 A troubled month was closing, with the country and the president receiving increasingly harsh reports of widespread urban unrest. Under President Johnson's administration, new efforts to uplift America range from housing standards that would eliminate city tenements to a billion-dollar agency to combat poverty. These impressive breakthroughs serve to highlight the fact that even more concerted efforts to raise living and opportunity standards for millions of Americans held in poverty's grip are needed. On July 29, President Johnson established a special advisory commission on civil disorders to delve deeply into the social soul of the nation. It will be led by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner and New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay. The president reminded the commission, no society can tolerate massive violence any more than a body can tolerate massive disease, but just saying that does not solve the problem. We need to know the answer, I think, to three basic questions about these riots. What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again? What we're really asking for is a profile of the riots, of the rioters, of their environment, of their victims, of their causes and effects. July closed on a nation whose social fabric was being tested as never before. Forced on the nation and the majority of people was the fact that many painful months and years lay ahead. The solution of decades-old problems had become a national imperative. And let us build something much more lasting, faith between man and man, faith between race and race, faith in each other, and faith in the promise of beautiful America. Let us pray for the day when mercy and truth are met together. Let us pray and let us work for better jobs, better housing and better education that so many millions of our own fellow Americans need so much to. Let us then act in the Congress and in the city halls and in every community so that this great land of ours may truly be one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.