The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-03-10
.SOL0NS PLEAD
BADGER CAUSE
Wisconsin Solons at Wash
ington Petition for Hos
pitaI in State.
AIDS KENOSHA'S CLAIM

| congressman CLIFFORD u. Randall re-
turned from Washington today and
brought back with him the word that
the last official act of the Wisconsin
delegation in the Sixty-sixth Congress
was to sign petition which was sent
to the secretary of the treasury to ask
that Wisconsin's claims for the estab-
lishment of one Of the soldier hospit-
ais within its borders should be given
every consideration. The petition was
signed by every congressman from Wis.
consin.
The petition set forth the reasons
why Wisconsin should be considered
before any sites are chosen by the de-
partment. II. is based on the recent
bill passed by the Congress which pro-
vided for the establishment of these
hospitals to care for the disabled sol
diers under the care Of the federal
boards.
PLENTY of Chance'-RandalI.
what chance does Kenosha have to
land this hospital ?" was the question
put to Congressman Randall.
"Plenty of chance" answered Mr.,
Randall, "but it means work Racine
and Kenosha if they want to secure
this hospital must show that they mean
business and keep upN the work of
boosting for the site. If the hospital
is built here it will be because the
people Of these cities show real will
ingness to push for it and to cooperate
with the government in building it
here. In my opinion Kenosha has a
good chance to secure this hospital, but
the real solution of the problem rests
with Kenosha. We cannot sit idly by
while they are considering this propos-
al"
Petition Shows Plan.
The petition presented by the on
gressmen suggested no partiular site in
this state but did intimate that the
hospital could be located near the
larger cities of the state and that it
would there secure all cooperation.
The petition is of interest to every
one in Kenosha. 1t is as follows:
Petition
To the Secretary of the Treasury:
Whereas, Congress has just enacted
law authorizing you within the linn
its of appropriations made therein, to
provide additional hospital and out
patient dispensary facilities for per-
sons who served in the World War
and are now or hereafter may be pa
tients of the Bureau of War Risk In
surance or the Federal Board for
Vocational Education, Division of Re-
Mobilization, (D by purhase, gift, or
base of existing plants ca by construc-
ton on sites now owned by the Govern
ment or on sites to be acquired when
approved by the president, by purchase,
condemnation, gift, or otherwise or
(3) by such remodeling or extension of
existing plants and their equipment,
owned or aquired by the United States
at places now being used or that have
been used by the Public Health Service
for hospital purposes, as may be nee
essary economically to adapt such
plants to the uses and purposes there
in provided" we, the undersigned mem
bers of the House from the state of
| Wisconsin, respectfully call attention
to the availability of our state for the
location therein of one of the hospitals
that are to be erected out of the APP
preparation made in the above bill.
Wisconsin by the establishment of
camps and hospitals has had remark
able success in the treatment of tuber-
culosis. Health conditions throughout
the state are excellent. Climatic con-
ditions, not merely for the treatment
of tuberculosis, but for ether diseases
are most healthful Our hundreds of
beautiful lakes, many of them still
surrounded with fine forests, afford
excellent opportunities for the outdoor