24 July. 
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Presidential Band 
Serenades King Neptune 
Mr. President, brittle and decrepid shellbacks, and “My Friends. 
Mr. President when you came on board, these upstanding young members 
of the Democratic League of Pollywognia were ready to worship at your 
feet. They believed in you with all their hearts as after all they had met 
you only through the soothing, and Pm afraid misleading, tones of radio 
and press. The effect of those hypnotic notes, however, are fast receding 
in the distance, as we observe you in action. We sit here distressed and 
disillusioned as we see you breaking bread with the seagoing equivalent of 
“Entrenched Greed” ; whose small minds are shackled by outmoded tradi- 
tion. And you, Mr. President, who have criticised the Judiciary of the 
United States, are now surrounded by and on evident good terms with, a 
court whose only motto is “No mercy and no justice.” Perhaps the mea- 
sure of our disillusionment may best be illustrated by reference to a recent 
speech you made on the East Coast. On that occasion you referred in 
In a mellifluent, pleading voice from pollywog Peacher: 
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look tkem over 
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scathing terms to those “One thousand dollar a day Executives who mail 
out their false propaganda with postage paid for by the poor stockholders”, 
and yet to our utter amazement you are now seated next to our own high 
priced Executive Officer who sends out his form of propaganda (morning 
orders) each night on mimeographed paper supplied by the poor tax- 
payer. 
Mr. President, we have tried to bolster our loyalty and faith in you 
by assuring ourselves that a man in your position is forced, through poli- 
tical expediency, to join all sorts of peculiar organizations from the Eagles 
to the Elks. We believe however, that liberal principles should triumph 
over politics. We therefore ask that you come over here to our ‘ State 
and say a few kind words for our cause. As Commander-in-Chief you 
have the right to speak up here as you did in Kentucky and Oklahoma and 
not stand mute as in Nevada, Utah and to a large extent California. How- 
ever, if that is asking too much then we demand, as a liberal and progres- 
sive’ organization, that you hold those narrow minded, conservative, 
reactionary, economic, royalists, the shellbacks in session, despite the heat, 
