Every progress in constructive recreation for leisure time not only improves health but also morals.
If your officers had yielded on this occasion the Red Cross would have been rendered impotent in the face of every future national emergency...
It is hereby directed that Capt Washington C. McCoy, master of the U.S.M.V.Kilkenny, Bureau of Navigation, be placed in the classified servi...
You are inscribing another bright chapter in the history of the American Red Cross.
The very spirit that makes the Red Cross possible assures it a probity and devotion in service which no government can ever attain.
You have, under most difficult handicaps, again demonstrated that it can meet and relieve human suffering in any national disaster.
The whole recreational movement is one not only vital to public health but it is vital to public welfare.
A voluntary deed by a man impressed with the sense of responsibility and brotherhood of man is infinitely more precious to our national idea...
I wish to express to you the most profound admiration that I hold for the work of the Association and to extend to you my best wishes for it...
It has taken a most significant and a magnificent part in the whole recreational development of the country.
Their loyalty to American institutions and ideals is an earnest of continued service of country.