Home Photo Gallery Classroom Documents Our Honored President: Your kind letter to me as a clergyman prompts me to record the following reactions: The people I represent generally are looking at your Social Security Program as a step in the direction of progress. Your attitude toward the liquor question has led the return of the saloon in our section of the country, and we feel that it is a regrettable error that you should attempt to correct. The relief situation is deplorable--the standards are inadequate to the point of desperation. Little consideration is being shown the victims of the depression. The Public Works Program has hardly reached the people of Chicago. We hardly know there is one. We hear of large appropriations- but delays have given the people faintness of heart. The announced standards of wages for these projects are far too low. Abandonment of the housing projects took away what little evidence we had that the federal government was going to do something for the people. Generally our criticism is that your administration had not gone far enough. The bold announcement in your inaugural address gave us hope that there would be a divorce between your administration and the elements that had been running the country to the dogs. We are still hoping. Assuring you that we will join you in every movement for the good of our country. Sincerely yours,
Armand Guerrero, Minister
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