Women Being Enrolled for War Service Training OFFICIAL CALLS WOMEN TO AID Nurses' Helpers Would Be of Material : Benefit Mrs. Leonard G. Diehl, chair^ man of the Weber County Red Cross chapter's nurse's aides, to¬day appealed to women to enroll for training. "Now that we are at war, we are faced with an acute nursing shortage, not only in Ogden but all 1 over the country," Mrs. Diehl pointed out. Nurses are being called daily for service with our armed forces, both at home and abroad. To meet the urgent needs of hos-pitals the office of civilian defense, 'together with the American Red Cross, has issued a nation-wide ap¬peal for 100,000 women to volunteer as nurse's aides. Emergencies Cited "In case of an air raid or epidem¬ic of 'flu' such as accompanied the last war, our present local nurs¬ing resource would prove inade¬quate to handle the situation," Mrs. Diehl said. "We have a community responsibility here in Ogden to see that our civilian services are not only adequately maintained but hat we are prepared for any eventuality. We can only do this f a local group of competent and lard working women will volunteer o assist our graduate nurses. By earning how to perform simple outine duties in hospitals, these urse's aides can release the gradu¬ate nurse to do- more technical Work, which only she can perform, n addition they will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are playing a vital part in our war effort-." MORE NURSE'S AIDES NEEDED Nearing the close of national Red Cross nurse's aides enrollment week, Mrs. Sophie Reed, chairman for Weber county chapter said Sat-urday that response has been good but insufficient and that enroll-ment will probably continuue this week. The course, which will be taught by Mrs. O. C. Hammond, R. N., will begin early in October. "More and more women are be¬ginning to realize that the nurs¬ing situation in Ogden is critical," Mrs. Reed said. "Every nurse's aide becomes a nurse's helper and thus relieves the trained woman from many of the less technical tasks, allowing her to have more time for the actual nursing duties. "Women find they can thus re¬lease more and more of the trained nurses for actual war service, thus being an aid also to the men in service who might need those nurses." i In many cases, Mrs. Reed said, women who are not able to take an active part in the war pro¬gram are finding that by taking the children of some wanting the nurse's aide training and caring for them three hours a day, five days a week for six weeks, they can do their bit also. "Ogden needs 300 nurse's aides," Mrs. Reed said. SIGNING UP . . . Miss Joye Hibbert (seated), is helping four Ogden women fill out application blanks for the training course as nurse's aides given by the local chapter of the American Red Cross. Left to right, the women are Mrs. Louis Hall, Mrs. Robert Jaikes, Mrs. Chester J. Olsen and Mrs. Lou DeGoode. Three hundred volunuteers are needed for the new course, but the number so far signed is far below that Chairman Speaks The need for volunteers was de¬scribed as extreme by Mrs. Leonard G. Diehl, chairman of the volun-teer nurse's aide corps. "As many as 50 aides could be placed at once in Ogden if they were only available," Mrs. Diehl said. "Already a number of women have received their certificates. Many are enrolled at present, but as only 30 can be trained in one class, the progress is necessarily slow." She explained that the reason comparatively few had volunteered for this special service was that requirements are so high and the hours of training so rigorous. "One possible cause," she continued, "is based on an assumption which we want to dispel completely. Many think that nurse's aides will be given the 'dirty work' to do, and will be made virtual slaves to the regular registered trained nurse. This is altogether false." She then explained that aides work as assistants to graduate nurses and their work consists of making beds, giving baths, taking temperatures, pulse and respiration, assisting with non-sterile dress¬ings, and helping with food trays. They work under supervision of graduate nurses. They are on call 24 hours a day in case of disaster. The requirements are rigid, Mrs. Diehl went on to explain. Women wishing to qualify for this partic¬ular type of service, must be American citizens, between 18 and 50 years old, and have the equiva¬lent of a high school education. They take an 80-hour training course and must give 150 hours' service annually. A physical exam¬ination is also required and the standard first aid course must be taken with the first' year. The nature or the course requires that applicants be conscientious, serious-minded individuals, who are sure that they will see the thing through once they have begun. "Once again," Mrs. Diehi said, "1 cannot emphasize too strongly the pressing need for volunteers for this type of service. We don't have to wait for bombings and explo¬sions. The need is here right now. "We are appealing to patriotic women of our nation to volunteer for our nurse's aide corps and to render a great service to humanity and to victory for the decent dem¬ocratic way of life. "Surely the women of the Ogden area should welcome this oppor¬tunity to serve as nurse's aides during this great national emer-gency."