Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-03
HOOver's Message
Given Congress
Continued From Page y


iocol under the terms of the Roo
agreement.
1 5. Immediate increase in tn. in
land waterways appropriations from
$4,000. 900 to S55,000,000 annually
8. General revision of air mai
rates "upon more systematic and
permanent footing"
Z. Expansion of the United
States merchant marine through
award of sustaining nail contracts
nr IA new routes calling for 460,-
200 tons of new ships at cost of
500, 100000.
5. Revision of the national bank
ing laws to care for vastly altered
conditions growing out of the ex-
pansion of chain banking.
9. Reorganization Of the f. leral
radio commission Is permanent
asency - the government.
10. A beginning Of reorganization
Of the government departments, in
Guiding concentration of the pro
mbitiOn enforcement machinery in
the department of justice.
Urges Law Observance
Coupled with his specific recon.
mendations for invigorating the fed
oral prohibition enforcement ma
, ,hinery, the President again point
ed to the nations need for better
.aw observance generally.
81 have been gratified at the
sense Of this resp0nslbi
itv in our citizens during the past
rev months" the chief execrtive
declared, "and gratified that many
instances have occurred whih re
fute the cvnicism which has assert
cd that our system could not con
Wet those who had defied the law
md possessed the means to resist
its execution. These things reveal
4 moral awakening both in the peo-
PIE and in officials which lies at
lhe very foundation of the rule of
Jaw
"Our laws are made by the peo
pic themselves; theirs is the right
TO work for their repeal; but until
repealed il is an equal duty to oh
serve them and demand Their en-
eorcement
"We can no longer gloss-over the
|. I.lpleasant reality which should be
made vital in the consciousness of
every citizen, that he who condones
n traffics with crime, who is in
l.fferent to it and to the punish
nent of the criminal, or to the lax
performance of official duty, is
himself the most effective agency
for the breakdown of society"
Prohibition received more space
n the message than any other
topic.
1--WE are not only at peace with
all the world. but the foundations
for future peace are being substan-
Tally strengthened" the President
declared in summarizing into-na
.ional relations. The Kellogg BRAND
pact has raised "great moral stan
'!ard" under which "a new world
outlook" has been inaugurated.
Emphasizing that the senate res
rvations of 1926 had been realized
through the Hirst-Roo agreement,
he President declared he would sub
nit the world court protocol with Il
special message "at some time when
7 is convenient to deal with it"
"Our adherence to the interna
;onal court is, as now constituted,
1ot the slightest step toward entry
uto the League of Nations" he
aid.
Would Improve ENJOYS
Appointment of a special commits
sion to study conditions III Haiti is
'1ggested as a step toward "some
nore definite policy than At pres
.nt" In China and Nicaragua, the
only other foreign countries in
which United States marines are on
luty, the President hopes to reduce
he forces as rapidly as possible.
In large sense" he declared in
isting the foreign detaehments,
I'VE do not wish to be represented
ihroad in such manner"
To further improvement of rela-
: ons with South America the ad-
ninistration program looks TO
Of our diplomatic rep
-csentation in that region. at is
NY hope 10 secure men long expert
need in our diplomatic service, who
peak the languages of the people
o whom they are accredited" Sew
'ral nominations of this canbre
,oon will be sent to the senate.
Again pointing out that the Unit
d States budget for purely military
purposes sis in excess Of those of
he most highly militarized nations
# the world" the message recon-
lended consideration by congress !