Herbert Hoover

The showing of news pictures throughout the country cannot but be educational and instructive.

PLEASE ACCEPT for yourself and express to the Convention my deep appreciation of your heartening and encouraging message.

I am at one with the whole Nation in mourning the loss of your father, David Belasco, whose genius brought so much of pleasure to so many thousands.

I am grateful for your prayers

I believe it would be desirable now to more positively define the limitation of all leases by the Bureau of Forests except for pulp purposes in Alaska, to occasions when a sum of not more than $500 is involved and to cases where some…

I have secured from the Acting Secretary of Labor a statement as to the movement of immigration during the last 3 months that I thought might be of some interest to you.

I have given a renewed direction to the Secretary narrowing it even further than that which we had previously put into force so as to practically cease the use of the national forests except where leases are already extant.

You will recollect that last autumn I gave the direction that all immigrants who might in our present unemployment situation become public charges should be refused visas.

The holding of auctions of private effects in or upon Government premises is strictly forbidden

The Secretary of State shall decide all matters relating to the maintenance and due preservation of property and to the expenditure of moneys appropriated by Congress

The only reason I am moved to make these exceptions is that we should not deprive farmers and small industries of wood supply and should not create local unemployment by inconsiderate action.

Furniture or other Government property is not, without the written sanction of the Department of State, to be removed from apartments furnished at Government expense

I suggested to the Secretary of Agriculture that the Bureau of Forests would contribute both to national conservation and at the same time to the commercial situation in the wood industries, if they would make no more important leases or…

Officers are to use all reasonable precautions against fire

In view of the manifest over-production of wood products, it seems to me it would be of assistance both to the commercial situation and to the real conservation of our forests, if the Department of Agriculture would still further…

I have appointed Mr. Harvey H. Bundy, of Boston, as Assistant Secretary of State, to the vacancy created by the promotion of Under Secretary [William R.] Castle.

On recommendation of the head of a department or independent establishment and with the approval of the Civil Service Commission, any employee of such executive department or independent establishment in the Philippine Islands who on the…

Such an employee who has served continuously since March 1, 1904, may be given a classified status without examination.

His vivid personality will be deeply missed by the whole country.

Otherwise than that I have nothing.

I am much gratified with the conduct of the survey of the route for an Interoceanic canal across the Republic of Nicaragua which the Army Engineer Battalion is bringing to a successful conclusion.

I should be pleased to have you convey to these troops my appreciation of their devoted service.

It has been one of the great satisfactions of my tenure of the Presidency that it has given opportunity for this Administration in many ways to show its deep sympathy with and interest in the well being of our sister republics.

Naturally my first interest is in my great predecessor, whose enunciation of the Monroe Doctrine was conceived in the friendliest spirit toward the struggling republics of Latin America and which has formed the firm foundation upon which…

I EXTEND my hearty congratulations to Your Excellency and your fellow countrymen on this anniversary of Paraguayan independence.