Calvin Coolidge: “Flood control is clearly a national problem, and water supply is a Government problem, but every other possibility…”

It is hereby ordered...that the above-described lands, subject to valid rights, shall be opened to entry only under the homestead or desert land laws by qualified ex-service men of the War with Germany, under the terms and conditions of…

So I have left the work of reporting the affairs of my administration to the experts of the press.

Mrs. James E. Golladay, widow of Mr. Golladay, who served in the Interior Department for twenty-eight years preceding his death, may be appointed to an appropriate clerical position without reference to the civil service rules.

So far as the Commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles.