A great many products go into building, and when that industry is flourishing it creates a demand for all kinds of supplies and has a beneficial influence on all kinds of production.

Employment apparently is plentiful.

I think that is a very important consideration.

The reports in relation to business conditions in the country seem to be substantially as they have been for the past months.

It is true that the Congress made a larger cut in taxes than I wanted to have made, because I knew that there would be great pressure for incurring some additional expenditures.

There is no intention, so far as I know, to make any appeal for gifts of Colonial furniture for the White House.

What I am especially solicitous about is the financial and economic condition of the Government.

And having made the larger cut in taxation, I suppose they are prepared to resist the applications for increasing expenditures, especially in consideration of expenditures that call for permanent appropriations.

It is in that direction especially that I want to avoid increases, so far as we can.

I expect it will remain in my possession.

I suppose I shall keep it.

It has always been in the family, ever since.

I am undertaking to provide for it to be carried on as a farm for the next year.

I haven't come to any final conclusion about it.

So far as I can see at the present time, that would hardly be necessary.

I don't think any such invitation has come.

The reservations seem to speak for themselves and I think are quite plain.

I recall that when I was Governor of Massachusetts I signed a bill permitting the playing of baseball on Sunday, not professional baseball and not baseball where any admission is charged.