Now what I want to ask you gentlemen, and I am talking to you now as experts, as men who are in the field in charge of hospitals, in a position to see this Question from every angle,—what can you do now that will help the situation. This is what I want to bring to your attention: that is, that each and every one of you, through your proper officers, communicate freely and from time to time what you believe ought to be done to strengthen and improve this service; and then, these suggestions coming from every part of the country and all of those different institutions and services will be concentrated and ultimately have consideration by the Federal Board of Hospitalization, and a regulation will be prepared where needed and necessary legislation will be suggested to Congress in the interest of better caring for and administering these different hospitals throughout the United States. My opinion, gentlemen, is this: that when a man goes into a hospital he is presumed to be ill and should be governed by such regulations and by such control as will best enable him to recover from his disability at the earliest practicable time; and if he ought to have considerable money and if he ought to be permitted to go his way, let him go; but if, on the contrary, he should be required to live within certain reasonable discipline as to his personal conduct, if he should be limited in the amount of money that he should have to spend as he desires he should be limited by you, who are expert and who have no possible thing in mind except the welfare of these men. Now don’t get the impression that you can get all the legislation that you think perhaps you ought to have. I am not going to speak of the Congress as constituted now, because a person in the administrative side of the Government and in a bureau is not supposed to talk about the Congress and so I am not going to say anything about the present Congress; but up to about six years ago and for a period of many years, I happen to know that there were men in Congress that don’t measure up to what my friend, Mr. Madden, said a member of Congress ought to be. There used to be members of Congress who kept their ears very close to the ground listening constantly for any criticism, for any comment on any part of the Government service, perhaps through a magazine or newspaper; and they rose on the floor in their might to denounce some policy or administrative action on the part of the Government simply because they lacked the courage of their convictions. Mr. Madden does not come within that class of members of Congress. He is a man who has always been known to have the courage of his convictions. Perhaps the entire body is now made up of that type of members, but such was not the case up to 1915.