IRGE HILLMAN EXTENSION
Doctors To Ask Revenue Board To
Build New Wing
Erection of an additional wing to
Hillman hospital will he urged upon
the board of revenue Friday by a com
mittee of doctors, who have visited the
hospital and studied conditoins, it was
declared Thursday.
A movement has been underway for
some time to get a new building to
care for the needs of patients sent there
for treatment at county expense, and
officials expressed the hope Thursday
that the action of the doctors Friday
night would result in an appropriation
for this purpose.
public sometimes regards a fighter. He
has employed his lawyer to make pub
lic statements for him, and his press
agent to prepare the statements for
his lawyer. In these statements, lie
not only defends himself, the oil leases,
and the republican administration, but
lie proceeds viciously against the dem
ocrats, the_ investigating committee, and
Senator Walsh, the chief inspiration <tf
that committee.
Doheny is regarded by some observers
as more culpable than any other figure
brought into the oil investigation scan
dal. And yet be is the most defiant.
He is no braver, in a personal sense,
than Fall or Daugherty. And if the
truth is known, he is no more of n
fighter.
lie is harder. His hide is thicker.
II is sensibilities, possibly, are dead. And
like some other very rich men he de
spises those he thinks members of the
rabble. Ilis money gives him perhaps
a false sense of security. lie feels him
self all-powerful, and is deceived into
believing that be knows, far better
than the people, what is best for the
people.
