
ounce of German energy was going into the
war effort, we on the homefront here have
been fighting the war with one hand tied be-
hind our backs. ..
We can’t win the war that way, much less
keep up our morale in the face of occasional
backsets like this. ...
In Germany every soul able to wiggle a
finger is either in uniform or engaged in
some work useful to the war effort. They are
actuated by a single hope, a single ambition:
to win the war and thus become masters of
the world. Hope of a German collapse either
at the fighting front or on the home front
is now shown to have been a hollow mock-
“We have been guilty of using euphemisms
like Nazi and Hitler to describe a nation of
80,000,000 people living, breathing and fight-
ing for but one thing—world conquest. We
are up against 80.000.000 people, plus mil-
lions of slave laborers, not a political party
and a fuehrer. The sooner we realize that
fact the better our hopes of victory sometime
in 1945.
What It Means
A month or even a week ago you could
not have imagined a dispatch like this from
UP Correspondent James McGlincy coming
out of allied headquarters in Paris:
“Crack German tank and infantry divis-
ions swept on across Belgium and Luxem-
bourg today in a supreme bid for a break-
through that could prolong the war by
months, and censored field dispatches indi-
cated that American troops still were giving
ground in the war’s bloodiest and perhaps
most decisive battle."
No, you could not have imagined it; but
there it is.
The initial German thrust had slashed
through the First American Army lines at
four points and swept in 48 hours a distance
of 18 to 20 miles at one point, cutting off
THE ABILENI REPORTER-NEWS
NOW THEN SAIL ON, OH SHIP OF STATE
Thursday Evening, December 21, 1944.
ON THE HOME FRONT •
,U. S. Na
DEPARTMENT JE
Washington Calling
SAYS ALL LOSE IN SENATE CONTEST
The Quiz Corner
Q—What state is most densely populated?
A—Rhode Island, 667 persons per square
mile.
Q---How many pounds are there in a
metric ton?
. A------2204 6.
Q—How much help are prisons and cor-
rectional institutions furnishing toward our
war materiel supply?
A---Prisoners have made more than $25,
000.000 worth of war goods since July.
By MARQUIS CHILDS
WASHINGTON-No one can
win the contest in the senate
over the nominations to the de-
.' partment of state. Except for a
few whose compensation is to
see their names in print and for
those who will sacrifice any-
thing to pay off old grudges, all
of us lose. ,
If it weren't so tragic, It would
be funny. President Roosevelt
wins the election, and scarcely
more than a month later his
chief supporters set out to stop
him from naming certain sub-
ordinates to what is at the
present moment the most Im-
portant department of the gov-
ernment. iEditor’s note: All six
nominees were confirmed Tues-
day.)
The opposition to the nomin-
ations was handicapped on two
counts. First, the members of the
senate foreign relations com-
mittee who are leading the fight
against the appointees let the
names get by the committee or-
iginally with almost no protest,
as Chairman Connally pointed
out.
Second, and more important,
the opposition would have a
hard time, if called on. to name
six men of more liberal view-
ored France and the Spanish
fascists.
CASE OF PERSONALITY
You can't have it both ways.
The senate is suffering from a
split personality, and the end
result is likely to be confusion
and stalemate. It to the isola-
tionists who are enjoying this
whole show in the senate. They
know very well how it serves
their cause. I
Three of the appointees—Jo-
seph C. Grew. Brig Gen. Julius
Holmes and Dunn—come out of
the diplomatic background that
led up to the present conflict.
They are steeped in the diplo-
matic traditions of the twenties.
Conservative by reason of all
their training and experience,
they tend to think in terms of
the past and how it can be re-
stored.
The danger in this, as we
have seen in Greece, is that it
will carry too far back into the
past, ignoring the passionate de-
sires and hopes for a better
world that have come out of
Europe's trial by fire. It might
be highly desirable to restore
the world of the twenties, but
as events are certain to show—
as indeed they have already
shown—It cannot be put back In-
tact
point who could win senate ap-
proval. Some members of the —
foreign relations committee in- . *-----what
dicated their opposition to Arch- 2 - they are also incidental to what
Ibald MacLeish because he fa- is the real dilemma of our
vored the Loyalists in the Span- time. That ‘s the fatlure, de
ish civil war others were op- spite all the extraordinary new
posed to James Clement Dunn techniques, of communication
because he is said to have fav- between peoples as distinguish-
While these three men are
typical of the diplomatic past.
between peoples as distinguish-
ed from governments and bu-
reaucracies. The times cry out
for men who are not afraid to
think along bold new patterns.
CONFERENCE NEEDED
Perhaps if President Roose-.,
velt had called in some of the
senators now opposing his nom-
inees, they might discover men
of larger stature willing to serve.
At any rate, they might have
come to some agreement which
would have prevented the pres-
ent mess
While the contest was going
on, not only was Secretary of
State Stettinius' proposed reor-
ganisation held up, but the
ordinary work of the department
was seriously impeded. In the
sweep of Stettinius' new broom,
only one assistant secretary of
state, Dean Acheson, was left
in office.
Acheson has real ability, cou-
pled with a suave manner which
to an asset in his dealings with
professional diplomats. As the
only assistant authorized to sign
official papers, he has been com-
pelled to spend two or three
hours each night signing his
name to documents. In normal
times it might not have mat-
tered. Today it is an ironic foot-
note to what may well become
a major tragedy.
Given the president's temper-
ament. It was unlikely the nom-
inations would be withdrawn.
By the clamor, all six men
have been put on notice that
thev are under watch.
(Copyright 1944 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Barbs
People saving for a rainy day are finding
that Christmas is a flood. 1
It’s about time to be thinking about those
New Year resolutions that you’re going to
break.
Even better than hanging up your stock-
ing is buying War Bonds and hanging a sock
on the Japs and Germans.
Two pints of blood only give you a quart,
but they give some soldier a chance to live.
Donate at the Red Cross Today!
There's no question about the cigaret short-
age—in other words, no butts.
The hold-up business isn't as big a crime
as the business hold-up caused by strikes
in war plants.
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—(P)
—Old fatso Santa Claus fell on
his face this time. He was
pushed. The senate did tt.
So your postman won't get
a raise this Christmas. Maybe
next year. But he almost had
it: "$400 a year for every postal
worker.
The house approved the raise,
133 to 1, and tossed it over to
the senate for final okay.
Just before it skipped out for
Christmas last Tuesday night
the senate talked about it, did
nothing, put up the shutters,
went home. 1*
So it will be the baby of the
new congress. It will have to
start from scratch, which
means:
Long committee hearings,
long lines of interested wit-
nesses, long debate in both
houses.
Senator Balley (D-NC) threw
the blocks on the raise this
year. He had some reasons.
The Postoffice department op-
posed it, too.
Before going into the rea-
sons against, here are some of
the arguments for the raise:
There are postoffices in 43,-
000 communities. The postal
service has 350.000 employes,
less than 300 make over $4,
500 a year.
There are inequalities in pay-
scales in the postal service.
The 5400 raise wouldn't clear
up all that. But it would help.
The workers most familiar to
the public—mail carriers and
clerks-start out at $1,700 a
year.___________________
• They get raised $100 a year
until they reach $2,100. Then
they stop. No more raises un-
less they move up to a better-
paying job through examina-
tions.
Now there are 102,000 clerks
and carriers making $2,100. 1
Another 19.000 make between 1
$1,700 and *2,100.
The last time they had a raise 1
in their basic pay was 1926, e 1
year in which congress last vot- 1
ed itself a raise.
Two years ago congress gave,
postal workers a wartime in-
crease of $30 a month. This
expires next June. A
They work e 48-hour week
in wartime and make slightly
more’ than straight time for
each hour of overtime over 40
hours.
Letter carriers ahve to buy
their own uniforms. Unless they
get a permanent raise their
salaries will be at a 1925 level
while living costs have gone far.
beyond that.
The $400 raise would permit
letter carriers and clerks 2
start at $2,100 and reach the
salary limit when they got to
$2,500. nt
Senator Balley and the post-
office department-or, rather.
Postmaster General Walker-
opposed the flat *400 raise @t
cause:
The department has made &
lengthy study of postal service
salaries. Within a few weeks
it will have recommendation
ready to give congress. a
Instead of a flat increase,
across the board—*400 to the
man making only $1,700 and
$400 to the man making $9,-
000—the recommendations are
expected to suggest:
Increases of various kind in
different grades and for peo-
ple making different salaries
from bottom to top.
In this way present inequali-
ties could be smoothed out and
the whole salary structure of
the service made more fainto
all.
This whole problem seems
sure to come up in the next
congress. There's no telling
what will happen to it
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The War Today-
WESTERN FRONT OUTLOOK CLOUDED
Hull and History
GOOD GRAY STATESMEN TO ENDURE
• By FETER EDSON
Reporter-News Washington
Correspondent
It may take some years to get
the real measure of Cordell Hull
as Secretary of State. Perhaps,
when the Department of State
can reveal all the documents
and background material of the
issues on which the conduct of
U S. foreign affairs has been
most severely criticized—the ap-
parent lack of a foreign policy,
the delay of recognizing De-
Gaulle, the compromise with
Vichy, the appeasement of
Franco, of Darlan, of King Vic-
tor Emmanuel and Marshal Ba-
doglio, the failure to win full
collaboration with Argentina,
pressing the betrayal by
gJapan—perhaps
atW full light on all
■ „1 will revise the
s 439, J estimate of
I 1 Hull's states-
manship. But
when President
Roosevelt re-
ferred to Hull
as “The Fa-
_ _ ther of United
EDSON Nations" he
wasn’t just passing along a
pretty compliment to his retir-
ing Secretary of State. And nev-
er was the generality that “the
President makes the foreign
policy-the Secretary of Stele
just carries it out”—less true
than in the case of Cordell Hull
In the original enunciation of
the Atlantic Charter, the ini-
tiation of Lend-Lease, the idea
of the Good Neighbor policy,
the concept of extending recog-
nition to Soviet Russia, and the
Roosevelt threat to quarantine
aggressor nations made in the
President's speech at Chicago
in 1937, Hull may have played a
minor part.Beyond that list,
however, the range of Hull's In-
fluence has been almost beyond
measure.
FATHER OF UNIT
NATIONS
The United Nations declara-
tion. signed by the representa-
tives of 26 nations in January,
1942, was drafted in the Depart-
ment of State at Hull's direc-
tion, although his signature
does not appear upon it. Nine
other nations have since signed
the Declaration, making it the
greatest military alliance in his-
tory and sharp departure in
precedent for the United States
which, in the first World War,
held aloof from making any
formal alliance with anyone.
Hull’s greatest diplomatic
achievement Is probably repre-
sented in the Moscow Declara-
tion of 1943, which was drafted
in Washington before Hull went
( to the Soviet capital. If the dec-
laration of Moscow now seems
overshadowed by the Dumbar-
ton Oaks proposals. It should be
remembered that without the
Moscow influence, in which the
four major powers of the Unit-
ed Nations agreed to consult
with one another in planning
for a postwar organization to
maintain peace and security,
there would have been no Dum-
barton Oaks.
Of direct impact on U. S. do-
mestic affairs. Hulls greatest
achievement will be his pet re-
ciprocal trade agreements pro-
gram and his determined effort
to keep the conduct of U. 8. for-
eign affairs free from any taint
of political partisanship The
drive which he put into this be-
hind-the-scenes work was what
really brought on the break in
his health that led to his re-
tirement and resignation.
SET STANDARD FOR
FOREIGN RELATIONS
It Is another Intangible which
really epitomises Hull's record
as SecreUry of State. That is
his continuous advocacy of de-
cency in international relations
—the keeping of i a nation s
pledged word and the applica-
tion of the Golden Rule in deal-
ings between governments
He was never fooled Into the
belief that the U. 8. could re-
main aloof in Isolation, Early
and often he advocated the
granting of aid to nations re-
sisting aggression, even when
that meant the veering away
from the forms of declared neu-
trality. To Hull this was merely
good national defense and a
step toward the salvation of
worldwide democracy after lib-
eration from Germany and Ja-
pan, for which he so devoutly
hoped and so consistently work-
ed.
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
Associated Press War Analyst
The great German counter-
offensive appears to have slack-
ened in violence today, with im-
mediate prospects much be-
clouded. .
That's not to say that the
ultimate outcome isn't clear.
■ The vastly su-
Sperior Allied
strength ensures
(victory in the
(long run, but it
(must be admit-
Rud that mean-
(time many
■ things can hap-
•pen in fighting
■ which once more
•has become fluid
______________• and to swirling
MscKLKZ.il over a battle-
field that covers literally hun-,
dreds of square miles
This giant engagement may be
the last clash of such magnitude
on the western front. It might
even be decisive as regards the
whole Hitlerian war. The Ger-
mans are committing their en-
tire available strength in the
west to this effort. They're go-
ing all out with manpower and
materiel, as witness the fact
that every road behind the fifty-
mile Nazi offensive line is jam-
med hub to hub with transport
of all descriptions.
The Germans of course are
gambling on upsetting Eisen-
hower’s offensive plans and so
on prolonging the war with the
vague hope of securing a com-
promise peace. They are too good
soldiers to have any expectation
of winning the war.
It would be absurd to make
any forecast of the trend of the
battle at this stage However,
It's quite evident that the Ger-
mans have created a dangerous
position for themselves by driv-
ing through the Allied Une and
spreading themselves all over
the landscape. We are entitled
to believe that General Eisen-
hower has a large reservoir of
reserves. If he also has the nec-
essary supplies there is always
the possibility that he may turn
the German advance into a ter-
rific debacle.
However, while we may specu-
late along this line, and even
hope that the battle may take
such a turn, we shouldn't do any
wishful thinking about the Allies
being able to spring a trap on
the Hitlerites. The possibility
exists, but the Germans are past-
masters of the art of getting out
of traps.
A change of the foul weather
which blankets the front 'would
make a mighty difference to
Elsenhower. A pea-soup fog has
been keening our air fleets on
the gro / id, thereby not only
depriving us of their striking
power against enemy columns
and supply lines, but taking
away the eyes of our armies.
AND NOTHING CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT
TODAY and TOMORROW 1
(Editor’s Note—The opinions expressed by Mr. Lippmann are not
necessarily those of The Reporter-News.) e u
----------------- By Walter Lippman --------------
American Women and Our Wounded Men
took no unnecessary risks with the
health of their own communities
The Army made an appeal to@ach
of these 27,000 women. The Army
received 760 answers, and 227 signed
up. Out of the whole 27,000 thi
Army got less new recruits that
The last thing our people will put
up with is that sick and wounded
American soldiers should suffer be-
cause the Army cannot find enough
women to nurse them. Yet I am re-
porting only the stark truth, which
is well known to the Army and to
the leaders of the medical profes-
sion, when I say that in military
hospitals at home and abroad our
men are not receiving the nursing
care they must have, and that with
casualties increasing in number and
in seriousness, this will mean for
many of the men brought in from
the battlefields that their recovery
is delayed, and even jeopardized.
No one will question this state-
ment. So great is the shortage of
womenwho are volunteering to nurse
the sick and wounded that the
Army has had twice to lower its
own standard of nursing care. In
1941 the standard called for 120
nurses and 500 enlisted men in each
general military hospital of 1.000
beds. By 1942 the Army had had to
reduce the number of nurses to 105
Today In 1944, when our casualties
are mounting, the Army has been
driven to reduce Its theoretical
standard to eighty-three nurses and
450 enlisted men.
Instead of one nurse to eight beds
the Army has had to come down
to asking (though it Is not getting)
one nurse to twelve beds That this
is a low standard is obvious when
we realise that in civilian hospitals
a ratio of one nurse to four or five
patients is considered just barely
sufficient.
there were nurses who for various
good reasons had to leave the nurse
corps during the month of Nolem-
ber alone. 1
To meet this situation, which ds
a grave emegency and will become
a scandal, we must first recognise
the real causes. Women are not ub-
ject to the draft. They cannot be
forced to serve. Moreover, unlike
workers in war industries, they can-
not be paid to serve by giving them
high wages. They are neither com-
pelled nor induced; they have neith-
er a legal duty nor a pecuniargate.
ward. This means that each woman
who volunteers must do so because
But even this standard to which
the Army has been reduced is not
being met. To meet it the Army
Nurse Corps should now have 50,000
nurses. In fact it has 41,500. Instead
of a ratio—low enough In all con-
science—of one to twelve, the aver-
age in fact in continental United
States is now one to twenty-two.
In order to grasp the meaning of
these figures the reader must under-
stand that in every hospital many
nurses work in the operating rooms
and in other essential services, and
are not available to nurse the pa-
tients. He must remember also that
no nurse can work more than eight
or twelve hours in each day. 80
when he hears that the Army ratio
of nurses to patients is one to twen-
ty-two. he must not imagine that
there is a nurse available in each
ward for every twenty-two sick or
she has a much higher sense 0%
public duty than we expect or find
in the general average of this M
any other nation. 1
But it means also that Owsh
trained nurse who has to make the
choice of enlisting is in fact offered
a strong inducement not to enlist
If she stays in civilian nursing, abd
does not have to place herself under
Army discipline, or go away from
home, or face the discomfortsdand
risks of service in the theaters of
war. She can make a great deal
more money because the civilian
patients have a lot of money, and
are willing to pay high prices for
special private nursing Finall mA a
is subject to considerable pressure of
one kind and another to stay where
she to, and so to protect her job and
her career after the war. „
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By WEBSTER
TODAY'S BIBLE
SELECTION
TODAY—FSALM 37
A Selection
Fret not thyself because of
evildoers, neither be thou en-
vious against the workers of In-
iquity.
For they shall soon be cut
down like the grass, and wither
as the green herb.
Trust in the Lord, and do
good; so shalt thou dwell in the
land, and verily thou shalt be
fed.
Delight thyself also in the
Lord; and he shall give thee the
desires of thine heart.
Commit thy way unto the
Lord; trust also in him; and he
shall bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth thy
righteousness as the light, and
thy judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the Lord, and wait
patiently for him; fret not thy-
self because of him who pros-
pereth in his way, because of
the man who bringeth wicked
devices to pass
Cease from anger, and forsake
wrath: fret not thyself in any
wise to do evil
TOMORROW-ST. JOHN 1
BILL TOLD ME SomETNG
FUNNY TO DAY. SAID HIS /
WIFE ASKED HIM FOR
A DOLLAR HF HAD
BORROWED The WEEK
BEFORE ,-----
• OH,VERY WELL, SAID
HIS WIFE, "NEVER MIND,
SINCE YOU ARE AS MEAN
AS THAT."
"BUT, SAID BILL, ive
ALREADY PAID THAT
DOLLAR BACK To You
Twice! You CANT
EXPECT ME To PAY
IT AGAIN!" J--
TM SURPRISED u
To HEAR THAT 1
BILL IS SUCH A 1
MEAN MAN. HE 1
ALWAYS SEEMED
SO NICE .__Z
wounded men.
For example, at the Percy Jones
General Hospital, which is one of
the most important in this country,
there are now on duty during the
day one nurse, and one assistant,
who have to care for each sixty to
seventv patients. During the night
one nurse has to care for about 190
Women, though they are fit and
without family responsibilities, gave
no national duty under the law to
serve their country: there are com-
bined financial and institutional
and what might be called profes-
atonal trade union pressures upod
women to prefer civilian to military
service. The result is not one to
discourage enlistment in the nurse
corps, but to create inertia and re-
sistance in the face of the many
practical efforts being made to
large the supply of women who
do some nursing, be it as a
mbsint Warsi only an arourediingy
informed public opinion, focused
may be by a Congressional inquiry,
can break this logjam in the rejen
cruiting of women to nurse the sicker
and wounded soldiers of the Amerina
can Army. O T
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I do not believe it is necessary for
any one who has seen our wounded
here and abroad to talk as if the
. nas vo Cose .-------families of the men and theig
patients So serious to the shortage friends and their fellow citizens
of women who will nurse for the had to be reminded of the human
Army that we have actually got to cost of war. They can imagine wt”;
the point where we are preparing to out any one telling them what 15
and hospital units abroad without means to lie on a bed of pain und
send horses, leaving it to the chief attended and uncared for over long
surgeon in France to make the best stretches of time. When I say un-
of thSTwith the insufficient number cared for I am not talking ague
or overworked nurses he already has the surgery and medical treatment
of overwor they are by universal testimony beta
over there , , , ter than any army has ever had in
There are plenty of women in the any war. The record of the Medical
states who are already train- Corps thus far is brilliant—measur)
U as nurses and more can be train- ed by the lives it has saved, by the
ed »x nurse's sides The problem to numbers of men who have OpR
soluble But it to not being solved, spared the crippling effects of their
ana there to no prospect thst it is wounds by the number, of “’oth®
going to be solved by issuing appeals turned to good health who has
to the nurses to enlist in the Army, wars would have become litelos
. problem can be solved only if invalids. A
the Rmnerican people understand it. But I am saying not on my onh
the then make up their minds to authority of course but on three
and thatPi to solved. This will de- the responsible commanders, that
very plain speaking this record cannot be sustained •
About two months ago there were the work of the surgeons and done
in ^ United states some 27,000 tors and of the devoted Army nurg
nurses who were declared to be not and corpsmen to not reinforced •
engaged in essential nursing in civil once by more women-by "9Y
life and therefore eligible for the who know how to nurse the “
Army If they could pass the phyal-snd who by their presence, and HE
cal and other tests. The decision | cause they are women moving abey
about who was essential was not among men who are in pain, in
about i washington: it was made er. In low spirits, and are lone’
by responsible medical and nursing evoke the will to live and toreus
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