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Speech of Senetor Harry s. Truman to The Kiwenis Club, Saint Joseph, Missouri, October 27, 1938 TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY COP Gentlemen of the Kiwanis Club: I consider it a privilege to appes before your distinguished organiza- tion. The Kiwanis is always considered among the best influences for good in any community. I therefore appreciate your invitation. I wondered what you would want me to talk about, and I went over in my mi nd several subjects. First, I thought about civie affairs because I know Kiwanis is always interested in that subject, and then I thought that, even with my past experience in local government, it might not be the most diplomatic thing for a partisan Jackson County Democrat to try to tell blue-blooded Buchanan County anything about local civil government. So that was out. Then I thought of railroads, a subject with which I've become rather familiar, at least from a standpoint of financial looting, due to my part in the financial investigation of the railroeds by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Then I thought that all I could sey was already a part of the Con- gressional Record, and I became very sure that every member of Kiwanis would have already read what I'd said, and it would just be a repetition of a dry but vital subject. Then I thought of the Labor Relations Act, and I decided that there is so much heat on that, between William Green of the A. F. of L. and John L. Lewis of the c. I. O., not to mention Tom Girdler and the National Chamber of Commerce, that I'd perhaps better stay away from that, too. Then it occurred to me that the International Situation might be a good thing to discuss, as Kiwanis is international and we are all interested in peace -- perticularly as it affects our own great country. Let me say in the beginning that I an no expert on foreign affairs, and that what I say is my own to RUUNAN NARA