Show I Met Three Men They were citizens young ready to step into the walks of life they were observing carefully what fields they should choose for the lifes life's work and making a choice One said 3 Ill take up farming most independent life there is nothing but nature to contend with winds drought frost smut weeds pests pests and and but little of man with his schemes and foxy doI do doings I n g s. s Farming for me And the farmer can buy buyout out the slick collar guy lots of times with merely the loose change in his pocket One of the others I met said The professional life for me college after school Ill I'll be a doctor a dentist an engineer ineer have a Career career career ca ca- reer be somebody and do something No clody clodhopping clodhopping clod- clod y hopping for me The third young man with his eye on the m main goal said What dubs those gillies are One would toil with soil dirty himself with fertilizer be under all the chances of frost wind drought pests and whatnots whatnots whatnots what what- nots thinking it fine and when he got a crop only to find that slickers had out-foxed out him with playing the market And the other fellow talked of an individual individual individual indi indi- vidual career drat career drat such dribble theres there's an easier way Ill I'll get on on the Federal payroll tote a brief case theres there's an army of us some three million strong and andL L we can do things we are doing things were things were we're setting setting setting set set- ting prices on that farmer lad telling him just what he can raise and fixing a ceiling on him just as we wesee r If r see fit And the career guy well we'll take over all mines all public service so that hell he'll have no chance to use his electrical engineering his civil r r. engineering his geology except as we let him the F railroads will be ours the power lines the Big Five automobile plants and all places where he can work Weve We've got it all planned planned planned-planned planned that way The only service is with us state and national r r directive government done by us Was r there a fourth guy a fellow who would go into business busi busi- r What ness What height foolery business is our main target its it's blacker than a Jew in Germany total Germany total outcast That's our common enemy business and the bigger they are the more we practice target I shooting at em I f. f And our sober judgment is that the guy with the brief case has it over the others The main qualification of the brief case guy is k How did Y you vote If he voted right advancement L for that guy No other qualifications Then strict adherence adherence adherence ad- ad to the crew that's in that's building to stay t in yes yes men with an eye on power politics t Drat such dribble Nor are they all under underlings i 1 either some either some of them are senators senators senators-senators senators did we u say Monkeys pictured in the English press as simians chattering apes who had much better have w I been kept at home rather than prattling k F Fi and abroad England weighed em up i i found what hat they were and the then la labelled e ed em emlA ml A friend of ours was named Merit Ment What a funny funny fun- fun ny old-fashioned old name Why t that at is to laugh at Political Pull is modern up-to-date up not so silly Why all that Merit is good for is to run a business t head of a mercantile firm finn handling a payroll buying buying buy- buy In ing 9 and selling building the country but Political Pull tells him where to get off at and takes the cushions off the seat as he rides Brief case v vs s. s Business And the score card all in r. r favor of Brief Case battle |