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Show ILL TREATMENT OF SICK SOLDIERS Stirred by evldonco which has como to him of neglectful neglect-ful treatment of dlsablod and sick soldiers In army hospitals ' In this country, Representative Martin U. Madden of Illinois, has announced an-nounced In Congress his Intention In-tention to Mako a personal investigation of tho charges with a view to demanding that tho officers Involved be brought before a court-martial. First, however, he will endeavor to Interest Secretary Secre-tary of War I3akerln the welfare of tho men under treatment in tho hospitals, and urge him to compel a remedy of existing conditions. condi-tions. According to IT. 'I. Mar-golls, Mar-golls, of Chicago, who has personally Interviewed 16.-000 16.-000 returned sorvlce men, there aro hundrods of ctscs of "men sho have been discharged dis-charged from government hospitals as 'cured,' bu.who were unable to work. Men who were homeless, penniless penni-less and In some cases crippled, were turned out of these hospitals to shift for themselves." "Every man In evory depart, de-part, mont. of the public service,", ser-vice,", declared Representative Representa-tive Madden, "who to charged with responsibility In the treatment of these men should be called to account, sad If they have failed la any particular to give the men the treatment they are entitled to as the heroes of the nation during the Great War, if they are in the military mili-tary service they should be I at once court-martialed and placed behind the bars." |