To the Officers and Members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America:
Our greatest economic problem is regular and stable employment. To secure it is the assurance of comfort and happiness to millions of men, women and children. Wages sustain not only workers and their families, but also industry and agriculture, whose products they buy.
Therefore, in this present period of unemployment you can render a high service to your own community, and to the whole country by cooperating with all movements to accelerate building constructions, especially of family dwellings, new roads, and local and state public works. These measures will provide employment, enlarge buying power, increase the circulation of money, create markets for farms and factories, and assure prosperity and contented homes.
Your Order, which since its inception has identified itself with the interests of the Nation, can play an invaluable part in bringing about this happy result.
Herbert Hoover