Iron County Record | 1934-07-12 | Page 4 | Who Owes Us a Living?

WHO OWES ORES US A LIVING Walt Disney creator re-creator of the famous fam- fam 1 jam I ous Three Little Pigs has a new new story out that out that of the Grasshopper and the hard working Ants Its Ita moral deals with our present problems so 10 completely that It Is worthy of or serious serious ser ser- ser ser- ious consideration now I IThe The story is about a Grasshopper who plays and sings all day Oh The Th 1 World Owes Me Mea a living lie He wastes i his food and time and is Ls continual bothering the working hard Ants Anta who I ar are laying away food rood for the c coming winter Finally winter comes There is no nol food for our happy Grasshopper Snowfalls Snow I falls and our Grasshopper friend I turns turn blue with cold He Jle staggers to 1 the thedoor door of th the warm and happy i Ants who drag him in iu and hIm I out As the returns to normal normal normal nor nor- mal he Is informed that all who eat ut I Ithe the Ants Ants' food must work ork Dejected he Is about to leave when he is Informed ln- ln in-i in formed he may fiddle for his share Happy again he ends the story by singing Oh I Owe the World a R Living I Have we been like the Grasshopper l j i per happy in the thought that the l I United States owes us a living i 1 Can the Government spend millions I and even billions of borrowed money without our having to pay it back We like Uke the Grasshopper In th the fable can live as parasites for a I time But a day of reckoning Inevitably Inevitably inevitably ably comes precisely as the cold w weather weather wea wea- eather ea- ea ther follows the warm The Th public I tr treasury Is not a bottomless pit irrespective Ir- Ir respective of at the vl views ws of politicians I f who oho would have us believe it is And some chill morning we will awaken to find that th the national theme song has changed to We We Owe the World a Living j a 4