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Subject to the conditions therein expressed and to valid existing rights, and to the provisions of existing power and reclamation withdrawals.

The following-described lands, which are principally valuable for the production of timber, can best be administered by the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 13 of the act of June 28, 1934, it is ordered that the following-described lands now within the Fremont National Forest... be, and they are hereby, placed under the administration of the…

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of March 26, 1934, 48 Stat. 466 (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 118c), the list of basic rates of exchange established by section 4 of Executive Order No. 7972 of September 15, 1938, as amended…

Not all of it, because I think we are beginning more and more, every day, to be more realistic in regard to the existing situation.

It is essential that an equitable and uniform practice be followed in applying provisions of the Selective Service and Training Act to officers and employees in the Federal service.

I hereby exempt the said August G. Ahlfont from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending March 31, 1943.

It is far from clear that the requirements of this legislation would not in many instances be unnecessary, inappropriate, and onerous in respect to the representatives of friendly Nations.

I extend to you across land and sea the hand of comradeship for the common good.

I do hereby designate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Day.

I hereby order into the active military service of the United States.

The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to issue a citation in the name of the President of the United States, as public evidence of deserved honor and distinction.

I call upon the people in each of our communities to contribute to the conservation of child health and the reduction of illness among children.

Before May Day, Child Health Day, children over nine months of age be immunized against diphtheria and smallpox.

The Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.

We certainly ought not to cut off our help that we have given to other Nations at this time.

To make price and rent control effective, the Administrator is given adequate powers to license persons subject to the Act.

I feel that most farmers realize that when farm prices go much above parity, danger is ahead.

This provision of not less than 110 percent of parity is a very definite violation of an objective which had been sought for eight years.

Finally, all bulwarks against inflation must fail, unless all of us—the businessman, the worker, the farmer, and the consumer —are determined to make those bulwarks hold fast.

Perhaps it is the best we could get at this time.

The Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 is an important weapon in our armory against the onslaught of the Axis powers.

Moreover, price control legislation alone cannot successfully combat inflation.

Effective price control will insure that these sacrifices are equitably distributed.

But a price control measure must fall far short of being a democratic instrument if it fails to surround the individual with safeguards against ill-considered or arbitrary action.