people enable us to meet them unafraid.  It is a distressful time for many of our people, but they have shown qualities as high in fortitude, courage, and resourcefulness as ever in our history.  With that spirit, I have faith that out of it will come a sounder life, a truer standard of values, a greater recognition of the results of honest effort, and a healthier atmosphere in which to rear our children.  Ours must be a country of such stability and security as can not fail to carry forward and enlarge among all the people that abundant life of material and spiritual opportunity which it has represented among all nations since its beginning.

The White House,

December 8, 1931

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State of the Union Address
Herbert Hoover
December 6, 1932

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

In accord with my constitutional duty, I transmit herewith to the Congress information upon the state of the Union together with recommendation of measures for its consideration.

Our country is at peace.  Our national defense has been maintained at a high state of effectiveness.  All of the executive departments of the Government have been conducted during the year with a high devotion to public interest.  There has been a far larger degree of freedom from industrial conflict than hitherto known.  Education and science have made further advances.  The public health is to-day at its highest known level.  While we have recently engaged in the aggressive contest of a national election, its very tranquillity and the acceptance of its results furnish abundant proof of the strength of our institutions.

In the face of widespread hardship our people have demonstrated daily a magnificent sense of humanity, of individual and community responsibility for the welfare of the less fortunate.  They have grown in their conceptions and organization for cooperative action for the common welfare.

In the provision against distress during this winter, the great private agencies of the country have been mobilized again; the generosity of our people has again come into evidence to a degree in which all America may take great pride.  Likewise the local authorities and the States are engaged everywhere in supplemental measures of relief.  The provisions made for loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, to States that have exhausted their own resources, guarantee that there should be no hunger or suffering from cold in the country.  The large majority of States are showing a sturdy cooperation in the spirit of the Federal aid.

The Surgeon General, in charge of the Public Health Service, furnishes me with the following information upon the state of public health: 

Mortality rate per 1,000 of population on an annual basis from representative states — General — Infant