Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-15
IS NOWMEMbEROF
 LOCAL BOARD
TAKES THE PLACE OF DR. FLYNN; HEAP AXE PUBLIC HIS OPINION OF GENERAL" CHARLES w. HARRIS OF PHOENIX.
from Thursdays Oaily.N

on uCSday TcCclNCQ word from Phoenix that he had been appointed to succeed Dr. ]. W. Finn as me1n- Der of the Iavapai county exemption board. He has already taken over his new duties and, with Recorder F. \. McSwiggin, appointed to membership on the board last week
 O succeed Mayor Harry Heap, and Sheriff Joe Young, the hold ovcr' member. will meet today for the first lime to talk things ovcr While ot course McssrS. McSwiggin and Car michael know little or nothing about
 he workings of the exemption board
 he fact that Sheriff Young and the TWO clerks are thoroughly acquainted
 with the job will enable the new board to get along very nicely until
 he new members get the hang of
 hings.
 In statement published Tuesday
 n two of the Phoenix papers, Adju-
 ant General Harris IS quoted as
 aying that he had caused the dis ,hargc of AIcssrs. Heap and Finn rom the Yavapai board because he 'ould not agree with them in the
 natter of interpreting certain points
 the draft regulations, and also de-
 lied that he had allowed Sheriff
 Ioung to remain on the beard be-
 ausc the latter was a democrat. Heap md Finn, he stated, had consistently -efused to cease their alleged prac-
 ice oi sending tubcrcular patients to amp, thus causing the government O be put to the expense of sending
 he men home after it had been dem onstratcd that the men were not sui
 icicntly rugged to make good sol Hers.
 It was quite evident, however. rom reading the two published ac- ounts of the matter in the Phoenix papers, that General Harris had not been very consistent in the matter )f giving his interviews to the Phoe- lix reporters. or the reporters mis- Iuotcd the gentleman. In the morn, ng paper the officer IS quoted as say ng that the fight between him and he local board was of long standing. md by the time the evening paper
 vas put out, the statement had
 hanged to one to the effect that he lad not had very much trouble with
 he Prescott bunch. and that the mis- understandings had been of but short luration.
 Harris also caused the statement to le printed in Phoenix that an officer
 ad made a special trip from Camp
 funston to Prescott to warn the local poard that ii must cease the ITactice f sending tubercular men to that amp, the statement winding up with
 he assertion that the Prescott board rad for some reason or other ignored
 he officers request and had con
 inued to send the semi-invalids to amp. only to have them returned to
 his county at the expense of the var department.
 In commenting upon this last state nent yesterday, Mayor Heap said;
 Both Dr. Finn and myself most .nIphatically deny the statement of -ol. Harris to the effect that we have permitted invalids to be sent to Camp Funston from this county, and ieither did an officer make a special
 rip here to call Us down on this core. He came here but it was not or the purpose mentioned by Mir.
 Harris. We never knowingly sent a man to camp who had any symptoms )f tuberculosis. It is true that many nen have been returned to us after laving been pronounced unit for military duty by the examining phy- ;icians at the camp, but here IS the .xplanation of that feature: Every )nc knows that when the first con ingents of the Arizona men were
 cnt to the cold and bleak camp at t. Riley, the government was but poorly prepared to handle the men.' here was no provision for heat in he barracks nor were the bath houses Il shape to allow the men to bathe n comfort, and oyercoats and warm ,lothing were not to be had. Winter .amc on and the suffering that ensued lmong the Arizona boys was intense, lonc of them being accustomed to he rigors of a northern winter. In many cases the shower baths were coated out in the open, and the men had to travel 10 and from the show ITS without clothing and then be eX- posed to the cold wind while taking heir baths. Of course some men .ould stand such treatment and Oth- ITS could not, and consequently many of our boys were seized with pneumonia, which under the miser- lblc conditions existing in camp, soon l. afterwards developed into incipient tuberculosis. Then, too, there were he vaccinations and inocculations to which all men were subjected, and a few of the men contracted tuberculosis in that way. But at any rate, many of our big husky range boys who had never had symptom of illness in their lives came home, discharged as tubercular, and Harris seized upon this as a basis for his 'hargcs that we were passing tuber- ,ulars into the camps. Of course 1t wouldn't do for the camp authorities 10 come out and say that they were for the breaking down oi he mems health, and so they passed he buck to the local board and -aiscd a howl 10 the effect that the .XcmDtion boards were sending weak