The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-11-26
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MIR. MODESTUS

Elections over
Congress now knows the worst
Can sit back and catch it's breath
Begin to pay real attention to con
duct of a war
Instead of worrying about 'whal
the folks back home would think
If Congress went ahead with the
war just like the boys did in Bataan
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Why do you suppose that Minnesota
CongresSman--
Let off his yap first in the newspaper
headlines
Instead of quietly, before his Com
mittee on Military Affairs?
Elections over: being a Republican
why didn't he holler-
When there was some excuse fol
yapping?
Being Marine; also a far sighted
stateman, you know
OF course, he has been for years
about
Sure! he has made deep study all
about Unity of Command
He has been demanding more and
better planes for Army and Navy
O yeah! O, Yeah?
Was it, maybe his lone vote that
saved Army and Navy personnel
For overseas service, just before he
knew Pearl HarbOr was coming?
Flaxen heads are mostly cheerful
and charming
But these here Cotton Eds from the
Ca'linas-
Seem to be mostly ignorantly selfish
plus stupid
Intelligent selfshness doubtless helps
civilization along
But these Cotton Edded Smith from
South Ca'lina-
Don't seem to be able to understand
their own best interests
These are the kind of folks that sold
Abe Lincoln'S armies
Rusty muskets, rotten feed, shoddy
clothing
Just to sell little more cotton, this
cotton 'Edded Smith
Would send his splendid South Caro-
lima fighting boys oversees
With something less than the best
there is in rubber tires.
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Good thing we had an ex-brakeman,
named Jetfers-
Who bounced that program off the
head of the Cotton Ed
Showing the country just how far
Some of these byproducts of democ-
racy would go.
1t looks as though everything we
have
Which we thought was Il blessing
and Il help to civilization
Has a bunch of unnecessary para
sites clamped onto its roots
Yelling about "The American Way
until were sick of hearing it
Just TO cover up the jingle of the
billions they are extracting
IL was bad enough in peace time
when it provoked unemployment
But to have these birds plant their
nests right in our CongreSs-
Working their cream separators at
high speed
When our boys and girls in Bataan
and Guadalcanal are taking it
Proving to Huns and Japs that
they've got what it takes
To defend the real American ways
of life and customs of living
That begins to call for something
with more teeth i'm it
Than any Congressional Committee
has ever showed.
Now that we are beginning to win
just Il little
But not enough by forty jugfuls to
make up for the losses
To say nothing of finishing the dirty
job
OF cleaning our worlds house of all
these rats
About now we will begin to hear
the purring of the cats
Who are watching the holes where
they have been getting their loot
Can't we understand, that. the habits
of the Business Mind
Don't change when they put up at
the Willard Hotel
With their feet planted on little
desk in some department?
These guys probably know all about
aluminium, steel, rubber, and cotton
But they don't know the first damn
thing
About what Americas people hay.
at stake in this war.
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