If every individual will adopt and practice the simple precautionary measures advocated as fire prevention safeguards, fire hazards and their consequences will be materially reduced.

While efforts should be made constantly to reduce fire destruction to a minimum, in pursuance of a well established precedent, one week is set aside each year during which the urgent need of preventing fires is forcibly stressed.

The nation's constantly increasing fire waste is cause for general concern and consideration.

Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, recommend that the week beginning Sunday, October 3, be observed through the country as Fire Prevention Week.

All violations of such provisions will be rigorously prosecuted.

I have found that there exists in Nicaragua such conditions of domestic violence which are or may be promoted by the use of arms or munitions of war procured from the United States.

I suppose I am the healthiest President that they ever had.

I am very much gratified to know that.

Now, I don't regard, as you men know, that it is at all necessary for the President to give out a verbatim statement of everything that may be discussed here, but rather to leave it to the different reporters, because they are reporters…

I am sure that the outdoor life has refreshed me, invigorated me, and been very beneficial.

I think you have done rather better than I could have done, if I had undertaken to sit down twice a week and dictated a statement to be given out.

Well, you can't generalize about that.

There isn't any information about that that hasn't already been made public.

Our citizens down there have been murdered in the past since 1913, a good many of them.

On the domestic difficulty that they are having there, over the religious question, which is a religious question touching all denominations alike as I understand it, though it is referred to more particularly as a Catholic question…

But I think generally speaking over practically the whole of Mexico there is a very good condition of order.

I am hoping to hold it about where it is. Perhaps we can make a little reduction here and there.

There isn't much that can be done in the matter of reducing the personnel, but I have to stress that question some all the time, otherwise there is a tendency to load up the service with un-necessary personnel.