That matter is in the hands of the Secretary of War, so you will have to ask him.

We will not as I want to wait until the new Director of the Budget comes on the job to learn something of his duties.

I am able to announce the acceptance of three men on the Farm Board.

I have one question that I can't very well answer without making trouble for other people.

I THANK YOU for your message and deeply appreciate the expressions of encouragement and support adopted by the Virginia Republican Convention.

As a matter of some background in connection with the budget for next year, the discussions of which have been going on, the circular sent out did not amplify the situation from the public point of view-purely an interdepartmental circular.

The compact was originally, signed 5 years ago by the seven States subject to ratification by their legislatures.

I signed this morning the Colorado River proclamation, making effective the compact between six of the seven States in the Colorado River Basin.

I have one question asking if I am going to take a summer home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the answer is that I am not.

It expedites the Boulder Canyon development because it clarifies the difficulties which have held up all development, and there is only one point still left open, and that is the relation of Arizona to the compact.

If we are to hold the expenditure down to $3,900 million, or thereabouts, the equivalent of this present fiscal year, it will be necessary to make serious reductions in some other directions, and still enable us to comply with the…

It is the final settlement of disputes that have extended over 25 years and which have estopped the development of the river.

The expenditures for the present fiscal year are estimated to be $3,926 million, and in addition to this expenditure at that rate, as most of the expenditure during the present fiscal year is more or less continuing, would bring the total…

I am in hopes that Arizona and California may compose their mutual problems which have hitherto prevented Arizona from joining in the compact.

That is all I am able to deal with today.

The difficulties over the respective water rights of the different States have served to prevent development in a large way for nearly a quarter of a century.

I cordially share your view that an outstanding opportunity for public service awaits the Realtors in the field of stimulation of home ownership, which is so vitally related to the health, happiness and civic pride of our people.

Though it will be impossible for me to be physically present, I shall share them in spirit, and shall, like you, feel that this monument is dedicated not only to those heroic dead but also to the ideal that such sacrifice as theirs may not…