1539 PROCLAMATIONS-APR . 4 , 8, 1938 CHILD HEALTH DAY-1938 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a joint resolution of the Congress approved May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 617), authorizes and requests the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day; and WHEREAS child health is of vital concern to the Nation: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby designate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Day. And I hereby call the people of the United States to the peaceful task of considering whether the children in their families and in each community are receiving the full benefit of our knowledge of how to promote the health of mothers and babies at the time of birth and of children throughout the period of growth and development, and ask them to plan how the child-health work of our public and private agencies can be extended and made more effective. I also call upon the children to celebrate the gains they have made during the year in health and strength and to do their part in the year-round effort to promote the health of the Nation. IN WITNESS 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 4th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. NORWAY-RECIPROCAL ENFORCEMENT OF CERTAIN TREATY PROVISIONS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the first section of the act of Congress approved the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An Act to provide for the execution of treaties between the United States and foreign nations respecting consular jurisdiction over the crews of vessels of such foreign nations in the waters and ports of the United States" (13 Stat. L. 121; U. S. C., title 22, sec. 256), provides that "before this act shall take effect as to the ships and vessels of any particular nation having such treaty with the United States, the President of the United States shall have been satisfied that similar provisions have been made for the execution of such treaty by the other contracting party, and shall have issued his proc- lamation to that effect, declaring this act to be in force as to such nation"; and April 4, 1938 [No. 2278] Child Health Day, 1938. Preamble. 45 Btat. 617. 36U.S. C.§143. May 1, 1938 desig- nated as April 8, 1938 No. 2279) Reciprocal enforce- ment of certain treaty provisions with Nor- way. Preamble. 13 Stat. 121 . 22U.S. 0.1 256. 52 STAT.]
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