| Show NEGLECT OF DISABLED MEN legions investigation shows lack of attention to men who suffered terrors of war investigations by the american knie rican legion reveal shocking conditions of 0 mismanagement and neglect in the gov treatment nent of disabled yet vet ernna erans according to reports of tile lie legions findings made public by V ia AV galbraith jr national commander tile legion I 1 lins ins launched n nationwide nation wide light fight for lie correction of 0 these conill which mr has dr do scribed ascribed us its ilik n blot and ft a disgrace 01 ou the name of our country couitt ry more afore than veterans ve ternna nrc are still lit in hospitals suffering buffering from wounds infirmities suffered buffered in their count rys service ot of them have been there since they were brought back from france on tile hospital ships thela number Is increasing nt tile tho rate of 2 POO 1600 a month due 1110 mostly develop develer de velor ment of tuberculosis among inca who were gassed statistics show hint flint wore more than CiO OOOO men were discharged with disability rated lhnn 10 per cent experts narco nv ace that the peak lit in hospitalization wll will no not como come for five or ten years yet government hospitals nt at present are filled llyod to and nd oven even contract contra zt arrangements range ments are not being anade rapidly enough to care for the ever rising tide of disabled men whose demand hospitalization certainly there Is no indi ot wll wil Iff igness on tile tho port part ot of tile tho american public to do all in human power to aid aitho paid tile price for tile tho victory the same experts who estimate that the peak of tile the problem wilt will not como come tor for five or ten tell years sy say in tho the meantime must be bp mt in its solution the government lint hoi not been niggardly more afore than already has haa been spent ban MV management ts Is the tha gist of the legion a charge lack ot of vision and foresight and tho the ever present governmental red tape Is blamed as responsible for the tha death of disabled men before aid could rench reach them hem for the incarceration of dl disabled Fabled in jails and insano insane asylums and uie the charity wards of public hos affia where they received tho the samo same treatment as haupers paupers yau pau pors pers in to fla activities in advocating cating reform in tho the co conduct 11 duct ofle of ho 0 government bureaus tho the american legion lias hits dedicated itself to the tremendous of humanizing the dreary lives of disabled buddies who are patients in the hospitals all over the lie country every legion post in this country lias hns been assigned signed lis to tho the definite nite jot job I 1 of taking cure care of a certain hospital where former service men are patients the auxiliary illary also will bt mobilized to share in the work and civic and philanthropic organizations in ili the hospital towns will be enlisted there Is also the dangerous possibility that the hospital pitt lents remaining day utter after day with no other than their physical condition will become bitter against tile tho country which once honored lio nored them and which apparently has cast them aside in several hospitals als bolshevist agents have distributed inflammatory literature by ingenious methods of which an example Is tho the inclosure of the he printed matter in bouquets of flowers in ono case discovered by legion in the propaganda was en titled you fought for america and what did you get out of it and indeed it does doea seem that uie the sick veteran got little out of it except biceps a short period of popularity the consciousness of having done lila his duty and a maimed nud diseased body tile tho who are arc their huddles said the Leg legions lons national commander and are banded together in tile the american legion aro are determined that hint the alio hundred million hall not torget forget in this work of giving tile the disabled man a fuir fair deal and making him content wo we shall ask the operation cooperation co of every loyal american wo we together and we will stick together |
