Cooperation with other maritime powers is necessary for complete protection of our coast waters from pollution.  Plans for this are under way, but await certain experiments for refuse disposal.  Meantime laws prohibiting spreading oil and oil refuse from vessels in our own territorial waters would be most helpful against this menace and should be speedily enacted.

Laws should be passed regulating aviation.

Revision is needed of the laws regulating radio interference.

Legislation and regulations establishing load liner, to provide safe loading of vessels leaving our ports are necessary and recodification of our navigation laws is vital.

Revision of procedure of the Federal Trade Commission will give more constructive purpose to this department.

If our Alaskan fisheries are to be saved from destruction, there must be further legislation declaring a general policy and delegating the authority to make rules and regulations to an administrative body.

ARMY AND NAVY

For several years we have been decreasing the personnel of the Army and Navy, and reducing their power to the danger point.  Further reductions should not be made.  The Army is a guarantee of the security of our citizens at home; the Navy is a guarantee of the security of our citizens abroad.  Both of these services should be strengthened rather than weakened.  Additional planes are needed for the Army, and additional submarines for the Navy.  The defenses of Panama must be perfected.  We want no more competitive armaments.  We want no more war.  But we want no weakness that invites imposition.  A people who neglect their national defense are putting in jeopardy their national honor.

INSULAR POSSESSIONS

Conditions in the insular possessions on the whole have been good.  Their business has been reviving.  They are being administered according to law.  That effort has the full support of the administration.  Such recommendations as may conic from their people or their governments should have the most considerate attention.

EDUCATION AND WELFARE

Our National Government is not doing as much as it legitimately can do to promote the welfare of the people.  Our enormous material wealth, our institutions, our whole form of society, can not be considered fully successful until their benefits reach the merit of every individual.  This is not a suggestion that the Government should, or could, assume for the people the inevitable burdens of existence.  There is no method by which we can either be relieved of the results of our own folly or be guaranteed a successful life.  There is an inescapable personal responsibility for the development of character, of industry, of thrift, and of self-control.  These do not come from the Government, but from the people themselves.  But the Government can and should always be expressive of steadfast determination, always vigilant, to maintain conditions under which these virtues are most likely to develop and secure recognition and reward.  This is the American policy.