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Show RARDIIilG FAVORS HOSPITAL DAY MOVEMENT President Says Veterans9 Institutions In-stitutions to Serve AH People Later . CHICAGO. HI.. April 14. In provld- I Ing for thf rare and treatment of former for-mer tiervhe mfn. the 1 nlted Htate In esiaMiAhing hospit.il facilities which latnr cHti be ud fr the benefit of the people of the country, according j to a letter from President Harding Just receded hy Matthew O. Foley.) executive secretary of the national hoepltal day committee. , President Harding indorsed the observance ob-servance of nat ional hospital day. May 1 1". and commended the movement move-ment sponsored by huspltala of the country to acquaint the people with the purpose and scope of hospital service. serv-ice. More than 4000 hmoitsls are enlisted en-listed In this movement, and have planned progrsma for national hs- pital day. including "open house' for the community, graduation of nurses. I and exhibition of X-ray. dietary. o - j tupattunal therapy and other depart- I menlo t j "I waw jpiered to learn that you are Joing to rcltrit i.atlonul hospital I ar aifrtm this year on May 12. the I i annfvernary of the birthday of Florence ! I Night It: trii le." the president wrote. I feH that It Is particularly worth, while to continue this observance at present, hec.iuse of some things which hne lately come to my attention with rcard to hospital and hospital aerv- J c. both in this country and abroad. Amerba has led the world by a long way in the development and maintenance main-tenance of modern bospltala, and In thin regard our facilities are far superior su-perior to those of any other community commu-nity Yet, by reason of the extraordinary extraor-dinary demands for care of the disabled dis-abled men of the World war, we are a long way from adequate equipment I havf ffn told that In aome of t he Furopei r. count r1es. where a very l-ira hospital ests hltshmorit was created cre-ated to niffi the reji iremep's of the war, it has now proven almost impossible impos-sible to oMat in t h necesss ry endow-nient endow-nient funds ard conuimnity interest In thse Institutions, to k-ep thm dnlng the grat humane work which should be carried on hv them, whether In viir or in j.-ace time. "For myself, I hsve felt that In establishing es-tablishing the grat hospital facilities which are needed for the eoldfera me will be providing ourselves with a tinue after the soldiers have be-n f properly cared for and ltschargel. I Whn that time comet I trust mays will be fourd to have theae establishments establish-ments utilized for the general Interest Inter-est of the romm unity, through local associations similar to those that maintain so larg a proportion of hos-plri!s hos-plri!s all over the cunirv ne of the finest and most humane producfa of our r luxation Is th modern hospital, and every sctlvitv wh-h alma to mir f;a advantaxes to an incressina: number of people deserves de-serves all possible enrourssrement " lHSt yitr. followt: g the Indorse ment of President -llerdlne1. hospitals In everv state and tb r:srlct of Columbia held a nutlonal hospital day proersm. In wh!rh thev were Joined bv hundred a of ("anx'itan hospitals. This yeay hospitals of I n gland and Australia have Indicate. 1 their Interest ani a number In e.t' lt of thess cvuu tries will observe tu |