St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-15
Dear Joe
By JAMES L. HICKS

/ ASNAA vONs
On November %, 1945, Major
General Paul Hawley, who was at
that time acting surgeon general
Of the Veterans Administration,
told Representative Edith Nourse
Roberts, Democrat, Of New Jersey,
that 81 for one will not experiment
with the medical care Of the veter-
an. Either he gets the quality of
medical care that he deserves, or |
quit-and quit at once"
Those are General Hawley's ex-
act words, Joe, and in case he does
not remember them they are now
on file in the NNPA offices.
Last Thursday, on February %,
exactly three months later, General
Omar N. Bradley, who is General
Hawley's boss at the VA, told
delegation from the Negro News
paper Publishers Association that
the VA has already made plans to
build another Jim Crow hospital
for veterans in Mississippi, the
native state Of Senator Theodore
Bilbo and Representative John
lhree Gays iateT; az a tlme when
ne seemingly snoulu nave Deeh VIII
,hR ms leIIer OF reSlRhatl9n 10 Zen
eral brauley over TINS III, glm crow
formed the world by radio that he
had accented a permanent appoint-
ment from General Bradley as
thief medical director of the De-
partment of Medicine and Surgery
in the VA, He retired from his
army position as a Major General
to take the job.
Take a look at the record again.
loo TLroo ro,+L. 900 = ,or CO...
49, '' no. '"''
elther ne gets the quallty OF med
zeal care he deserves or l quit
ma quit at once.
Those are pretty encouraging
words to veterans, especially col
Ored veterans, because they thought
at last here is man who will at
'ast walk off the job If we aren't
given a decent break, but three
days after General Bradley told
the publishers he was putting up
another Jim Crow hospital, instead
of quitting in protest, General
Hawley accepted a permanent job
with the agency.
L. co,oraI uouIov ,rv;no "a
,.II H. worId tbat he hsi;ayss a
soIaaJ ,otaran iii he 80, ar
Lost 81 mod;coI ara IN lin
80 hosn;taI Io.oted in n state
nm hv RiIho and RanL;n7 Is he
kidding?
Doo.r,. co,oroI uawloy ,birL
49, ooioraS ,,atara, dosaryos the
Sast - ,oad;coI caraNor was the
1891 60 me- sho,v;nG oT b;s brasS
w ~" Id 49, w,bon 6e made that
sto,an,oIt - NJ Pnoors9
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remarks. il is high time for him
10 anti because colored veterans
will never get the best of medical
care so long as thew have to depend
on second rate colored doctors to
give il to them. And so long as the
VA maintains Jim Crow hospitals,
ooH, SSA1ept ~ "ae '"S1 SSI S Eau
tor rS hnoorSo Grot 80 1850 a.
tOrS U Iii not accont oSs;anmoOts
w liz - SsnitaIs So 80
nnI O 49, aaSns - "a T $500
in private practice where he can
maintain MS selt-respect IN MS
community and will not bury HIM
self IN a jim Crow hospital IN
Mississippi.
As to General Bradley. Joe. we
NJ. NEG "a PACK ', our comment on MN uh-
vi ne SouIu pe gwen ci'aIlce 10 10
s E,' ioi 1919 49, ans.
r wen When ne u'uh 10 aIlytnlng
lS[ t'leih We heP' Vui tTIEue III oul
t n!s 80 lohs az ie "'u'' "' any
mai. ill.,
put the tllIie mas C3l''e 70 SPEAK
0 Jul vi Tue eteHlt SlHe Vi Hei'si al
nTauley RECORD 50 lar as aIS 10
.ololeu Ee'eia aus tlIeIe 10 'lotillnE
eASePt 'ne uPpo'nlIiI'le vi several
cT n! men 70 Soou paying JooS
WHICH '"eS richly ueSer'e'
There are a few statements which
no has made 70 coIored neonIe that
SCUM .tl nlEnIy PLoi ms! al me
ll Iim they were mace ouI u promise
VIII NOT a'u " SIGN veteran
On tho dabit side NJ Gerar,I
RrodIey's six-montb record tho
nIans Sor onotbor linn Gov bos-
p;taI stand ont Iika the sore thumb
that II Is and the headache which
II is go;nc 70 be
"
Also on the red ink side of Gen
s;T montbs' woTL il the noIicy oC
ths VA IN foIlow 'stba rstterD oC
ths hal .ommTr;ty" IN lie S.S,
location Of coioreS v.,s,nns
In the same column is the state
ment made by the VA on NoYem-
- o tn.E Il. ,,Tl Ny..----