With so many millions of men engaged in this conflict on land and sea, under new and trying conditions of living, the daily toll of sick and wounded becomes a stupendous item. Hundreds of thousands of these men need only care and sunshine, change, rest and proper food, to make them once more fit for the fighting line.
The military base and line hospitals, as well as the Red Cross institutions, are fully occupied with the constantly flowing stream of emergency cases that pour back from the front. There is no room for the convalescent anywhere. It is these men who should be cared for, for reasons of conservation if no other—that can be sent back on the empty troop ships and forwarded from the coast to Denver at a comparatively small expense, where they can be given their chance for health and a return to duty. Economically, the advantages of this location are very great; within a very small radius everything in the way of produce for such a place can be purchased direct from the producer, eliminating almost all wastage, the middleman's profit, and the long haul.
Climatically, outside the boundaries of Colorado we have no rival. On these wonderful foothills, a mile above sea level, we have an unlimited amount of life-giving sunshine, and a freedom from excessive heat and cold that insures the very best condition for the restoration to health of the sick and enfeebled. No scientific medical man any longer disputes the pre-eminent advantages of Colorado as a health resort. The medical records and meteorological reports are all in our favor.
Colorado's prohibition laws are well enforced, and we have no segregated district. In fact, Denver could not be improved upon as the location for such a camp, which should be built upon a great and generous scale—-a camp which could not fail to attract the favorable notice of the whole world.
Never was there so great a need for such an institution, nor a day when it was more necessary to preserve, by every means at our command, not only the man-power of our own nation, but the man-power of the world.
FRANK D. BALDWIN,
Adjutant General of Colorado.
Major General, U. S. A. (Retired).
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