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Excerpts from Wide Neighborhoods —
p Mary Breckinridgeis Biography — Chapter 36
Those of my readers, thousands of them, who have a deeprooted
affection for the Frontier Nursing Service will want to know
something about our plans for the future. But when I think of us
, in a future, even that of next week, I am reminded of a cartoon I
p saw years ago in a London paper. A bewildered man sat in a baby
Austin car right under the nose of a gigantic bus, with traffic
t snarled in all directions. Leaning out over the bewildered man,
. the bus driver said, "May l ask, sir, what are your plans?" lf one
  looked at things only from the outside, there would seem to be
I not much use in making plans while wars, cold and hot, keep their
l stranglehold on the future. But those of us who travel within as
. well as without, know that we are not helpless, that there is no
I reason why yet another civilization, ours, should move inexora-
, bly toward its doom. Such being so, we in the Frontier Nursing
I Service make plans.
, We have come a long way since our work began, since we first
  started to build our hospital and depended on mule teams to haul
l its cement and plaster from the railroad. We hitched our wagon to
  a star then and when we traded wagons for trucks, we held on to
  the star. The heart of our work has lain in its start with things as
i they were and its acceptance of the laws of growth. ln planning
, for the future growth the Frontier Nursing Service still adheres to
I the principles that gave it being.
y There will never come a time, in no matter how remote a future,
when man will not enter the world through birth and leave it by
death; when the young of the race will not need protection; when
I the broken, the sick and the old will not need the kind of care we
in the Frontier Nursing Service are trained to give.
For more than a quarter century, the Frontier Nursing Service
  has gathered facts about the birth and death, the childhood,
  the sickness and accidents of those who live on the land —
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