COL. BRATTON: said that experience had shown him that the Red Cross is a great aid in carrying on relation to the outside world. He told of the situation in Atlanta. When the hospital was established he found it would be necessary to satisfy the people of Atlanta that the wounded boys were being properly taken care of, and was fortunate to secure the services of a first-class man from the Red Cross. The result was that the people became very interested in the work and sent committees with food, also provided pictures two or three times a week and all kinds of entertainment. SURGEON PAYNE stated that one of the greatest difficulties he had experienced had been in sidetracking the people who, though kindly disposed, brought food and all kinds of entertainment which were injurious to the patients. He said he did not believe in any kind of athletics in a hospital, unless under the Physiotherapy Department, neither did he believe in dances in a hospital. He said people would bring in all kinds of food and the patients would eat it before going to mess, and then of course would complain of the hospital food furnished. The greatest benefit from the Red Cross had been the coordination of those activities. COL. BRATTON asked that some of the men who served in General Hospital #6 speak on this subject. SURGEON WILLHITE: stated he had served under Colonel Bratton, and agreed heartily with all he had said. He stated also that in his work in the hospital in Philadelphia the Red Cross had done the finest kind of social service work, coordinating all the agencies that Dr. Payne spoke of as so detrimental to him, and he believed had been a very great benefit rather than a hindrance.