The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-12

cal examinations and less than 1900 await
medical action. Up TO July there have been
government control in the hospitals today
there are 5000 available beds without oc-
cupants. You are already aware OF the
additional government hospitals, not be-
cause we are not meeting all demands but
TO better meet them and the better to spe-
cialize in the treatment Of those who come
under our care
There has been paid out in allotment
and allowances the sum of $57e. 49,, 65S and
nearly $4,000 100000 Of government insur-
ance is in force.
ton of disabled soldiers there have been
enrolled to date 10T,S24 men, Today there
are 1852 men who are training with pay
at the maximum cost OF Sl60 per month;
S,20S training without pay, but. at a tut.
t1on and supply outlay of SIS per month.
Four thousand disabled men have COM
pleted their training and have been re-
earned an average Of $1,051 per year before
in spite of their disability and in spite Of
diminished wage or salary levels, an aver
age OF $1,000 per annum.
Been Some Abuses.
ut is an interesting revelation and a
fine achievement, attended by both abuses
and triumphs. Congress has appropriated
$50 600 for this noble work for the cur
of training for the year before us con-
templates an average of $4,000 disabled
men and the cost-wiil be in excess of Sl6S
100000 or nearly a hundred million mors
than congress has provided. This addi-
tional sum must be made available. With
the increase Of availability to training, as
mated additional expenditure will be
S46s, 1000 per annum, until the pledge of
training is discharged. These figures
suggest either neglect nor ingratitude It
is more than the entire annual cost az
federal government for many years fol-
lowing the Civil war, and challenges every
charge of fault to deal considerably with
our our nations defense | do not recite the
do or ultimately ought to do. 1t is in
evitable that our obligations will grow
and grow enormously. We never have neg
ent soldier and there is no way to avoid
times remorseless classifications
contemplating the liability which the
remiss in my duty if l failed to ask con-
gress to pause at this particular time,
from which so much is later on to be ex-
pected. The defenders of the republic
amid the perils of war, would be the last
menaced by an individual pittance Of
4 know the feelings of my own breast
and that of yours and the grateful people
OF this republic ,EI
but no thoughtful person. possessed
with all the facts, is ready for added com
pensation for the healthful, self reliant
masses Of our great armies at the cost of
Its hardships to all the citizens of the
republic. Its enactment now in all pro-
liability would so add to our interest rates
that the added interest charge on new and
refunded Indebtedness alone may exceed
the sum 1t is proposed to bestow. When
congress was called in extraordinary ses-
sion l called your attention to the urgent
measures which l thought demanded your
attention You promptly provided the
emergency tariff and good progress has
been made toward the much needed and
more deliberate revision of our tariff sched-
ules. There is confessed disappointment
that SO little progress has been made in
the readjustment and reduction of the war;
time taxes. | believe you share with me
the earnest wish for early accomplishment
1t is not expected that congress will sit
and ignore other. problems of legislation
There are often urgent problems which
must enlist our attention. l have not come
to speak Of them, tho the reorganization
or the war risk and vocational training
now pending. would hasten the efficient
discharge of our willing obligations to the
disabled soldiers.
But 1 want to emphasize the suggestion
that the accomplishment of the major tasks
for which you were asked to sit in extraor-
binary session will have reassuring effect
on the entire country and speed our re-
sumption of normal activities ana their
rewaFGs which tend to make a prosperous
and happy people"