NO, that is for every department to work out itself.

I haven't any specific plan for the reduction of personnel in the clerical forces of the District of Columbia.

Well, I want constant effort in that direction, a constant checking up by the department to see whether they have any more employees than is necessary to carry on the work of the department.

It is with a good deal of difficulty that they are discharged.

Whoever disagrees with this judgment must take the chance of marking himself as ignorant of conditions which notoriously affected our public life, thoughts and methods, even within the memory of many men who are still among us.

The American newspapers serve a double purpose.

Under a free government it must be the very reverse.

The relationship between governments and the press has always been recognized as a matter of large importance.

It has always been realized, sometimes instinctively, oftentimes expressly, that truth and freedom are inseparable.

No doubt every generation feels that its problems are the most intricate and baffling that have ever been presented for solution.

An absolutism could never rest upon anything save a perverted and distorted view of human relationships and upon false standards set up and maintained by force.

The news giving function of a newspaper cannot possibly require that it give a photographic presentation of everything that happens in the community.

It has thrived on ignorance.

The chief business of the American people is business.

The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

It is in this direction that the public press can lend its strongest support to our Government.

Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.

Business policies must not be affected by editorial programs.