The evening world. Newspaper, March 4, 1921, Page 12

tut sik hy tt | LETS TUBERGD ~DE, WH Charges of Cruel Neglect and Want Made at Legion ‘ Hearing. RANAC IS “TOO IDEAL” Diseased Ex-Service Men Are Driven Out, Some to Go , to Their Deaths, Federal failure to care properly for veterans of the war was again yesterday im the testi- of ex-service men at the con- tion of the hearings of the rican Legion at City Hall. | Federal failure particularly to care fer tubercular patients at Saranac ike, N. Y¥., where officia) callousncss the needs and desires of the sick resulted in many deaths that ht have been averted, was tosti- to by Frederick T. Albright, who further that though Saranac ike was admitted to be an idea! sput tubercular treatment, Govern- officials tried to abandon it Bchins in this, he continued, because the protests of the ex-scldiers who ‘to leave, the Government offi- then refused to admit more pa-, te because they feared obher men 4 be coming there by the thou- oe. began his testimony by ing that when the first patients to Saranac in the fall of Ls z werd no Governmeng facilities at all to care for the soldiers. ‘) “Phe mon were given $3 a day ana to care for themselves. There Bo Public Health Service doctor. Government became dissatisfied thie because there were no to show how the men were along, and in July, 1920, is- @ statement announcing that ‘home sanitarium’ would be dis- u July 15 and the 250 men offered treatment elsewhere. ACULUUS VICTIMS REFUSE TO LEAVE SARANAC. F, refused to go because they con- it the Government's fault Ro records were kept. They con- red Saranac Lake good for them they didn't want to go to the wilds of New Mexico. Some them knew they were {nourable dida't want to be far from their “Under the threat to scare the men Saranac nearly a hundred went ‘their homes and to Public Health hospitals in other places. Later the savommenest sosned 3 fifteen Res a tie” “Tai and are caring only for who refused to leave. re are only sixty-five patients care for by the Government at Saranac Lake, though there 200 men there needing treatment. ‘of these men, lying there sick, ttention. iy of the men died after leav- Saranac and others were set back their cure worry, You “One hundred and fifty men, how-|. VFRNENTALCALLOUSNESS LAR SOLDIERS 0 PLACE 10 GD said, that he’ “wouldn't consent to taking these men in, because if we do jmen will be coming In by the thou- sands, It's suoh an tdeal spot.” He added that the Government wished to send the boys to Johnson City, Tenn., where the National Sol- diers’ Home bas been converted into @ tubercular hospital, but that he has learned there are not enough doctors and nurses there to care for the 275 beds In the institution. ‘Compensation for the boys, he said, is always from one to three months tate. $3,000,000 APPROPRIATION MADE USELESS, Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, a member of the committee sitting in the hear- ings, of which Cornelius W. Wicker- sham is Chairman, charged that Fed- eral failure to enter into a contract with the State of New York is de- priving the mentally iM soldiers of the State of proper care. Ho told of the $3,000,000 appropriat- ed by the State for a hospital on the condition that the Federal Govern- ment enter into a contract to main- tain it for the care of the soldiers, “Fifteen per cent, of the insane ex- eervice men are in New York,” he — i 435 FIFTH AVE. Cor. sth Bt, 173 BROADWAY Cor, Cortlandt Bt. EASTER FURS Something New of tubercular patients should be LAlbright said he went to Washing- FACTORY—32 STOCK-ROOMS said, “Heven hundred and Ofty-nine men I know of are being Inado- quately cared for. There are only 17 beds in supposedly psycopathic wards, which are psycopathic only in the name painted on the doors. The Public Service hasn't apecially trained doctons or nurses for these men, and though Washington has had since last September to enter into the agreement whieh would give the men @ fine hospital at Creedmoor, it has done nothing. “I was told in Washington that this Plan, which Was suggested in Wash- ington and acted upon by the New York Legislature, out of the sym- pathy it had for the soldiers, is a ‘Wall Street profiteering plan.” "The Government is now spending about $2 a day for the care of these soldiers, but in this hospital it would Cost but about 90 cents a day and the men would be getting better treat- mm “The only thing needed fe a stroke of the pen to make this an actuality. Cold neglect alone prevents it and it will be & reproach to the Government and a reproach to us if we don't bring it to the attention of the proper au- thorities.” Thomas D. Brown of No. 869 St, John's Place, Brooklyn, a former pol- dier, who ia suffering from lack of ciroulation in the feet and arms, testi- fled that he has been denied voca- tional training. He said he has been to four hospitals for treatment, but each “passed the buck” to the others. “My compensation was cut from $90 a month to $22.60 a month be- cause I was discharged from the hos- cured,” he said, “but three r I had to go back again for i. T have been in the Poly- Clinic now for three months, but my compensation has not been increased.” George La Bonce of Norwood, N. J., who lost one eye through army: vervice and has been told he is grad- ually losing his other eye, testified tne EvENt ARE ae Taf eey Toe NG WORLD, that he Is now getting but $12.60 a} month compensation. “The Government claims I had the |defect before I enlisted, but 1 passed fa examinations for eyesight at that | time,” he said. MAN WITH NERVOUS DISORDER PUT WITH RAVING MANIACS, | John Cooney, who said he is being treated at Fox Hills for a mild men- tal disorder, declared he was being quartered in a bed between two vio- lent patients. “Saturday they put a dope fiend in there with me,” he declared, "He had tried to kHIl a guard the night before. It was a good thing I thought of the fire axes and had them re~ moved or we might have waked up in the morning and found about ten of us killed. “They're thinking now of sending me to Marion, Lnd., but I don’t think they ought to, If they do, my nerves are going to get worse.” Ho added that he applied for compensation nine months ago without avail Samuel Colham of No. 99 Long- wood Avenue, Cincinnatl, testified that he was ill with a nervous dis easo and was sent to the Hoboken Hospital near Philadelphia. “I was locked up in a violent ward June 1, 1920, but the head nurse got me out,” he said. “I lett there June 27, going to Cincinnati, and when I complained to a Public Health Ser- vice office I was ordered out. “There was a jail next to this hos- pital and the prisoners used to holler over the fence that they'd rather be in jall for two years than in the hos- pital for ten days.” James F. Nash of No, 2231 83d Street, Brooklyn, testified that though he bas @ nervous disability which makes him unfit for his duties, he gets omy $16 a month compensation and all requests for an increase mee; with curt refusal. been getting, be eaid, $146 a month compensation for himuelf, wite and has had his compensation cut 50 a month because he took twenty-two days treatment at Fox Hills, “I am entitled to thirty days’ treat- ment without this reduction,” he said, “but because I went to the hos- pital I was transferred from the Vooational Training Board to 'the War Risk Burean and I can't get transferred back.” The next hearing will be held next Tuesday at 2 P.M. M’WHINNEY SLATED FOR FEDERAL JOB Lockwood Committeeman Who Flipflopped May Be Internal Revenue Collector, WASHINGTON March 4.—Assem- blyman Thomas A. McWhinney, of Nassau County, who, as Vice Chair- man of the Lockwood Housing Com- mittee, first sponsored, then the resolution which would have au- thorized the committee to probe the savings banks and insurance com- panies of New York, ria will be appointed Collector of Internal Reye- nue for the Long Island-Rockiand dis- ct. Republican leaders from New York who criticised McWhinney when he Aipflopped from support to opposition of the proposal to broaden the Lock- wood Committee's powers were as- tonished to learn he is virtually slated for the best Federal berth in his county. Promoters of McWhinney’s cand‘dacy say be is certain of ap- pointment. One of his strong backers is Charles D, Hilles, Republican Na- tional Committeeman from New York. McWhrnney’s promoters declare he Edward McLaughlin of No. 48 East 300h Street, Manhattan, who had has been indorsed by “Jake” Living- ston, Republican boss of Brooklyn and you wanted to, and about the jolly games You Are Surely Coming to The Bubble Book Party! ps Saturday it’s to be in Mother Goose Hall, which has been reserved especially for the Party on Saturday. Last week so many of you came that some had to stand up, and perhaps you didn’t see quite all that But there will be plenty of room for everyone to-morrow, so if you were here last week, come again and bring any of your friends who didn’t come before. were not here, then you'll want to know about Little Bo Peep, Jack and Jill, Old King Cole and all the others who came right out of the Bubble Book, while the songs were sung, they play. Remember—it’s in Mother Goose Hall—7 th floor—at 11.15 A. M. and 3 o’cleck P. M. Bevonth Floor Mtitittt UL Yess ty THAT Y UM Whiin THM MMMM hag the support of Harry Lee, Suf- folk County leader; G. Elmer Doughty, Nasdau County boss and that Theodore Roosevelt, who 1s to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has spoken in McWhinney’s behalf, Lieut. Gov. Jeremiah Wood, who comes from Long Island and in whose nomination last fall McWhif\ney had A hand, is #aid to have engincered Me- Whinney’s candidacy, Should he re- ign from the Legislature to become Internal Revenue Collector much em- barrasament would be spared mom- bers of the Lockwood Committee, who have expressed themselves as feeling MoWhinney should quit the commit- tee because he fought and succeeded in beating the resolution which would have enlarged its powers. TRIBUTE PAID TO ESCH. House ft cans and Democrats Retiring Member. 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