China is waking up.

But one of the great advantages of your city is that you do not have to stay long to like it well.

And I am going to come again when I can.

We must, therefore, if we would still retain agricultural control of the world, take some steps to avail ourselves of those great stretches of what seem now to be arid and desert lands, but which, by the application of water, when the water is properly administered, may yield a production marvellous to behold.

It has made me much more alive to the immense importance of the conservation of our natural resources, especially of the importance of dealing properly with our arid lands.

I know, because there was a time when I had some responsibility connected with it.

We must preserve them in such a way and with such a knowledge of forestry and the reproduction of the timber as shall permit us to enjoy all the timber that ought to be cut and to leave that which shall insure a constant reforestation of the country.

I had intended to make a staid, sober, dull, business speech to you.

I shall feel deeply this expression of your good fellowship.

We are digging out of it three millions of cubic yards a month.

Congress has been derelict.