Ask the Scholar
Document scope · 1 page
Scholar
Ask about this object, its catalog metadata, its source description, or the page inventory.
For page-specific OCR and visual context, open one of the page chats.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
563887134
label
Letter from Marianne Cocker to President Harry S. Truman
core
doc
dtoType
document
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
563887134
contentType
document
title
Letter from Marianne Cocker to President Harry S. Truman
citationUrl
collections
President's Personal Files (Truman Administration)
President's Personal Files
imageCount
1
hasImages
yes
source
import
hasTranscription
no
Source extras
naId
563887134
levelOfDescription
item
productionDates
day
20
logicalDate
1950-07-20
month
7
year
1950
recordType
description
ocrSource
nara-archive
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
8add0159b05df0cb
ocrText
3
77/25/50
3579 Warder Street, N. W. ,Apt
Washington 10, D. C.
July 20, 1950
Mr. Harry S. Truman
200
President of the United States
Washington, District of Columbia
7/19/50
Sir:
conc
Your radio message last nigntat ten thirty means nothing to "we
the people", your telling us there is no shortages, if there were
you would have issued "rationing" at once, falls on deaf ears. Why
is sugar off the grocers shelves, and if and where some can be
found the price has increased? Why has bread gone up? Why has a
hundred or more food prices gone up suddenly? It seems that this
administration for some years now is all class for putting money into
the rich pockets, robbing the middle/and poor till their bodies are
skin and bones; many committing suicide, killing others. This, our
United States is no more the "America" that our Fathers fought for
and made. It is a mixture of Europe and We don't know what. Why
appropriate $20,000.00 for the FBI, it is you and our Government
making the crimes. "We the people" can't live under such conditions.
It is either suicide or rob. Many well meaning people, good living
people have gone what the world may call crooked; Why?, hunger is
so rampant, the denand@dress demand for appearance, dress, is so
great that to eat and dress today is one must live a double life,
rob, or get out of this world. Apply for a position today and not
look well dressed, well fed and you are not wanted, go what is the
solution, but as above, suicide, rob, or live a double life with
these rich business men. Why/has virtue almost gone out of this
Country today, a Country that could always boast of such. You have
a good daughter, a good wife and are a clean cut man, but why not
let us all be that way without had your salary in-
creased to meet the demand of high cost today, Congress had their
salaries increased, and yet you get a thousand and one gifts of
food, so does the politicians, but we have to live on the small
salaries and pay theasorbent prices of today. How can we do it?
absorbbent
of Independenxe
I come from a good/family, the Declaration/ was written in my
Great, Great, Grandfather's house, at Sixth & Market Streets,
Philadelphia. What do I get today? I sit at tables in public
eating places with a few vegetables on my plate, and my body only
skin and bones, practically half starved, with DP's, who have a
full course dinner of meat, soup and nuts, and tell how our
Government bring them here and find them a room and send them a
monthly check. How do we feel? This our Country, and we being
taxed beyond endurance. I have worked as a typist with C. P.A. and
to see the incomes of others and me working for a pittance is
beyond endurance. What can I do? Today I am thin as a rail, weigh
eighty seven pounds, a full grown woman with respect to keep herself
decent, washing and ironing, then turned down for Public Assistance
because of refinement; nerves shot to pieces, hearing greatly impair-
ed so that no one will give me work, please tell me what I can do to
go on living inthis, my Country.
In all true sincerity
miss mariannel Cocker
P.S. This is an old borrowed typewriter and in poor condition.
MC