There can be no easy or normal industrial credits because there can be no confident or permanent revival of business.

May I mention a few of the matters which cannot be handled with intelligence until the country knows the character of the peace it is to have?

I am absolutely glad that the committee should have responded in this way to my intimation that I would like to be of service to it.

Nothing, I am led to believe, stands in the way of the ratification of the treaty except certain doubts with regard to the meaning and implication of certain articles of the covenant of the league of nations.

The right to withdraw from the league was not expressly recognized.

The Monroe doctrine is expressly mentioned as an understanding which is in no way to be impaired or interfered with by anything contained in the covenant.

Pardon me, Mr. Chairman, if I have been entirely unreserved and plain-spoken in speaking of the great matters we all have so much at heart.

I return this bill, H. R. 3854, 'An Act for the repeal of the daylight-saving law,' without my signature, but do so with the utmost reluctance.

The immediate and pressing need of the country is production, increased and increasing production, in all lines of industry.

He is profited by the prosperity which their success brings about.

I hope that they are considerations which will appeal to the thoughtful judgment of the House and in the long run to the thoughtful judgment of the farmers of the country, who have always shown an admirable public spirit.

These are the considerations which have led me to withhold my signature from this repeal.

I have been obliged to balance one set of disadvantages against another and to venture a judgment as to which were the more serious for the country.

It is to these that the daylight-saving law is of most service.

Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and disarranged than the national life of other peoples.

Where there is no peace of mind there can be no energy in endeavor.

Opinion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest.

Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them.