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President Hoover's Message President Hoover, in his Message to Congress

on Tuesday, showed how tightly he keeps his hand on a variety of subjects. -He dealt with each in the manner of a man who knows what he wants and feels strongly about it. Speaking first of foreign affairs he said that " a great moral standard " had been raised in the world by the Peace Pact. New efforts were now necessary to eliminate those forces which produced dangerous controversies. First among these efforts he placed the use of the Per- manent Court of International Justice. He was quite satisfied with the statute of the Court as amended and he would soon ask the Senate to ratify it. At the same time he was careful to explain that the United States was 'taking "not the slightest step towards entering into the League of Nations." * * *

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