Herbert Hoover

This will be the first national conference held in review of this subject since the conference called by President Roosevelt in 1909.

I have decided to call a White House conference on the health and protection of children.

It is not the purpose of such efforts to invade or relieve the responsibilities of parents but to advance those activities in care and protection of children which are beyond the control of the individual parent.

Please say for me to the members of the Zionist Organization of America, gathered in annual convention at Detroit on June 30th, that I pray their deliberations may be, as always, richly fruitful in that spiritual wisdom for which the…

The road to world peace is through a maze of all the tangled complexities of human nature, and may be traversed only by dealing with them in a practical spirit and with much patience.

Mrs. Edna May may be appointed as an Operative in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without compliance with the requirements of the civil service rules.

Nevertheless, all men of good-will must press steadily toward that goal if civilization is to survive.

Mrs. Ida A. Coffey may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Commerce without reference to the provisions of the civil service rules.

In this forward march of the human spirit, poets lead the way with their visions of the ideal, and therefore you do well, in your memorial to Robert Burns, to stress his aspiration toward the time when 'Man to Man, the world o'er, shall…

On this second anniversary of your transatlantic flight to France, I wish personally and upon behalf of the Nation to congratulate you and your gallant comrades upon that triumph of courage and skill over the resisting forces of Nature…

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

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

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…

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

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 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.

That is all I am able to deal with today.

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

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.

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

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.