I have just learned that on May 29th you will celebrate your one hundredth birthday.

The Commission will determine that. I cannot forecast how they will do their work.

I would like to have you get it accurately.

This refuge shall be known as the Fort Keogh Bird Refuge.

I think that is all I have got on my mind.

The Tacna-Arica dispute has been settled.

Horace Paul Bestor, who has been duly appointed a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board, is hereby designated Farm Loan Commissioner of said Board until otherwise directed.

Expeditious, regular settlement of business controversies within industry itself, by its own experts, is fundamental, but machinery is needed to make it effective.

Any order of payment of money, and interest, which may be executed by said officials shall constitute a ratification of all previous orders or acts, by virtue of which the funds in the possession of the Treasurer of the United States have been placed to the credit of the particular trusts on which such orders are drawn.

I hereby vest in the Alien Property Custodian, and in the event of his death, resignation, absence or disability, in the General Counsel, and in the event of his death, resignation, absence or disability during his period of authority, then in the Managing Director of the Office of the Alien Property Custodian, all power and authority conferred upon me by the provisions of the Act approved October 6, 1917, known as the 'Trading with the Enemy Act', as amended, pertaining to the deposit, transfer, and payment of moneys, and interest which may have accrued thereon, which may be or have been deposited with the Treasurer of the United States, and to release and deliver property held under and by virtue of said Acts.

I have no plans for the summer, and shall make none until the situation becomes somewhat clearer.

Mrs. Marie Crossette may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Commerce without regard to the civil-service rules.

I hereby revoke all former orders in conflict herewith.

I propose to promulgate the tariff increases which were recently recommended by the majority of the Tariff Commission on linseed, milk, cream, and window glass.

There is, therefore, no reason for determining further steps until that examination is further advanced.

I have no speaking engagements in the near future except the usual Memorial Day exercises at Arlington.

I have appointed Major General Patrick, retired, a member of the District [of Columbia] Public Utilities Commission.

The American Arbitration Association provides a practical mechanism through which the method can be applied.