Message No. i

Message No. 1

"I have called this special session of Congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election--farm relief and limited tariff revision. . . .

"There should be no fee or tax imposed upon the farmer. No government agency should engage in the buying or selling or price-fixing of production. . . .

"The difficulties of agriculture cannot be cured in a day; they cannot all be cured by legislation; they cannot be cured by the federal government alone. . . . Every effort of this character is an experiment. . . .

"Every penny of waste between farmer and consumer that we can eliminate will be gain for both. . . .

"Seven years of experience have proved the principle of the flexible tariff to be practical. . . ."

o the House and Senate last week President Hoover sent these and some 2,500 other words--his first Message--to be droned by clerks. He urged the legislators to legislate:

1) Farm relief through a Federal Farm Board with "adequate working capital" to reorganize marketing, to assist cooperatives to handle surplus crops.

2) Tariff revision in the form of increased rates for agriculture and industries in which "there had been a substantial slackening of activity and a consequent decrease in employment"; reorganization of the Tariff Commission with higher salaries, a faster system of fact-finding on changes recommended, a "sounder" system for valuation.

3) Authority for the 1930 Census, reapportionment of the House of Representatives, repeal of the national origins immigration provision.

P: President Hoover accepted the resignation of David H. Blair of North Carolina as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. P: For the first time since Calvin Coolidge Jr., playing upon them, developed a heel blister which went into a fatal infection in 1924, tennis was played last week upon the White House courts. Players: Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary of State Francis White, White House Physician Joel T. Boone, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union. President Hoover does not play tennis.

P: President Hoover attended the Washington Newsgatherers' Gridiron Club's spring dinner. To many such dinners had he been as Secretary of Commerce, to none before as President and chief butt of the merrymaking. He made a speech. Under the club's rules, it was not reported (see P-14)-

P:To Washington for its annual visit went a traveling company of the Metropolitan Opera. Of greatest interest and familiarity to President and Mrs. Hoover was Singer Lawrence Tibbett, native Californian, from Bakersfield (oil) hard by the Hoover ranch at San Joaquin (Sun Maid Raisins). Special mark of special interest: Singer Tibbett was invited to sing on Sunday at the White House. Two of Mr. Hoover's favorite songs are Ridi Pagliacci and The Road to Mandalay.

P: To President Hoover went Virginia fishing license No. 172,523. To his fishing friend, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, went license No. 172,-524. P: For Senor Pablo Ramirez, Chilean Minister of Finance, President Hoover gave a White House luncheon. Senor Ramirez is touring the U. S. in the interest of Chilean nitrate.

P:The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week asked President Hoover to name a Negro to his forthcoming law enforcement commission. Suggested names: Boston's William H. Lewis, Cleveland's Perry E. Davis, Washington's Municipal Judge James A. Cobb. The President was told that Negroes want an opportunity to disprove the charge that blackamoor drinking habits make it necessary for the South to uphold prohibition.

P: President Hoover last week formally received Tytus Filipowicz as the new Minister from Poland.

P: To his great and good friend. King Albert of the Belgians, President Hoover sent birthday greetings last week. To the State Department's stiff formula for such felicitations, the president added: "My own personal greetings." King Albert is 54, President Hoover 54.

P:The Yale Daily News last week published some paragraphs by President Hoover. Excerpts: "The need for college graduates in state and national politics is the need for trained minds and formed characters that exists in all departments of modern life. ... As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is ... obvious." P: To the White House last week went a 14 1/4-pound Penobscot salmon, carefully packed in ice and moss. What made this salmon different: It was the first caught upon the opening of the Bangor Pool. Presidential salmon-catcher: Horace W. Chapman of Bangor. P: Mrs. Hoover sat, last week, for her first First Lady portrait in oils, to Artist David Cleeland of Manhattan, commissioned by TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine.