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Whether the unfortunate use of the term "nurses' aides" is to be chalked up against Dr. Emily T. Burr as well as TIME'S editor ... I feel that it is an insult to the many women who have become Red Cross Nurse's Aides...
...Burr and TIME should have been more careful to draw the distinction between Nurse's Aides and nurses' aides. The latter, called "ward maids" by some hospitals, are paid helpers who clean up the wards, set up trays, fill water flagons, and do other simple jobs which bring them in relatively little direct contact with the patients. Not all of them, by any means, are morons, but some morons can manage the work, as Dr. Burr pointed out. As for volunteer Red Cross Nurse's Aides, TIME is on the record (TIME...
...Sturdy little Owen S. Gibson, 69, onetime Chautauqua performer, onetime plumber and builder, used to think that Townsendism was the biggest thing in his life. But now Owen Gibson works at Douglas Aircraft's big Long Beach plant, on a "burr bench," where he files the rough edges off machined airplane parts. Says he: "I haven't been so active in the club since working here. This is all-important-the other isn't so important...
...Captain Johnny Paine would be moved up to the Crimson front line, the puck-chasing Senior has been retained at his defensive post, and he is one of the only almost-certain starters on the club. Sharing defensive duties should be Sophomore Dick Mechom, with Olie Taylor and Carleton Burr prossing...
...moron is not completely dark. The war has temporarily created jobs for morons: they are filling in as errand boys and girls, waiters, elevator operators, nurses' aides. And when it comes to a choice between a well-adjusted moron and an unstable individual of normal intelligence, Dr. Burr would pick the moron every time. She underlines her point by citing the case of Jenny, 20, a girl of high-grade intelligence who announced one day that she had lost her job as nurse's aide in a maternity hospital. She was asked why. Said Jenny: "Oh, you know...