"Since you brought us to your planet, we have been pleasantly amazed by your wonderful way of life, which we have seen, closely observed, and studied from all its angles. We now have learned, and know the real cause of our earth's misruled moneyism life system. "Now, gentlemen, we have given you a summary of our earth troubles and showed you their causes and abuses. I am sure no one can dispute the facts. I hope they are convincing enough. "There is no need for me to emphasize, and I agree with Sun-Rank Banard, that our money, and exploitation systems are the real, contributive motives of our ills. They are festering cancers, eating away the vitals of the civilization we are vainly trying to build. I want to thank you for the opportunity you gave me to tell you what I have seen, hoping that you Martians will help save us from the miserable life condition on our earth." All Martians present were unnerved and some in tears, and in a state of stupefaction. At the finish of the banquet they all greeted us in a most friendly manner. Sun-Rank Banard, approaching me, said, "One of our inter-planetary airships is ready to take you back to your planet Earth. We all here wish you Bon Voyage and good luck, and just signal us by wishing, whenever you want to return here, and we will be glad to bring you back again." FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 32: By President Harry Truman, Dec. 5, 1950.] [Footnote 33: _Health Magazine_, Sept., 1946, pp. 26 and 27, by Geo. K. Abbott, M.D.] [Footnote 34: _The Pageant Magazine_, Sept. 1946.] [Footnote 35: _The Contemporary Jewish Record_, December, 1941, Israel Cohen, p. 626.] [Footnote 36: Ibid., p. 627.] [Footnote 37: Ibid., p. 631.] [Footnote 38: An address by Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, Dec. 23, 1947.] [Footnote 39: _San Francisco Chronicle_, June 3, 1946.] [Footnote 40: Merry Go Round, Drew Pearson, August 25, 1945.] [Footnote 41: _San Francisco Chronicle_, Sept. 4, 1944, by Dorothy Thompson.] CHAPTER IX _Another Trip to Mars_ In an important letter to me from Lieutenant Balmore from San Francisco, he wrote-- When I left you some time ago, I made a trip to the West coast. In the veterans hospitals I contacted many disabled veterans who had just returned from the battle fields in Korea. I had known many of them in the old days. I told them in detail about my experiences in Mars. I told them of my plan to take a group of them back with me to Mars to verify my experiences. Of course they were skeptical at first. But after I had presented my cause more clearly they were convinced there might be something to my plan. Most of them had nothing to lose. Because of their own contact with war and their own ruined lives, they were keen to save their children from the same fate, once and for all. "But where will you get a plane to contact the Martian Airship?" they asked.