Woodrow Wilson: “The necessity for such legislation is manifest and pressing.”

Three and a half million children are facing starvation in Central Europe.

I think, therefore, that the bill should not become law and that the tract should be made a Federal bird reservation for the protection of the birds which now frequent the lands.

I do not believe that they should be accorded indirectly.

A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken may appear somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termination of my administration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that…