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Telephone Monroe 1030 copy

                                                                                                Chicago Commons
                                                                                             Grand Ave. and Morgan St.                                                            July 2  of 32?

My dear Mr Lawrence

           These protests against the indiscriminate charges that Federal unclear and departmental service are wasteful and an imposition upon taxpayers, may interest you.

Too fast and too far are organized efforts being carried to reduce the excessive? costs of government in demanding "Slashing"? economy, irrespective of essential values. Even one Chicago Association of Commerce fails to disclaim the Chicago Tribune's attacks upon "Washington" as guilty of an extortimate ? invasion of State rights, which in his radio alarms its publisher carries so far as to liken the aggressions of the National Government to the "Sacking of Rome by the Vandals! Psychopathic as this unclear is, it yet may so discredit the Federal government as to excite those who are losing their force or poise/ to acts of disloyalty. Indeed if so called Communists or