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Show Government Spends While Taxpayers Burn THE GOVERNMENT is not satisfied with building just an ordinary Veterans Hospital in these days of fabulous fabu-lous construction costs. The "experts" have decided that everything must be in a most ornate manner, as indicated by architect's drawings reprinted in a Salt Lake paper last Sunday. Two weeks ago we complained that the $10,000,000 which will be spent on a vets hospital at Ft. Douglas is completely unnecessary anyway, since the government already has a $12,000,000 hospital going to rack and ruin in Brig-ham City. Economists and smart construction men nowadays advise ad-vise anyone with a yen to build to cut out all the frills until prices go down a bit. But that kind of advice isn't for the government wizards. They figure as long as they have $10,000,000 to spend, why not spend it with carefree abandon. If there are some really good reasons for building a Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake (wc have not yet heard of any), then it is essential, of course, that anything which will contribute to the recovery of the patients be done, and done right. Recreational facilities should be built, too. but we wonder if they need to be so ornate as the pictures indicate. Our original suggestion still stands, however, even though it is probably too late: let the government save the poor taxpayer that $10,000,000 bv using Bushnell General Gen-eral Hospital in Brigham City,-which has" adequate facilities facil-ities for 4000 patients. |
