Message to the Robert Burns Memorial Association.

[Released June 29, 1929. Dated June 25, 1929]

My dear Mr. Smith:

The road to world peace is through a maze of all the tangled complexities of human nature, and may be traversed only by dealing with them in a practical spirit and with much patience. Nevertheless, all men of good-will must press steadily toward that goal if civilization is to survive. In this forward march of the human spirit, poets lead the way with their visions of the ideal, and therefore you do well, in your memorial to Robert Burns, to stress his aspiration toward the time when "Man to Man, the world o'er, shall brothers be."

Yours faithfully,

HERBERT HOOVER

[Mr. John R. W. Smith, President, The Robert Burns Memorial Assn., 1318 Edwards Avenue, Westchester, New York]