I am glad you asked the question because it is only fair to Secretary Adams that such rumors should be cleared up.

I think we need a reunderstanding of what background consists of--it is the desire on my part to help the correspondents with the facts about various things on which I do not desire to be quoted.

I welcome it and will go to the American people on the question of whether the departments have the right to dictate to the American people what they shall expend.

The problem of reducing Government expenditures is a difficult one and affects great numbers of people.

This refuge shall be known as the Locomotive Springs Migratory Bird Refuge.

There is absolutely no truth to it.

We have heard nothing of it.

Such things do not happen in sound government.

That is not at all a nice question to ask, but there is nothing of the kind and has been no thought of such a thing.

I propose to attend the baseball game in Philadelphia next Monday and will welcome all the press support on that occasion that you feel you can give.

It is hereby ordered that lots 1, 2, 3, 4, SE. ¼ NW. ¼ and NE. ¼ SW. ¼ sec. 18, T. 14 N., R. 2 W., Gila and Salt River meridian, containing 238.08 acres, be temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, except as…

Please present my greetings to those assembled for the annual Regional Conference of the American Red Cross at Fort Monmouth.

The main interest in this table is the fact that it discloses how largely these bills arise from pressures of group and sectional interests.

This is a time when the other organizations of the country should realize that this is not an occasion for the increase but rather for the decrease of Federal expenditure.

It is important that there should be a great effort on the part of such organizations to discourage every form of increased Federal expenditure and to themselves withhold projects, even though meritorious, until sometime when the country…

For some background and perhaps amusement, I was interested in a proposal to revive the Council of National Defense as a service in the present situation.

We certainly get enough advice and little enough action in these days.

The American Legion has set an example to other voluntary bodies in the country in its determination to make no demands on the next Congress.