I earnestly request that, as a Nation and as individual citizens, we dedicate ourselves during that week to waging a year-round campaign against the menace of fire.

Unquestionably this is a most important means of attacking fire waste.

This may well be the starting point for a continuous fire prevention program extending over the entire country.

The nation's constantly increasing fire waste is cause for general concern and consideration.

If every individual will adopt and practice the simple precautionary measures advocated as fire prevention safeguards, fire hazards and their consequences will be materially reduced.

Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, recommend that the week beginning Sunday, October 3, be observed through the country as Fire Prevention Week.

The public safety does require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Missouri be repaired, extended, and completed.

He was arrested and imprisoned under my general authority, and upon evidence which, whether he be guilty, or innocent, required, as appears to me, such proceedings to be had against him for the public safety.

I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to threaten the public peace.