HOPES TO INTEREST PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS IN PLAN FOR PEACEFUL WORLD GOVERNMENT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 50, 7 February 1949, Page 4

HOPES TO INTEREST PACIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS IN PLAN FOR PEACEFUL WORLD GOVERNMENT

Ohiwa’s Poet Again

Peter F. Toomey, Ohiwa’s poet is off to Auckland to start his campaign for world peace and a better world government. He left on Wednesday. He thinks the Pacific Science Conference might offer an opportunity to get his ideas into the international limelight.

Mr Toomey popped into the Beacon office before he left, bright as a button and still rhyming fluently. Here’s an amazing fact: In just on six months’ writing time, he ciaims to have completed 50,000 verses, over a thousand film and radio stories, quite a few musical comedies. “Shakespeare and Bacon in their combined lifetime couldn’t beat that,’ he claimed proudly. But his problem right now is to get his stuff before the public. That seems to be his whole worry. From there he is confident the whole scheme will click into gear. That is, selling the public his plan to establish permanent peace through world Government. Now, what he aims to do first of all, is to get an audience through radio advertising, and he has high hopes that a big brewing concern might be the best prospect. So he has prepared a bagful of verse lauding their product. Not that he needed to prepare much, he pointed out. The way the stuff comes to him, he could go before a microphone and sing fresh verses of his own songs all night. And, talking of songs, he thinks the Shalfoon boys, Epi and Tony, from Opotiki and now well-known in Auckland musical circles, might help him to get an audience. Where Scientists Come In Mr Toomey is going to try to get Sir Peter Buck to help him to get in on the Pacific Science Congress to see if they can give him an explanation of his unique gift—the way this verse just flows off his pen willy-nilly, so to speak. But that, though of paramount personal importance to him, is not his main object in trying to meet the scientists. He hopes to be able to point out to them that the further development of the atom bomb can have only destructive consequences, and to suggest, as an alternative line of scientific investigation the plan he claims to have to establish a peaceful co-operative world government through propaganda cunningly wrapped up in entertaining, humorous verses. ® “Key Of Life”, He didn’t mention it specifically in his catalogue of six months’ of literary effort, but Mr Toomey has completed the manuscript of his book, “The Key of Life” (also' in rhyme). He hopes to get it published. It explains the whole plan, tells how he believes he has been appointed adviser to the world, leader of the peace mission—in fact, “La Paloma,” the dove peace. “But,” he added modestly, “I don’t want to be a big shot.” Breeding For Peace When Mr Toomey told us that he was travelling the world (only in his mind) looking for the “dream girl”, we asked him a bit about the social set up in his new world system. Well, he believes we should breed people like racehorses, keeping on until we find the best strains. Not altogether Hitler’s “master race” idea. On an international basis. And he advocates polygamy. Thinks Solomon had the right idea. “Look at France and those countries.” he said. “Too many women. To let them all die off without husbands is not a fair pop at all.”