“In the depths of the depression of the 1930s, a government agent visited the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. The federal government was making small allotments to the impoverished farmer for stock, feed, and necessary equipment. The agent came upon a mountain woman who lived all alone and try to grub a living from 2 acres of land. She had no floors in her cabin (save for the packed earth and just a few sticks of homemade furniture.) Daylight streamed through the chinks in the cabin walls. The agent looked around and then asked, “if the government gave you $200, what would you do with it? The woman weighed the question for moment and then replied, ‘Reckon' I'd give it to the poor’.” -Hal Brady, quoting Harold Koh, The Tinsel and Hay, 1968
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