Letter from Carl Anderson to President Harry S. Truman, with Attached Newspaper Clipping

2/16 28 mineed poules Con Chicago, Illinois February 13, 1946 To His Excellency The President of The United States Washington, D.C. Dear Mr President: This is to implore you not to invest Mr Chester Bowles with any further powers. Mr Bowles has done enough damage to our economy already. Due to his nation wrecking policy, we are face to face with many serious problems. His rent control has made it absolutely uneconomical to own rental property. Hence citizens do not care to invest in any apartment building. Anyone but a nitwit knows that running expense and taxes has increased at least 20%. Yet our citizens are denied any adjustment. Some other goods are as much as 200% higher than in 1941, to mention one item ohly, that of some lines of women's cotton dresses. May I also call your attention to the gift to England! I and millions of my compatriots protest against any loan to any "Large Country." S. First, the United States Treasury is in such a shape that by the GOVERNISENT all acounting standards, our Federal Treasury is bankrupt. If it was not for the unlimited power of Congress to levy ever larger taxes, it would soon have to stop payments. Private citizens would be put behind the bars if any tried to borrow money to give away, when their finances were in as bad a shape as our federal Treasury. There is ather angle to it. England has been, is, and have