New Britain herald., 1929-09-30

Discussing the failure of the na- tional hospital bill, the report point ed out that more than 52,00O World War veterans are receiving con- pensation for neuro- -psychiatric dis ability. We are told by experts, it added, that the peak of tn" neuro- -psychiatric load will not be reached until 1947.
 "The month old report of the act irg medical director of the veterans bureau contains the information that POSTS ex-scrvice men are hos pitalized for mental illness and that of these 7,217 have been hospitaliz- ed without authorization of tn" bureau in state, county, city and private institutions.
 Many Await Treatment
 "Our survey shows, on Aug. 1st that 2,243 neuro- psychiatric veter- ans. aside from those in non gov crnmental institutions are awaiting hospitalization today. The conclu- sion is obvious. The hospital facili- ties of the government are not adc- quate
 T believe 1t to be the duty of this convention to take determin- ed stand on these matters and pr,'- pare to carry the fight for adequat2 disqualification to a successful coh- clusion."
 No one is more sincere be- licver in peace than the man wlIo has known, personally, the horrors of war, declared General Peyton '. March, former chief of staff of the army, in an address at the opening session. We all rejoice in the signing of the Kellogg treaties re- nouncing war as an instrument of national policy but it would be foolish to imagine that wars wer2 abolished by those treaties.
 War Not Impossible The address characterized as particularly unfortunatc' the pro p2Ganda now prevalent that war has been made impossible by modern 1 inventions,' and added nothing could be further from the fact.
 And nothing could be more dan gerous than for the nation to be i lullcd into false sense of security 1 by such talk as this. We need, and i always will need. an army and a navy of d suitable strength for na- tional defcnse.'
 Another speaker on today's pro- national president of the American Rnrnn EHial- Ir | Legion auxiliary, who brought greet ;ngs from 330.000 members of her ! organization. Her prepared address said the auxiliary had been denOunc- ! ed 2S q militaristic organization be- cause of it's firm stand for the main- l tcnancc of the CoUntrys defense.
 Nothing More Absurd
 "Nothing could be more absurd than this charge it was added
 We have seen our men march away to the most terrible war in ! History and We have a clearer under standing of what war means than any other group of women in America. We will not let our love of peace blind us to the fact that
  Lcen banished from the world"
 Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, a native Kcntuckian, also brought tc the convention plea for parity in naval strength. His text, he said was faith, hope and parity and the "greatcst of these is parity" "Thc United States needs at all timcs,' h!s address said, "an ade- quate navy during peace and in time of war, equal in strength and ir every other particular and on a par ity with that of any other natior on earth.
 There is little or no use in hay. ing an inferior navy; one not quite strong enough. The Germans spen hundreds of millions of dollars 1T creating fleet about so per cen IS strong as that of Great Britain When it came to showdown dur ing the World war it did not giv, Germany even 50 per cent protec tlon."
 Tt gave little or practically none Hence she reverted to submarin, warfare"
 The admiral said that one migh as well expect a lame mule to win the Kentucky derby as coun try with a second best navy to vii a war"