Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-04-21
HOSPITAL PROGRESS AND
REASONS
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Trego county's need of a hospital
has been talked about for at least q
year At the same time, the desire
to build a memorial to the work and
sacrifice of our soldiers has been in
many minds. About the time that
some of our citizens determined to
combine these two purposes and build
a Memorial Hospital, the Bishop
of the Episcopal church at Salina or
fered to undertake the task of manag-
ing and maintaining the hospital
when it had been built. This offer
has helped to make the project definite
and get it well started; burt Trego
county is not under obligations to ac-
cept it unless we desire If no bet
ter plan is proposed we know it can
be maintained and managed this way.
With these ideas in mind, the busi-
ness men of WaKeeney have called
several meetings and have divided up
the work among those who seemed
willing to work.
The first task ON hand was to Sc
cure subscriptions for money t0
build the hospital. A few men have
labored faithfully at this, until now
we have $20, 900 90 pledged in the
city of WaKeeney. I35 men have
been solicited and 100 of them have
subscribed literally.
Very seldom does community un-
dertake a benevolent enterprise with
such unanimous cooperation and
success as our men have had in this.
On two occasions the American
Legion has approved the project by
unanimous vote; and 90 per cent of
our citizens have shown their approx
al by liberal pledges.
With $40, 100000 pledged in the city
of WaKeeney, the next task is to can
vas the country and other towns in
the county for this is a Memorial to
! the soldiers of the whole of Trego
county.
This task is too great for the half
dozen men who have given the work
| such splendid start. There are So
| school districts in Trego County out
! side of WaKeeney. We need at least
! 25 committees of two persons in each
i committee, to give each family an op-
portunity to show their gratitude to
/ their soldiers and their kindness to.
their own sick and crippled friends.
| Last Friday a mother and her three
months old babe were almost burned
| to death. 1t was necessary to carry
| them in automobile 35 miles thru
the deep mud to hospital. Can you
| imagine the agony of such trip?
! Our physicians are perfectly compe-
tent to care for such a case; but they
| have place to do it.
We need about fifty men and women
with enough sympathy in their hearts
to get out and gather money to pre-
! vent such unnecessary torture.
i This hospital will be for the ac-
commodation of all religious, all polit-
| icaI parties, all ationaIities-anyone
| who is suffering 1t is as much a gift
to mankind as when our soldiers
smashed the would be autocrat of the
world.
/ For love of country and love of lib
| erty our soldiers offered themselves
in unselfish service and sacrifice. This
is the spirit of the Good Samaritan.
1t should be perpetuated in the daily
life of peace AS Gov. Patterson
said: eff our victory over the Ger
mans merely showed a superiority of
brute force, the world is little better
for the victory"
In our memorial of the war, we do
not commemorate the slaughter of
the enemy. We commemorate the
American ideals we contended for
According to them the strong man
! protects the weak and ministers to
the mother and the babe and the sick
man--No one ever does anything for
one motive alone, and we have a doz-
en- good reasons for building this
hospital
One of the most practical sermons
which has ever been delivered in Wa