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Show PRESIDENT'S : PHYSICIAN IS GIVEN RAKING Veterans Told That Doctor Saves at Expense of Disabled SA.V FRAVCISCO, June 2S IfUch of the blame for government shortcomings shortcom-ings in hospitalization work for world war veterans should he placed on ! Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer. President Harding's personal physician Humphrey Sullivun of St. Louis, representing rep-resenting National Commander Mac-Nlder Mac-Nlder of the American legion, declared today In tin address on behalf of the American legion before the convention of the Disabled American Veterans' of th- Worhl W.r Sullivan charged General Sawyer, who Is head of the federal board of iio.spltalizatlon and given authority by Director Dawes of the budget, to de-i termlne us policy, with attempting to economic at the expense of the health of the woun.led service men. Why. after fourteen months, with an appropriation of $ l S 800.QD0 arc, we without one of the new hospitals provided for by act of ongress"" h"( asked. Sullivan s-.id that. General Sawyer had annouced his policy in th t ord. s v. ER iI 1 1 I I P. "I am using m influence wherever possible to puetvejit uiidu. expenditure expendi-ture and undue elaboration of tho nigh powered hospital, preferring t', spend that money for the purpose of developing places of domlcjla that would be fit and comfortable for the individual who pusses the hospital period." lie la Interested," declared Sulli-, van. "In places of rest for those who1 pass the hospital period', win n read In the paper thai iota cans ar coming through at tin rate of two n da we won 11 li the brigadier general gen-eral is speaking of graves." PROPAG N U OU K(.J.i Sullivan suld General SaWVCI' had helped BpreadaVropag&nda that there were already thousands of vacant beds; in government hospitals and (hat of-ficiency of-ficiency and economy must be practiced. prac-ticed. False economy In this regard Is' being practiced at the state hospital I at Athens, tfhlo Sullivan assorted, in the use of only $277 of the Sf.47 turn-ed turn-ed over to the hospitals each year by the government for soldier patients the rest being turned into the aUite treasury. "Efficiency and economy" explained Sullivan, of the 9, ISO mental patients In tho care of the government, 4,509 are 'contia.tcd' for by public- and private pri-vate institutions They are mostly Insane In-sane aslyuma and mad houses where a patient Is given "custodial care' w hich is a soft term for Jailing a man, tor locking him up'' |