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Show WHO OWES US A LIVING? "Walt Disney, re-creator of the famous Three Little Pigs, has a new story that of the Grasshopper and the hard working Ants," says the Hollywood Tribune of Portland, Port-land, Oregon. "Its moral deals with our present problems so completely that it is worthy of serious consideration now. "The story is about a Grasshopper who plays and sings all day, 'Oh, The World Owes Me a Living.' He wastes his food and time and is continually bothering the hard-working Ants, who are laying away food for the coming winter. "Finally winter comes. There is no food for our happy Grasshopper. Snow falls and our Grasshopper friend turns blue with cold. He staggers to the door of the warm and happy Ants, who drag him in and thaw him out. As the Grasshopper returns to normal he is informed that alll who eat the Ants' food must work. Dejected, he is about to leave when he is informed he may fiddle for his share. Happy again, he ends the story by Singing, 'Oh, I Owe the World a Living. "Have we been like the Grasshopper, happy in the thought that the United States owes us a living! . . . Can the Government spend millions and even billions of borrowed borrow-ed money without our having to pay it back?" We, like the Grasshopper in the fable, can live as parasites para-sites for a time. But a day of reckoning inevitably comes, precisely as the cold weather follows the warm.. The public treasury is not a. bottomless pit, irrespective of the views of politicians who would have us believe it it. And some chilly morning we will awaken to find that national theme-song theme-song has changed to "We Owe the World a Living." |
