The time had now arrived for the people themselves to enter into the fight against depression and give full support to the measures taken by government so as to make them completely effective.

I have decided, therefore, to call upon one of our wisest and most experienced public servants to accept a position which will enable him after many years of distinguished public service at home to render equal service to his country in the foreign field.

The first and fundamental obligation of a government is towards its own nationals.

This order, which is recommended by the commission and concurred in by the department, is designed to diminish the number of excepted positions and improve the service, and shall be effective February 1, 1932.

In time of war or public emergency these restrictions shall not apply to vehicles or equipment operated by authority of the Government of the United States

Mrs. Florence C. Brock, widow of Thomas S. Brock who served for over 30 years in and under the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, may be appointed to the position of junior clerk, Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, without reference to the requirements of the civil-service rules.

I have requested General [Charles G.] Dawes to accept the position of President of the new Reconstruction Corporation.

But our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order--national, State, and local.

Our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order-national, State, and local.

The reduction in governmental expenditures and the stability of Government finance is the most fundamental step that we can take to this end.

The developments of the past week should give great assurances to the country.

I shall welcome any further reduction which can be made and still preserve the proper and just functioning of the Federal Government.

Our people must realize that Government cannot continue to live in a depression upon the scale that was possible in times of great prosperity.

We are giving this question our undivided attention.

In the present and what I believe is the final campaign against the depression, I have laid a program before Congress, and I trust we will secure its early adoption.

That is our object.

The Veterans' Administration was a new type of organization in the Government.

Such action would result in the elimination of many expensive agencies and overlap resulting in very great economies.