I do not propose to call an extra session of Congress.

It is the purpose of the association to provide the radio audience with addresses from the leading authorities upon significant developments in the fields of science, arts, and the professions.

We cannot legislate ourselves out of a world of economic depression; we can and will work ourselves out.

It is distinctly a public service that the leaders in thought in our country have banded themselves together to give to the radio audience this opportunity of knowing from those who can speak with authority the progress that we are making…

Clara Barton was in her own person and her own life all that the Red Cross has since become.

It is a living embodiment of their heart and soul.

Supported wholly by the voluntary gifts of the people, it is managed by the voluntary service of high-minded private citizens.

But the greater glory of the Red Cross belongs to the people themselves.

This combination of the warm heart and the cool head in action is a perpetual source of just pride to the American people, for it represents them at their best.

It is as truly theirs as the flag or the public school.

By its very purpose it compels the respect for its own flag and its own passports.

THE RED CROSS is one of the most beautiful flowers of the American spirit and the American democracy.

Through the loftiest of all spiritual qualities--charity--it has become the guardian of the people from suffering in times of disaster.

The 50 years of the life of the Red Cross, which the American people celebrate today, have been years of evolution of an impulse and an idea and a method to produce this greatest institution in alleviation of human suffering that we have…

A woman founded the Red Cross and a woman has enlarged its usefulness.

It represents our people in their most generous, unselfish, and spontaneously warmhearted character.

Mrs. Amy Cowing may be appointed as a clerk-typist in the Department of Agriculture without reference to the provisions of the civil-service rules.

The showing of news pictures throughout the country cannot but be educational and instructive.