I sometimes wonder how our country can earn its living so arduously and successfully and at the same time do all the reading that it seems to do.

If the President will allow himself to be quoted as saying that there are 49,200,000 cows in the United States, that appears to be exciting news.

Fishing is the only labor or recreation open to a President in which both the press and the public are prepared to concede privacy.

It never has been and ought not to be the policy of the United States to intervene by force to secure or maintain contracts between our citizens and foreign states or their citizens.

I replied to the committee that I would at once study the draft and would confer with them about it, probably tomorrow.

Ten days ago I made rather a full statement on the purpose of the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament, on which [p.67] Ambassador [Hugh] Gibson represents us.

There is no question on that.

Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section two of the act of Congress entitled, 'An Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities,' approved June 8, 1906…

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy or remove any feature of this Monument and not to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

Someone also has asked what I propose to do on the headwaters of the Rapidan this summer.

You are all aware that I have held that this transfer ought to be made.

As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is as obvious as this need is now in business or the professions.

The need for college graduates in State and National politics is simply the need for trained minds and formed characters that exists in all departments of modern life.

The increasingly complex structure of the society requires more and more of the technical skill and of the cultural background that the colleges undertake to provide.

Mrs. Ida Strong may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Agriculture without regard to the civil service rules.

it is hereby ordered pursuant to public resolution No. 29, of February 14, 1920 (41 Stat. 434), as amended January 21, and December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 358, 1067), that the above described lands, if otherwise subject to disposition, subject…

There may be an exception or two but in the main it applies to all the appointments.

That combination is inhibited by the last Radio Act, and anything in that matter must go to Congress.