Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Manitoba free press Winnipeg saturday Juke 22, 1918. Is a shortage of nurses threatening Senate of Canada and the women Over the Tea cups tons j the he last two weeks we have j cite at least two years the War is1 not Over yet. Sends thirty older pupils to service most optimistic places that in whatever Hospital the military a had the convention of the graduate Distant and even after our peace is of Canada and immediately i wards the Appeal of Jean Graham president of that Organiza Tion for More women to enter the j profession. Both have served to focus attention upon present nursing situation in Caa. Ada. A situation which must be of Prarar count interest to women on the basis alone of conservation of life in which this profession is primarily i a fortunately the ques declared there still need for Mih tary in rises in very Large num i Bers As Well there will is the i civil needs the reconstruction per i Iod. T the Point Necel not be further Laboured that this keeping up of our trained nurse Supply is a National problem both from the military and the civil viewpoint and if either May be said to be most urgent it is the civil. As for those in charge of the Mili somewhat conf Sci tary medical service of Canada they the reparation or the civil and military aspects of it a though racy entities instead of parts of one whole and still further by the persistence of some persons to in it Only a discussion of the value of . S. To form any kind of judgment on what is an important question not Only for one profession out for the no a Community we Trust try to see the thing whole. From the civil aspect the first thing that strikes one is the alarm ing shortage of . By the authorities of Winnipeg find the situation is nursing duplicated in situation in every City in can Canada i am in Formell that this shortage has reached an acute Mage. So serious has it become that institutions such As infectious hospitals which i depend almost entirely on a skilled graduate nursing Force and have no training schools to depend have not As yet Felt the Pinch in the matter of trained women and with the singular Lack of imaginative fore sight which appears to be the out standing characteristic of Many governmental departments they quite refuse to see that the web s end is within sight. So far of course the Call overseas has always been met. And in Many instances by Tho very Best minds and hearts in the profession. I do not made that statement unqualified Day however for Well do i know several who. Have chosen the part of greater heroism in staying on their Home jobs which they Felt were when All that was adventurous and romantic and Appeal ing called them overseas where big things Are done. In weaving Laurel crowns for those who went it is Well sometimes to remember those who stayed. J i Well what is the answer the i shortage the military medical ser vice state that they can keep up the thormities decide upon. When these pupils serve the length of time agreed they return to the Parent school and thirty More sent in their turn. The scheme which has All the ele ments of sound statesmanship which looks to tile whole needs of the coun try both civil and military and to the. Future As Well As the present was turned Down in Toto toy the government through the medical service Board and the scheme of untrained workers under trained supervisors adopted. Now. Let. Us look this thing from the untrained worker s viewpoint. Let us disabuse our minds any suspicion that anyone wishes to j in any Way reflect on the. Service rendered the nation at this time by the . S. They have Arisen splendidly to the occasion. Is that a reason to Call upon the Young women of Canada in a. Wholesale formula tiny and carrying out a pol province affected All. Well one does icy looking tooth to the present and not need to adhere so hard As to in to the future and re within its scope combining the Best interests of All concerned de take to business. Mind other fellow s it May As Well be confessed that it should be strongly urged that the women of the West feel albeit our civil Hospital authorities the More with amusement than with military medical service the St. John vexation that Ontario benefited by ambulance and the graduate nurses their suffrage fact that if make a determined Effort to get to Ontario women Ever had n shed to Gether on this problem. This is no gain their own enfranchisement they., time for any questions of personal would have shown a Little More Pep fashion for . Service if necessary yes. Anything is Permis sible that Means winning the War the plan outlined by the shows that this is sary. Arhat f said last week about the . S i am ready to repeat. They have been wonderful As an emergency measure. We would then ask our girls wholesale to undertake this service without Ade quate preparation without a professional future and without a. De upon arc within measurable distance j Supply of help for the military needs of having to refuse admissions. The j through the . S supplied by the victorian order announces serious i St. John ambulance association Handicap through Lack of nurses. No i working under the supervision of j . This is in answer to Relief can be found for such a. Situa Tion from the Hope of private nurses for i s estimated at the various registries that Twenty five per cent. A scheme brought Forward by the Canadian National association of which had for its Calls cannot be filled. Just j purpose the meeting of. Both the in finite standing in the present when by the scheme As outlined by the nurses All these Are provided. J pointed our last week the very great death rate proportionately of the . S. Have we the night when it is shown to be unnecessary pose our Young womanhood to this medical service Are of the opinion that Iby exploiting women s ism they can get cheap what mean if an epidemic should strike any of our comm uni ties Only is there shortage of graduate nurses. there is also a shortage of students in tie training mediate need and these both civil and. Military of. The future. This in Brief is tie plan suggested by the nurses the civil hospitals now conducting training schools for nurses could easily train More nurses schools. This last phase is explained than they arc training at present. By. The Many Calls to Young women from other professions. The shortage of graduate nurses for civilian Hospital private requirements of course is largely explained by the Call of the military. But Aho to some extent it is the re sult of the great impetus towards social welfare work starting before the War Fly. Progressing with in creasing momentum which is draw each Hospital has in training Only who cares now from the Point of it or was what becomes of the View of that Zed the tremendous in the fun the Soldier we recon Ortance c matter of life and death and of f skilled a ursing in Ture invalid ism or health. Are we ready to return to the place where unskilled labor is to be considered enough pupils to do the. Nursing work i Good enough for our men no matter required in. The Hospital but has. The facilities for to among More pupils without much additional expense. The need in All one. Of housing. The. Suggest ice is for Federal government to ask the hospitals to. Enlarge their schools to meet this government being responsible for the ing upon the trained nurse. Also it i extra expense of these pupils. The might be noted that there is a steady from the United states for the trained Canadian nurse. Pupils taken in be Given the regular course of training and All pupils admitted on the same How enthusiastic and How pure of impulse Trtat labor is it is still unskilled. Lie it was your boy. you rather have him tended Iby a trained woman or by one who meant perfectly Well then As to the military authorities is Supply of "v-a.u. S and of trained supervisors coming from our training schools Are being depleted. If we do not train nurses we. Cannot have Thorn trained. That evident now. As o the military situation j standing. Six months after the first and arc scraping Tho of s is individual hos och barrel of the present Supply. And about nine a month arc re Cruit cd for District 10. Do not graduate enough annually to make up that number and As Well Thore is the increasing need in Mili tary hospitals acre. The number re turning from overseas is negligible and. Is almost immediately and entirely absorbed into military ins Titu Pital will give to the military hos j where did the idea arise that the petals an equal number of Interne Supply of . S was inexhaustible.? Diate or senior pupils for a period of time later agreed upon. For in stance if the government supplies thirty pupils the Hospital at Tho end of six months puts those thirty pupils on regular Hospital duty and weak anaemic nervous or run Down what a bless los would b to you who Are anaemic nervous or run Down a Comfort to know that Vav Incarnia can. Of five you the new health and new vitality you need. The reason is easily understood a win Earnis is a tonic a. Restorative a blood maker and a in one. This fourfold combination it a four fold Power. It promotes it makes new blood it builds up Force and it surcharges the whole body with new vitality. That is Why Winc arnts makes you feel Well so quickly . The very first dose. 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Marcul Bush s i. Purrie 11 . Feb cell Kinta Laitman at co. co. The labor problem is. Going to-be.--, come More and More acute on this Home front and it is women Power which must solve it. Now we come to the Ipi Oble m of the civilian and this is the most acute and most pressing of All for although All our hearts Are Over there our lives Are lived Here. Malt a million Are. Seven millions Here and these seven Mil Lions As Well As the half Sruti Iii Mili tary must Ibe considered and by the Way should be any government department. If a general Appeal is made for . S and that Appeal based upon patriotic service As it the Erc be a big response. No one who knows anything of Canadian woman Hood denies that. This will inevitably mean that the number of pupils in Hospital training schools Al ready shrinking will shrink still further. Our hospitals will have to i close wholly or in part for they Aie very largely dependent in carrying on upon the nurse in training. We have grown so accustomed to hospitals and to All the of modern civilian medical service that we Cali scarcely imagine Wirat it would mean if these were closed up. But the possibility is Well within the Region of probability. With the Supply of private nurses constantly diminishing the thought Lig ties or red tape etiquette or in the opinion of the at at those things which is on record to their credit. But much to about our Hospital old province was t going to let our military service. We want West get ahead of her so if the 3est for at Home and enfranchised its women so Canada overseas and with that Ontario and so did. Ontario mind it should not be so very As close a bargain As they .0 ask thai these organizations too so it appears. In our Opin of which f am entirely the women of Ontario would have wishes profoundly Only to. A Little More of the right kind should " put themselves in will to. Had gone to of co operating to Flie end in this last instance and lius led More efficient service May their own right to in their evolved. Legislature and municipal coun there is one further Terry a that one just can t imagine the to would like to be informed up Cai. Manitoba or Saskatchewan or the graduate nurses of Canada or British Columbia calling restly represented upon the any of the other provinces to help medical service Boardie not in any Little Domestic Dif of. Opinion which they May on their hands. Prom various comment in if people in the East Rii papers during the session the West should t begrudge any the Ontario House it was made lifts they can give. Dent that the women of that Ince have the right to does not need a very extensive tji but not to in the of the criminal code ont Cirio. Isia Ture nor in fact to realize the insult which it tile municipal to womanhood. It could scarce this session considerable by show More Kui was aroused for the Extension of and Lul if in been rights and indeed a Bill covering Macie in Germany. Matter was introduced into the criminal the fact of its Tai was Given a six months measurably greater the Premier remarking that Over prop government is viewing with an flyover. Men than Over women mind the Experiment in. Other Foi time that open mind business woman and Over Over again ways strikes me As Good. I have urged that it of amended. If open in these cases is taken As Winter the Ottawa House Intro synonym of at least amendments to the code and is Somo satisfaction in innocuous these amendments there Are quite a few in the Light of the masterpiece countries now to observe a. Whole one has Only to. Read to indeed some of them have yet these amendments were so Long open for observation that Down in Toto by the inmates begin to wonder Why they should our i scuse of Senate. Observed taut none there Are week the matter was Dis would think of repealing toy the National Council of the an Echo of he Ontario family of Canada an annual meeting Rei came up at the National when according to. The meeting. The Brantford report the members expressed brought in a Resolution calling and indignation at the the admission of women to the of the Senate. It appears that. Triu provincial legislature and of the perfect ladies who at Cipal councils which Resolution this annual meeting with finally endorsed. Mrs. R. Of. No annual meeting can. Hope iams of this City however took dispense did idiot wish the. Word caption to it to our mind used. Be it said to. The considerable reason on her Side the Council that the incl the Gil ounce thac it was a Case of of the word was voted for by a province interfering with National majority. But at that what a fairs. But some of the other slap on the wrist Dis Satis arose and observed that the and indignation Well one Ness of the women was their certainly think so. Is the eng to adhere. Whatever affected language so weak that that lathe bit of Canada in note the following let All doing Good work. They have a Tfir it.iiiv.-.-, tort to rest Annm nver tie errands and most adequate expression they could Frame for their feelings. One gathers that the discussion on the matter was anything but. A milk and water affair and went much further than of you naughty indeed one prudent Alice is recorded As saying that she was someone would arrested for need t have worried it would prob ably be Well to let the Senate do the worrying. Personally i liked taken by the Iff eneral Assembly of the presbyterian Church where the following report was made whereas the government introduced and the House of commons passed at. The session just closed amendment to the criminal code a raising the age of consent girls from fourteen to sixteen. B raising Bhe ase in cases of seduction from sixteen to eighteen. Giving Protection against seduction by employer to All. Female employees of previous Chaste Char Acter under Twenty one. D Martinig it an for a Man and woman to Register falsely As husband and wife in a hotel or Lodge ing House. And whereas the Senate refused to Sanction As Evory one of these amendments thus leaving the doors open for the ruin of numbers of defenceless girls resolved that the Gen eral Assembly formally faring to tie attention of the Public and of the government this indefensible action of the Senate and request Tine government to re introduce these amendments at next session and Mike their enactment an Issue Between the elected representatives of the. People of Canada and non responsible appointees of the now people the better it for All if they cannot learn this Knidson than the Senate must go. Alison Craig. Canning drive commences Campaign to save vegetables will give demonstrations. The agricultural Exten Sion service announces that it has practically completed arrangements for a big vegetable Canning and dry ing Campaign during july and a gust in Manitoba. The knowledge that the products of practically All of the Canning fac tories of the United states Are contracted for for the army and the certainty that commercially canned goods will not Likely find their Way to the consumer s table in Manitoba unless they cannot be transported out some Point of the prices Good another Factor which i to arouse interest is the is and girls club members who h entered the gardening and contest and can be have a Good exhibit at Ihbe a girls club fairs 230 of which held Liis year. Honie Canning is. Ning. A done i is an of. Nome Cannin while those who have not done am Canning Are enthusiastic for com a Unity Canning. There will a doubtless Many women who Large and will find it duri cult to secure the help necessary to can All the vegetables at the Tom. They canned and for them the Community Plant will he assistance. It will also save prevent the Kitchen toeing heated Sitf during these two trying on the other hand where sized gardens Are the Rule canner most popular the vegetables can be Gath and canned every Day and Canning will notto a the vegetables Are canned when fresh. It is not necessary to have overseas has aroused a. Tremendous j equipment Lor successful Canning j interest in. The subject of Canning and requests have been received from 130 places in the province for practical demonstration lectures on the subject. Consequently seven members of the Extension staff will devote ajl their attention to tile subject of vegetable Canning during july and August. year similar work was done though on a much smaller scale and hundreds of people canned vege tables for the first time. Unfortunately last year the gardens were not Large and the season not very Satis factory but a sufficient number actually canned vegetables to Demon Strate the feasibility of Home can Ning . The most urgent requests instruction Are coming from the districts where demonstrations were Given last year. And while women living these districts could explain the process just As Well i li1u ill a debt a Lafal ilt3 los Crown As to the right to of the Extension. they the courteous permission of the recipient mrs. J. H. K. Bond president of the women s Section of the Mani Toba hed Cross association is from irs. Peter Lyall jr., a Well kno.5vn resident of Winnipeg we be of extreme interest to All red Cross workers and also to. Those who. Have relatives in France 5 Rue Louis Billy pros. Boulevard Suchet. Paris. May 25. Dear mrs. Week i visited two Canadian red Cross hospitals and thought you would like to hear about them. The . Cloud hos Pital is beautifully situated at the top of the slopes of St. Cloud. Be fore the War it was a racecourse and now eighteen nut s Are filled with wounded Poilu. As we motored through the Entrance i looked to wards the grandstand .3.11 d thought of How Many Gay gatherings it had been the to my amazement it appeared crowded with people. I won dered if there were races. One look at the grass grown track showed was impossible. It was a. Concert some French ladles had organized for the convalescent and nurses. The soldiers in their Pule Blue uniforms and the nurses in their Darker Blue they can Tea read and write. On the Way out. I saw two Beds under the Trees. Two men were play ing checkers one a greek the other a Frenchman. One could not under stand a word of the other s language but they found a game in common or i should say they had found two games in both were wounded men. Sci Vilie is a new Hospital and opened in a few Days. Although it is a Cottec Tiberi of huts it is up to Date in every particular. Colonel Beauchamp is in charge and took much Pride in showing us through. They have 520 Beds and a staff of 73 nurses .50 Beds in a Ward and ten Small rooms with two Beds for the More seriously wounded. They have an a Ray hut an operation room with three tables a. Dentist s room with two chairs. They also have their own Power Plant generating steam for heating and cooking and they have a Post office hut fitted up with boxes etc., which colonel Beau Champ says is a great Joy As the men get their and parcels hours earlier than they would other Wise. They have a Large recreation hut with a stage at one end which is Cinema. All these Rule the country. I Tould like to see a similar memorial go from every woman s organization in Canada to the Ottawa House and i would also like to see those to Meiji who Are not Able to express themselves through organizations write to their member direct i do the Point needs to be Laboured. Too Long has our criminal code been an absolute Dis Grace to this nation. Now when women Are enfranchised they Are responsible for that code As Well As the rest of the electorate in that responsibility is contained responsibility also for girlhood and womanhood of the Coua Fey. I la admit i have never been kept awake very much in Glits worrying Over the institution know it As the Senate. If i had any feeling towards it at All it was one of tolerance and even have regarded it. Sometimes As a. Sort of ballast in the ship of state least it was a convenience the Graceful retiring of Mien who had of lived their Powers of Active participation in state affairs. Neither is this last usefulness such a reprehensible thing for one of the difficulties of democracy is its Short Mem Ory. We have Only pilloried or Tii Ose who served us and instead of Ibri itally tossing them off from the life to which they have Given their Best Powers to afford them a National Niche is not wholly bad. As a ballast the Senate has possibilities. It contains to within its membership very much Enji erf rence n affairs of state which my Gutt very presumably be of value in a work ing out of democracy which even the most intense advocate is admit is not yet perfect. But if has a duty to the the. Senate Ihas duty to the people a sooner grand papa gentlemen realize that women j urge us to Send someone to Demon Strate for As they say i am not accustomed to talking and might miss deep pail or a Good Wash boiler Rili serve the purpose very Well. Manual training will enjoy it making a rack to place in the hot torn of if. To keep the jars Oft the Metal and permit a Good circulation i of water. For those who have 300 or 400 Square feet of Garden in which they Are growing vegetables suitable for Canning Good Home canners the Market and May be obtained at reasonable prices. Dehydrating or drying vegetable a requires a Little More equipment than Canning does and should it possible to secure a Supply of containers this process should be adopted in order that no food be wasted. Those who have used dried vege tables put up by modern methods declare that they Are just table As canned vegetables. 1913 will undoubtedly be the ban Ner Canning season in Manitoba for everyone who has had the pleasure of serving Home grown and1 Home canned vegetables would not like to be so situated that they could not can a Good Supply of the use of their families. The something you get for Noth ing is probably Worth it. But the poor Tea you buy is loss. And White ones made a very Bright i fitted up for a picture. I believe one of the Best huts Are connected by a covered Pas singers from the opera in Paris Sang Sage Way and air tins a gift from Thorn Shaf afrum Ninx the Canadian red Cross to. Fiance of them that afternoon.-. We Hlen went to the nurse3-. Home. They All serve Well every woman wants an electric Grill Iron or toaster. They mean convenience Comfort Economy. But Don t buy merely an electric appliance. Buy a Good Best Rhode that serves longer yet costs no More. The Premier trademark will guide Means handsome designs sturd ily built appliances. The product of men have grown up with the Industry. Superior electrics limited Pembroke Ontario of what an epidemic would of our communities is in almost too appalling to contemplate. We have got to have the trained Nurs ing sister for the military we have to have her for he civilian Ordinary requirements we need her for Wel fare work so happily is to National regard and we will still More need her in the re construction period. Our reserves Are almost used up. Shall we go blindly on until catastrophe horrifies tis into action or shall we immediately so about colonel co Grain in charge of St. Cloud showed us through the huts the Hospital. Jias been running for three years he has been there since october and i hear he has clone splendid work. As we went through the wards i noticed each had a. Cana Dian. Over floor Montreal Toronto and then i saw the name 1 was looking for in Side the wards the men had on i am sure the identical pyjamas we assembled in the Kee Waylen building. I found myself looking very hard at one poor fellow s coat. He looked at me with questioning eyes. T smiled but could not toll him 1 was wondering if his Back and front matched. His pyjamas were made of that striped Flannelette that Carne. In two shades almost alike but Dif Ferent. The longer one worked at it the less the difference appeared till someone coming in the room would say Are you things Don t beside each bed was i kit bag. Exactly like the ones be made. When l was at. Home one woman s work seemed absolutely mean my did not seem As if it could really help but Over Here the result of Wom Fri s combined work is the full about eight minute walk from the Hospital. a delightful old Cha teau overlooking the River Marne. Have a Garden and Tennis court and everything has been done to make them comfortable. They Are Canadian girls , the colonel told me from Winnipeg. Now dear mrs. I am going to Tell you about my own work. It is Witti a Corner of blighty in a. Few rooms overlooking t be place vendome. In charge of an English woman. Miss Butler. Know your heart is in the red Cross but i also Letnow it is Large enough to take in the , who held in another Way. They come. To Paris very lonely and most of them Stone broke. We give them Tea with sugar and milk bread and Jam and cigarettes. Officers Are tolerated the men Are welcomed was go Fig to say with open arms quite that but we make them bilious Ness when the liver refuses work there is no remedy like the combination of Mandrake and other ingredients in yips. They to the organs. not Gripe. They stimuli he natural action. Drive our the vegetable Premier All that the name implies electrical appliances at most Good Elco with Thi Loc s packet of Wilson s Fly pads i will kill More Flie thatt Worth of 4ny shelves of red Orcas supplies Tell the tale. I asked the Matron. Miss de Cormier from three Rivers Quebec she wanted anything in the Way of red Cross supplies and she said no. As soon As then eed arises Headquarters Sajid. Supplies at she a d just asked for a Stretcher on wheels and it would time. They Sticky Fly Catcher Mark goes one in 2 qualified guarantee. Come time. They Beds for St. Cloud is very proud of having or. Carrel from the Rockefeller Institute n.y., with them. He has invented or Dis Don to know which is the Correct word a solution for wounds Chat has limbs. .-.he. Was but of his own Laboratory and although he received invitations clean to handle. Sold by All druggists Groccia and general stores. From other hospitals he came to St. Cloud. I had Tea with the nurses and met such splendid Young Canadian women. Feel very Welcome. And so mrs. Bond if you hear of anyone who has an extra pair of socks seme Cigar ettes or a Smalt donation in Money. I it very As every thing is free to the men. It is., so Nice to be Able to give them a pair of socks especially to a Canadian and i am in. Charge of the canadians. I am Goin and you a picture of blighty because i am sure you . The other Day walked in. I have met in France but she was the first. Woman i had seen from Home. I was. To see her and she was so surprised to see me. She asked me to notice the badge on. Her Cap and it was very Good to see our red Cross with Winnipeg service written on it. my friends in. The be a Vayden building and if there is anything i can. Do Over Here for. Any one please let know. With much love to you dear m Bend from Ida and get value Lime juice wholesome refreshing saves fuel food and labor Erving the fuel controller and the Home is admitted to be a somewhat difficult task but since Ern science has developed electric cooking and electrical household devices electricity has become a vital permanent economical Factor in the Homes of Canada and in the National Appeal to save Coal. Hughes electric for Nimmer it will Cook rapidly or Way a you like without beating indestructible specially declined Emily replaced Hughes dec irad study temperature. T display of these ranges sold on. Easy terms City Light Power 54 King Street Garry 1800 ;