Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-01-25 | Page 3 | Father's Letter Stirs Senate

oo FATHER'S LETTER STIRS SENATE Senator Chamberlain Reads: Pitiful Account of Death of Young Soldier. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. Senato and galleries were moved to expressions expres-sions of emotion as Senator Chamberlain Chamber-lain road a letter to Senator Wads-worth. Wads-worth. Tho writer, whoso name was not given, said he was notified through friends that his son was ill srx days after ho had been taken to the camp hospital. He was first permitted to see tho boy through a window and tho first sight appalled him. The room and bed were filth, he wrote, and the patient pa-tient had not been bathed for eight days His requests for a nurse, or to permit himself to aid his son were refused, the writer stated, but finally ho was told he might provide clean clothes. When ho returned his son's face and hands had been washed but still were dirty. The next day he returned again as an attendant was trying to give the patient water from a bowl. When tho father intervened the attendant said: "I guess I better got a funnel," and actually returned with a paper funnel. fun-nel. The father stopped that and suggested sug-gested a sponge. Fifteen minutes later tho son died. Finds Son's Body on Floor. At headquarters of the camp ho was told that he might have his son's body that nlglft. Having provided himself with a pass to the hospital he did not knock when he entered but as he tried to open the door It struck a heavy object. ob-ject. It was his son's body and the door had struck the head. "I want to arouso tho country and every mothor and father In the land to wrlto to the president of tho United States and appeal, not in a spirit of revenge, but in order that the examplo of a beloved son, brother or huBband may arouso tho country to save the lives of our soldiers." Senator Chamberlain Cham-berlain declared as he finished reading read-ing the letter.