Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-15
SANTA MONICA
Cor. oregon ave. and Third street..
Home phoae ITS.
HEAD OF SOLDIERS
HOME FAvORS ORDER
GOVERNOR C0CHRANE SAYS
BAR SALOONS
Cooperation of Officials Of Beach Is
Asked That Liquor Be Kept
from Veterans at the
Institution

SANTA MONICA. April 14.-Regard-
ing the order of Chief of Police Bar
retto, issued recently, forbidding the
sale of liquor to veterans from the sol
diers' home while in the uniform Of the
United States, Colonel Cochrane, gov
ernor of the home, has this to say:
1--WE have been pegging away at TINS
evil for a number of years ana the
principal trouble has been to get the
civil authorities of the beach towns to
work with us. The recent order OF
Chief Barretto is good one, and If he
will extend it to cover the wholesale
LIQUOR houses we will be much pleased.
There are more than 5000 men at
this home and nine officers to govern
them, a number equivalent to bri-
gade in Abe regular service. which
would have somewhere in the neigh
horhood of 200 officers to look after
them.
IF the officials of the beach cities
will pass regulations prohibiting the
sale of LIQUOR to a veteran in the uni
form of the home I will see to it that
none get permission to leave here in
civilian dress, and think that we can
do a great deal to overcome the evil"
''Speaking of the wholesale houses
again." said the governor, they are
source of a great many of our troubles.
When a man becomes so unruly that
we can do nothing with him we have to
forward his complete record TO the
board of governors, and it usually ends
in a dishonorable discharge from the
home.
Sometimes a man is brought to our
notice who is down and out, and though
he is no longer a member of the home
we have to take him and care for him
in the hospital, as he is unable to care
for himself.
Dies from Alcoholism
"a very recent case that I have i'll
mind is that of a man who escaped
from the guard house while awaiting
dishonorable discharge, and when we
got him again he was practically help-
less with liquor and had quart bottle
in his possession bearing the label OF
Santa Monica wholesale liquor house.
While under treatment he escaped
again and came back with another
quart bottle from the same place. That
man died from alcoholism in the hospi-
tai last week. This is only one OF a
large number that I could cite II 1 had
the time. Whatever the newspapers
and general public can do to help us In
this matter will certainly be appre-
ciated"
Asked IL the IHdlLeE VI lliC SdiOOA CT
Playa del Rey, where liquor is sold in
discriminatory to the veterans, had
been put before the county supervisors.
Col. Cochrane stated that it had not
been brought up during the last four
years. but that he had hopes that the
present board would see their way clear
to regulate the place in question and
that he would bring the matter before
them.
Referring to the place at Del Rey
the colonel said: Our men are looked
upon as the legitimate prey of low
set which hangs out at this place, and
after a pension day they return from
there stripped of all that they possess
and in some cases of even their clothes.
We have had a number of deaths that
we can trace directly to the exposure
and mistreatment of the old soldiers
after a spree at that resort"
One Of the prominent liquor dealers
of Ocean Park, referring to the prob
lem, today stated that he made 1T
practice to refuse to serve old soldiers
In his place and would do so in the
future, whether the city officials TOOK
any action in the matter or not.
Said he: 1--WE serve a respectable
class of veterans that appear on the
beach in civilian clothes and make no
trouble, but not men in uniform"
The man referred to has the reputa-
ton of running the cleanest establish
ment on the beach, and his statement
is significant of his desire to stop the
abuses of the liquor privileges.