Nov 30th - Political Commentary - Same Old Demo Stuff

Things never seem to change. If you can't read the text of this scan it is reproduced below.

ODE TO THE WELFARE STATE

Daily News, Friday, November 4, 1949

Mr. Truman's St. Paul, Minn., pie-for-everybody speech last night
reminded us that, at the tail-end of the recent session of Congress,
Representative Clarence J. Brown (R-Ohio) jammed into the
Congressional Record the following poem, describing its author only
as “a prominent Democrat of the State of Georgia”:

DEMOCRATIC DIALOG

Father, must I go to work? 

No, my lucky son.

We're living now on Easy Street

On dough from Washington.

 We've left it up to Uncle Sam,

So don't get exercised.

Nobody has to give a damn –

We've all been subsidized.

But if Sam treats us all so well

And feeds us milk and honey,

Please, daddy, tell me what the hell

He's going to use for money.

 Don't worry, bub, there's not a hitch

In this here noble plan –

He simply soaks the filthy rich

And helps the common man.

But, father, won't there come a time

When they run out of cash

And we have left them not a dime

When things will go to smash?

My faith in you is shrinking, son,

You nosy little brat;

You do too damn much thinking, son,

To be a Democrat.