Show BROADWAY AND MAW MAIN STREET let lets S show world there s life in the old liberties Liber fies yet by BILLY ROSE hon harry S truman the white house i washington D DC C li ir dear mr president I 1 see by the papers that the freedom fair which was scheduled to open in washington in 1951 has been called oft off I 1 respectfully suggest that you press a few buttons and call ball it back on again and with your patience and permission id like to tell you why As this lopsided eight ball of a planet currently shapes up about the only thing worth talking about Is freedom or the lack of it and as you yourself have repeatedly pointed out in yow your speeches our people ought to know what talking about when the subject comes up well the best way to demonstrate that theres 9 still t I 1 I 1 I 1 plenty aty of life in the old liberties fastidious facts and figures cliche studded p press r e s a releases w rah ah rah rah editorials to rials no mr president n not 0 t in f this day and ague As I 1 see it A the h e best way to stand off tho the sugar coat ed strychnine being handed banded OU out it by the k kids I 1 d a ir intha kremlin is to hand billy ross rose out a lew few lollypops lolly pops of obrown ou our rown own and I 1 cant think of a better place to do it than a 20 acre fairground within eyeshot of the lincoln memorial impact wise what would such a shindig actually accomplish not much sir if it were justa just a run kunof ot the flushing meadows type of fair but it would do a potent plenty if it were a marn mammoth moth hit em ln all five senses whoop tydo in which everything from spectacle to side ghow were built around one simple theme the freer thi the enterprise the more an enterprising ter the freemen I 1 ONCE AND roil ALL lets con cretice in terms of dally daily living and loving how well our joe are doing compared with the josef in the iron curtain col countries in for example in the exhibit area let our big auto outfits trot out their cars alongside a few russian cars and then let them dramatize how many man hours of work it takes to make one and even more important own one and alongside I 1 the big general motors building lets have an even bigger U A W building in which walter reuther can dramatically document how much bett better eroff off his men are in terms of union contracts working conditions and pension plans than the auto workers in the various Commie lands once andhor and for all left pull priti out all the stops and compare our homes schools and churches uch theirs lets exhibit an american voting booth with a curtain on the door and next to ft 4 a russian voting booth with an man where the curtain ought to so bi be in short lets leta give the pinkos the lumps been asking for and make it clear as the nose on jimmy durantes face that theres there no freedom unless everybody can exercise his taste and tonsils as he be sees fit lets even show them up on the midway instead of the usual chamber of horrors lets restage lestage the trial of cardinal Mind Y and instead of the old hat gubangi sideshow let the populace take a peek at a siberian slave labor camp WITH WIM NO POMP but plenty ot of documented circumstance one big lesson is a cinch to emerge from the fair I 1 envision that degenerate democracy still provides the tha bertest for the montest mos test that our way of life has goti what it takes and it would be downright silly to let the commies take what wave got of course mr president there a chance of getting such a fair on by next yearn year but if the right words were dropped into the right ears pronto theres no reason why the grand opening be set for 52 and according to my astrologist astr that would be an auspicious year for a fair seeing as how around that time timea a certain party will be doing its damnedest darn edest tri to convince the voters that it has a special talent for making democracy work it if you think well enough of this notion to get behind it sir ill be glad to pitch in and help whether its making policy or pink lemonade of 01 course I 1 do it lor for free my fee would have to be the same as im getting as advisory director to the california world progress exposition which will be held in san gan diego in a one pound calof can of good smoking tobacco respectfully buy billy rosa itose |