Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

BEST BROADCAST S OF 1938-39 Narrator. — September, 1931, 8 million unemployed. . . . Second Narrator. — December, loH million. . . . Narrator. — Another winter of soup kitchens and bread lines, of silent people on street comers selling apples, of hopelessness, of fear, of hunger and cold. Second Narrator. — Local charities have exhausted their funds. State organizations have no money. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico, from towns and farms and cities, there rises a rumble. . . . Voice. — The government must help. Second Voice. — The government must help. . . . Third Voice. — The government must help. Fourth Voice. — The government must help. . . . Third Voice. — These people aren’t hoboes, they’re not tramps, they’re Americans. Fourth Voice. — They’re our neighbors. . . . Fifth Voice. — They’re you and me. . . . Chorus. — This isn’t a local matter or a state matter. . . . Second Voice. — It’s a national matter. . . . Chorus. — The government must help. Music. — Short chord or bridge. Narrator. — And from Washington comes the cool reply of the assistant director of the new and now frankly named Organization of Unemployment Relief. . . . Thorpe. — The proposition that the government should give aid to the unemployed is unwise, economically unsound, and fraught with public danger. Narrator. — And in Pittsburgh, the sky was deep blue, and not a mill chimney belched smoke. Second Narrator — And in Oklahoma, the dust buried the farms. Third Narrator. — And in California, armed guards loaded starving Mexican families on to sealed trains bound south across the border. 454