Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the National Alliance of Postal Employees at Kansas City, Missouri

Speech of Senetor Harry S, Truman to the Twenty-fifth Anniversery Neating of the TRUMAN National Allience of Postal Lincoln High School, Kentos Quty 10 Missouri, October 2, 1938. ARGHIVES SERVICE" RECORDS AND Ess MEMBERS AND OF THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES: It 1a a very grest pleasure for ase to be able to appear before you for 6 few minutes today. I congratulate you on your Silver Anniversary. I an tole that you are greatly indebted to a very able colored man, now decessed, for muoh of the success of this organization. 1 pay tribute to Mr. Gayney, who was an honorable and upright eitizen and who did honor to the postal service and to thia organization. You of this organization have the groatest opportunity possible for e grest service to your people. You can mas do more to naice ell of us realize that you are an asset to n community then nearly any other organization with which I have coma in contset. You rub elbowa overy day with ell the people, and your service and courtesy cresto respeat. Thora has never been a tixe in the history of the astion when you have hed a greator friend and aympathizer in the White House then you now have. Frenklin D. Roosevelt realizes your problens and 1e mora sympathetic with their solution then any Chief Executive sinca Abrahan Lincoln. I na not one who believes that you require white upliftera to solve your probluns. I believe thet 1f you are given the opportunity, you are perfectly cepable of solving thes yourselves. You have gront lendera and great scientists, grest doctore and great teathors, who know the way and who are doing nora to cresse en understending then cll the uplifters put togethor. I want particularly to mention ta groat scientist of your Tace -- Georgo Weshington Cerver of Georgia. You'vo all henrd of him, of how be has done noro by bia uses of applied seience to holp the sgriculturel workers of