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Editorial
November 17, 1939
The Mcdowell Times
Keystone, Mcdowell County, West Virginia
What is this article about?
Satirical column by Jo Serra critiques the vagueness of the New Deal program and mocks U.S. government borrowing to pay interest on prior debts, comparing public ignorance to a naive graduate. References SEC enforcement disparities.
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New Dealers say that the majority of American citizens are for the New Deal program whatever it is—We'll bite. What is it?
The Low Down from Hickory Grove
With the war crowding even divorces and murders out of the news, it is not so hard to savvy why we don't pay too much attention to Uncle Samuel when he borrows another 10 or 12 million just to pay the interest on other money which he borrowed before.
Borrowing money to pay interest on other borrowed money, brother, that is borrowin'.
How Uncle Samuel manages to keep out of the calaboose, while the SEC puts other persons in, for too high financing, it is kinda mystifying.
But the most of us, I reckon, we are kinda like the young duck when he graduated there at the Champaign and Urbana university. On the day he graduated, the Professor said to him: "Young feller, you are now finishing here and there is just one thing you do not know. You don't know yet, that you don't know anything."
I guess maybe one of the things the Professor had in mind, it musta been politics.
Yours with the low down.
Jo Serra.
The Low Down from Hickory Grove
With the war crowding even divorces and murders out of the news, it is not so hard to savvy why we don't pay too much attention to Uncle Samuel when he borrows another 10 or 12 million just to pay the interest on other money which he borrowed before.
Borrowing money to pay interest on other borrowed money, brother, that is borrowin'.
How Uncle Samuel manages to keep out of the calaboose, while the SEC puts other persons in, for too high financing, it is kinda mystifying.
But the most of us, I reckon, we are kinda like the young duck when he graduated there at the Champaign and Urbana university. On the day he graduated, the Professor said to him: "Young feller, you are now finishing here and there is just one thing you do not know. You don't know yet, that you don't know anything."
I guess maybe one of the things the Professor had in mind, it musta been politics.
Yours with the low down.
Jo Serra.
What sub-type of article is it?
Satire
Economic Policy
Partisan Politics
What keywords are associated?
New Deal
Government Borrowing
Political Satire
Fiscal Policy
Public Ignorance
What entities or persons were involved?
New Dealers
Uncle Samuel
Sec
Jo Serra
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Critique Of New Deal And Government Borrowing
Stance / Tone
Satirical Mockery Of Fiscal Policy And Political Ignorance
Key Figures
New Dealers
Uncle Samuel
Sec
Jo Serra
Key Arguments
New Deal Program Is Undefined And Blindly Supported
Government Borrows To Pay Interest On Prior Debts
Hypocrisy In Sec Enforcement Against Individuals But Not Government
Public Ignorance Of Politics Likened To Naive Graduate