I have asked Secretary Mellon, if consistent with his plans, also to attend in order that we may have the benefit of his advice as well.

Above all yours is a mission of exemplifying the standards of individual conduct which are the basis of national character.

A better world is the mission of youth and it is your mission.

FROM EVERY State in the United States, from every province of the Dominion of Canada, from Mexico, and from a score of countries beyond the seas you have assembled in San Francisco to celebrate the golden anniversary of the International…

It is an appreciated privilege, in behalf of the Nation, to greet the delegates from our own land and other lands to the convention of the World's Christian Endeavor Union at the 50th milepost of this dynamic movement.

It is significant not only to you, but to the whole Nation by reason of your past services and your potentialities for even greater usefulness in the future.

Despite differences of language, tradition, and custom, the youth of the world have found in the organization a common ground for spiritual training and service to their church, community, and country.

From an humble beginning in Portland, Maine, in 1881, the Christian Endeavor movement has become a world force for the promotion of spiritual advancement among our people.

I congratulate you on the achievements of a half century of practical idealism.

You have before you even higher privileges and opportunities to serve with the vigor, courage, and idealism of youth in the solution of myriads of problems of the future.

As has already been announced, Secretary Stimson will attend the Conference in London which has been called by the British Government for Monday to consider the present emergency problems in Central Europe.

It is our understanding that the Conference is limited entirely to questions of the present emergency.

The 50th anniversary of the International Christian Endeavor Societies is a notable moment in your history.

THE PRESIDENT suggested in his message to Congress on Muscle Shoals that the States of Alabama and Tennessee, being primarily concerned, should appoint representatives, together with representatives from agriculture and the War Department…

The general tendency in all of these situations is to rather overexaggerate them.

Now, the reparations postponement has in our view taken the most dangerous strain off the whole situation.

Time always helps in these things, and there is no occasion for any exaggerated anxiety about it.

The measures that have been taken by the German Government yesterday and today are very strong and courageous measures, and should go a long ways to get that sort of mob psychology laid and to regularize that position.