The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-11

compensation, emergency officers retirement, pensions, disability all lowances, medical aid and hospital ization, and rehabilitation, its func- tions involve considerations of al- most irconceivable diversity, and de- mand a servee of personnel without counterpart in modern affairs
 In addition to le Central Office in Washington, the Veterans Ad- ministration maintains branch of fees in each State of the Union, the District of Columbia, Porto Rico, and the Philippines; operates widely dis tributed hospitals, Soldiers Homes Diagnostic Centers, and several sup ply depots. I am sure that the fig ures for the month of October for your Facility at Newington will be O. great interest to 70
 Present total bed capacity, S39; present numbers of Faculty build ings, le; number of patients admit ted since opening 5-l4-3' to l0-3l- 43, 25,l23; number of patients dis charged during the same period, 24,82l; census of patients in hospital on l0-3l-43. 292; number of World II patients remaining in hospital To- 31-43, 75; number of compensation and pension claims on file 10-3l- -43, ll038; number of active compensa- ton and pension claims 10-3l-43, e,438: total payments made during October l9&3 at this station. $325,- 591. .62; government wards: 1,03l composed of veteran incomp stents 594 minors 368 veterans dependents 51. Total claims filed to date for World War No. 2, l,76s, total claims World War No. 2 adjudicated to date BOA, No. permanent and total cases World War No. 2, puhlic 257, II; pub lie 359, 43; No. cases certified as eligible for rehabilitation trainng, l9i.
 War cost money und sorrow and desolation but to all the Mothers in the world they 2 e the final heartbreak. It is fitting that on this Armistice Day we pay tribute to the worlds Mothers whose hearts are now overflowing with grief. We call them Gold Star Mothers. T'hi5 is a deserved tribute to the worthy mothers of men, bearing the sacred insignia of devotion to home and country--the emblem of the Gold Star--which typifies that these mothers have mace the sacrifice, for they have given to God an country noble son, who made the supreme sacrifice, that this nation of ours would not perish from the earth. Naturally there is a very intimate ard close spiritual bond between all living veterans and the Gold Star Mothers. That bond was formed and tempered during pc: ..ous days on battlefields when those boys you mothers loved we1N comrades. Mem- ory of them is forever, inseparable. Your memory of them, perhaps, mingles with the years, when you buttoned up each little coat and sent them out to play or to school You looked but to their needs. You planned and dreamed about their future. Your sacrifice has been SC unselfish, so heart-breaking and SC complete. Your contribution to our country SO far transcends all others ours, in comparison, looks common place. We pray that God. and time. may heal the wounds of parting. dry your tears and soothe your aching hearts, in which there is always en- sllrined your loved one.
 IT. closing. let me state, in the words of William Channing, that the great duty Of Gods children is to love che another. This duty on earth takes the name and fern of the law of humanity. We are to recognize all men as brethren, no matter where born or under what sky or institution or religion they may live. Evey man belongs to the race and owes a duty to mankind. Every nation belongs to the family oi na- lions and is to desire the good Of all. The law of humanity must reign over the assertion of all human riphtS