We are anxious indeed that you should get from this meeting inspiration for better work and encouragement in the efforts that you are putting forth, new ideas with which to meet the great and everchanging propositions which are before you, closer touch with those who, like yourselves, are interested in the World War defenders. This accomplished and each of us will have benefited and the expense of time and money in your coming here will be justified. Your contact here should make you bigger and broader men. If you will take out of the great opportunities that are presented in the privileges of this meeting, the effects which may be obtained, we are sure that you will go back to your respective fields of service better satisfied, more capable and certainly more determined than ever to render the best service there is within you under all circumstances and conditions. It seems pertinent that I should impress upon you at this time that no matter what kind of institutions the Government may possess, how well equipped with apparatus, or how pleasing in location, without your interest, without the scientific care and attention which you can provide, without your determination and your loyal support and action in all of the affairs pertaining to the conduct of these institutions, they will fail. On the other hand, if you will give them the best within you, if you will keep yourselves professionally and administratively in the vanguard of such affairs, if you will go whole-heartedly, persistently and determinedly forward to the carrying out of the highest ideals your constructive visions can invent, the world War Veteran will realize that in his Government he has the care and appreciation of the best Government under the sun. Allow me to again admonish you that upon you individually and personally rests much of whatever is to come to the present Administration, either in the form of complaint or of eulogy. To the end that it may be eulogy, let there ever abide with you the assurance that the President of the United States and all of his administrative assistants will be with you heart and soul in everything that promotes the interest of the rehabilitation of the World War Veteran. Remember that you owe to your country and to yourselves that you practice economy, that you deal fairly, that you act squarely with all of the propositions which come to you. Do not forget that you should be loyal to the Departments to which you belong, ever obedient to the orders of your Chiefs; that you be faithful, earnest and sincere, honest, conscientious and ever active in behalf of the highest principles connected with the maintenance of the institution with which you are connected and finally that you be ever able to register and substantiate yourselves as American citizens, full of an American spirit, loyal to country and to flag.