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There must be extension of federal prisons with more adequate parole system and other modern treatment of prisoners.

The overcrowding of the prisons themselves is inhumane and accentuates criminal tendencies.

We are in need of vigorous reorganization of the Border Patrol in order to consolidate various agencies so as effectually to prevent illegal entry of both aliens and goods.

I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of action upon all these recommendations before adjournment.

There should be a transfer of the functions of detection and prosecution of prohibition cases from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, and thus an ending of divided responsibility and effort.

I wish you every success in your program for National Boys' Week.

It must, as I have said, be accomplished by creating a deliberate mosaic of constant action which carries conviction.

The United States, devoted to peace, will make its own political policies.

We know there is neither financial, territorial, nor military imperialism in the American heart.

I am merely saying that science and initiative of our people cure many national headaches.

I am strongly of the belief that during the period when the scientist must labor in his laboratory inventing relief the Government must have restraint against excessive sin.

With their sisters, the boys hold in their hands the most precious hopes of the future of our country.

Universally the emotions and horrors of the night have a way of dissipating with the sunrise.

Theirs is a noble heritage and I have every faith that they will add to its priceless worth.

One's taste for Roquefort cheese can be permanently destroyed by a microscope.

Thereby, we have inaugurated one of the greatest economic experiments in history on a basis of nationwide cooperation, not of charity.

Their health, their education and their high ideals will determine the quality of American civilization a generation hence.