The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-29
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CONSIDERATION
In this column Of the current issue
Of The Ardmoreite appears an edi'
torial reproduced from the Chandler
News-Publicist, under the caption
Soldiers Memorial Hospital Matter.
The editorial will prove well wortl
the time anyone may devote 10 read
ing and studying it, and will con
vince the most sleptical that th'
proposed hospital will, ultimately, cost
the taxpayers Of Oklahoma not ont
cent.
Elmina ting ali sentiment from the
matter. taking out al arguments
relative TO any duty we may owe the
boys who crossed the seas to fight
for the honor of their country and
their country's flag. and who returned
poor in purse and with health shat
tered and their physical beings
wrecked and their constitutions un.
dermined by insiduous tubercular
troubles contracted while struggling
10 overthrow autocracy and make
the world world of Christian good
fellowship. q world safe for democracy
and humanity, eliminating all feeling
which might eminate from the hu-
manly human heart and putting the
matter upon strictly sane CONNER
cial" basis, We have the assurance
OF the federal government that it
will, in rentals. repay the state OF
Oklahoma the amount expended, ut
the rate OF one-tenth per year, paying
off the total amount in ten years.
The matter will be called up during
the coming season OF the state leglsla-
lure, and an appropriation asked for
20 cover the cost erecting this me-
mortal hospital, the hospital in which
The boys who went TO war under the
Stars and stripes. only 10 return
with health ruined and shattered, may
he cared for and either nursed back
10 health. or their closing days made
easy. through proper care and at
tcntion.
II has not been so long ago when
On example OF the needs Of such an
institution was oxcmplifi1d IN this
county 1t was cNemplified when q
poor boy. without money and without
friends. was found dying IN = tent,
uncared for by the nation whose
battles he had fought. Through the
kindly efforts Of the local chapter OF
Tho Red Cross, this boy was removed
10 q sanitarium where he breathed
his last within n short time. Had
Il been possible for this boy to have
been taken TO some place when the
dread disease first manifested itself,
.c the state OF Oklahoma had at that
line have had q hospital. this boy
might today be alive aud well.
This is only one instance. There
IRE possibly hunNeds ~ similar
cases, cases which should appeal,
'ot to sentiment and scbs. but to
he human heart which pulses with
atro.ism, which feels and knows
nd appreciates the fact that three
million American soldiers gave their
eryices TO their country ana that
ANY o. them, among those who re-
irned alive after the signing of the
rmlstloe. returned to their homes
ohbed OF that robust health which
nd been theirs when the examining
cards declared thcm physically III
enter the army and undergo the
'ardshins OF the soldiers life.
We can, we regret to say. sec
nv some persons, with their minds
,arped by purely morcenary thoughts.
night object to the states appro-
memorial hospital especially at this
riod when reconstruction makes the
ioney market stringent. provided the
lxpayer's of the state were To be
hc ones upon whose shoulders the
ultimate burden would fall. but with
Ne assurance from the federal gov
rnmcnt that tho money appropriated
H TO he refunded TO the state. one
NTH per year for ten years, paid
to the state treasury FOR use Of the
ate. reducing each years current
taxroll nroportionately with the ratio
{ such payment, then. as we under
.'and all mercenary objections are
minated, and the people Of .oklaho-
ma should applaud the action OF
,rrry house member. of every senator
4, no votes for the soldiers memorial
D.. 'pltal Appropriation"