below is a letter which reached my desk and morning made a commentary on what we laughingly call a civilized world four years ago i was fired out of my job since then i haven't been able to get another one at say that again you know that i made that you made it up did you want to buy or don't you know there are nine jobs waiting for this guy twenty two families want to board him free five women want to marry him and the man is practically ready to playing with him but no no there john go will remain adamant on christmas eve hot or cold he god sees very pretty very pretty undated much what you would you mind telling me who goes on take it easy john doe now your whole life is messed up with a lot more stuff you get a license feed and numberplate and ged and unoiled and character then insurance and identification cards and letters and bills and flat tire then bain and traffic tickets and no no no national interest and he made a hit around here you can do it every place else in the country and you'll be pulling the strings m to be do you realize a couple of weeks ago we didn't have enough to eat ourselves with if i know the of that these people are in such leave and we have plenty not to know that the snows to get is practically all gone we old everybody in town so you just gotta stop given all your money away oh honey of course i don't know what kind of a teacher trying to write but judging from the samples are read i don't think anybody will miss him for dining there are so many complaining political people are tired of hearing nothing but doom and yeah but i'm going to get my arm fix that said i know somebody don't give me five thousand dollars just to get up on the radio and tell the truth five thousand dollars if i suppose that was me get it right away you don't have to wait till five thousand holy mackerel i can see th and good evening ladies and gentlemen this is kind of surprising for the new bulletin tonight we give you something entirely new and different that even thought of me as a young man who has declared publicly that on christmas day he intends to commit suicide giving out his reason quote  i am the man you all know is john doe i took that name because it seems to describe because it seems to describe the average man and that's me well it was me or i said i was going to jump off the city hall roof at midnight on christmas leave and i guess i'm not average anymore now i'm getting all sorts of attention from thank you guys to think that w if people like the governor elect the governor not follow that and stop why and i'm not going to talk about them i'm going to talk about us the average guys but john doe anybody should ask you what the average john doe is like you couldn't tell him because he's a million and one things he's mr big mr small simple and he's wise is inherently honest but he's got to think of life in the in his heart he seldom walks up to a public telephone with chauvinist finger end of the slot to see if somebody left a nickel there he's the man the ads are written for he's the fellow everybody else thinks too he's so doakes the world's greatest dude and the world's greatest  you yes sir we are a great family the john doe's we are the make who are who are supposed to inherit the earth you'll find us everywhere we raise the crops we dig the mines work the factories keep the books fly the planes and drive the buses and when a cop yells then back there you means us the john doe's what kind of a speech is that if you read it we have existed since time began we built the pyramids we saw  i know a lot of you are saying what can i do i'm just a little punk i don't count when you're dead wrong the little punks i've always counted because in the long run the character of a country is the sum total of the character of its little  thanks we've all got to get in there and pitch we can't win the old ball game unless we have teamwork and that's where every john tokamak then it's up to him to get together with his team mate and your teammate my friend is the guy the most to you your neighbor is a stranger a guy with that barking dog and i fence around him now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team so tear down the fence that separates you tear down the fence and you  at christmas time there's something well about the spirit of christmas to see what it does to people all kinds of people now why can't that spirit that same warm christmas spirit lead the whole year around god if it ever did if each and every john doe would make their spirit last three hundred sixty five days out of the year we developed i just think we'd create such a tidal wave of goodwill that no human fourth could stand account of dr wake up john doe you're the hope of the world my way and i don't like the idea been stuff you know but you don't know how big this thing is you should see the thousands of telegrams we've received what the thing about you look it started as a circulation stuff when you got your circulation now why don't you let me call it started as a that man is right honey the trouble with the world is nobody gives a hoot about his neighbor as why everybody in town sore and cranky to each other and i kept sayin that's fine but i was a guy going to love in the kind of neighbors we got or sour puss for instance noise he says it's a shame how little we know about our neighbors and then i got an idea and he said how's about inviting everybody someplace where we can all get together and know each other a little better when i'm feeling so good by this time i'm right for anything so smothers goes around the neighborhood inviting everybody to a meeting at the schoolhouse and i tell everybody that comes in the store including the far back and my boss climbs talking to say you got the laney's all wrong and then he tells us about how they cancelled their milk last week and how when he found a note got kind of curious like he did under the blinds and find the house was empty if you ask me says thank you for listening by mister wonderful man strikes me you can be mighty useful walking around for a while  you know i had a crazy dream last night but the real me john doe that is me i was a fella up there with a book you know what i mean and what happened well i took the across you know it is tomorrow night for another fifteen thousand people i'm talking over a nationwide radio program john doe will announce the formation of a third party and party is the tally to the interests of all the time dulls all over the country which practically means ninety percent of the voters he will also announce the third party's candidate for the presidency it was something i wanted to talk to you about you know the real john doe and that's pretty tough competition but you know how to say it all right for me i get up to it around the back of it but i never get right to it you know what i mean right neal for instance then you better take it easy no sense in going up there i've been here for hours being here i wouldn't do that if i were your job