Kicked out of car while hitchiking

During the years I attended  LSU  I traveled various ways from Baton Rouge home and from home to LSU. rode the train sometimes and often I rode both ways with friends who had cars.  I also hitchhiked, mostly from Baton Rouge to home, seldom the other way, from home to LSU.

One  ill fated time I left home planning to use my thumb to get back to LSU.  I had only a few dollars with me but turned down an offer of  some money from my dad.  I knew a check was waiting for me in the post office. I walked a mile to Highway 80 and caught a ride to Highway 17l in Bossier City.  A car stopped but as I started to get in the driver said "wait, I may have to kick you out down the highway."  I thought he was joking, told him I was headed back to LSU, and got in the car.  He began to talk but I paid little attention.  It was spring and  people were in the fields plowing and planting crops.  He asked me something about Henry Wallace speaking at LSU at the invitation of the student council.  I responded something like, "they would invite anybody."  He stopped the car and told me to get out.  I couldn't believe it.  He yelled, "get out of my car, you communist.: I responded, " I just get out of the navy. I'm a veteran."  I got out and he drove off.                                                Now, consider this: I was just a few miles south of Bossier City and with only a few dollars.  I flagged a bus down and bought a ticket to Alexandria, hoping to catch a ride the remainder of the way.  At the bus station I
saw a number of people who I thought might be students on the way to LSU.  I walked up to one guy and asked him if he attended LSU.  When he  said yes, I asked him if he would lend me enough money to buy a ticket to Baton Rouge.  He was so startled that he let me have the money although later he looked like he regretted it.  I paid him back the next day.

Henry Wallace was a member of the communist party and, in mine and most informed people, a traitor to the United States.  He almost became president.  Southerners refused to have him on the ballot  for vice president, replacing him with Harry Truman.  An ill and incompetent Franklin Roosevelt allowed Stalin to take over Eastern Europe. I dread to think of what would have happened to this country if Wallace was vice president when Roosevelt died.