Letter from Mrs. Minnie Hearne to President Harry S. Truman with Attached Newspaper Clippings

P.P.F. 3 Hume can H 1515 Wolfe Street Little Rock, Arkansas December 11, 1950 The President of the United States The White House Washington, D. C. HARRY U.S. ARCHIVES A TRUMAN NATIONAL SERVICE LIERRRY My dear Mr. President: I am enclosing clippings from the Arkansas Gazette and how disgusted we Arkansas people felt this A.M. when we received our paper at your catty simple remarks over what the music critic had to say about your daughter. They sound about like the assertion you made about the Marines. I hope he makes you apologize for it. How do you think we American mothers feel who have boys in the Service and who have been slaughtered like dumb brutes over there in the cold without warm clothes and with empty gun barrels? Who dismantled all our training camps and sold our defense plants? It seems to me that you folks in Washington are not seeing the distant of your pug nose. Floating up and down the Potomac on week end cruises and Congressmen and Senators out on a politicing vacation and our American blood being spilled on that Korean soil. When you issue a nation wide defense program do you intend for your daughter to register and go to a defense plant and work to save the country or do you expect her to go humming up and down the road? If she is such an entertainer, send her to Korea to keep the morale of the soldiers up. Let her be an Al Jolson. Then something else can be said of her beside her pug nose. We all also would be glad to have one serious minded picture of you. Always grinning like a mule eating briars. With our world in the con- dition that it is today, I think it would appreciate a serious expres- sion. Respe ctfully yours, (Mrs.) Minnie Hearne mre minie Hearne