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PPF 9 PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL FILE Gifts B Mar. -April 1937 is Hey PPF900055 Backly Pl.t q-B March 1, 1937 My dear Dr. Brim: The President has received the copy of the book, "Medicine in the Bible," which you were good. enough to send him, and asks me to assure you of his appreciation of your thought of him. He also wants you to know that he is indeed grateful for your generous expression and your cordial good wishes. Very sincerely yours, Michanater M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Dr. Charles J. Brim, 2345 Broadway, New York, New York. jes and have read it all twice over - but that part which has to do directly with farm tenantry in ancient Italy goes under the sub- title "Rome's Fall Reconsidered" beginning on page 84 and ending on page with 139. all best wishes for your health and happiness Sincerely yours Sent to CHARLES J. BRIM, M.D. 2345 BROADWAY Shartz NEW YORK W. ENDICOTT 2-8166 His Excelliney Hon. Franklin D Rooxurex February 18, 1937 Dras for. President? President of Ha nuted States of America ask 3/1/37 I ful in a great honor to be priviteged to tender flo to you My book "Medicine in the Bible, the first book of thiskend Emanating from the New world the Euglish language, and the first work on this subject lished an Edutorial on this book all of nluch wakes are review in faoorable and the Butch Medical Jormal pub- The Jonnal of the American Medical Assu has feel fround of my achievement accept this token of my gral Estern for you of my Swcen I shall deem is a special honor if you nill loving American and personal finds of Each and Every and heart fell respect x domunation of you as Hugreated citazen of this an florious Country. and happeness with Arst misles for a long life full of health funn your mo. and have read it all twice over - but that part which has to do directly with farm tenantry in ancient Italy goes under the sub- title "Rome's Fall Reconsidered" beginning on page 84 and ending on page with 139. all best wishes for your health and happiness Sincerely yours Buckly March 1, 1937 petz 9- My dear Mr. Bradley: The President has received your kind letter of February seventeenth and thanks you very much indeed for your courtesy in sending him the book to which you refer. He wants you to know that he deeply appreciates the friendly interest and the good will which your communication evidences. Very sincerely yours, Mrs Janater M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Walter H. Bradley, Esq., 134 Coolidge Hill, Cambridge, Massachusetts. es and have read it all twice over - but that part which has to do directly with farm tenantry in ancient Italy goes under the sub- title "Rome's Fall Reconsidered" beginning on page 84 and ending on page with 139. all best wishes for your health and happiness Sincerely yours WaterH.Bradley Thank male ma ached 15/1/37 134 Coolidge Hill, Cambridge, Mass., February 17, 1937. Dear Franklin: Having read this morning your comprehensive message on the tenant farmer situation, I have been amazed to note certain similarities in our present farm economy to the conditions in the ancient world and I think you may be interested to see what the legislators two thousand years ago tried to do about it - how they failed, and why. At any rate, you might chuck the book at our fellow alumnus, Mr. Wallace, whose tastes seem to lead him through a tremen- dous bibliography of ancient writings on Agriculture. The book is written by Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, professor of Economic History at Columbia, whose writings you may be familiar with in various numbers of the Political Science Quarterly. This particular book happens to contain his sig- nature. I have found perfectly fascinating the entire book, which goes under the title "Toward The Understanding of Jesus", and have read it all twice over - but that part which has to do directly with farm tenantry in ancient Italy goes under the sub- title "Rome's Fall Reconsidered" beginning on page 84 and ending on page with 139. all best wishes for your health and happiness Sincerely yours Budy RPA March 1, 1937 qB My dear Mr. Bergel: Your letter of February fifteenth, with the enclosed article, has been received and will be brought to the President's attention. Meanwhile, b I want to thank you in his behalf for your kind thought in sending the calendar to him. Very sincerely yours, M. A. LeHand Unimary PRIVATE SECRETARY Michael W. Bergel, Esq., 7 149 Hammond Street, Bangor, avv Maine. 7 V Michael W. Bezgel X M. W. BERGEL MOST RELIABLE TAILOR TO LADIES May M X AND HONEST AND GENTLEMEN DIAL 6905 32 149 HAMMOND ST., BANGOR, MAINE Feb.15-1937 F.D. Roosenelt President U.S.A. TA My Deor President and friend, that uses in the paper, Please poerolon me for I own sending you every year and our ocrtickle Please find enclosed oc calenolour. OL token being so late, Now my Descr President. the Sundary paper I noticed the of Requisals yesterday Sunday Feb. 14. while "War weeding artickle. thinking deeply and also part of the night I came upon oc plan that any our attock could he put to an very short time to our enol, at or very small expence this plan must be in great recret, I would not put it in unighting for pear some other party may get holol of it, I leave it to your Judgment. Very Sincerely your Mishael W. Bezgel X gor Daily News Fair Today And Cool Forecast for Maine gives generally fair and continued cool Monday, followed by warmer Tuesday. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1936 THREE CENTS Full Report on Page 2 Lake Erie Storm Disaster Northeastern Italy STEAMER Church and Those Who Dedicated It WINSLOW MAN, CAPSIZES FATHER OF FOUR KILLED IN DREW IN BIG GALE Archie York, 35, Dies ONLY SEVEN En Route to Lincoln Hospital MEMBERS OF WOUNDED BY CREW SAVED OWN SHOTGUN One Woman Passen- Was Pulling Canoe to ger of Canadian Bank of Stream; Is Ship Is Victim Third 1936 Fatality The third fatality of the 1936 SURVIVORS SUFFER Maine hunting season took the life FROM EXPOSURE of Archie York, 35, of Winslow, who died Sunday morning en route to a hospital in Lincoln, after his hunt- ing companions said he was fa- Cling to Capsized Life- tally wounded by a discharge of boats for Hours Be- buckshot from his own shotgun, as he was attempting to haul the light fore Rescued craft out on the shore of Meadow- brook, a tributary of the Matta- wamkeag river, in Kingman. York CLEVELAND, Oct. 18-(AP) is survived by his wife and four small children. -Eighteen crew members and The two previous deaths in the a woman passenger of the 1936 season include that of Ralph Beverage, 17, of North Haven, who Canadian ship, Sand Mer- was shot by the discharge of his chant, drowned last night own shotgun while on a duck hunt- when the 252-foot sand- ing trip October 10, and that of sucker rolled over in a 50-mile Douglas Frazier, 20, of Kingman, who was shot and killed October 16, gale which swept across less than an hour after the deer treacherous Lake Erie 14 hunting season opened. Deputy miles northwest of Cleveland. Sheriff Fred Hanson of Mattawam- keag said that Frazier was shot by Many of the sailors Lewis Stark, of Stockton Springs, desperately clung to two cap- who had mistaken the youth for a sized lifeboats for hours be- deer. fore sliding off to their The Sunday accident, in which the 35 years old Winslow man lost deaths. Seven men were his life, is almost an exact counter- rescued at about 8 a. m., to- part of that of October 10, in which day by two freighters en route ology Ralph Beverage, of North Haven, to Lake Erie ports. was slain, as he was taking his shotgun from a boat, as he returned Those saved were: from a duck hunting trip. Jack Meuse, deck engineer, Large item. scanned in parts Third 1936 Fatality Ship Is Victim The third fatality of the 1936 Maine hunting season took the life SURVIVORS SUFFER of Archie York, 35, of Winslow, who died Sunday morning en route to a FROM EXPOSURE hospital in Lincoln, after his hunt- ing companions said he was fa- tally wounded by a discharge of Cling to Capsized Life- Geutle buckshot from his own shotgun, as he was attempting to haul the light boats for Hours Be- craft out on the shore of Meadow- brook, a tributary of the Matta- fore Rescued wamkeag river, in Kingman. York is survived by his wife and four small children. CLEVELAND, Oct. 18-(AP) The two previous deaths in the -Eighteen crew members and 1936 season include that of Ralph a woman passenger of the Beverage, 17, of North Haven, who was shot by the discharge of his Canadian ship, Sand Mer- own shotgun while on a duck hunt- chant, drowned last night ing trip October 10, and that of when the 252-foot sand- Douglas Frazier, 20, of Kingman, sucker rolled over in a 50-mile BASTER who was shot and-killed October 16, less than an hour after the deer gale which swept across March hunting season opened. Deputy treacherous Lake Erie 14 Sheriff Fred Hanson of Mattawam- miles northwest of Cleveland. keag said that Frazier was shot by Many of the sailors Lewis Stark, of Stockton Springs, The P1 who had mistaken the youth for a desperately clung to two cap- deer. sized lifeboats for hours be- dated The Sunday accident, in which fore sliding off to their Comman the 35 years old Winslow man lost deaths. Seven men were his life, is almost an exact counter- for au part of that of October 10, in which rescued at about 8 a. m., to- Ralph Beverage, of North Haven, day by two freighters en route Presid was slain, as he was taking his to Lake Erie ports. to the shotgun from a boat, as he returned Those saved were: The Pr from a duck hunting trip. The fatal accident Sunday oc- Jack Meuse, deck engineer, to us. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Winslow Man which was formally accepted Lake Disaster Please Turn to Page 2 Please Turn to Page 9 SOUTHEAST GALE SEE - PPF 135 RAVAGED COAST OVER WEEK-END MONUMENT IS ANSON YOUTH DEDICATED TO KILLED DURING A MAINE POET BLINDING RAIN Memory of Edward Arlington Robinson Slight Material Dam- Is Honored age in Bangor and Brewer MANY CELEBRITIES IN THE GATHERING SUPERB SURF AT MOUNT DESERT Eulogy Is Given by Her- mann Hagedorn, Vet- Public Utilities Affected eran Biographer Little by Storm in Eastern Maine As 500 persons looked on, Edwin GARDINER, Me., Oct. 18 (AP) One death, highways littered with Arlington Robinson, famous Amer- shattered trees, broken power trans- ican prize poet who won the mission end of a heavy southeast gale late lines, and washouts marked his death for poetry three times Pulitzer before on which this afternoon on the honored here a year ago, was which the lashed the State of. Maine Friends, he played as a common Saturday and early Sunday. who sociates paid homage to the as- relatives and literary schoolboy. one death directly attribu- of life spent the first 27 man table 14-year-old boy, Elden R. killed The to the storm was that Gould, a New in Gardiner, before years of his to York and success, in going memorial on of by Anson, truck near his home. Investi- who was struck and gating a officials said that the boy was Monument almost invisible in a driving rain, Please Turn to Page 4 and was not seen by the driver of. the truck until too late to avoid BLIZZARD HITS contact. In Bangor and Brewer, but little ology material damage was incurred, as NORTHERN AREA Storm Please Turn to Page 2 FINDS IN MAINE ALL HE DESIRES Michael W. Bergel's Unusual Story Told to the Writer TAILORED FOR THE NOBILITY OF EUROPE C Large item - scanned in parts Adopted an. Orphan Soon After Arrival Here; Complete Happiness mt, by memo, returned to him his (Bastedo's) memo to the President By HENRY BUXTON oldary 27, 1937, in which he quoted extracts from letter received from How a wandering tailor found Ste H. Rooks, U.S.N., of the U. S. S. PHELPS, thanking the President content and happiness in Maine dephed L photograph and enclosing copy of booklet entitled, "With the after years of lonesomeness in the MO South America November December, 1936", which is to be presented large cities of 1dent with the compliments of the entire ship's company of the PHELPS. Europe and America composes se cut asks Capt. Bastedo to thank Commander Rooks and return to memorandum one of the most Jc d of interesting stories pr I have heard since ar a I began writing pa M this column. ch 1e Born in Krakow, ve Buxton Austria, a subject at Please ed of the late Em- se peror Frank Joseph, Michael W. lig Bergel, 149 Hammond street, Ban- bc te gor, for long years hungered for love Jc BANGOR DAILY NEWS, BANGO R, MAINE, MONDAY, OCT of and a home but never found these nt things until fate brought him to di vn Buxton Monte Carlo and St. Moritz. "Only the most costly of materials ke Please Turn to Page 2 were used for these garments," said FIND HAPPINESS IN MAINE Maine. Now there is a happy song in Bergel, "and they required many, many fittings. I worked three weeks his heart, and each day marks a new on a little short coat for the Em- chapter of peace and happiness. He pressof Germany, and it came back has learned to love Maine's people, to me six times for re-fittings. I its hills, forests, rivers, inlets and made a court dress for Queen Vic- bays. Maine for Michael Bergel is toria, which was simple in design, indeed the promised land. He asks but lavish in expensive materials. I nothing better than he be permitted felt a glow of pride when a to live here for the balance of his photograph of the Queen, wearing life, and when death comes to be this creation of mine, appeared in laid at rest under the whispering a London newspaper." pines of his adopted state. But Bergel was never happy as he I have heard many of Maine's moved from one European capital to adopted sons rave about the beauties another, fashioning the cloaks and and the opportunities of the state. gowns of crowned heads, and other They waxed eloquent as they spoke members of royalty. His loneliness Michael of its fine people, its mountains, grew when he married, and his wife Bergel, lakes and ocean but all these folks died soon after the ceremony. He were Americans. They moved in took up the study of the violin, hop- Bangor tailor, here from other sections of the ing that music would fill the vacuum and the little country. After all they still dwelt in in his heart. the United States, their removal to "The pomp and the bustle and Virgie, orphan Maine being no migration to foreign the cold heartedness of the big girl who made soil. pean capitals," he told me, The story of Michael Bergel im- "filled me with a deep depression, happiness pressed me mightily because he was and my thoughts turned toward found here born and brought up in the environ- America. It seemed to me that ment of monarchical Europe where America was beckoning to me and complete. Emperors, Kings and Princes ruled would give me an urge to live and be happy. with arrogant gesture and iron hand. After my arrival in New York, I Usually such an environment worked in one tailoring place after leaves a lasting brand upon the sub- another, finding it almost impossible ject, moulding his mind and his to make real friends in this great spirit to the drab monotones of sub- American metropolis. It seemed the serviency, making it impossible for same as London, Paris and Berlin, him to develop the independence of just a big heartless city, bent upon thought and action of the citizens its own selfish ends. The ache of of a free republic. Tens of thousands loneliness continued in my heart." of such have migrated to America, Then one day Bergel felt that if not with the idea of remaining here he did not find peace and happiness and becoming American citizens, he would die. He determined to but to get rich quickly and return to make a change, and leave New York the fatherland. At the outbreak of and other large cities behind him the world war we saw evidence of forever. He knew little of the is thirty degrees below zero, we the fragile hold that America had geography of the United States, but never miss our Sunday walk through on these immigrants. At the first resolutely getting out a map, he the woods. These Maine woods are call to arms, tens of thousands of studied it carefully, keeping his eyes beautiful in winter, with their pines Austrians, Germans, Italians and away from the large metropolitan and spruce, decorated with snow, other representatives of other Euro- areas. which sometimes makes them look pean races flocked to their consu- Vaguely he knew what he wanted like medieval castles or the glitter- lates in American cities and made -a place near the sea, but not too ing palaces of royalty. Then the arrangements to return to Europe close to the sea, a place where there thrill of seeing the tracks of wild and take up the cudgels of war for would be a combination of country- animals along snowy trails-rabbits. their respective fatherlands. Ameri- side, streams and tidewater. His at- mink and deer. Mysterious life all ca's traditions and ideals had made tention was arrested on Bangor, be- about us, with snow particles flying, no impression upon them. For them cause of its location on the river, a as a partridge goes drumming up it was just a rich country, where short distance from salty Penobscot from a snow splashed thicket. How they could pile up a little stake, so Bay. Virgie and I love it. Constantly we that they could return at some Packing his few belongings into a are seeing something new in nature, future time and acquire land in suit case, he went to the Grand some new marvel that makes us Germany, Austria or Italy. Central station in New York, and glad that we live in Maine. I, who But in Michael Bergel we have an bought a ticket for Bangor. Some have spent most of my life in the immigrant of a different sort. Amer- intuition seemed to tell him that he large cities of the world, to me the ican ideals and traditions have fired was headed in the right direction. country around Bangor seems his imagination and exalted his "I arrived in Bangor on a cold nature's paradise- a paradise that soul and above winter's soothes and satisfies the soul. the fatherland. At the outbreak of and other large cities behind him the world war we saw evidence of forever. He knew little of the the fragile hold that America had geography of the United States, but is thirty degrees below zero, we on these immigrants. At the first resolutely getting out a map, he never miss our Sunday walk through studied it carefully, keeping his eyes the woods. These Maine woods are call to arms, tens of thousands of Austrians, Germans, Italians and beautiful in winter, with their pines other representatives of other Euro- away areas. from the large metropolitan and spruce, decorated with snow, pean races flocked to their consu- Vaguely he knew what he wanted which sometimes makes them look lates in American cities and made place near the sea, but not too like medieval castles or the glitter- close to the sea, a place where there ing palaces of royalty. Then the arrangements to return to Europe would be a combination of country- thrill of seeing the tracks of wild and take up the cudgels of war for their respective fatherlands. Ameri- side, streams and tidewater. His at- animals along snowy trails-rabbits. ca's traditions and ideals had made tention was arrested on Bangor, be- mink and deer. Mysterious life all no impression upon them. For them cause of its location on the river, a about us, with snow particles fiying, it was just a rich country, where as a partridge goes drumming up they could pile up a little stake, so Bay. short distance from salty Penobscot from a snow splashed thicket. How that they could return at some Virgie and I love it. Constantly we Packing his few belongings into a future time and acquire land in are seeing something new in nature, suit case, he went to the Grand some new marvel that makes us Germany, Austria or Italy. Central station in New York, and glad that we live in Maine. I, who But in Michael Bergel we have an bought a ticket for Bangor. Some have spent most of my life in the immigrant of a different sort. Amer- intuition seemed to tell him that he large cities of the world, to me the ican ideals and traditions have fired was headed in the right direction. country around Bangor seems his imagination and exalted his "I arrived in Bangor on a cold nature's paradise-a paradise that soul, and above all, his adopted state winter's day, he told me, "but I was soothes and satisfies the soul. of Maine has left a deep imprint on not depressed when I stepped off his heart. It would seem almost as the train at the station. A lot of "If I thought that I had to go if the shades of the early Maine people said good morning to me, as back to Europe or to the big cities pioneers had taken charge of this if they had known me all my life. I of America, I would jump into the memo to the President immigrant, inculating in him a river and end my life. Maine is the from letter received from paused at a street which had been passion for Maine soil, Maine hills roped off SO that children could only place I know where one may and Maine streams and inlets. slide without danger. I stopped and attain real happiness and indepen- I thanking the President To get an adequate idea of the dence. It has the best all year entitled, "With the asked a policeman if this was some miracle that has happened to around climate in the world. Its special event, the roping off of this people are the kindest and most to which is to be presented Michael Bergel, we must delve into street, and he replied: 'no it is cus- neighborly in the world. Here you tip's CO his past, go back to Krakow, Austria, tomary to do this so that children where he was born. At the age of 13, have no earthquakes, no hurricanes, War of Reprisals may know the pleasures of sledding Coke and he began a five years' apprentice- no revolutions, no relentless man- without getting hurt.' My heart What would happen in such ship in the talioring business. This dates by Emperors, Kings or Dic- warmed at this information. Surely, a case can be easily foreseen. is the law in Austria, and at the end I thought, that Bangor must be a tators. Here in Maine one may find Germany, by sacrificing a suf- of the five-year period, the appren- wonderful place to have so much work if he wants work and may find ficient number of planes, could tice must make a garment for the kindly thought for its children. peace and happiness at all times." destroy Paris or Londor with- inspection of the commissioners. If "I had no job and very little I left Bergel feeling ashamed of out the French or English air the garment passes the inspection, money in my pocket, but I did the discontent I have sometimes felt force being able to hinder it the apprentice becomes a regular despair, Bangor for I somehow knew that not concerning my native land. I am seriously. tailor and may receive money for had a place for me. I sure that all of us may learn much France and England could in his work. Just as Bergel finished his into the store of the Besse System walked in the realm of contentment by their turn destroy Munich, the apprenticeship, he became eligible and asked George Dorr, the man- migrant large towns of the Rhine Val- for compulsory service in the army, ager, for a job. He asked me what ley, Dresden or Berlin. and after he had completed this wages I wanted and I replied that It is easy to see where a war service, he embarked upon his career he could decide that, after he had conducted on these lines would as a tailor, working in the chief seen me work. He hired me immedi- lead: both sides would push capitals of Europe, including Vienna, ately, and right then much of the their reprisals to the extreme Budapest, Berlin, Paris and London. loneliness lifted from my heart." limit of their forces, each side His skill became widely known, so Although then speaking English, being equally persuaded that it that soon he was in demand by the but imperfectly, Bergel rapidly made was in the right, that it was not royal families of Europe. At various friends because of his honesty and making a violent and barbar- times he sewed on garments for the his earnestness. ous attack, but merely repulsing Empress of Russia, Empress of Ger- "I soon began to love Bangor and one and employing such atro- many, Queen Victoria of England, the surrounding country," said cious means only from the neces- and for princes, pricesses and Bergel, with a tremor in his voice. sity of repulsing attacks of re- numerous of the lesser nobility, such "Sundays when I walked out into volting barbarity. as counts and barons. Many of these the woods and the fields, I used to In France and England ef- garments, gowns and cloaks, that get down on my knees and thank forts are being made to discover took form under his skillful fingers, God that fate had brought me to some means of rendering pos- were worn at notable court func- Maine." sible a serious defense of large tions or at the gay festivals of Then Bergel said that his happi- towns against attacks from the ness became so great that he felt air. that it might be taken away from Military writers of the Eigh- him body if he didn't share it with some- teenth Century had already ob- THE WEATHER served that the perfecting of So in the Bangor Daily News he arms is useless, except in the case advertised for an orphan for adop- where only one of the two sides ALMANAC tion, and in a short time selected succeeds in possessing and utiliz- Oct. 19. little Virgie, a three year old girl, ing the more powerful arms. 5.54 Sun Rises for his adopted daughter. The great mistake by the 4,45 Sun Sets "She smiled and sang her way victors in the World War con- 10.51 Day's Length 4.42 Day's Decrease into my heart," he said. "I have sisted in failing to realize that 1.18 A. M.; 1.25 P. M. never been lonesome a minute since armaments and the organiza- High Water tion of armies were the leading WEATHER complete." she came to me. My happiness is problem of peace, a problem Oct. 18. Opening a trunk, he showed me even more important than the Ther. the little dress that Virgie wore reorganization of Europe. Bar. 29.5 58 A. M. when she came to him. Will Europe find within her- 29.5 65 12 M. 29.5 "I shall keep it forever," he said self the strength to react against 50 this destructive folly, whose sole 6 P. M. with fervor. "Virgie is now in the consequence would be that if a Hourly Temperatures eighth grade at the Hannibal Ham- war were to break out tomorrow lin grammar school, and we are very OCTOBER 18 happy together." in Europe, its richest, most beautiful most thickly pop- 12 Midnight 12 Noon 65 60 As Bergel prospered the passion ulated regions would in a few 60 1 O'clock 64 1 O'clock 62 60 2 in grew the upon him to own a little place months become deserts? 2 " 58 60 3 " 56 obtain country, where Virgie could The whole question is there. 3 59 4 4 52 door the healthful benefits of And on this question depends " 59 5 5 50 58 6 place life. He bought a little two out- the future of the world. 6 47 58 7 7 46 59 8 mum trees, including apple, cherry, fruit at Hampden. He set out acre 130 8 44 60 9 9 43 62 10 and and pear. also grape 10 63 11 41 blackberry vines. He built and strawberry, raspberry vines, 11 FAIR fifteen feet in diameter and stocked pool WASHINGTON, Oct. 18-(AP)-Forecast it with gold fish, and around the for Maine: Generally fair and continued pool he planted rose bushes and cool Monday; Tuesday cloudy and warmer. seasonable flowers. He also has a BOSTON AND VICINITY thriving vegetable garden each year BOSTON, Oct. 18-Monday generally fair and is happiest when he is working and continued cool, Tuesday cloudy and around his place. warmer, gentle westerly winds becoming "When I get a little older," he variable. said, Virgie and I will retire on this WINDS place and become farmers. Summer Eastport to Sandy Hook-Gentle wester- and winter we go to our Hampden ly winds becoming variable; generally fair place every Sunday, and even if it Large item scanned in parts Monday. Geutle would BASTEDO, Capt. Paul March 2, 1937 The President, by memo, returned to him his (Bastedo's) memo to the President dated February 27, 1937, in which he quoted extracts from letter received from Commander A. H. Rooks, U.S.N., of the U. S. S. PHELPS, thanking the President for autographed photograph and enclosing copy of booklet entitled, "With the President to South America - November - December, 1936", which is to be presented to the President with the compliments of the entire ship's company of the PHELPS. The President asks Capt. Bastedo to thank Commander Rooks and return to memorandum to us. P.P.E. SEE - PPF 135 9-3 ology for Geutle npth would Buchly PP.7 9-18 March 4, 1937 My dear Mr. Butcher: Your letter of February twenty-fourth, has been received and I shall be glad to bring it to the President's attention. I know that he. will appreciate your friendly interest in writing and would want me to thank you for your courtesy in sending him the copy of the booklet "Under the Juniper Tree". Very sincerely yours, File carel M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY H. G. Butcher, Esq., 115 Briarcliff Court, Haddonfield, New Jersey. es X / Ince of ology Geutle neweres and H. 6. Butcher 115 Briarcliff Court 3/4s shouk ML Haddanfield, N.J. Filing 24th/37 Buckly Franklin &. Rooserelt: stear President; under a or y Corer, I am sending you ens es- a booklet of 48 pages entitled "under the Juniper Tree" in this our day when we need to be heed by a spiritual buoy, I hope that some es thought contained therein, is will be of help in your high position L order that they will eventually believe may, own us F Geutle neweres 3 2 Problems that remain unsolved would be made after being retired with Clear. I have felt deeply a small pension Dec 31. of impressed that instead of 1933 having been in the service of one of the endeavoring to Correct some of these, whither an appeal Communication Companies over for those ables to make 34 years, and I-am now a sacrifice, corering a period 3 years over the three peore sen, D. testify to the of -a year or even less, would not furnish employments goodness of our Heavenly he young and old that coowed Father, who has never bring a return of real failed me; I believe fully self Austain; a leadership if our people, sought the by yourself as stated for wisdom He Po freely a limited period. for offers, many of the order that they will eventually believe pury, own we F of & -A 1 = y instance of you employing from your Dalary as But President, twelre people at fire thousand per year and all Government employees receiving over y tens len thousand per year res- as well as those in private businesses whether em player or emphoyed unless we are personally willing to some such plan, simple as ih may appear, from my study of the Periftures, such could be pleasing to our Creator Blessing Wishing you sincerely much of gods H.G. Butcher order that they will eventually believe only time in luxury, but e L Ince of ology & 10 AA ppt q-B March 4, 1937 Buckly Ny dear Mrs. Berryman: The President has requested me to acknowledge your nice letter of February twenty-first and to thank you most cordially for your courtesy in sending him those mittens. He more than appreciates your friendly expres- sions and sends you his very best wishes. Very sincerely yours, when away 11. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Mrs. Merry Caroline Berryman, Route 1, Marshall, es Missouri. only time in luxury, but in order that they will eventually believe F ology mittens ML Fub-21-1937 ached mo 3/49/5 mr Rosevelt A J am Sending you a Pain at home mode mittens this being the only present thing of to have show to how Send I you africote for regular for Some time. I make mittens my Pension which I have been these getting from the now wood I still have my wood cards and SPinning wheel which is rather out of date mow though this is the only way of had thanks. earning my you have done for liveng mony the old for and what unfortunate manhall Mrs. merry Carline 77 Berry mon age ma R.R.#.1. my maoal heads not only line in laxury, but in order that they will eventually believe F Ince of ology P.P.P.P 20 Geutlemen: newrs I are Reuding you under separate cover a pieture which I think should be copied in ails, with the titte sub- mitted and as part of american bistory hung on the walls of the House of Representatives x another on the evalls of the Swate. Hang the old one with ready Quother picture entitled "The Surreu- der should be enade on the order of Lee is Surrender, showing the Surrender Roosevelt. of.. the " House Senate to President might designate as mo Surrender In one corner of this picture you some dead badies, one of which evight bear a likeness to my self. "I have already surrendered my position, friendships, etc. on account of Roosevelx. 11 I would ' ut be a bit surprised if I had to surrender every life. millions are surrendering their lines in Russia, in mexico, in Eug land, in Frame, in Germary, in order that goverment, military and industrial heads not only line in Expury, but in order that they will eventually believe THe of ology philoseminaria IN in a God K live according to / Lis Com- wondments. The requeration and the cleansing process west go on until the last Hitter, the last Cardenas, the every last Roosevelt, the last morg aw, the I, lost Ratchchild is enhally and enterely converted. with In Russia the goverment X other heads are paid 1000 receles a wonth while the servants enlio wait on them 100 rubles willins a wouth. The same "class "distrition exists here. of Alile I know that I am better than a President, a Cabinet Insurber, a Congressuran, a Supreme Court Judge, my wages reen about $ 500 every a year to their $ 20,000 or $ 50,000 Gone or $ 75, 000 as the case way be. Joly right here in Sen Barkley's is own territory, those increased who received the die, 14 billion dollar national income at so may bellions national delet, the capitalists, the governore, judges, evayors, etc., paying themselves such salaries as $ 200, 000, H 100,000, # 50,000, $25,00 as the case easy be, actually pay their loborers $ 12 V 1500 a week a office helpers wat over # 6500 a worth based on part rations, In a few were years the laborers and of semina- 16 3 office workers will he evorking for abso- be slaves, and that is when millions welk litely wathing, in other words they will way be killed x thrown into prison for little or withing, private property "confiscated" by reathless government heads "to give to the poor, ao in mexico = but they, themselves, being the poor who get it and if you think the government has or will do any thing for flood sufferers, you are uis taken. Even the Red Cross, who has nuerous high- salaned officials on its pay rall, X whom, a Ca thalic priest told we be thought should volunteer their services, since all the others are valunteer workers, wont give any one who earus the measly seem of $ 10 a encek any aid. I'd like to see there line on $ 10 a week and beeng furniture may the authorities here are so by mpathetic each flood sufferers with the bai palloi, the cattle that they threaten to arrest them put them in prison if they dont imediately clean up the euess. There is a notice in the newspapers to that effect. and the Clurch is so sy upathetic with for the poor, they wake mrs! Brady a IIIC of ology philosukeminaria 4 Papal Duchess" and the Lord knows enliets else, even before she gave them this 87 room reausion X 100 aeres of land valued at $ 8,000,000. She will probably be " asat. Paper ewent mrs. Brady's is huaband evero a traction company enog wate. If lus raction Companies gave's the adlle same gets service fit only for cattle x and about the kind of service people to crowded the public pushed & yellepat = the ratter' same kind of service of you get in Drashington, S.C, is it any evander she has am 87 room enousion " Iniafada" bob! at the sawe twice I dont blame the cheerch for accepting the gift But that is why the Church west suffer, too. In view of the fact that whole cities had to be abordoned permanently on a/e of the floodways x also evencer enly they distress every where mrs. Roosevelt gives the proceeds of her 13 week radio contract to the "Queeriew Friends Service Committee". Is this a foreign organization? If certainly samds like it. are they Friends of Ererg land, Frau, Russia mexico? The grand given here lay the blame of ology philoso seminaria 5 for the flood squarely on the shoulders of the Federal Goot, due to downs to keep 9 X 10 ft. togene in the Oluis for such Compaines as the Lau. Gas. & Elee. leo, so as the wife of the owner of the reation, it would ap. pear that ms. Roosenelt evaned pends all of her contributions to charity this way. I must close; like Peasons allen who tell the public about the Cabineh meur. bero shooting dice, alifost lo see which gets the wont Departments or Bureaus to control, one of which they describe as having 37 elevators, 7 wiles of corridors, 4500 rooms, wag inficent private suites etc., presided over by one, teny Ixallace, my letter does it do any good except and to "get it aut 5 my by "stem", since the requerenting or eleansing provide occupation process must go on, apparently, Very truly if aurs, 1930 Princeton Drive. Elizabeth C. Brands (over) Inco of ology philosopeminaria P.S. although I am a Catholic and caill always be one, I hope, I am not too prejudied to listen to ministers of other relig ions as long as they preach about Cleriat, The Jen Comand events, etc. This morning over the radio I heard a Preaby terian minus they preaching to the jail invoice He had a very lovely, seveet servior a awong other things be said "The wast terrible people, or rest evicked are those outside of fails." " a Christian Scientish Minister read a Cleristian some very Science beautiful phrases out of religion to every day life Bank, apply ing xxxxx I saw in the wovies the jewelled crown Rings christiality. say are evon x drown " in difense of x severd in the worvies, which the Eug leah es at chocolate, that. instead of the creatomary / or 2, I galped x swallowed 5 pieces of Those Eug lich Roey alists dont know the meaning of Christianity: millions die X on to account of these feevels- picess of glass, keep them in palaces, etc. They were going to thom the evalue Epis- Archbishop they did the said catholies to the king previously." a his divorces; capalian religion out on a/c of what the J Inc. of ology philoson seminarie THE PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY But the Church Capitalism Incurrag if R True TOI the Bible ploit lion people their wor in subjection 160 and mil- ex- WAnd this they call a and noble requireration ment of civilization. and an advance over our experi- type CATHOLIC CHURCH cleanoing d But I regard the Russian Bolshe- process vistic government as the most ruth- it Christian country should take the their propaganda. The exploitation n of the worker in Russia constitutes f 1 day, and we must keep alert and COMMUNISM watchful SO that the "Russian lie" of a "Worker's Paradise" does not hypnotize us. "Our own country is worth keeping and defending. Condensed by World Digest from prt CIVILIZATION soup less of dictatorships, and every necessary steps to guard against with the supreme tragedy of our present on Rural Progress Magazine. FASCISM Gov. Earle Bans 'Spain In Flames' q-B Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania, recently ordered the film, "Spain Flames, from "This picture is pure Communis- Pennsylvania. NAZIISM tic propaganda, dressed as a plea serted after seeing a preview. for democracy the governor He as- upheld the state board of censors, which earlier declined to approve the movie. We Pennsylvanians are not in- is terested in the propaganda of of a WEBER Communists, Syndicalists and An- government largely made up archists, who butcher priests, Earle asserted. NOT A WORKERS' GOVERNMENT BUT sending him that WORKERS' EXPLOITING GOVERNMENT He wants you Mrs. Brady Gives Seventy Per Cent Of People In Moscow Live In Slums prociates your lc Unparalled In Any Other Land :- to convey his Palatial Mansion By Dr. Rudolph Malek distance from Vladivo- The rail about six TRAVELED from the border through of thousand stock to miles. Moscow The is line, regarded is Manchuria, to Armored motor- the best of Russian railroads, wid- To Jesuit Order Soviet anchored Russia. at strategical bombing double as throughout, and has a er gauge than roomier. ours; consequently, The dining ncerely yours, points tuned and poised no- boats on the wide rivers, in readi- planes to take off at a moment's and gener- the service cars are is typically Russian cab- in New York.-The gift of "Inis- ness ammunition dumps railroads time car and manner. Black bread, and tea along the guard- soup, chicken, caviar food. fada," palatial Long Island resi- and armies of soldiers weapon this, closely equipped bage predominate in the choice of by dence of Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, DECLARED trains are watched closely to the Maryland-New York prov- armed All soldiers, and every precau- on ince of the Society of Jesus, was ed by every possible modern be seen with offense and defense, can along the tion is taken to see that those M. A. LeHand confirmed here by Mrs. Brady's board possess proper passports. spokesman, the Very Rev. W. Cole- for thousands of miles impend- borders. for One can feel the rounded by barbed wire and picket by Many prison logging camps, sur- PRIVATE SECRET man Nevils, S.J., pastor of St. Ignatius' church, here, and former ing clash on every hand. to see SUITIC fences and carefully guarded all president of Georgetown univer- sity. Permission to accept her ganda concerning the new five uniformed men, can be seen year plan, or the achievements of the way " Political prisoners, who gift already has been granted, along from every walk of life Father Nevils said, by the Most some Soviet war industry. The farmers face similar condi- men opposed the Soviet government, of Rev. Thomas E. Molloy, Bishop of Brooklyn, in which diocese "Inis- tions They are mostly or organized make up a large Seldom, percentage if ever, are fada" is located, and by the Very those they confined. permitted to return to their Rev. Vlodimir Ledochowski, S. J., superior general of the Society provinces and families. of Jesus. TO A Dismal Scene Included in Mrs. Brady's gift are The size of the farms is any " The cities of pre-revolutionary the 87-room mansion of Tudor- where from 1,000 to 15,000 acres. days cared can for and dilapidated. Window past- still be Elizabethan architecture at "Inis Bigness appeals to the Soviet of fada" and about 100 acres of la ficial of today, and anything but an frames hang loose, panes are there on the estate, which has be independent, individual farmer over with paper, and often look valued as high as $8,000,000. F suits him. About 16 per cent of the ed panes at all. Things in are no much down at the heel ther Nevils disclosed that the pro individual farmers are on their ince probably will use it as a hot farms; the rest have been liquidat- very every town and city throughout of philosophy or a house of ed-that is, they have been sent to Soviet farmhouses Russia. " are of wood and ology for seminarians. BE some prison camp or permitted to The a similar spectacle because of starve. They prefer to call it liqui- present farmer has been deprived dation. " the means to take care of his / Workers Are Exploited every property. However, there are a The workers of Russia earn bare- few exceptions. ly enough to buy sufficient food for For instance, in the German set- themselves and families. There is tlements, farming and industry are on beand few dollars & every millions bears fin people it all deving feel the these same capitalists every Evens millions the to peamits support 300 more wines are, ratter and the Let it crimble self crimble with it I are tired of being exploited Dr in have the to every 10 about how to live no other country in the world more efficient; the settlers live where the workers are so exploited, more comfortably and in better kept in ignorance and deprived of houses. New industries have been all liberties as in the Soviet Russia created close to the sources of raw Champaign of today. " materials. Coal and iron ore de- On the other hand, government posits are being mined. Dams have and military officials sport around been built and electric power plants ILL in the large hotels and restaurants, indulge in foreign made wines, Continued on page 12 wear foreign made clothes and ride 16 made automobiles. half -dressed and working the fields under the sary for Solution ful eye of an insolent overseer, who is paid a much higher salary than the workers. In the old days he rode a horse, now he rides a mo- torcycle. " Soviet Russia is so thoroughly patrolled that no one can leave or Knowledge of Body and Soul Neces- enter and no outside contact is pos- Newman Award Recipient Sees Complete BY DR. CARREL IS DESCRIBED MODERN CRISIS CRUMBLING Wrong nco's government as Mussolini nd that he has not to this date was not spared. the issues of Fascism that he teachers in the school testified to ederation that the Pope had accused the priest of urging the bu Hitler and Franco. It never beaten to death by men led by th City as a result of the murder of sons is his anxiety to sustain Catholic demonstration and opening and Buisoddo U Catholics were also aroused Suidin лод reasons Political belief and practice. January 17, 1937) which rep- to the continued persecution and h state. Even Leftist newspapers nouncement of the Methodist The Chicago Tribune free exercise of reason, may fordoad & upa La of the Bible. They keep 160 mil- pers, or magazines are permitted. lion people in subjection and ex- Government The people today have no more ploit their workers and peasants. knowledge of what is going on And this they call a noble experi- the rest of the world than the pro- Continued from page 1 ment and an advance over our type ppt. verbial man in the moon. They of civilization. have been developed. All this only know what they read in their " But I regard the Russian Bolshe- makes a different impression upon own papers, which are all issued vistic government as the most ruth- the traveler. The mistake most and published by the government less of dictatorships, and every visitors make is that they see only and contain nothing but propagan- Christian country should take the da of the worst sort. 9-B what has been built recently. They necessary steps to guard against are guided by an instructed inter- For instance: "Last month con- their propaganda. The exploitation preter; when they leave, they take ditions in the U. S. A. have grown of the worker in Russia constitutes with them the picture of a modern worse and worse. The number of the supreme tragedy of our present and comfortable Russia. unemployed workers has reached day, and we must keep alert and Actually, this is true of but a 26 million. Thousands of workers watchful SO that the "Russian lie" very small minority. The housing are standing in long bread lines, of a "Worker's Paradise" does not shortage in Russia is appalling In and riots are breaking out every- hypnotize us. Our own country is the larger citites the people are where. Marines are on hand to worth keeping and defending crowded together, two and often shoot anyone who does not keep in Condensed by World Digest from three families in one room; single order. Revolution in the U. S. A. Rural Progress Magazine. men, six and ten in a room. A is expected to break out in three married man who lives with his months." " Gov. Earle Bans family in a single room is indeed Here's Their Story fortunate. due to to On the other hand, the Soviet The furniture is crude and usual 'Spain In Flames' ly consists of a double iron bed, workers are told: 'Comrades, listen cheap straw tick or mattress, old to the good news. Last month we, Governor George H. Earle of table, two chairs, a small oil cook- the Soviet Workers Republic, have Pennsylvania, recently ordered the ing stove, and a picture of Stalin reached second place among the na- film, "Spain in Flames," barred tions of the world in gold produc- from Pennsylvania. and Lenin. / Many people sleep on tion. Great Britain still occupies "This picture is pure Communis- the floor. The houses are unclean first place, but there the workers tic propaganda, dressed as a plea and the backyards present a very are exploited and the capitalists re- for democracy, the governor as- unpleasant sight. (Same ceive all the benefits. Here, in our serted after seeing a preview. He Regular Workers Poorly Paid Workers Republic, you and every upheld the state board of censors, other comrade is the owner of all which earlier declined to approve I should say that in Moscow the movie. alone, 70 per cent of all the people the gold. "We Pennsylvanians are not in- live under conditions that have no The present Russian government terested in the propaganda of a killed millions, confiscated all pri government largely made and up An- of parallel in the slums of any other land. Yet they are the regular vate property, destroyed churches archists, Communists, who Syndicalists butcher priests, workers, all employed and working killed peasants for worshippin/Earle asserted. God, and exiled people for tryin= overtime to please their bosses, to train their children in the truth with no reasonable assurance that erely yours, things will be any better within the next twenty or more years. /Factory workers are paid wages far below the standard of any worker in Europe. I talked with an engineer who presents a typical new type Soviet worker. He is about 22 years old and a graduate of an engineering school. Although 11. A. LeHand the working day is supposed to be seven hours, he works nine. He PRIVATE SECRETARY earns 400 rubles a month, of which Meals he spends 40 rubles for rent. of the the cooperative restaurant four ru- in factory cost from two to govern- bles. store to buy a shirt must Should he go to any of a simple, 60 rubles for it. A 140 ment cheap material, he cheaply Blakley, Esq., made pay pair of shoes cost from desire 200 rubles. If he should he lendale Avenue, a to new suit of a shoddy material, must pay 400 rubles. // rille, es In other words, a skilled machin- must work hard a whole month of na. ist order to buy a cheap suit to take in a movie, he must pay from clothes. in And should he decide to 10 rubles to see some propa- year ganda plan, or the achievements 2½ concerning the new five of some Soviet war industry. The farmers face similar condi- tions They are mostly organized The size of the farms is any- where from 1,000 to 15,000 acres. Bigness appeals to the Soviet of- ficial of today, and anything but an independent, individual farmer suits him. About 16 per cent of the individual farmers are on their farms; the rest have been liquidat- ed-that is, they have been sent to some prison camp or permitted to starve. They prefer to call it liqui- dation. " Workers Are Exploited The workers of Russia earn bare- ly enough to buy sufficient food for themselves and families. There is no other country in the world where the workers are so exploited, kept in ignorance and deprived of all liberties as in the Soviet Russia of today. " On the other hand, government and military officials sport around in the large hotels and restaurants, indulge in foreign made wines, wear foreign made clothes and ride made automobiles. ragged and half the -dressed the fields under and the watch. men ful eye of an insolent overseer, who paid a much higher salary than the workers. In the old days he rode torcycle. a horse, now he rides a mo- " Soviet Russia is so thoroughly OUR SUNDAY VISITOR above that awful and sanguinary Reds Of Russia melee of human passions and reach the higher spheres where blissful calm and peace prevail. Disrupted Peace As we look down upon poor Spain, which for years to come shall lie prostrate on the smoking ruins of a Of Happy Spain past irretrievably destroyed, we naturally ask: "How have such things come to pass Truly, what By the Rev. Henri Blanc. Oteen, N. C. has happened baffles all thinking and questioning. It is more insane (Concluded) than the very human insanity. stage for the second and act the of However, see standing in his usual dark place behind the scenes, The is all set the hideous form of one far more curtain the tragedy rises to show us the Span- powerful than the sixty wretched ish people who become happy as emissaries from Russia, who three by magic and make merry in the years ago crossed the Spanish fron- puchly new Russian fashion; that is, in- tier to do the work of Moscow. dulging in a civil war of self-exter- mination such as the world had Prompted By The Devil never witnessed before. They- Against the gloomy sky of Spain, ppt. the great sons of beautiful and there stands the still gloomier artistic Spain, they-the great figure of one whom Christ de- lovers and worshippers of art and nounced to Peter when He said: beauty-begin to destroy and burn "Behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as 9-B what they had loved, their splen- did and magnificent religious monu- wheat". Behind the revolutionary ments and churches. Then, they and anti-God forces in Spain, I see kill the priests, the monks, the one whom the Gospel calls the nuns, and among the latter class, "Prince of this world" and whose those even with such a sympathetic short-lived power and cruel domin- and appealing name as "servants ion is. however, marked with a of the poor", devoting their lives horrible success, as foretold in the to the care of aged and destitute book of Apocalypse or Revelation. My dear Mr people, those even like the Carme- This explains how the very first lites who, long before Moscow, but act of revolution is to kill the solely for love of God, practised priests and slay them even more communism to such a degree and savagely than the dumb creatures with such an evangelical spirit as of uses. For these, man has a certain feeling of pity to say: our (not my) room, our table, our prayer-book, our holy which the human victims of the much for Spanish shambles have been denied. habit, etc. Fully aware that he no longer has In passing, everyone would be interested to know if soft-hearted any power against the Son of God, Satan shows his profound bitter- copy of brother Browder, and seemingly ness and hatred in attacking one-- zealous advocates of the poor class and "primitive communism", would the priest-who through his divine here melt into tears. I used above powers and authority, is Christ's know that the word "kill'. Truly, the term figure and living expression on is rather weak and inadequate. earth. The fact is that behind and above "Man is a wolf to his fellow man" thought (homo homini lupus) used to say the present world events and tur- moils there is only one and domi- the ancients. "The saying does not do justice and is almost an insult nant question, viz., the religious to the wolf. Like other animals, question. All our social and labor wishes the wolf tears to pieces to nourish strifes or disputes that could be itself and so do even today some settled in an atmosphere of good remote African tribes. In Spain, will and mutual understanding, however, they have killed for the are but a sham battle screening the mere sake or pleasure of killing. real conflict which is all between With a revolting sadie madness, two elements essentially and irre- human monsters have practised ar- concilably opposed-the material tistic cruelties upon mutilated and and the spiritual. Past are the agonizing bodies before giving the times of endless philosophical and 'coup de grace", theological controversies. Past are One Behind the Scenes the times of religious quarrels or And all this orgy of carnage heretical factions that split na- for the impossible triumph of tions and led to bloody civil wars. doctrine of hate and jealousy! a Gone are the times of flirtations or Against it and above the cruel exe- divided allegiance between various cutioners and torturers nothing parties. I/We have today to take must subsist. Either Bolshevism or our stand between only two par- death. And what & death! What ties: Religion or no religion at all; an end to so many human lives! Christian civilization or no civili- The tragic secret of the horrible zation We at all; Christ or anti- hrist. sufferings and agonies we shall Master declared centuries ago, go back to what the Divine never know. Only the unfortunate R. K. Blak victims who went down with it into the grave, could tell. namely: masters". "No man can serve two 1803 Glenda Let us now for a moment arise I wonder whether or not we already living a page of the Apoe- are Evansville, alypse in which I read "Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and Indiana. shall go forth and seduce the na- tions which are over the four quar- es ters of the earth". I wonder, I say, if the eschatologic times are not at hand where we witness the last and desperate attempts of Satan against the Church, the gi- gantic and final assaults of the of good. forces of evil against the forces Our Duty Our only duty and rule of con- duct is to take a firm stand beside the Church which SO many times during the past two thousand years has come face to face with the Arch-enemy, the Father of all lies, of all heresies and revolutions. Once more the Vicar of Christ on earth has denounced the com- munist and satanic propaganda aiming at winning the world over theories in an attempt to to its most stupid and devastating seduce the just and move even the powers of heaven. Childish and imprudent it would to be for any one to remain blind the world today. Let us set a bold the great peril that confronts face against it and oppose it with a soul strongly tempered, a will solid and unbending as steel. Let as us us preach and write and act. Let never cease praying. "The present world-wide nist of revolution, in the very commu- words and its leaders, is another challenge God's of power. It is the old assault of human pride against which we have to meet with Satan to "ascend into heaven" attempt old battle cry of the loyal armies the of the Most High: "Quis ut Deus 'Who is like to God?" Buchly pp7. March 11, 1937 9-B My dear Mr. Blakley: The President thanks you ever so much for your courtesy in sending him that copy of the New Testament. He wants you to know that he more X# 113 than appreciates your kind thought of him and asks me to convey his best wishes to you, Very sincerely yours, TA M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY + R. K. Blakley, Esq., 1803 Glendale Avenue, Evansville, Indiana. es March 12, 1937 P.P.7. q-B My dear Mr. Barrett: The President and Mrs. Roosevelt have asked me to thank you sincerely for your Icind letter of March ninth, and for the Shamrock which you enclosed. They appreciate your con- gratulations and are deeply grateful for your prayers. Very sincerely yours, II. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY John Barrett, Esq., 37 Third Place, Brooklyn, New York. es Brooklyn n. of 3.9.1937 To. President. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt Washington Di E. alog To your Excellancy and mrs Roosevelt I am send ye the Shamrock and my congratulations, on your wedding Anniversary 17th = march, As a b itizen I wish ye dong and huppy years to come. god bless ye yours Sincerely John Barrett 37= = 3rd place Brooklyn n. y Please no publicity ppt. Ell March 16, 1937 Buchly My dear been rece thank you tie to wh know that of him. + be accepte there will its presen TA Arthur I B. 12 Mar Beverly, Massachusetts es imponu. true, to affind you. so dor not tabe affine pp.7. March 16, 1937 9-B Buchly My dear Mr. Brook: Your letter of March eleventh has been received. The President has asked ne to thank you for your courtesy in sending him the tie to which you refer, and he wants you to know that he deeply appreciates your kind thought of him. I need hardly say that this gift can be accepted only with the understanding that there will be no publicity in connection with its presentation. Very sincerely yours, TA M. 4 LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Arthur H. Drook,Esq., B. 12 Marsh Avenue, Beverly, Massachusetts. es ve from F affind you. so dor not tabe affence Princlent Mass. ghould Beverly, 11.37. I am sending you this the that I have designed a new knot in this tie I have used so that you could have one made like it or In one yourself in your own In all the this that are being sold with the new tin knotin are tin knots I designed and different people have used me for to obtains the new designes in this I have named this the the Sun, Rainbow, Copia I An not receive any money of any sort for designing these the knots I am working on the N.P.A. Project Ymage of the city of Bevily I am a Carpenter and I do not wish to affind you. so for not take affine for me sending you this his 9 sent King George of Great Prilam a letter telling him how to the tw knots in his this. He sent me a carboard box that Runess Elesbeth jewel case came in and I-was-very pleased to obtain the same, 9.thought that you might be able to youse this his in politis, you could have a looks earlytu of your oward antim H Book B12, March goe. Rearly. Mass. ags Warm Springs, Georgia p.p.7. March 18, 1937 9-B My dear Mr. Burgin: The President has asked me to drop you a line of thanks for your courtesy in sending the doves to him. They were splendid birds and you were mighty thoughtful to think of him. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, M. H. McINTYRE theid at WS Assistant Secretary to the President Honorable J. S. Burgin, Buena Vista, Georgia. tmb Memorandum GEORGIA WARM SPRINGS FOUNDATION, Inc. WARM SPRINGS, GEORGIA TO: Miss. Hackmeister SUBJECT: birds FROM: C. W. Bussey DATE: 3/15/ 37 We received and have on storage for the President 31 doves at the commissary. These birds are from Hon. J. S. Burgin Buena Vista, Ga. ags BLOOM, Representative Sol - Director General, U.S. Constitution Sesquicentennial March 22, 1937 Commission, Writes the President sending a copy of the book entitled "The Story of the Consti tution" which is being issued by his Commission.- Also writes the President on March 22 re this same subject and also encloses an article by Frank R. Kent about him (Bloom). - On March 27, the President thanked Rep. Bloom for the copy he sent saying he is delighted to have it. SEE - 1736 (Official File) P.P.F 9-B ags OGBURN, Charlton New York,N.Y. March 23,1937 Writes the President, with a covering letter to Mr. McIntyre, enclosing a copy of an editorial from "The Manchester Guardian" in support of the President's Supreme Court Reorganization plan. Also encloses a copy of a letter he wrote Arthur Krock on the subject of the validity of union contracts with employers. Says a few days ago he received from his friend, Salvador de Madariaga, a copy of his latest book "Anarchy or Hierarchy", published in London. Is sending a copy to the President with certain passages marked. - On March 30, Mr. McIntyre replied thanking him for sending these papers to the President. Appreciates his interest in writing. SEE - P.P.F. 3794 P.P.F. 9-B ags PP.7. q-B, March 23, 1937 My dear Mr. Broward: It was mighty nice of you to send the President a copy of your book. He has asked me to thank you for your courtesy and to express his appreciation of your kind thought of him. Very sincerely yours, H. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Charles S. Broward, Esq., Boca Raton Club, Boca Raton, Florida. es CA RATON BOCA RATON, FLORIDA CLUB books. keep with achord 3/23/37 & + March 10, 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt: thank MUJ M The accompanying copy of a little book of mine, just off the press, is forwarded as an ex- pression of my continuing esteem. Chas. S. Broward X 2110 President has asked me to thank you for the box of goodies. He enjoyed them very much. I am returning herewith the book which accompanied your letter. The President was very much interested. Sincerely yours, Rec'dat W Through M. H. McINTYRE Assistant Secretary to the President Mrs. Logan Blickley, 717 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. k/tmb ags BULOW. Senator W. J. Budly p.p.t qB Warm Springs, Georgia March 24, 1937 My dear Mrs. Blickley: The President has asked me to thank you for the box of goodies. He enjoyed them very much. I am returning herewi th the book which accompanied your letter. The President was very much interested. Sincerely yours, M. H. McINTYRE Assistant Secretary to the President Mrs. Logan Blickley, 717 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. k/tmb ags BULOW. Senator W. J. Mrs. fogar 717 PIEDMONT Blickley. AVENUE ATLANTA. GEORGIA March 12th=1937 the Dear Mr. Roosevelt; I am send ing you a few goodies out fast for your made break every thing in the thini box, and hope your like to look I over, thought as you fun might millerging Xand's father mas one Way of the ags BULOW, Senator W. J. 717 PIEDMONT AVENUE great ATLANTA, GEORGIA of Georgia is quite beautiful and parting some one return the Will your please have know the In the with have as and doesn't book it when you are through son, your friend Carper Bleckey and book belongo Guy to My Day er he had received from Mr. der date of 3-22-37. Mr. By alfalfa seed for his farms ELEANOR ROOSEVELT e accepted the offer and arge of each of these farms. SHREVEPORT, La., Wednesday.-Yesterday's column was typed in the car while we were driving from Denton to Fort Worth, Texas. This is the first time that Mrs. Scheider has actually had to put the type- writer on her knees and type as we drove along. Elliott tried to be care- ful but every now and then we hit a bump, which was not so helpful to the typist. I was very much interested in the College for Industrial Arts for Women at Denton. Their art department has 30 teachers and they train for a number of professions, apparently very successfully. They would have liked to show me the whole college in the afternoon and I should have enjoyed seeing it, but when I had to choose between seeing the college and having a few hours at home with my children and grand- 7 children, I chose to go home. We spent a very pleasant afternoon writ- ing and reading and playing with the children. Ruth's mother, Mrs. Coogins, came to supper and we left her to read 3 to Chandler when we set off again to Denton, where I had to speak at i had promised President Hubbord I would not be late in order that they could all listen to my husband's speech. I was just as anxious to be through and listen to him myself. This was a curious sensation, because, as a rule, I have read the speech beforehand. But on this occasion I had no inkling of what was going to be said, and so listened to it with an entirely fresh mind. We drove home very slowly, with the radio turned on, and it certainly was a curious sensation to hear the President's voice sounding so natural and coming from the room which I could visualize so well, while I was driving along a road in Texas. One of the girls at the college presented me with a little green enamel necklace she had made herself. As she was interested in jewelry, I showed her a ring which I always wear because the stone was given me by an old and very dear friend. The ring itself was made by Miss Grace Hazen, who was twice the winner of the national arts prize for hand- made Jewelry. The college student was very much interested and ex- amined the ring with care, and then I had to give the history of a pendant which I wore, made in part from some ornaments found in some ancient ruins. Early this morning we were up and packed and my granddaughter, Chandler, ushered us in to say good-bye to baby Elliott. After breakfast the mayor of Shreveport, Sam Caldwell, came for us and we started on our drive from Fort Worth to Shreveport. It was a longer drive than I expected, but a beautiful day and very lovely country, flat at first, later rolling, with an increasing number of trees. We stopped for a cup of coffee and a sandwich at noon and be- fore long a small procession of people were coming up to shake hands. ne old lady confided in me that she loved the President and followed erything do tho. be did, and read all about the family whenever she could. (Copyright, 1937. for The Constitution.) ags BULOW, Senator W. J. Washington, D. C. 3-25-37 Forwarded to the President a letter he had received from Mr. Sam H. Bober of Newell, South Dakota, under date of 3-22-37. Mr. Bober offers to send the President some alfalfa seed for his farms in New York and Georgia. -- Mr. McIntyre accepted the offer and sent Mr. Bober the names of the men in charge of each of these farms. SEE P.P.F. 1-I PP7 9-B ill \ WORTH 2-3752 I Buchly March 26, 1937 P.P.7 q-B Gentlemen: The copy of the book which you forwarded to the President has been received and I went to thank you in his behalf for your courtesy in the matter. Very sincerely yours, M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Barnes & Noble, Inc., 105 Fifth Avenue, New York City. get WORTH 2-3752 I March 26, 1937. P.P.A q-B 9- Respectfully referred to the State Department for such action 88 may be deemed appropriate. Attention: Mr. Eddy. M. H. MeINTYRE Assistant Secretary to the President er/ Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Day Pardee, Les Tuileries, La Croisette, Cannes, (A.M.) France. Sends in three books: 1 - "Histoire de la Louisiane" and 2 - "Voyages de Chastellux". All in French. Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., No. 6, Great New Street, London, E.C. 4, England. Book: "Spanish Journey" by Eleonora Tennant. Walter B. Boyce gives his view of book. Committee for the Publication of the Book, "History of the Mexican Revolution" which is enclosed. Signed by Senator Benigno Abundez and Jose T. Melendez, Apartado Postal No. 1776, Mexico, D.F. 3/3. Copy of letter attached. Nicolas Monaco, Calle Alsina 1960, Dep. 14, Buenos Aires, Argenting States he is an admirer of the President and is sends a sil- houette of the Pres. He is a poor artist and wants a reply. 3/17/37. J. Pettersson, Estesmalens Sjukhem, Linnegaten, Stockholm, Sweden. Not dated. Writes she is a cripple and sends President a pair of hand-knit hose and snap-shot of self. WORTH 2-3752 Build \ I vah. O'DAY, Hon. Caroline, (O'Day, Mrs. Daniel) House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. March 30, 1937 Writes to Miss LeHand asking her to ask the President if it would possible for him to receive personally, a committee from the New School for Social Research in order that they may present him with a. collective book on Democracy by the faculty of the School in Exile. See P.P.F. 3152 P.P.7. 9-B WORTH 2-3752 Build I BEDFORD ALLISON MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTATIVE BROADWAY NXEXVK XYORK 4500 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, Calif. March 31, 1937. The Honerable Franklin D.Roosevelt. The White House. p.7. Washington, D.C. q-B My Dear Mr President: Dr.William G.Baird, resident of Los Angeles, native of Arkansas and my neighbor, has made a fishing rod with his own hands, from the splitting of the bamboo from which it is constructed to a splendid accessory for a fisherman who has sought and caught big ones. His thought in fabricating this pole was that as (per the press) you are going fishing you might accept as a gift this specimen of his handiwork, a dis- ciple of Isaac Walton and a Democrat. If agreeable Dr.Baird will send this to The White House on receipt of your reply. Yours sincerely, predford allison April 6, 1937 My dear Mr. Allison: The President has asked me to thank you for your letter of March thirty-first. He is very appreciative indeed of the desire of Dr. Baird to present the fishing rod to him. If the Doctor will send it to me, I shall be glad to present it to the President, with the Doctor's compliments. Very sincerely yours, M. H. McINTYRE Assistant Secretary to the President Bedford Allison, Esq., 4500 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California. hm April 21, 1937 P.P.7 q-B My dear Dr. Baird: The President has asked me to be sure and thank you for your thoughtfulness in sending him that splendid fishing rod, which you made yourself. He is delighted to have it and wants you to know of his very real appreciation. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, M. H. McINTYRE Assistant Secretary to the President + Dr. William G. Baird, 657 North Alexandria Street, Los Angeles, California. RB/mwd Auga Mac Mr will you Los Angeles, California thank April 14, 1937. Hon. M. H. McIntyre, Assistant Secretary to the President. Dear Mr. Secretary: Our mutual friend, Mr. Bedford Allisson, has just shown me a, letter from you, in which you say "His Excellency, the President will accept the fishing rod". I sincerely hope that in his fishing he will cease to be a much harassed President of the greatest nation on earth, but rather become Franklin D. Roosevelt, the fisher- man, enjoying life to its fullest measure. I am, sir, Yours very respectfully, Wom G Baird MD Wm. G. Baird, M.D., 657 North Alexandria, Los Angeles, California B:V ags BULL, Fred W. Casper, Wyo. 4-1-37 Advises the President of his approval of his Supreme Court proposal and says that if the President will send him his autograph he will send the President a painting by a well known artist of Wyo, SEE 41-Judiciary Reorg-B PP7 q.B x, 121 Teorge 2T medford mass p.p.7 q-B Buckly April 2, 1937 study My dear Mr. Browne: The President thanks you ever so Pris much for your kind letter of March twenty-third. He is very glad indeed to have that nice fish- To ing rod and wants you to know that he more than appreciates the friendly spirit which prompted you to present it to him. He trusts that you are now restored to health and asks me to convey his sincere good wishes to you. Very sincerely yours, M. A. LeHand x, PRIVATE SECRETARY John D. Browne, Isq., Ambassador Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee. es 121 Teorge IT medford mass ROOM AND BATH $1.50 H Ambassador Memphis, Tenn. Hotel Mar 23- 37. uchly How & & Roosevelt. fashing you DD. 6 4/28 shark. ML My dear President Ram sending you under seperate cover a feel- mg rod, which was metended as an Imangual presant helay; However you will be able Owing In the united health, to the nee it on you next firling try; and ? Trust you will like is and catch x, many fich Should you think Xam gorden- ough and have any rrde that muck refairing will he glad ts renduce you that Service es am a constituent of Sent Pali Harrin X your very Truly Johns R Browne 121 Teorge It medford mass P.P.7 q-B Buchly April 2, 1937 My dear Mr. Berg: The President thanks you ever so much for your nice letter of March fifth and wants you to know that he deeply appreciates the friendly thought which prompted you to send him the carving, a product of your am workmanship. Your generous words of commendation are most gratifying to him. Very sincerely yours, am hamated M. A. LeHand x, PRIVATE SECRETARY Frank J. Berg, Esq., 121 George Street, Medford, Massachusetts. es 129 George St medford mass medford mass. Franklin H. Roosevelt March 5 1937 ackgd as President of The United States: Dear Sir; you This Roosevelt Coat of arms which l I am sending is. as Carved and decorated x on my spare time it a sort of Thank you for making possible for me to be at work on morale a Federal art Project (and saving my The ) after meary years of walking which did not exist parements looking for The work I hope you will except it and en joy it as much as I did in planning and making it Sincerely and Gratefully yours Frank I Berg 121 George St medford mass P.P.A 9-8 April 3, 1937 Buckly My dear Lieutenant Baarslag: The President has asked me to thank you ever so much for your courtesy in sending him a copy of your book "Coast Guard to the Rescue" which has been received through the the Pas. courtesy of Honorable Robert F. Wagner. He is glad to have the volume and wants you to know that he appreciates your kind thought in presenting it to him. Very sincerely yours, M. AA LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY x, Lieutenant Karl Baarslag. Box 1939, Miami, Florida. es the hope that the sidents love of the sea accord place ships do will work move a him on to ahgel his book shell alongide of nited States Senate 4/3 ss "SOS TO THE RESCUE Rospectfully Respect thilly WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 1937. Miss Marguerite A. Le Hand, Personal Secretary to meanu President Roosevelt, The White House, you maha Washington, D. C. (1936) nuam Dear Miss Le Hand: Mr. Karl Baarslag, author of "Coast Guard to the Rescue" has asked that I present his book to the President. Would you be kind enough to take care x, of this matter for me. Very sincerely yours, Robert . Magner + £ 139 7 my 0 is a, is LIEUT. (J.G.) KARL H.W. BAARSLAG Adoo NEER OBERT F. WAGNER NEW YORK angel United States Senate 4/3 4/3 58 ss WASHINGTON, D.C. March 30, 1937. Miss Marguerite A. Le Hand, Personal Secretary to manu President Roosevelt, The White House, you mall Washington, D. C. Dear Miss Le Hand: Mr. Karl Baarslag, author of "Coast Guard to the Rescue" has asked that I present his book to the President. Would you be kind enough to take care of this matter for me. Very sincerely yours, ", Robert . Magner X COPY April 3, 1937 P.P.7 Respectfully referred to the State q-B Department for appropriate acknowledgment. Attention: Mr. Southgate. RR 11. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY from Frank H. Beck, Charing Cross Hotel, London, W.C.2. Letter March 22, 1937. re: Encloses a booklet on Palestine entitled "The Case of the Palestine Arab". " 3 + X COPY April 8, 1937. COPY April 7, 1937. My dear Madame Jusserand:- For many weeks I have been intending to write you a longhand letter --- but I am coming to the conclusion that I have com- pletely lost the art. So will you forgive this typewritten note; I shall always treasure those delightful copies of M. Jusserand's books, and they are in my personal glass bookcase in my study where I see them every day. I am sending you the original copy of the little address I made at the unveiling of the Memorial in Rock Creek Park. When I pass it in my drives this Spring and Summer I shall often think of you both. Eleanor joins me in warm regards. Faithfully yours, Madame J. J. Jusserand, 5 Avenue Montaigne, Paris, X, France. P.P.F. SEE P.P.F. 4499 - for first carbon 9-B 3 X COPY April 8, 1937. MEMORANDUM FOR Mr. SOUTHGATE: Will you please be good enough to have the enclosed letter and book forwarded to Madame Jusserand by pouch? M. A. LeHand, Private Secretary HM Letter signed by the President, 4/7/37 to Madame J. J. Jusserand, 5 Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France, thanking for copies of M. Jusserand's book. Also accompanying this letter is the original copy of the President's address made at the unveiling of the Jusserand Memorial in Rock Creek Park. SEE P.P.F. 4499-for first carbon P.P.F. 9-B X, 3 x NOBOA, Carlos Manuel, Empresa Periodistica, Presna Ecuatoriana, Guayaquil, April 10, 1937. (Filed 5-26/36) america Letter written in Spanish, saying he has written a book called "Merica Libre" (Free America) and the President of Ecuador, Federico Paez has asked him to send President Roosevelt, the third volume of this work, together with President Paez's message of "fraternal personal adherence" in which the latter expresses his zeal "for everything related with the policy and the acts of our America". Would like President to write an encouraging statement for the fourth volume of his new book. Would also like to have President's autographed photo. See ELEVAN 563 br PPF, 9-B *, 3 Translator's summary of communication. French Language in which written: p.f.7 Date of communication: April 6, 1937 q-B Addressed to: The President Name and address of writer: Auguste Boncroy Rostrenen France Substance of statements made by the writer: dm He has just finished a second book of prose and verse on the exploits of Napoleon. He is sending a copy of this book, with his picture, to the President, The work is in three large volumes. While giving due credit to peace, it glorifies the armies of all nations. Special attention is called to the opening lines of "Le Retour", the first four alexandrines forming the name of one of Napoleon's greatest victories. x, Request made in communication: Remarks: No book or picture with letter. Translated and summarized by: P 3 Trankin BURE monsieur be Président, APR 201937 PM le poete frangais de Sa majeste imperiale napoless premier, Se permet de bous transmettrs for effigie, amec tiembleme Sacré des lecondes 'Odes obriomphales" qui, wenant diete achevies pour la glorification hyprome de la litterature Contemporaine mondiale, sout a la Veille dietre livrées à pensée universelle, - monsium be Président, f auteur bous prie de bies bouloir unarguer alexandrius formant le non, dime des plus retentissantes Victoires que le "Retour" débute de façon toute sensationmelle, les quatre premiers Mapoléoniennes, de par leurs lettres initiales. - Les secondes "Odes obriomphales' sont etablies en trois tomes Voluminery, qui representent dix hunt mil héxametres, et his cent pages de prose alternant systimatiquement, et de façor, harmonique. - Loure qui at d ampleur merveilleus, a poin million de glorifier les armies de toutes les nations, tont en fairant lapologie de la paix tainte et anguste, hors de laquelle il niet point de Veritable prosperite'. - Venilly Croine, montion le Président, a ma Complete miniration poetigne. Augusti Boncoy P.P.T. q-B April 12, 1937 Bucky My dear Mr. Bonner: The President has received your letter of April sixth and asks me to thank you for your courtesy in forwarding him a copy of the 1936 report of the Monroe County Division of Regional Planning. He is glad to have the volume and appreciates your kind thought of him. Very sincerely yours, T.A M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY J. Franklin Bonner, Esq., Director of Regional Planning, Monroe County Department of Public Works, 1400 South Avenue, Rochester, New York. d S COUNTY OF MONROE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS GEORGE C. WRIGHT J. FRANKLIN BONNER DIVISION OF REGIONAL PLANNING DIRECTOR OF REGIONAL PLANNING DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS 1400 SOUTH AVE., ROCHESTER, N.Y. TA April 6, 1937 aked 4/12/37cd ML Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, President United States of America White House Washington, D. C. My dear President: At Ithaca in August 1931 and again in Rochester in the Spring of 1932, you told me of your interest and praise for the work which we were doing in regional planning in the Monroe County area. Since that time much has been accomplished particularly in the field of land use planning. With the assistance of professional and technical workers furnished us by T.E.R.A., C. W. A. and W. P. 4,, the details of our work have gone forward with increased speed. There is sent herewith a copy of the 1936 report of the Monroe County Division of Regional Plan- ning, which I know is too voluminous for you to read but you may be interested in glancing at the maps which are included at the end of the report. With personal greetings, Respectfully yours, J. Franklin Bonner Director S Buckly nate April 12, 1937 P.P. 7B to Dear Rosemary: The President was perfectly delighted with the pig and it sits peacefully on his desk. I had an extraordinarily good rest at Warm Springs-although I must say I had not felt any great need for one this session. I hope I shall see you some- time soon. Moss delived Affectionately, /s/ onarguerite mal/tmb Miss Rosemary Brooks, 10 Linnaean Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dear Margurite, Dhank Thursday- Richly The enclosed Jeg in for the President's collection. I hope it's different from any he has aluady. Babe a woven order and I keep on the alert for any kind et has r of a pig ! you should pee the paleogirle' expressions when they are asked, Have br you any pige?" Hope you have had some- what of a rest - as does Narm Springs P.P.F. 9-B Ruchly nd woven n order ket has ar mean Mgular routine. for you? br am laoking forward to your next meit home - with lave, Rosemary. Brook 10 Linnaean St. Cambridge, mass. mill Ruchly Marquarite and woven proply in order nket has lar br P.P.7 9-B Ruchly TINGLEY, Hon. Clyde, Governor of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico April 13, 1937. Letter to Mr. McIntyre, that he is sending him an all wool hand woven blanket, made by a vocational class, who are taught this type of work in order that they may be self supporting when they get out of school. The blanket has Mr. McIntyre's name woven in full. If the President would like a similar blanket with his name, he will have one made for him. See M.H.McI-Gifts br P.P.F. 9-B P.P.7 Buchly q-B April 13, 1937 PERSONAL My dear Miss Baker: I just want to thank you for that copy of your book of verses which you sent me through Miss LeHand. It was good of you to think of me. This little personal note also gives me an opportunity to extend to you my best wishes for your health and happiness. Very sincerely yours, Min se Hand Miss Dora K. Baker, x # Apartment 404, 1400 Fairmont Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. avv Apt. 404, 1400 Fairmont St., N. W., 18.2.2. Washington, D. C., April 12, 1937. Think Miss Marguerite A. LeHand, Private Secretary to the President, The White House, Washington, D. C. P personal My dear Miss LeHand: As I realize how busy our illustrious President is, I am taking the liberty of writing you this letter and sending you herewith a book of verse which I have written and which has just come from the Publishers. I shall indeed be most grateful to you if you will please be so kind as to give this book to the President. I should like partic- ularly to direct your attention to the poem on page 11. I live here with my Mother and sister. I have an organic illness of the nervous system, for which medical science has not yet discovered a cure, and which especially makes walking difficult for me and life most difficult in general. I do earnestly hope that the President may see this letter and my book and that he will like my poems. It would indeed make me the happiest and proudest girl in the world, if I might hear from our wonderful President. We are the greatest admirers of our President and our very charming and gracious First Lady and their family, as well as your charming self. I wish again to express to you my most sincere appreciation. Sincerely yours, DoraEBakes Powehly April 17, 1937 P.P.T. q.B My dear Mr. Bistor: The President has received your letter of April second and has noted it with interest. He aske me to thanks you very much for your courtesy in sending him a copy of the book "All These Things" by Mr. William Paul Kinney and he wants you to know that he deeply appreciates your kind thoughtfulness. It was indeed nice of you to carry out the wishes of Mr. Kinney. Very sincerely yours, Mrs Renales 11. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY es J. E. Bistor, Esq., 612 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 1oney Founders, Inc. chigan Ave. CHICAGO Superior 1125 Informed Americans demand that Congress now provide sufficient Constitutional Money to restore and stabilize ES E. BISTOR, PRES. GEORGE W. REINECKE, V. PRES, a price level adequate to sustain existing debt structure AMES D. STOVER, SECY. WILLIAM WALLER JR., TREAS. and thereby re-establish mass purchasing power. April Second Should hice 1937. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, The White House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: pox Under separate cover we are mailing you a copy of "All These Things" which has just been published by A. N. Field, P.O. Box 154, Nelson, New Zealand. This book was ordered for you by Mr. William Paul McKinney, the author of THE TRUTH ABOUT FARM POVERTY, on January 19th, 1937. Mr. McKinney passed away on March 1st, and your book has just arrived from New Zealand. We are, therefore, carrying out Mr. McKinney's wishes by sending it to you as we feel sure you will find the contents very illuminating. I called your attention to this book in my letter to you of January 19th in connection with the proposed visit of Sir Otto Niemeyer. This book deals at length with this distinguished gentlemen's activities in New Zealand, and should be interesting both to the Treasury Department and the State Department. Yours very truly, Johnta J. E. Bistor, Pres. HONEST MONEY FOUNDERS, Inc. By JEB:B. American Citizens Must be Aroused to Action Organize "Town Hall" Mass Meetings Everywhere DEBATE THE MONEY QUESTION - UNDERSTAND IT Every Citizen Should Write Both His Congressmen and Senators Send Copies of These Letters to the President DEMAND THAT YOUR CONGRESSMEN VOTE TO: (1) REPEAL 1863 NATIONAL BANK ACT AND ALL SUBSEQUENT AMEND- MENTS. (2) NATIONALIZE ALL TWELVE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS. (Federal Goverment can purchase their stock with sound Constitutional Money). (3) REPLACE GRADUALLY OUR 34 BILLION DOLLARS OF TAX EXEMPT INTEREST BEARING GOVERNMENT BONDS WITH SOUND CONSTITU- TIONAL MONEY (saving our taxpayers nearly a billion dollars yearly interest now paid to the money monopoly of banks and insurance companies). (4) RESTRICT ALL FUTURE MONEY TO TREASURY NOTES, TO BE FULL LEGAL TENDER, GOOD FOR ALL DEBTS AND TAXES, (PUBLIC AND PRIVATE) AT FACE VALUE. (5) MAINTAIN A FREE MARKET FOR GOLD AND SILVER (so that their value as commodities will determine future prices, the same as wheat, corn and cotton). Then our $10,500,000,000 of sterilized gold and our 2 Billion Dollars of silver can remain buried in the Kentucky Hills until we need them to settle inter- national trade balances. (6) CONTINUE OUR 15,000 STATE AND NATIONAL BANKS TO REMAIN PRIVATELY OWNED AND OPERATED (but prohibit them from creating credit money which they can collapse at will. They should maintain 100% reserves and only be warehouses for money). (7) LEVY A FEDERAL TAX OF 1/2% PER MONTH AGAINST ALL MONEY AND BANK DEPOSITS, TO BE APPLIED QUARTERLY, AND SUPPLE- MENT THIS ACTION WITH A CURRENCY THAT DEPRECIATES IN VALUE AT THE SAME RATE. 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Mail copies of THE TRUTH ABOUT MONEY (Booklet No. 1.) $ Mail copies of THE TRUTH ABOUT INTEREST (Booklet No. 2.) $ Mail copies of THE TRUTH ABOUT FARM POVERTY (Booklet No. 3.) $ Mail Books No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 as listed above $ (Please check which books are desired) I attach herewith remittance to cover the total purchase of $ Send books C.O.D. I will pay postman total purchase price plus usual collection fee. If not satis- fied, books may be returned within 5 days and purchase price will be refunded. (PLEASE PRINT) Name Address City State Ruch April 19, 1937 pr.7. 9-13 My dear Miss Burch: This will acknowledge your letter of April fifth, The President thanks you ever socmuch for your courtesy in sending him your painting and has asked me to express his cordial appreciation of all the nice things you say. He sends you his best wishes. I an indeed sorry, but because of the extrese pressure of his official duties, it simply is impossible for the President to malee personal acknowLedgemt of the many letters that are constantly coming to him. I know you will understand. Very sincerely yours, TH M. 4. LoHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Miss Rochelle Burch, Woodstock, Georgia. es President Rosseult. ML M shink woodstock Go wed washington D.C. "4/19al april. 5, 1937. TA Dear Stir. Enclosed find a pos Partrait suchly of your likeness. I only had a crude Prictine in the paper to work from I-7hink your face is abondexful to paintsuch 7, worderful features Eme a Country gif hoping some dan to become a great 3 have pine been Poor I work in the artist I notice Tlete of famous artista fuld and paint when I have time delighted written the a nice letter which I made a Picture of gor, Rivers he wab Treasure highly I hope now will take time to write me a letter and will Oh! accept thout the little would picture treasure Iam a sending from you and d would appreciate me Prosevelts name on it too Iabo think she is the gratest of americas first Lady and also hant done some good wating in the Papers. Iam 23 yrs, and and Vated for you inne your Election, for President am glad tohan you again for President and want to thank also for you for Helping the Country. es wonderful Warm place Sprin hope to have for its the a Pleasure to meet 4rd at worm prings on your next visit there. It also is wonderful for those aflectid tind sick. It ié one of the wonders of Georgia- Hoping you line will and take Best time wishes to such drop me a remain our president always to you and long for you to B 7, Respectfuly yours miss Rochelle Burch wordetock. Ga es Γ, Mrs. Larrabee Male Thank Buch April19, 1937 12 lb. rock fish. sent to the house prt. wsb ner: q-B ; has asked me to ac- a April sixteenth and 10 enjoyed that fine ates your kind thought to convey his very best sincerely yours, no House M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Honorable Frank T. Bell, X# Commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. pp7 4415 es 3.9 3 Buckly April 19, 1937 pp7. q-B 7, My dear Mr. Commissioner: The President has asked me to ac- knowledge your note of April sixteenth and to tell you how much he enjoyed that fine Rock fish. He appreciates your Icind thought of him and requests me to convey his very best wishes to you. Very sincerely yours, no House II. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Honorable Frank T. Bell, X# Commissioner, Bureau of Fisheries, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. GRT 4415 es 3.9 3 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE acked BUREAU OF FISHERIES WASHINGTON 4/1990 April 16, 1937 My dear Mr. President: A fine twelve-pound Rock Fish, the first of this season, has just been received, and I want you and your family to have it for your enjoyment, with my highest compliments and best wishes. Faithfully yours, COMMISSIONER Honorable Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States White House Washington April 19, 1937 Buchly p.p.7. My dear Mr. Brown: The copies of your book "Democratic 9-13 Opinions and Experience" have been received and I want to assure you, in the President's behalf, that your courtesy in sending them to him is appreciated. Very sincerely yours, M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Burdette B. Brown, Esq., 2600 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. ek April 19, 1937 prt, geB My dear Miss Block: This will acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April eighteenth. The President is most appreciative of the friendly interest which your letter evidences and of your kind offer to send him a piece of your handiwork. He feels that he should not accept a gift upon which you have spent so much of your time and skill. He sends you his very best wishes. Very sincerely yours, M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Miss Mary F. L. Block, 1816 Bolton Street, Baltimore, Maryland. hm hir. Franklyn b. koorevelt april 15/37 07 Dear Francient Lir of the ank U. J.h. a whatshadd to you my Tway inventive for to were't this may caurage 20 honor and respect and dear President In and inverty Blove, Her. F.D. Rovsevelt and his energatics, me- thing wife, 3have listened to and en theread over everyo broadeests in which our Prise of beautifully Kindly /37 here in my horrn (baing a partial Ju) stand his ground Thave applace dectime That Thank waved my two flag in admiration Envo anter nee Other may I mail my offering to you by and far reaching for the cal Post or otherwise? me have full directions same. Relieve me in are der to safe guard Happily and layally hiss May 1816 Lallane Bolton Folock It. Janes, Baltinore MY Mady Envoi REE Date 5 Office: 2) toward his picture which Shave herealso in my orry 3prayed for and cried where he was 07 to manimously relected, Icarld continue to togate Vimilar occurred butfor fear of being tood felt wish, namely 1 a Texe- I will at once bring before Jace my heart cuted are asignal fiede ofnecdle -paint, valued and to prove all Thave ing, which has been greatly praised and written above 3 am most are Lives and Hame torny much beloved and his wife, Itreet that for will assept Dame it would make everyo happy in though let 7/37 z are not a forming but I anyther in my interest in all that is worthy Envoice at iom exc andeur préside FREE Son, Other "Envoi inporte imperial Boncors, anteur did seconder ones of uomptules",- Ros ieney cdn France à Son excellence monsieur RoosWelt président des A.A merique Washing con. Amerique photographic imprime ell STATE O'NOTOL PASSED \ THE + 7 4/27/37 D 7 Janesville, Wisconsin. Editor, The Gasette, Mr. Stephen Bolles, Wisause which prompted it. appreciates the gift as well you for the generous gift of Dear Mr. Bolles: ej-b tidd The President has 4 Ruch to Ass Very U.S. Customs Bureau. City Post Office Customs Form 6423 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Art. 369, C. R. 1931 Washington, D.C. Nov. 5-24 DAMAGE His Excellency, Mr. Roosvelt, President of the United States, Local. The contents of this package were found MIII-TIM to be damaged when opened in the U.S. ENTRY NO. Appraiser's Stores. CASE NO. Picture frame and glass found demolished. April 21, 19337. 2-441 Leo E Vine U a GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1033 U.S. Customs Ex P. TRY NO. NO. in the U. found S. S. Customs P.P.F. XPR7 9-p x203-a 44/27/37 4 <- 6p.7 7 AUGUSTUS AUGUS TUS OMNIPOTENS I Backly 21, 1937 ESURRECTIO GLORIA ATERNA FL as to thank He greatly kindly spirit rely yours, EN EARLY Wisawa t Secretary to the President Mr. Stephen Bolles, Editor, The Gasette, wdh-mw Janesville, Wisconsin. LE RETOUR DES CENDRES DE NAPOLÉON, SAUVEUR DE LA PATRIE Il est minuit. Et je songe à mon Empereur. Enseveli depuis quatre ans à Sainte-Hélène, Napoléon tu es toujours cher à mon coeur. Aigle, repose-toi Ta face souveraine, On ne la verra plus foudroyer les vaincus !... II est minuit, grand Dieu ! Et la gloire éternelle De l'Empire écrasé, sur mes sens éperdus Flotte terriblement, affole ma cervelle. Napoléon premier est mort comme un héros Sur un îlot battu de la vague harmonie Que le Dieu des Chrétiens ait soin de son repos, Puisque mon Empereur connut une mort pieuse ! Vous voilà libérés de votre obsession, Peuples coalisés des nations farouches Qu'il avait terrassées, notre Napoléon !... Il ne tressaillera plus au bruit des cartouches Fracassant les bandits qui venaient ravager Le sol national, ce prodigieux foudre Qu'on ne peut malgré soi, un instant, oublier, Tant il épandit par l'univers de la poudre ! ...J'aime mon Empereur, le plus grand des Français; J'aime Napoléon, le Sauveur de la France. La nation te pleure, et tes restes sacrés Regagneront Paris à notre exubérance Le Poète Impérial BONCORS. Fragment des secondes " Odes Triomphales ", qui se- ront publiées en 1937, 2377 ans après la mort de Pindare, l'illustre enfant de Cynoscéphales et incompa- rable auteur des premières Odes Triomphales" Editions de « L'Action Intellectuelle Poitiers (Vienne) France Rully 6p.7 P. Beachly q-B April 21, 1937 Dear Mr. Bolles: The President has asked me to thank you for the generous gift of cheese. He greatly appreciates the gift as well as the kindly spirit which prompted it. Very sincerely yours, STEPHEN EARLY WHare Assistant Secretary to the President Mr. Stephen Bolles, Editor, The Gasette, wdh-mw Janesville, Wisconsin. Buelly P.P.7 37 qB THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON 4/21/37 ere kind STEVE: is one of To prepare reply. ch it has k you very the state, FDR he Surss committed you. That clumk cecom= Eliunk für panies I cant hm guarantee quality because it is not from newyork Besides Whydid not l'eve delives muself your succes Chas a-Hamilia THE MHILE HONSE Builly 5/37/35 P.P.7 1937 This is qB 55 Club on (cheese)- what - arise april 18/34 were kind it e is one of Stene do miny of Nisconsin, ich it has ank you very of our state, of the Swiss is committed you. That clunk accom: "chunk" In panies this note I caut hm grantee quality because it is not from newyork Besides: why did not P.S. Item deliver humself 5 yours surcessly e.a.H. Chas a Hanultan nee THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: National THE WHITE HOUSE Me President brings chear o nice Nes Steve a resident Bolles, of THE SECRITY National Press Club Dear the President Washington april 18/34 (p.p.7. 37 qB Stevo Bolles, of Disconsin, once a resident of our state, Gring cheese of the Swiss were kind ty pe and has committed e is one of to my care a"chunk" for ich it has ank you very you. That clunk accom= panies this note I cout S, grantee quality because it is not from newyork Besides: why did not hm Item deliver humself P.S. Try is e.a.Hi an "Mac yours 4 Chas a Hanuttan Buddy P.P.7 April 22, 1937 qB My dear Mr. Baldwin: The "Maple Cream" which you were kind enough to send me by Secretary Wellace is one of X1 the most attractive forms of maple which it has been my pleasure to sample, and I thank you very much indeed for it. Very sincerely yours, Mus le Hand G. N. Baldwin, Esq., Hinesburg, Vermont. hm DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF SERVIS GRICULTURE PUNITED washington April 21, 1937 The President The White House Dear Mr. President: When I was in New York attending. the Northeast Regional Agricultural Conference the other day, two Vermont maple sugar producers gave me one of their special products known, I believe, as "Maple Cream", and asked me to hand it to you. I am sending it to you herewith. It is said to be very good. Also I am enclosing a suggested reply which you may wish to sign. Respectfully yours, Hawallan Secretary Enclosures April 21, 1937 Mr. G. N. Baldwin Hinesburg, Vermont Dear Mr. Beldwin: The President The "Maple Creem" which you were kind enough to The White House send me by Secretary Wallace is one of the most attractive Dear Mr. President: forms of maple which it has been my pleasure to sample, and When I was in New York attending the Northeast I Regional Agricul tural Conference the other day, two Vermont maple sugar producers gave ne one of their special products known, 1 believe, as "Maple Cream", and asked me to hand it to you. I am sending it to you herewith. It is said to be very good. Also I am enclosing a suggested reply which you may wish to sign. Respectfully yours decretary's File Room (Signed) Hawallace Secretary Enclosures Mr. G. N. Baldwin Hinesburg, Vermont Dear Mr. Baldwin: The "Maple Cream" which you were kind enough to send me by Secretary Wallace is one of the most attractive forms of maple which it has been my pleasure to sample, and I thank you very much indeed for it. Sincerely yours, Mr. G. N. Baldwin Hinesburg, Vermont Dear Mr. Baldwin: The "Maple Cream" which you were kind enough to send me by Secretary Wallace is one of the most attractive forms of maple which it has been my pleasure to sample, and I thank you very much indeed for it. Sincerely yours, I P.P.A. Buchly qB April 23, 1937 My dear Senator: I was delighted to receive those bottles of Dream House syrup. I think you were mighty nice to remember me. Thank you also for that very cordial invitation you extend to visit you at your Dream House. I hope I shall have an opportunity to enjoy your hospi- tality one of these days. Very sincerely yours, Shut Co House RB/mm Honorable Theodore G. Bilbo, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. BENNETT CHAMP CLARK, MO. ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, MICH. JOHN H. OVERTON, LA. WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., MAINE NATHAN L. BACHMAN, TENN. ERNEST W. GIBSON, VT. THEODORE G. BILBO, MISS. United States Senate VIC DONAHEY, OHIO JOSEPH F. GUFFEY, PA. COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE FRANCIS T. MALONEY, CONN, CLAUDE PEPPER, FLA. JOSH LEE, OKLA. GRACE MC ELDOWNEY, CLERK April 17, 1937 To prepare Bilk me: GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE, MD. ROGER WILLIAMSON, ASST. CLERK 2 10R President Franklin D. Roosevelt The White House Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: Be sweet. I am pleased to present to you two bottles of pure, genuine, unadulterated, South Mississippi sugar-cane syrup, grown and manufactured upon my own plantation. The brand under which this syrup is being put on the market, as you will note from the label, is Dream House syrup-- the label carrying a picture of my plantation home. No doubt you have had substitutes and adulterated syrups of all sorts and kinds imposed upon you while eating your morning batter-cakes. Please take this small portion of the genuine Southern syrup that was processed and treated against crystallization in a WPA plant. I am pleased to convey to you with this Syrup an invitation to visit me at my Dream House at your first opportunity. The doors of my Colonial Home stand wide open inviting you to enjoy some real Southern hospitality. Come when you will and stay as long as you can. Sincerely This Bilbg yours, Goorge Brow 10. of The Biloxi Garden Club Flowers P.P.7 9-B 9- - B 9-7 X200-LL + As 4-30-37 n.f.7 Dn Neiohbors p.p.7 Bucher April 26, 1937 q-B My dear Mr. Brown: The President has asked me to thank you and the members of your Committee ever so much for your courtesy in sending him the picture. He is glad to have 1t and deeply appreciates the friendly thought which prompted your act. Very sincerely yours, threw away M. 4. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY George Brown, Esq., Le Claire, Iowa. es cl.7 C Dr leig hbors George Brown April 26, 1937 Le Claire, Iowa. Itashington, D.C. President The united States >> acknowledge the receipt of twenty-fifth. Thank you very much in the President's behalf for your thoughtful courtesy in sending a copy of your magazine to him. Very sincerely yours, M.A. LeHand TA PRIVATE SECRETARY Alberto Barreto, Esq., Neighbors, 1314 Eighteenth Street, Northwest, hm Washington, D. C. n.f.7 Dr hbors Please accept our picture April 26, 1937 of the them with our "Best Wishes From the Shem The X Committee. Brown (Charoman) mowledge the receipt of George Le clam, Iama enty-fifth. Thank you very much in the President's behalf for your thoughtful courtesy in sending a copy of your magazine to him. Very sincerely yours, M. A. LeHand TA PRIVATE SECRETARY Alberto Barreto, Esq., Neighbors, 1314 Eighteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. hm pl.7 q-B April 26, 1937 My dear Mr. Barreto: This will acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April twenty-fifth. Thank you very much in the President's behalf for your thoughtful courtesy in sending a copy of your magazine to him. Very sincerely yours, TA M.A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY Alberto Barreto, Esq., Neighbors, 1314 Eighteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C. hm Neighbors THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAS A. Barreto Published by the Barreto Publishing Co. Managing Editor Buch 1314 18th STREET, N.W. Washington, D.C. April 25th. 1937. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, White House, My dear Mr. President: May I take the liberty, as a Peruvian, to tell you that I have always admired men who do great things. Your invitation to the Latin American Governments to convene in Buenos Aires, and your opening address were the final spark needed to fire my ambition to publish the magazine which I send you today under the title of "Neighbors", The Magazine of the Americas - inspired by, and designed to carry on your memorable Good Neighbor policy. Informed by the press that you are about to depart on a fishing trip, it is my fervent hope and wish that "Neighbors" may accompany you and that you will find a leisure moment or two to become acquainted. Very respectfully yours. ALBERTO BARRETO Managing Editor P.P.7 April 26, 1937 9-B Build life dear Mr. Benson: It was mighty nice of you to send that maple syrup to the President. He has asked me to thank you ever so much and to express his cordial appreciation of your kind thought of him. Very sincerely yours, no House 16. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY X John C. Benson, Esq., Art School Farm, Monterey, Massachusetts. es + Art School Farm PURE MAPI E SYRUP L 27, 1937 askop Buckly Prepared by ES JOHN C. BENSON MONTEREY, MASS. ipt of the carving which you were SQ good as to present 60 him through the courtesy of Mr. E. 0. Kilis. He wants you to know that he deeply appreciates your kind thought in letting him see this product of your handiwork, and has asked me to convey his very best wishes to you. Wood TX flayne Very sincerely yours, 11. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY George R. Baley, Esq., 1124 Crawford Avenue, Parsons, Kansas. es + p.p.7 a B April 27, 1937 Buch My dear Mr. Baley: The President is in receipt of the carving which you were SO good as to present 60 him through the courtesy of Mr. E. 0. Ellis. He wants you to know that he deeply appreciates your kind thought in letting him see this product of your handiwork, and has asked me to convey his very best wishes to you. Wood TX flague Very sincerely yours, 11. A. LeHand PRIVATE Secretary George R. Baley, Esq., 1124 Crawford Avenue, Parsons, Kansas. es + April 27, 1937 My dear Mr. Ellis: This will acknowledge your letter of April fourteenth on behalf of Mr. George R. Baley. The President has asked me to express his appreciation of your courtesy in the pre- sentation of the carving, and to convey his best wishes to you. A letter is being forwarded to Mr. Baley direct. Very sincerely yours, M. A. LeHand PRIVATE SECRETARY E. 0. Ellis, Esq., Parsons, Kansas, es shepte Parsons Kansas April 14th. 1937. Hon.F.D.Roosevelt The President, Washington,D.C. Dear Mr.President:- There was the Storm and the Earth- quake, SO now, The Still Small Voice" is coming to you- your picture graven on a block of wood, by a young un- traied artist. So impressed were this young man's friends with this evidence of his skill, that to me was given the happy privilege of presenting this picture to you, under a separate cover. His model was a common newspaper cut,such as appear daily to the reading public, and the means of transforming that picture to the block of wood, was an ordi- nary pocket knife. The name of this young artist, is George R. Baley, son of W.R. and M.C.Baley,and the family home is 1124. Crawford Avenue, in the City of Parsons Kansas. George is 19 years of age, and is employed in a store here, and his carving has been taken largely as a matter of Course, and he was much astónished, when it was suggested that the President would be pleased with this simple token of esteem from a fine young man. It seems most unfortunate, that the parents of this young man are not financially able to gime him the kind of train- ing that his obvious talent deserves. I am sure that a personal letter from the President would bring him the proudest moment of his life, besides being of material benefit. It is to me a great pleasure to be intrusted with the writing of this letter, and to add my testimony to the fine quality and worth of this young artist. Very respectfully E.O.Ellis E.O.Ellis