Herbert Hoover: “I am shocked and grieved at the death of my friend, your father, Representative Stephen G. Porter, and I offer you my…”

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.

We must make headway against the mutual fear and friction arising out of war armament which kill human confidence throughout the world.

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'