The U. S. Veterans’ Bureau when viewed from its huge task of running an insurance company with over three and one-half billions of insurance in force, of making payments on 149,000 insurance claims each month, making payment on 204,000 compensation claims each month, with approximately 29,000 ex-service men and women undergoing hospitalization, and having caused to be made over 1,000,000 medical examinations and responsible for 104,000 disabled ex-service men undergoing vocational training, representing a task which calls for the closest cooperation and assistance from every department of the government and only by having the closest cooperation possible will the government, through the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, be able to discharge its obligations to the host of disabled ex-service men and women of this country. The Bureau has always enjoyed the fullest cooperation from the various departments of the government and knows that the same cooperation will be extended with unstinted measure in the future, to the end that every pledge will be redeemed concerning the care and treatment of the defenders of this Republic, and to the end that this administration will go down in history as an administration that did not forget its sick and wounded soldiers, and brought peace and contentment to every fireside where assistance on the part of the government was requested and was due.” COLONEL JAMES A. MATTISON, N. H. D. V. S, gave the following discussion of “Economy of Administration in U. S. Veterans’ Hospitals”: “The subject is so broad that we can only consider certain phases of it within the time allotted for this paper. We all recognize that there are certain fundamental essentials which must of necessity be provided in every hospital regardless of the number of patients cared for. This necessarily means that overhead expenses of an institution hospitalizing small numbers of patients will be out of proportion to those of a hospital caring for a large number. The general business management, the purchasing of supplies and equipment, the conservation and dispensing of the same, the elimination of waste, etc,. will be considered only casually for the purpose of emphasizing the importance of adhering as closely to strict business methods as is done in the case of every successful business man, whether he be a hospital executive, a merchant, or a man in any other line of business.