Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
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Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
Medicine, Military; Military hospitals; World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Medical care -- United States
So, in the Indian Service, one of the things that we are handicapped by
is this aggregation that I have just described, that are criticizing and
finding fault with practically everything that is being done. One of the
things that they contend for more than anything else is that the Federal
Government, in supervising and administering the affairs of the Indians
should, before they put into operation any policy for their uplift and
their advancement, have the consent of the Indians. What an absurd
proposition! When you contemplate sending your boy to some educational
institution, are you going to permit him to dictate and say to you what
you shall do, or, when he selects a certain institution and tries it for
a few weeks, say that he does not like it and is going to try some other
institution? How far would a father get with a son if he permitted him
to dictate and dominate the situation?
So it seems to me that this question of hospitalization and caring for
the ex-service man is very largely a medical question and it ought to be
administered with a view to what will be most productive in
rehabilitating and restoring these men to full health; and so it
occurred to me that before this meeting adjourns, and because possibly
the impression may have been given this morning that the principal
question was one of economy, that we should, just for a moment, consider
this other question of what can be done and what should be done for the
best interests of these ex-service men. It will require regulations; it
will require legislation.
If you have not been repaid in the other sessions of this Conference
until this forenoon, I think every one of you who has come from some
distance will feel that he has been fully compensated in listening to
the discussion by General Dawes and Mr. Madden with reference to what
the Government, under our present Chief Executive, is endeavoring to
accomplish in the matter of administering Government. And so we have
this hospitalization proposition and all of the Departments having to
deal with that subject. We have this Federal Board of Hospitalization
made up of representatives or the heads of these different departments.
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