The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-05-11
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Garry Davis,
Citizen of the World
Dear Davis:
One-man battler for a varies
planet, you are back in Americ
after a hectic crusade in Europe
You are getting jeers and ridicule
But with me you rate somethin
better. As an ex-bombardier VIII
didn't drop anything, hurry bac,
to the old routines and adopt
Whats the use?" attitude you ar
standout. I don't string with yo'
In renouncing your American cit
zenship, but even in that step 20
were motivated by a conviction yo'
could sell your global idea better /
you were a. citizen of the world
You are a one-man U.N. In you
way you are an economy-size Eas
river peace flesh-and-b blood sky
scraper.
Son Of q famous orchestra
leader, you could have been q
fancy tooter in a world Of music
and dancing, but you heard diff
ferent music, savage, and
threatening. There was no sing
er in your act; just the sobs Of
mothers, the shrieks of the
sh~ell-tOrn, and the sound Of
hammers on the posts of wood
en- crosses. Basically, you are
a guy who can't forget, q vet
who heard a distant bugle sum-
mOning you to a tough task.
You have answered it, not car
ing if you looked silly. Why
the jeering? You flew many
bombing missions. You saw the
blOodshed and havoc closeup
and it got you. You couldn't
wash up and let nature take its
usual course. You had to go and
get ideaIism. You not only
hitched your discharge papers
to a star, but tied your "fOr the
duration" pledges to the moon
and began listening to reveille
calls from rainbOws. Is that
bad? Not when a guy is so
sincere he will pass up a car
eer, a soft life, a coy home and
the old "fas-you-were' routines.
You were chased, pummeled ant
oinched all over France as yo1
sounded off for one world in brother
hood and sanity. It was no fun
and no movie stunt. Not even tn,
1ewsreel shots were good. I wrot,
4 book Private Purkey's Peace
he year the war ended. In it Pfc
Oscar Purkey crashed the peac,
with his buddies, talke'
to the diplomats and drew
Up his own blueprint for worlt
peace. In it he demanded:
la realization the world
cannot exist half man and half
rat.
2.-An approach to all prob
lens in the spirit of David and
not of Mickey Mouse.
3.-The creation of a world
organization that never mis-
takes a double chin for muscle.
I think Purkey had a swell idea
and not as nutty as some folk
think hollywood decided the ide
was too farfetched!!!) In my book
Oscar and his pals stirred publ
imagination and New York CAV
EN- one of those Broadway parade
and everything. I guess I went to
Tar, Ell? Anyhow, good luck to a gu,
who is willing to get crucified TO
an idea.
Sincerely,
H. I. P.
Jamaica, Jamaica, to play q poor
bunch;
Home again, bome again, apples
for lunch!
Bushman, Chicago's gorilla, is
% years old. He is gentle up to
the point where somebody looks
at him and says, "He is almost
human" Gorillas are touchy
about that these days.
The case of Dolly, the circus e1e
plant executed for one vicious &C
after years of g%entleness, deserve
Could it be that during tn
she had seen some televisio
crime programs!
Dablyn Crymes, the detective
that mystery submarine Of
the Pacific coast is easily ez
planned. "Some Hollywood movi
making sure he wouldn'
have to view his own releases" h
says.
The federal trade commissio
charges that several big cigarett
makers are making false claims
The commission insists that no on
can keep step in a tele
parade better than another.
The government is developing
a new potato packed with vita
min C. 1t thinks that with
enough vitamins it will be able
to destroy a crop faster for the
same money.