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8-12-49 708 Union Street, Seattle 1, Washington. July 25, 1949. Hon. Harry S. Truman, President, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: THE the Congratulations on the fine administration you are giving the country. You are doing all right. As a citizen and over 40 years a member of Tuscon Lodge in St. Louis I am deeply interested and a bit disturbed over the in roads the Catholic Church is making in the country. The present episode between the Cardinal and Mrs Roosevelt indicates better than words from me. The thought in the Senate and House to give to the individual states some 33 million dollads to be distributed to all schools is a step that will lead to Catholic Control as sure as you are in Blair House. During my residence in St. Louis they, the Catholic's, eliminated the Bible out of the Public Schools. They aliev gotten themselves in to School Boards, in City Councils, and into the Courts. They work from the inside. They too have instructions for their mem-