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 But man made conditions teach children today,
 To lie, cheat, hate, steal — Get rich any way.
 Some children need clothing and thousands lack food.
 The training of many is scanty and crude.
 The grown-ups have brought little good to our sight,
 How could they expect us to do what was right?”
 DIRECT CREDITS CHILD: There are two more verses to that anthem which we sing at school. Let me sing them for you.
 The last two verses are then sung as follows:
 “At last God has sent us a man who will fight,
 For all little children, teach us what is right,
 So mother and daddy won’t you help, too?
 Please listen to Lawson. He knows what to do.
 He teaches us kindness, unselfishness, too,
 We grow strong and happy while working for you.
 Help make this a land you will be proud to own,
 A good home for our children when we are grown.”
 JUSTICE: Under the Lawson Plan, not only will the grown-ups receive justice, but the new little creatures from the day they are born and up to twenty-one years of age will be protected with sufficient credits allowed by the Government to pay for everything that is necessary for their development to the highest point of efficiency within the power of each one to reach. Children will not get charity, but justice. They will get what they are naturally entitled to.
 PESSIMIST: Just a moment, please. What you do mean by that?
 DIRECT CREDITS OFFICER: They will be fed, clothed, housed and trained properly because it is right and because it is due them according to all the laws of common decency. Under this plan, the child will grow up with the knowledge and understanding of the responsibilities before him and will appreciate, as he grows older, the opportunities offered him to pay his own way through life, instead of having to accept charity in all its hideous forms. The nation that treats all of its children right will live to see all of its children treat everybody right.
 ANOTHER DIRECT CREDITS OFFICER: A marvelous change among the people of America has been under way since the year of 1931, when Alfred Lawson founded the Direct Credits Society. Since then thousands of loyal officers have been spreading the great truths that he has made known to the world which when accepted by the people at large, will give them a chance to rise to such great heights, physically, mentally, morally and economically as they have never dreamed of before.
 ANOTHER DIRECT CREDITS OFFICER: Yes, through Alfred Lawson’s literature and

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