Weekly journal-miner., 1920-11-03
DISGRACE SAY PEOPLE
 HERE MUST BE RIGHTED
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 had contracted to care for them, and of the fact they were being poorly treated at the Cook County poor farm led Prescott citizens to join with Major R. H. Staney, command ing Whipple Barracks to express sorrow and indignation.
 Attention was called to the fact that 90 former service men were be- ing mistreated in an expose made by the Chicago American, copies of which were received here and shown by representative of the Journal Miner to representative citizens.
 The gist of the expressions in the city is contained in a statement ill which R. \. Fredericks, prominent banker and chief "liaison officer" of the townspeople with the govern ment representatives at the Bar racks said:
 You cannot state too strongly my feeling that the men at Chicago are being treated in a disgracsful manner as long as the government has such facilities as W-hipple Bar racks for ,;:s;r ere Du-,rg the war we Lad 1t tau?h- us that there was no:liir 8 too good icI | ( sol yiiers ard -hdf feeling '-.. exists l am su'c that T cordrtions ,Alst at Chicago sch as tn. Amcr' -en dis closes, the thing is scan.'al and a shame"
 R,om for More
 Maicr Robert IT Stanley yester- .,,ay said ilat Whipp.e Bar.alks has now 5C0 rqticnts wi:;e present ca pacity fer 6l5. Men ar beng re- ceiycd n small groups t,cry few days, the infuT at this time amount ing to about 10 a day.
 You may state for me" said Ma jor Stanley, that concur in the opinion of my staff that Prescott has the finest climate in the world for rhe treatment of pulmonary dis orders. While the capacity of this post may not be enough next week to care for the men at Chicago, l can only wish that we could treat them here for the care of the eX- service men is a work to which my associates and myself are devoted. The men who fought and lost their health deserve every facility for their recovery"
 Startling Disclosures
 That the funds with which the treasury department should be ef- fecting the establishment and im- provements. of hospitals for former soldiers is the football of politicians and that these moneys are kept from the needed work of reconstruction by selfish interests that fail to sec votes i'll spending the sums, is the opinion of one observer here yester- day when informed by the Journal Miner that a disgraceful condition had been unearthed in Chicago.
 This man. closely identified with public questions, says that with one fourth or less of the cost of 1,500 bed hospital, Whipple Barracks can be increased to a 2.5OO bed hospital.
 All property at the post is still owned by the war department and a fight is being waged to have it transferred permanently to the pub lie health service. which can then spend its money and increase the bed capacity The expenditure of a very small amount of money will enable the officers at the post to take care of 1000 sick men.
 It is anticipated that the decision as to whether the post shall be transferred to the P H. s. will be IlduG dDOul luC lISL UT luC year. The war department, which has abandoned the post as a military establishment, now feels that it can not spare the property. according to what Secretary of War Baker told an Arizona man recently. Hence it is known that opposition will have to be overcome in the department before the change can be made. Such a change. it was pointed out yesterday, would enable the P. H. s. . to take care instantly of the 90 men isolated from their chances of recov- cry at the Cook county poor farm, where, it is stated, no representative of the government ever secs them or takes any interest in their wei fare. The men are poorly clad and wear shoes that are so cracked that their feet are practically on the ! ground. No occupational education is offered them, nor are there op- portunities to indulge in vocational ! training.