Officials of the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department charged with the prevention of smuggling, on urgent matters involving attempts to smuggle merchandise and prohibited articles into the United States.

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

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

I wish to emphasize to the full extent of my ability the necessity, as a fundamental to recovery, the utmost economy of governmental expenditure of all kinds.

Rigid economy is the real road to relief to homeowners, farmers, workers, and every element of the population.

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

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

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

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

Rigid economy is a real road to relief to homeowners, farmers, workers, and every element of our population.

They must be fought continuously, not on one front but upon many fronts.