Letter from S. L. Lamoreux to President Harry S. Truman

P.P.F. 12/14 Hume Bitter Root Poultry form can Stevensville, Mont. Dec. 9, I950. Mr. Harry S. Truman, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: We were told at the time you stepped into the presidents office, that you asked for the prayers of the people of this U.S.A. We think you were sincere in your asking, and we think hundreds of thousands of people were sincere in carrying out your request. Now, Mr. President, after months and years have passed many of those same people are wondering whether you are still asking for divine aid in guiding the greatest ship of state on earth. We are told that men in highest positions are the most humble hence I trust you will not take offence when a common citizen calls to your attention a couple of the seemingly little things that bring shame and disgrace to the people of this country and distrust to those of foreighn lands. Your remarks of several months ago caused people thruout the land to say "we seem to have a man in the white house whose vocab- ulary is such that he has to stoop to the S.0.B.class in order to express himself". Your remarks about"marines" struck like a thunderbolt but your apoligies settled that. Now comes your item to a Mr. Hume threatning body and limb and carried from coast to coast. To the common people it all sounds too much like a scrap over some girl at a country dance of a generation ago. Sometimes an honest critic is our best friend. Honestly, Mr. ,President I do not believe you realize how dis- heartning these squabbles seem to the people of this, and some foreighn countries. There is another Margaret; "Princess" across the sea who has been critisized at various times for stepping a little high or being out a little late for one in her position but I have seen no account of her dad bodily threatning her critics with beefsteak "NATIONAL AND at $I.25 a pound. I have three daughterş each one of which I think means just as much to me as Margaret does to you, yet when a music instructor as good as told one of them she could scarcely carry a tune in a basket I said nothing about it, thinking maybe the instructor was right. Why am I writing all this to you when burdened with the cares of the whole country? In order that you may know how any remarks emenating from the highest office in the land reverberate to the far corners of the the earth at times like these, and please remember that you a servant of the people, sitting on a throne. may not be able to see the reaction it has to those of us obliged to sit in the bleachers. If you can see any good in this measage I would appreciate a line from you to that effect, if, on the other hand you think I am all wrong, I would like your reaction to that. Most sincerely, S.L.Lamoreux