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EVERYBODY SINGS
The K. T. Fox
DanciniS School
Dancing [very Night 8:30 to 11'
Classes Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. 7:30 to 8:30
Private lessons by appointment
Reference Required
217 South Try on Street
Phone 3259
Soldier Boys
when you visit
the Academy
Theatre you see
identically the
same Keith acts
that play from
New York to
New Orleans,
augmented b y
the best topical
picture subjects
and latest com
edies.
The Academy Orchestra
Tfte Best in tfie Soath
Direction, A. J. MARSHALL
THE CADUCEUS
COMMUNITY SINGING OPENED AT
RED CROSS.
Community singing has reached the
base hospital. The first rehearsal was
held at the Red Cross building on
Monday evening and was a complete
success.
There were more than a hundred
officers, nurses and enlisted men in
the large reception room of the Red
Cross building when Albert Belling
ham, the camp singer, arrived at the
hospital at eight o’clock. The sons
leader brought scores of copies of
familiar melodies and gathered those
assembled about the front of the
stage. Everybody sang with a hearty
will.
One night each week will be giv
en over to community singing at the
Red Cross building, it is announced
THE PLEDGE WE HONOR
This is the pledge which the nurses, who gave up all to follow
the service of the flag, have taken, at least in their hearts, and a
copy of which is in the possession of nearly every army nurse. A pla
card bearing the words of the solemn vow of duty is in the hallway
of the class building of the Student Nurses’ School at the U. S. Army
Base Hospital, Camp Greene:
THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PLEDGE
I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this
assembly to pass my life in purity and to pracitce my profession
faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischiev
ous and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I
will do all in my power to elevate the standard of my profession and
will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping
and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice ■of my
calling. With loyalty wilTI endeavor to aid the physician in his work
and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.
PLANS FOR PEACE
Cross will continue and he completed
with ail possible sympathy and en-
RED CROSS GETS READY.
ergy.
(Special to The Caduceus.)
Washington, Dec. 4.—Future plans
of the American Red Cross under
which the great organization built up
during ' the war will be devoted to
peace time relief work not only in
the United States but throughout the
world were outlined in a statement
issued by Henry P. Davison chair
man of the war council.
Wherever our soldiers and sailors
may be, the red cross will stay with
them until they are demobilized.
Mr. Davison, who was speaking to
the 3,864 chapters and 22 million mem
bers of the mercy organization, said
it is confidently believed there need
be no further campaigns for funds. In
stead the annual Christmas roll call
for members will constitute the foun
dation of the Red Cross.
The problems of reconstruction,
involving feeding and caring for the
distressed civilian populations of Eu
rope are of such magnitude that nec
essarily they must be met very large
ly by the government of our allies,
with whom our own government will
co-operate. ^
“Since the armistice was signed,"
said Mr. Davison’s statement “I have
had an opportunity to confer in Paris
with the heads of all American Red
Cross 'commissiones in Ehrope, and
later in Washington with the Presi-
ident of the United States, the war
council of the Bed Cross, the mana
gers of the fourteen Red Cross divi
sions of the United States. I am,
therefore, able to speak now with
knowledge and assurance in saying
that the beneficent work of the Amer
ican Red Cross is to go forward on a
great scale—not alone, as heretofore,
for purposes of relief in war, but as an *
agency of peace and permanent hu
man service.
“Since America’s entry into the war,
the purpose of our Red Cross has been
primarily to aid our army and navy
in the care of our own men under
arms, and, secondly, to extend relief
to the soldiers, sailors and civilians
of those nations which were fighting
our battles along with their own. With
the funds which have been so gener
ously contributed by the American
people, this war work of the Red
The great tasks of fighting tuber
culosis, promoting child welfare, and
caring for refugees, with which the
American Red Cross has concerned
itself so effectively in Prance. Italy,
and Belgium, will at an early date be
assumed by the governments, the
Red Cross organizations, and the re
lief societies of those countries, which,
now that they are released from the
terrific burden of waging war, natur
ally desire to take care, as far as they
can, of their own people.
The war program of the Americap
Red Cross will thus steadily and rap
idly merge itself into a peace program.
“Here will be the opportunity for
the American Red Cross, but, even
our Red Cross must not act and can
not act most effectively alone, we
must labor in co-operation with the
national Red Cross and relief societies
of other nations, to the end that not
alone the heart of America, but the
heart of all mankind may be mobilized
on behalf of suffering humanity.
“The commissions which are now
conducting the activities of the Amer
ican Red Cross in foreign countries,
as well as the temporary war organiza
tion in this country, will, as a matt,er
of course, ultimately merge their,,en
ergies with those of the permanent
organization of the Red Cross.