Nurse draft not needed, group told

Morning Register Do* Moines, Iowa Nurse Draft Not Needed, Group Told was...... WASHINGTON'. 4 c- — Af<" several days of hearings devoted to federal official" favoring the bill to draft Ml*. Densford Mid thai If * draft law la enacted, there should be a prohibition against discrimination with respect to w, color, creed or wi of mllltuy mMh, the house mill- vfXfnnf affalrt> R,pr«,nliU' tary affairs committee Friday c„„ lM, (Rtp_ ^n.} brought heard opponent, of U,* measure wl ,na( allh<,ush (he veterans IWtartM J. Densford. dean of ^m,,,,..,^ u „*•>, ,hort o( University of Minnesota central num^ (l lutf NcRro nurBM „, school of nursing and preaident of . (our ot |ls M iiurtlluUoM the American Nurses association, .„,, .nn,rt^tiy „„ nol Rtven „,>, the possibility of us-Ihem. , Mil Luce said there--------~~ <~v uurMi who are members of the association. appeared briefly. Just long enoughL^,b['lQ 0 to put before the commute* a . , . statement of the views of the 17*. "*,„ ?*\ Arguments. That statement gave opponent! of the bill some high powered ammunition to use against It. M 1.1.1 Densford argued that: than 8.000 Negro registered nurses In the nation, alt trained to the same standards as white nurses, but that the navy does not accept them and the army has Informed applicants that the Negro quota '¦ f"»- fault of the armed services themselves, because they set quotas, raised them, towered them and raised them again until the nursing profession didn't know how many nurses were required. 2 There never has been a full-scale federal effort to re-emit nurses. Most of the Job to date has been done by the nurses themselves, voluntarily and without pay. The government's contribution to the program was to provide for about W clerical workers throughout the whole country. 3 The war manpower commission and the Red Crow, cooperating a* they have in the past and aided by enough federal money and authority to put on a recruiting drive as Intensive as those for WACa snd WAVES, could till military nursing needs without a draft. If congress Insists on drafting ¦mrscs. Miss Densford aald. all women ahould be covered by a selective service act. This la an aspect that Representative Tom Martin (Rep. la.) has attempted to bring Into the open by his questions of witnesses at the hearing. Class Legislation. It Is Martin's contention, and that of other Republican members, that the proposal to draft a ¦ingle group of women Is class legislation and the law would be unconst 11 u t lonal.