Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
SOLDIERS SONS
DEMAND ANSWER
R0SECRANS CAMP MEMBERS
INSIST ON INVESTIGATION
MISMANAGEMENT OF sAWTELLE
HOME is SHOWN
Immediate Action Urged, and Affiliated
Orders Are Asked to Help In
Making Conditions More
Toerabie

! The probe into the management of
the National Soldiers home at Saw
telle instituted by local patriotic or
CARNATIONS and carried on by members
of the G.. A. r. and Sons of Veterans,
has resulted in the issuing of letter
by the w. S. Rosecrans camp of the
latter organization, in which the state
ment is made that evidence of the
most damaging character as to the
mismanagement of the soldiers home
has been produced.
The letter, which is addressed to
/ Grand Army posts, the Woman's Re-
! lief corps, Daughters of Veterans, Sons
of Veterans and Ladies' auxiliaries,
urges immediate action and asks for
Endorsement of the plan to take the
control of the home out of the hands
! of the present management. A reSolu-
| ton, issued June 10, censuring the gov
ernor of the home for his alleged re-
fusal to allow the decoration of the
soldiers graves at the home, is at
tached. The letter follows:
LOS ANGELES, Cal, July u, 1909.
Grand Army posts, Woman's Relief
corps, Ladies of the Grand Army
Circles, Daughters of Veterans, Sons
! of Veterans and Ladies auxiliaries
| department of California and Ne
vada: We herewith submit for your
consideration resolution passed by
unanimous vote at a regular meeting
of w. S. Rosecrans camp No. 2, Sons
of Veterans, u. S. A., held on the even
! ing of May II, 1909, and we wish to
state that while our action has been
criticised on the ground that the gov
ernor of the national home disclaimed
having denied the right of the ladies
of Uncle Sans corps to streV flowers
| fnn PrDN of fIo 1ra Il &C.
! now resting in the National Home GEM
etery, we have reliable sworn evidence
| that he did SO state, and since this ar
bitrary action other evidence of a most
damaging character has been produced
| that should convince any loyal man of
the mismanagement of the National
| Soldiers home at SaWtelle, and we, as
| sons of the men who gave the best
years of their young manhood freely in
defense of country ad flag, and our
| honored mothers, do most emphatically
protest against the entire change of
purpose from what was originally in
tended by our grateful government to-
ward it's defenders, in providing what
! should be a peaceful resting place for
such as desired to enter it's portals, to
find a home in fact--a half way house
to the camps beyond the silent river
| and we contend that in order to guar
antee it's future usefulness, and that its
objects may again become the pride of
our nation and an incentive to patriot
ism, the National Soldiers home be
placed under the control of the war de-
partment, where honorable discipline
would be expected and cheerfully rec
ognized and obeyed by these veterans.
I'VE ask your unanimous and heart
| felt Endorsement of our action, that we
may present this important matter,
with indisputable evidence, before the
forty-third national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Salt
Lake City in August.
your early action is greatly desired,
and in this we remain Yours in F.
c. and L.,
"W. S. ROSECRANS CAMP NO. 2,
| SONS OF VETERANS"
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