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Robert L. Owen is blind and 89 years old. But he is a fighter, and he doesn't give up easily. He battled for the original League of Nations after the last war, and it was no fault of his that th e . United States refused to join it. The other day, the former Democratic Senator from Oklahoma appeared at a hear ing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Before a hushed and respectful audience, he put in his Ot word for passage of the United Na tions Charter. He said: *T represent an American citizen who has lived you will take the steps necessary to pass this Charter, and that the Sen ate will not take long to enact it. The world now is prepared to make completely effective the objectives of the United Nations Charter. . . . I want to pay tribute to Woodrow Wilson, a saint and a martyr. The world was not ready for his League of Nations. It is ready for it now To the man who didn't give up, and who will yet find his great dream realized, PM says: Hats O f f ! . . ___
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