The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1921, Page 7

FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1921. DP EX-YANKS | TERRIBLY NEGLECTED Dying, Starving, Going Mad as Congress Contentedly Snores WASHINGTON “Wounded American » Apri 1 snores on.” Such Ip the scathing Indictment which Cornelius W Heutenant colonel of the 2th Di American the ting Committee of the fon, places squarely on Shouklers of official Washington The committee is piling up evt dence to support its charges George W. Wickersham torney general DYING, STARVING RED TAPE UNWI fomer at AS DS “For two years now the govern ment has failed to provide sufft lent hospitals. 4, nurses and gothes,” he, said ° system adopted cannot be worked out be cause of red tape, duplication of effort and delay } “Men are dying, starving, going t. Others are de y because of lack of compensation, vocational cmyne and care. | “Phe remedy lies in more hospt Pitals, doctors and nurses, more lib "eral rating of the « led, more ‘sympathy and protmptness in atten- tion to cases “The government must combine fits three bureaus into one, and de centralize the work so that a man May get IMMEDIATE relief at the #0 Which he applies. * (IN DIRE NEED 7 “We now find that 150,000 men Thave been approved for voca training, but in the past two only 75,000 have been reecived fo this training. Many of the others are in dire need. “Our committee will request im | i mediate building of hosp! by \the gOvernment, and the passage by congress of the Rogers bill backed by the American Legion “This bill aims to put the thre —war risk public health and vocational training—Iin one bureau, with offices in every A wtate where men can be given im 2 attention. | /“Here are a few typical cases that Pave come before our committee “One man was so badly shot that is said he must have all the , th on the left side of his mouth Eremoved. The government dentist sll ‘aM the teeth on the right face. “sono Pvcoite of New York City “has a broken neck. He pox ggg: permanent disability rating. In P iacdee co eapport his wife and three he entered the vocational “tl school. The government “has allowed him but $135 instead of ‘the $157.50 which was his right $9 A MONTH AS THEY ARGUE _ “James Bernard, also of New York, lost both legs. The public health bureau and the war risk bu are stil! unable to decide which Vet them should take care of him : ry have argued for two yearsand ‘have allowed him but $9 a month 77>) to live on. )le-Raymond T. McNamara was shot to pieces at Chateau Thierry applied to the public health two years ago and was giv 20 blanks to fill out. He hasn't from his blanks yet and they yent him away without treatment ' “And now we discover that hun ic of last-stage tubercular pa Pitients are being sent to the Fox : hospital, altho they haven't facility there for treating or handling tuberculosis. | .*But at Saranac Lake, where they have every facility and where they jean accommodate 250 patients, they | have sent but 75 ) “Public conscience must be awak ened. Congress must act, and act quickly.” Bearded Marvel Expires in Chicago )_ CHICAGO, April 1.—Conrad Beck, 5 “he of the nine-foot beard, | ad. He was 76. He had never touched his )) beard with shears or razor since he ) was 25. It measured nine feet four S Inches. Beck, a carpenter, kept his beard rotied up and tucked it Inside ) ais shirt when at work ‘Booze Perfectly Legal as Legacy WASHINGTON. tho in ill repute. legal legacy, according to a ruling of the commissioner 0” internal rev enue. He decided that liquor stock: S nequired before January 17, 1920. ght be willed from one person to Hooray! Hooray! No Teacher, No School LONDON, April 1.—Scholurs at tending Wixoe school ard on strike because the schoo! has been closed for want of a head mistress, and the parents of the scholars refused t6 send their children to any of th other schools in the neighborhood Censor Dances at Paris Opera Ball PARIS, April the epera ball have deci @orth to bar the shim | idary trot and other “oscillatory” ances. This action wa: n be tause of the alleged havior” of dancers at the ball. y. drome recent Revolution Calendar - Is Latest in Russia ) } j PARIS, April 1—The Russian poviet government has printed a Dumber of “revolution alendars in which nearly every in the Year is connected with th fome murderer who threw @r some bolehevik who was “ tyred.” tigue to rot alive while congress Wickersham, | Wision and chairman of the investt | Colonel Wickersham is a son oT) pril 1.—-Booze | be a perfectly | 1.—Promoters of | ded hence-| the revived Irish opera. The premiere of the opera was Tye first per given in Cleveland stroyed in rmance of revival’ will also be | 1917, and the held here because of w ‘The revival ‘The cast “Eileen” was spon ttee of Cleveland cludes many ais, but it is sored by a coi business men who Irish freedom. Victor Herbert considers the musi of “Eileen” the best he has written. favor the caw of Lady Maw picturesque in England. son. attractive. Sizes 111% to 2, with low heel Revive Opera to Aid Iris Hibernian Cast in “Eileen” | with this solution, pressing on wrong | of going te Miss Irene O'Donoghue, who has the title role in “Eileen,” | Property of the slay Was not restored Maud MeCu O'Donoghue is |SHE’S RUTLAND’S FIRST LADY || Countess Ancaster, formerly Eloise Breese of New. York, now presides over the county of Rutland, one of the most Her husband has just been made lord lieutenant of the shire and the countess shares his pre- | cedence, outranking all other Rutland women. 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