No man except the man in the field knows better than I do that you have been circularized and regulated and instructed and uninstructed, informed and misinformed, ordered and dis-ordered, until I have no doubt you have been tempted to slam your fist down on your desk and say, “Well, for Heaven’s sake, how many bosses have I, anyway, and which lead had I better follow.” And as for reports, no doubt you have wondered, “Well, what _will_ they want to know next?” And yet there has generally been a fairly good reason for every question you have been asked and a reasonably intelligent, honest, and often an enthusiastic, and sometimes an efficient man or woman behind the interrogation point. In addition to having all these things done to you, I suspect that you and your colleagues in the hospitals, some of you at least, feel that you have been libelled and slandered by newspapers whose editors thought they were telling the truth, and by newspapers whose editors probably did not stop to consider whether they were telling the truth or not. You probably feel that you have been libelled and slandered, unintentionally of course, by men inside of legislative halls, and also, again perhaps unintentionally, if carelessly, by men and women outside of legislative halls, and by men and women both inside and outside of well-meaning civic organizations. And, I may say that in the Arlington Building in this city there are reams of evidence which might be cited in support of your beliefs, and at “C” Building at 7th and B Streets, there are tri-remes of such evidence, and these reams and tri-remes of evidence have cost the Government of the United States thousands, tens of thousands, yes, hundreds of thousands of dollars for investigations, when, as a matter of fact, the majority of the complaints that have been filed against hospital administration need never have been investigated by the Government at all if the individual who submitted the complaint had taken the trouble to do a little honest investigating on his or her own account. The fact that these statements have been made with the best intentions in the world does not lessen the injustice contained in many of the charges, nor does it remove the sting which has accompanied these charges, and you, gentlemen, have listened to the soft pedal on the inside and to jazz on the outside until you have probably said, “For the love of justice, is there not some man who has grit enough to get up in public and tell the truth and say what he thinks?”