The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-08-18
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The country IL bcpnriuE io realize i's hos.
pitallz,uou dream That when the American
Legion ha, b,,u fighting for ~ about to come
true. Hospitals. uow hospitals modern hos
pitfalls with all tho comforts Of homc--that was
tho cry.
The nr~ such an institution Ia operating at
haywood Illinois. II cost $4,000 900. There
are doctors. nurses, laboratories and all the
things that go with just such hospital insii-
tuition as the country has boon hoscigcd TO con-
.truct Noihjng Is lacking but patients In THIS
great. modern iustiiuuon, which IL Described az
being four storo. high and half mile In length.
there are iust four patients bu' the four are
having the time ~ their ME-. It's jnat lovely
The hospital has been open for busnes"
week. or course. there win hc moro patients In
the course Of time. But with the present pat
ror,co the plant cost $500. 600 per patient.
with the overhead yet To- Ice computed.
OF course. thl, nra venture tn national hos
pttalzatlon and state disqualification has not
gone far enough 10 enable on" to draw perfect
Is sound conclusions. but It has gone far enough
to indicate the absurdty Of the whole move
,ncnt from the beginning The haywood hos
pItal IL probably large enough to accommodate
at least ffty per cent Of thu total demand that
will be made upon the cN service mons nos
pi'als throurhou, the country. Yet 1t iS only
one Of ten federal institutions, while various
states are 90 construct st,ll others
In opposing tho disqualification plans put he
roro the oklahoma legislature hy The legion
state house onbnl The world predicted that
af,cr the Millions had been spent various add
uaraI state institutions created aud enormous
payroll Of doctors, nurses caretok"rs ct al pro-
yidod. ,hc state would find itself possessed OF
cvc,,thnE but pgtcnts.
rhnt IL precisely what wc ser at haywood,
And wc win gee It in oklahoma. one leglsla-
,urc. under the laah Of lobby that knew what
/, wanted ana why created a lot Of state inst-
,utions--morc rat holes into which the tax
rnyer's money ia to he poured And the noxt
legislature will ot course, have TO find some
use FOR these state institutions because thcre
will not be enough cx-scryicc men patients to
fnl one OF them unless an epidemic sweeps tho
state.
The legislature viii find come use for them
Some wise statesman from u community pos
eeysnr such an institution will propooc a ma
,ernity law and mako Of these institution lay
ng-in hospitals II nothing better can hc had.
Dut the great outstanding fact win romaln-
there was never the slightest reason in fact,
theory or humanitarian conceptions for such
Institutions.
We are again calling attention TO this matter
that the people OF the state may Keep green tho
memory of the lobbyists who forced the state
into tho undertaking. II is going to be tho
pleasure Of The world 10 follow this state hos
pi,allzaton matter 20 It's logical concusion.
These institutions will hn visited by Tho World
after they are In operation and the thousands
OF helpless cx-scrvce men who are patients
therein counted.
The per capita cost ot haywood on first re-
port was sa5oo, 600, with the administrative.
% overhead unknown. nklahomas wiN not
run that hiEh, but 1t will be a plcnty-far too
much tor any of tho gentlemen who were I'M
pNcatcd IN tive juh to over win office on,