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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1929. 2981 By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA March 25, 1929. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the future of our Nation rests with the children of =~l~th Day. today; AND WHEREAS, the good health and protection of childhood is fundamental to national welfare and the march forward of our country must be upon the feet of our children; AND WHEREAS, a joint resolution of Congress authorizes and Vol. 45, p. 617. requ~sts the President of the United Sta.tes to proclaim annually May first as Child Health Day; NOW, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States 19ttting a~ May 1~ of America, do hereby cesignate May first, of this year, as Child men'w!i TarmstroBot (talk) Health Day and do invite the people of the United States and all thereof. agencies and organizhtions interested in this most important subject to make every reasonable effort to bring about a nation-wide under- standing of the fundamental significance of healthy childhood, and of the importa:q.ce of the conservation of the health and physical vigor of our boys and girls throughout every day of the year. IN TESTIMO~;Y WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 25" day of March, in the year of our Lord one tholis::,nd nine hundred and twenty-nine, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-third. By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary oj State HERBERT HOOVER By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION MlIlCb 29, la. WHEREAS, The President, having been duly notified by the Labord.ispute,Texas. Board of Mediation that a dispute between the Texas and Pacific ~c:n.!ni\:: Railway Company, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented P~ble. by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, which dispute has not been heretofore adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the states of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas to a degree such as to dep!ive that section of the country of essential transportation service NOW, THEREFORE, I, Herbert Hoover, President of th~ Emergency Board United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the consti- ~vestigate tution and laws of the United States and by virtue of and under the an re t ereon. authority in me vested by Section 10, of the Railway Labor Act, do Vol. 44, p. 586. hereby create a Board to be composed of five (5) persons not pecu- niarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway em- ployees or any carrier, to investi~ate such dispute and report their findings to me within thirty (30) <lays from this date. The members of this Board shall be compensated for and on Compensatlon,etc. account of such duties in the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each member for every d~y ~ctl!ally employed with or upon and on account of travel and dutIes mCldent to such Board. The mem- bers 'will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make