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Show NUMBER ONE Public Friend Carl C. Countryman again wants to be President of toe United States. With true political ebullience he has dubbed himself "American Public Friend Number One" and adopted a monolithic slogan: "Countryman for his countrymen; his countrymen for Countryman." That this near-palindromic tongue-twister tongue-twister is intended to strike sparks of devotion from the flinty hearts of American voters is apparent in Countryman's frank statement that: "My campaign must be for overwhelming over-whelming publicity and an appeal to toe imagination jf toe American people. I have a lot of evidence evi-dence that my slogan, 'Countryman for his countrymen; his countrymen coun-trymen for Countryman,' Country-man,' is doing the trick." Countryman is not a myth. He is not a hoax himself, nor is he trying to perpetrate a hoax through his presidency campaign. cam-paign. He is just a man, getting along in years now, who is serving toe sincere belief that he could do better in the White House than toe political figureheads in vogue. Countryman opposes communism: "I want no part nor dealings with the Communist usurpers, who represent rep-resent but a small fragment of the great Russian people." Countryman opposes the military draft: "The draft is a subterfuge of incompetence. I favor making universal military training so attractive attrac-tive that it will be universal or approximately ap-proximately so." Countryman's name will appear on no primary election ballots: "The gain inherent in such a course will not justify toe necessary expenditure expendi-ture of time and money." Countryman likes John Bricker of Ohio: "If I cannot get the nomination, nomina-tion, I am all for Bricker. I should like to have the ticket Countryman and Bricker but if not, then Bricker and Countryman." There is a truism which holds that universally present in the heart of every man is toe belief that he could play Hamlet and run a newspaper. Countryman brings that deeply fe!t human motivation to the height of true nobility. For in his heart is the crowning belief that he also could be a good president. |