The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-04

Barbary Coast, will start something and they are living proof to the delegations from 48 other nations here gathered that in a democracy where freedom of speech is 8 gospel, every man is indeed king even when he's crackpot.
 In the Kaleidoscope of San Fran cisco memories there will always finger the image of lean-faced ascetic passing out little slips of paper on which was printed the breath-taking news that A. c. $. Raymond of Orange, N, J., had come to San Francisco for just one purpose to put God into the United Nations Charter.
 Al Raymond will be alone at the San Francisco Conference for the liberty of man, woman and child said the printed slip and towards the end there was the telling con- fession that, T am free moral agent, as was Daniel in the lions den".
 A LADY WITH A HANDOUT
 Another memorable character was an unsuspicious-looking female who walked the sidewalks in the vicinity of the delegates hotels, waiting till someone came along wearing a Conference button. Then from her handbag she would produce four page leaflet advocating amend ments to the United Nations Char ter to provide for "CSSA.' This. it 1o;, tional Social Security Amendments. The general idea was to confiscate all wealth, and all income from la bor, then divide it up and pass it out as uniform social security bene- fits all over the world.
 The prize handout of all, however, was the work of one c. Townsend Tucker of Los Angeles, self-Styled founder, organizer, and author of "The Evolution of Civilization, revealer of truth, and one endowed with understanding
 A chart, big as a tabloid news paper page, showed the scheme. On it were hundred stars and lot of connecting lines. One cross, three ships the Statue of Liberty, nine assorted sheds and outhouses, curve labeled love a diagonal labeled grace and a horizontal line near the top indicating there was 4000year plan to work all this out.
 Most ambitious undertaking of the lost was an attempt to put over a Provisional World Council of Dominated Nations' It sounded tremendous, but the first San Fran visco meeting of the organization, held in the basement of liberal church, shed a strange light on the half-dozen founding fathers The president Ramkrishna s. Modak, turned out to be Burmese Christ ian who had married an American missionary came to the United States and hadn't been back to Burma for seven years.
 The secretary general, Julio Pinto Gandia of Puerto Rico hadn't been home since 1887 and boasted that from then to 1943 he had been in prison for advocating overthrow of the government.
 URGED TO MAKE
 BETTER CONNECTIONS
 Of course all these people get terrific runaround. They write let ters to the Secretary of State, who writes them back thank-yous and refers them to the secretary general of the Conference, who writes them to suggest that they tie on to one of the duly-accredited organizations having an official consultant. These consultants can't be bothered by lone-wolf cranks and pests. So they end up running around in a little man what now fog of futility. talking to themselves.
 They'll all probably go home frustrated and sore and forever after they'll be telling anyone who will listen, Now when was in San Francisco for the Peace Conference, I tried to warn everybody about these situations, but they just wouldn't listen. See what's happen cd as result