Olie's view of welfare

On one of the episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly, their friends think they have come upon hard times because they have sent out their furniture to be refurbished and they are asking for clothes. The reality is that they are making a large rag rug to give to the Elk's Club. In the course of the program, Olie, the janitor at the Elk's, comes by to give McGee a sweater and offer him an job as an elevator operator. McGee laughingly turns down the job, indicating it is beneath him (any work usually was), so Olie just keeps the sweater. "Any feller that don't need a job don't need a sweater." I thought that was a pretty good motto.


Fibber and Molly