The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31
VET COMMISSION
SEEKS MORE AID
State Soldiers Body, in
Report, Will Ask for
Big Appropriation
WOULD SPEND MILLION
Suggest That State Set Aside
Big Fund for Improvement
at Muskogee, Sulphur

BY the Associated Prcss state Wire.
MUSKOGEE. Dec. 30.--Recom-
mendation that the state CO Okla
homa expend more than a million
dollars In the next two years in the
further relief Of sick ald disabled
former service men is contained in
the report TO be submitted next week
TO the governor and tho ninth leEis-
lature by the oklahoma soldiers
relief commission
The report. which was drawn up
at a meeting of the commission
here, I'm addition to accounting for
the appropriation of S1.2l0,0O0 voted
for two years ago, outlines what fur
ther steps the commission deems
necessary for the proper treatment
of the states i'll ana wounded vet
Grams.
Improve Plant ut SapuIpa.
The sum OF SG34.27750 should be
spent in the fiscal year Of 1923-l924
IN this humane work OF relief. the
commission believes, while S4i3,l2O
win bo sufficient iR1924-l925. The
larger amount for coming year
would provide for the doubling Of
the capacity of the soldiers tuber-
cular sanitarium at sulphur, which
Is the only building project recon-
mended by the commission:
In its recommendations the com
mission follows exactly the sugges-
tions OF the committee on legislauon
OF the 1922 state convention -of the
American Legion at Bartlesville, The
suggestions OF this committee in
cluded tho following items:
Grading ana improvement Of the
grounds of the general hos
pital in Musgokcc, $4,000
grading and Improvement OF
! sulphur, $4,000: additional build
[ ingz at Sulphur sanitarium TO double
I capacity $4,000: fund for the r"-
/ lief Of emergency cases, 10 be eN-
/ pended by the relief commission.
/ 100000: for the transportation ot
/ former service persons in the course
/ Of capitalization, 100000.
/ in recommending these approprla-
/ tlons by the ninth legislature. the
! commission points out that the state
Z treasury will be reimbursed for much
Of the money expended by the per
diem payments from the federal gov
crnment for each veterans bureau
patient cared for at the sulphur and
/ Oklahoma City hospitals. Leasing
3 Of the Muskugee general hospital 10y
. the veterans bureau win relieve the
state OF the burden Of the operation
/ OF this institution and II is expected
/ that fewer patients Will have 10 be
accommodated at the University hos
pital AZ Oklahoma City. II Is rec
| commended. however, that a limited
number Of beds be maintained there.
In illustrating the dire need for
! continuation Of the states relief pro-
gram for former service persons, the
report points out that 10 December
Il3, lg22-l,T33 patients were hos
/ pltalized at tho University hospital
/ al oklahoma City. The number re-
naming IN tho institution on that
| date was 0. At the same time, there
/ were CT patients I'm the tubercular
/ sanitarium at sulphur. which Is
seven more than The original capac-
/ ity OF the institution.
/ The commission recommends en-
Hctment Of a statute giving II author
/ ity TO sell the MUskogee general hos
pltal 20 the federal government II
/ the government 80 desires This au-
/ thority WAS intended 10 be con-
veyed IN the act creating the com
| mission hut through an oversight
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