The President, always a confident man, was more than usually off-hand in his optimism over the nation's ability to meet its problems. In a dam-dedicating speech at Gilbertsville, Ky. (pop. 355), he said: "We are having our little troubles nowa few of them. They are not serious. Just a blow-up after a letdown from war. . . . We still have a few selfish men who think more of their own personal interests than they do of the public welfare. But you are not going to let them prevail. You are going to...
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