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Show THE AMSKtCAN WAY FELLOW wm TRAVELER TRAIN fi?.2 f -Vjj.VL By Geurz PeckmmjEl&&d 'We apparently are in an era of ' trains special trains. Attorney-General Tom Clark is currently cur-rently touring his Freedom Train around the nation in heroic endeavor en-deavor to let the American people peo-ple in on a great secret, to wit, that we really have somctlhing very, very precious in this country. coun-try. Then recently we had the Friendship Train, inspired by columnist Drew Pearson, Pearson Pear-son had a swell idea, if for no other reason than that it gave Us The People an opportunity as individual citizens to demonstrate demon-strate in tangible manner that America is not the. grasping, imperialistic, im-perialistic, predatory monster Messrs. Molotov and Vishinsky so loudly proclaim this nation to be. Not to be outdone, I have a suggestion for a train. I've, just got to get into this train business. The train I propose would be a train to end all trains the Fellow Traveler Train. Sounds promising, doesn't it? This train would start from the Pacific Coast for the Eastern Seaboard, stopping enroute to pick up passengers. These passengers pas-sengers would be Fellow Travelers Travel-ers who are convinced, or pretend pre-tend they are convinced that the Capitalistic System is outmoded I and who arc so loud in their I praise of the Russian Slave System. Sys-tem. At New York, Boston, Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Baltimore would be ships to carry these Fellow Traveler Trav-eler passengers to their beloved (?) Russia. Rail and ocean passage pas-sage would be free they would travel at government expense arid it would b2 the best money that Uncle Sam had ever spent. My guess is that even Senator Byrd, our champion of governmental govern-mental economy, would heartily approve the necessary appropriation. appropria-tion. We would even guarantee these Fellow Travelers free passage pas-sage home any lime within six months, of course, with a certain provisio. Before the Fellow Traveler's Trav-eler's return ticket would be validated, val-idated, he would sign an affidavit, affi-davit, duly witnessed, to the effect ef-fect that on his return to America Ameri-ca never again would he deign to suggest that we scrap the finest fin-est economic system the world has ever known. . There would be. an absolute limit of six months, however, on that return ticket, with no extension ex-tension privilege. If he elects to stay in Russia for the full six months, he's there for keeps, or until the Reds get around to liquidating li-quidating him. . No more effective cure could be prescribed for Fellow Travel-cr-itis than to give its victims a glimpse of what really goes on behind the Iron Curtain Let these Fellow Travelers" see so-called so-called communism as it actually is and they'll be glad to return to America, where despite their valiant efforts to take it - away from us, we still have freedom. Now, of course, there's just one thing wrong with this proposal of mine. It can't be done. Stalin wouldn't let these Fellow Travelers Travel-ers into Russia and even if he did, he'd never let them out. But let's run this Fellow Traveler Trav-eler Train anyway. We wouldn't have to go to the expense of having boats at New York, Eos-ton, Eos-ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore to meet it because that train would be just about the emptiest to ever cross the United States of America. The Fellow Travelers Travel-ers just wouldn't get aboard it. In spite of their ravings and rantings against the American Way, down in their innermost hearts they know when they arc well off you couldn't hire them to get on that train. If you tried to force them on it, they'd holler hol-ler to high heaven about their constitutional rights they've done their darndest to destroy. It surely would be a great way to call the bluff of these Fellow Travelers. What do you think? |