Labor has cooperated in prevention of conflict in giving greater effort and consequently in reducing unit costs.

The business depression is the dominant subject before the country and the world today.

Depressions are not new experiences, though none has hitherto been so widespread.

The scenery, the homes of West Virginia are always inspiring.

Surplus money does not remain idle for long.

It is again a gracious proof of the hospitality of the people of West Virginia.

It is a fine welcome to the State of Indiana.

This important Federal project is now nearing the stage of completion.

MRS. HOOVER and I want to express our appreciation for this beautiful greeting.

It is most kind of you to come to the station to greet Mrs. Hoover and me this morning.

All one can say in response to greetings of so warm and cordial a character is wholly inadequate.

It is a greeting so warm and so generous that it is difficult to find terms in which to respond.

Without organized political parties, striving to serve the best interests of the American people, we would descend into political anarchy and be torn into political factions representing selfish, sectional, and group minorities.

The editor in an American community has a most serious responsibility today.

The underlying forces of recovery are asserting themselves.

I AM SADDENED to learn of the death of your husband Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings and extend my deep sympathy to you.

Dr. Giddings' career as an educator and author was an unusually fruitful one, and his thinking has made a permanent and significant contribution to the science of sociology.

Mrs. Helen Terrill Mays may be appointed to a clerical position in the classified service of the Treasury Department without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules.