The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No 4 (January 28, 1921)] . resent Congress ajoint communication requesting an ap-propriation of $35,000,000 for all typesof hospitals, and have urged the impor-tance of securing this money immedi-ately in order that the work of con^struction may be commenced as early irithe next fiscal year as possible. Thatrequest is in the hands of the Appro-priations Committee of the House ofRepresentatives. It is worth while to picture exactlywhat will happen if the AppropriationsCommittee accepts this careful estimateof immediate needs and grants thenecessary appropri
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 3, No 4 (January 28, 1921)] . resent Congress ajoint communication requesting an ap-propriation of $35,000,000 for all typesof hospitals, and have urged the impor-tance of securing this money immedi-ately in order that the work of con^struction may be commenced as early irithe next fiscal year as possible. Thatrequest is in the hands of the Appro-priations Committee of the House ofRepresentatives. It is worth while to picture exactlywhat will happen if the AppropriationsCommittee accepts this careful estimateof immediate needs and grants thenecessary appropriation, and then teconsider what will inevitably happenif the purse-strings of the nation re-main closed in spite of this urgent andpathetic appeal. If the money required is appropri-ated, work can be commenced early inthe next fiscal year for the establish-ment of five 500-bed hospitals for men-tal patients, located in sections of thecountry where the need is the least possible delay, a year(Continued on page 18) PAGE 6 THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY. He claimed another outfit and wassent forward with a new pack ANYTHING in the Army fromsmoking the colonels cigars whilean orderly to throwing a fit inthe company street when the warriorswere, swinging forth for a long hikewas—and probably still is—consideredgetting away with murder. There lives no bird with a career inuniform of thirty days who never gotaway with something, even if it wasonly an o. d. shirt purloined after vol-unteering^ for a clothes detail with thesupply sergeant. Incidentally that wasthe only detail in Ai outfit that thebucks fought to get on. The Armyfakers, of whom David Harum wouldhave said that some was as bad asothers if not wus, were as the sandsin the field boots after a long drill inthe South. The hard-boiled faker was, of course,a pest, and everybody suffered for lifegrandstand plays, even to the bird whowas sadly in need of a new kelly andhad therefore manhandled the old one,ripping off
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