affair of merely rearranging tangible elements, such as food, money and clothes: It is by example, by encouragement to make an effort to overcome helplessness, an explanation of the reasons for necessary treatment and restrictions, that the nurse will succeed in helping to replace quiescent dependence with the unsleeping desire and motive of service as active citizens. More and more it is recognized that we must look to education to destroy irrational suspicion and to restore to health and sanity. The Public Health Nursing Service has been established a comparatively short time and yet under the Surgeons General of that Service and due in a great measure to the indefatigable efforts of the present superintendent and because of the high professional standard she has always maintained, more qualified nurses are attached to this Service at the present time than in the combined older services of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps. Having procured these nurses who, for the most part, it is believed, accept the additional responsibilities which the care of such patients involve, every effort that is made to retain them is worth while; since their value increases with length of service. From an economic viewpoint, if for no other reason, efforts should be made to give these nurses adequate payment for trained service; to provide living conditions which they require as educated and refined women; to recognize that rest and recreation are necessary if the physical standards and morale are to be maintained; to acknowledge their professional status and to give recognition to them as co-workers with the medical profession. With these requirements satisfactorily adjusted by those who have the power of formulating the necessary rules and regulations, the work of the nurses who care for the maimed bodies and sick minds of the patients of the Veterans’ Bureau will be productive of even greater beneficent results than have already been obtained;—for such nurses seek to maintain the fabric of the world; and in the result of their unselfish efforts is their prayer.” MISS LUCY MINNIGERODE, Superintendent of Nurses, U.S.P.H.S., gave a further discussion of “Nursing”, as follows: “Major Stimson has placed before you some of the most urgent problems and difficulties existing in the Nursery Service of Public Health Service hospitals dealing with the ex-service men. The difficulties of the problem can be realized and understood only by those who are in close association with the Services, and that the Nursing Department of the Public Health Service has been able to accomplish even a measure of success has been in a large manner due to the co-operation, counsel and advice given by the Superintendents of the established Nurse Corps of the Government.