The census is vital to the progress and determination of many social policies.

It is well that the American people know the census is confidential.

In fact, it is the great stocktaking of American progress.

It is well to have a confidential census taken by the Government to enumerate the people.

Yes--we will follow the recommendations as the basis of our Haiti policies.

ON THIS anniversary of Your Majesty's birth please accept my hearty congratulations and best wishes for your health and happiness and for the continued prosperity of Your Majesty's country.

Idaho BOISE MERIDIAN PATETTE RIVER...

There appears to be a good deal of misimpression through the United States as to the situation there in respect to some proposal of a consultative pact.

This Conference is not over with by any manner or means, and I am very confident that constructive results of some order will come out of it.

The suggestions that have been hitherto made do not carry anything in the nature of military guarantees, and anything short of military guarantees are of no interest to the governments negotiating in London.

H. Charles Spruks may be appointed to a classified position in the Department of State without compliance with the civil service rules.

There seems to be a sort of illusion that we have demands made upon us for pacts of this character, and we have none.

This order is recommended by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Mrs. Mabel P. Hollister, widow of Mr. Ned Hollister, an eminent zoologist and assistant curator and superintendent of the National Zoological Park, who was in the service of the Smithsonian Institution from January 3, 1910, until his death…

They are not exchangeable into naval tonnage.

The character of the consultative pact which they have suggested, that is, from outside sources, does not interest any of the governments sitting in that Conference.

It would not secure the reduction of one single ton--any of the pacts that have been suggested.

Mrs. Hollister has passed the civil service examinations for stenographer and typist and translator, Spanish and French.