The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-09
Two Billion Poured Out
OF Uncle Sans Treasury
To Care for Wounded Vets
Item in Budget for Next Fiscal Year for Caring for Crippled
Soldiers One of Biggest Of
cials, From Harding Down to the Office Boys in Each
Department Give Their First Attention to the Veterans.

may ho filed and adjusted Tho
claimant now may file his papers
without leaving his home locality.
within few hours the machinery
VIII ho set iu motion which viii rec
suit iu bringing 10 that oN-s"rvlrc
imam the financial compensation to
which hc BE- entitled under law.
More than ono hundred thousand
cN.-yr,icc men now arc receiving
roupon.ntiuu under tho veterans
bureau lists. with the hcEiunlng ut
tho new system uf handling claims
th.s number viii bo very largely In
creased it is hoped
Tho quotation r. from the lips Of
the bureau officials. Tho attitude
of colonel Forbes rs that the bureau
should seek out tho CN-aor,icc man
io get him ON the list of financial or
medical huuoficiarios of tho govern
mont This attitude Ia directly con-
uaF 10 the old system under which
the government was careless OF the
H'ods of the cN-soryiDe man who did
not present his claim.
Every cmployc Of tho veterans
. bureau when away from Washing
ton now is expected to visit the
nearest hospital whore CN.gorvire
.
these men are getting every benefit
. to which they are entitled.
How They're Classified
The veterans bureau under this
system is organized Ia become the
/ veterans advocate ana councillor as
/ wen as tho Judge ~ tho degree OF
. bcucNt to which hc is entitled
I The hcncficilrios of the bureau at
present are classified approximately
aa follows:
Veterans receiving vocational
training, $4,000. waiting list for yu-
. oatiunal training, 10000. hospital
/ cases. blind. goo, mental disorders,
/ 9,052; tubercular diseases. I2.253.
/ general apd surgical cases. 9.5G3.
I compensation heneficiarios. 100000
all other bcneficiarios $4,000. Total.
/ 3OO,0G
Owing TO the efforts Of tho bureau
during tho last few months enough
beds have been provided to care for
all known general and surgical cases
I'm government hospitals, according
To the bureau records NCry-many
more beds In government hospitals
are needed however, 80 insure the
standard OF care desired FOR mon
suffering from tuberculosis and
mental diseases, Colonel Forbes
said. I
A survey OF the situation made
recently bx n committee OF special
lists IN mental disorders disclosed
/ that the veterans buroan soon will
be called on 10 supply beds In gov
/ ernmcnt hospitals for 1000 insane
| paticnts. and a large number Of
/ tubcrCdlar cases. Plans 10 provide
D 4
Will he put into effect as soon as
congress apprOpriatcs tho money.
Some Special Problems.
a number OF special problems
have arisen I'm connection with the
relief and care Of disabled veterans
which were not furesocn when the
governments program was inauEur-
ated shortly after the armistico. In
many cases the estimates on which
the committees ba40d their logisla
tive acts ard approximations were
unfortunately insufficient and incor-
rect.
Many OF these problems could not
be fOrCsccn during the war or i'm
mediately afDr it, close. For n
stance, the estimated humbor Of
blind cases was out Of an proportion
10 the actual number OF those cases
now under the care OF the Veterans
bureau. Elaboration provisions and
plans were mnde for the care aud
treatmopt OF blind soldiers, probably
because this class OF cases made "a
special appeal 10 the public. due 10
the character Of their disability.
However, A. tho time OF the nrmi-
sticc there were only 600 blind sol
dlcrs. which was considerably less
than could have been expected from
the statistics shown by previous
wars.
In other Glasses ~ caacs which
drew the special attention OF tho lcg-
islators nnd those interested 100 sol-
diers' relief legislation were the ann,
putation cases. u was expected that
thero would be n largo number of
soldiers with amputatcd arms and
legs However, less than 9 per cent
OF the disabled veterans are guffor-
ing from amputatlOng
Tho veterans bureau will dIocou-
tluuc use Of contract hospitals as|
soon us government hospital fac.ll-'
Ties arc made available iu hospitals
owned, operated ana supervised by
tho government A training center
VIII he established for the instruction
OF personnel engaged In nouropsy-
aff'-'f '.N - q NlNN liil H'lNlI'NI Alf~
cludes physicians, nurses, TeConsiruc-
tion agents and psychiatrists Their
training will be Intensive in Charac-
ter and viii consist OF actual ward
work a. well as laboratory work
and lectures
This training center will he cstab-
llshed al ~ Elzabcth'H hospital,
Washington, -. C.. Immediately IN
order that this training personnel
will he available when the special
government neur0pay chiatrlc hos
pitals are constructed. Special train
Ing centers are being operated for
the vocational training of mout0l
cases. and this work Will continue
with Increased facIlitiCH
Many Tubcrculnr Patients.
Another large class NJ eases which
Is absorbing attention of the vctcr-
ans bureau is tho tuhercular pm
tlents. There are available 1l,ls2
beds Tor tuborcular patients in AN
government hospitals which iz al
much larger proportion than are I
available for ncurOpsyChiatriC pa .
tients. However the medical di-
vision OF the veterans bureau is pre-
pairing 10 inCrcaH the faCftNles for |
tuberCular patients ana 10 place |
those men now in contract hospitals .
In government tubcrculOsis hospitals. .
There are more than 100000 dis /.