Emperor of the North Page #3

effective means of preventing such evils...

...in this work relief program...

- [Snoring]

Will be the eternal vigilance

of the American people themselves.

[Continues Snoring]

I call upon my fellow citizens everywhere...

...to cooperate with me

in making this the most efficient...

...and the cleanest example

of public enterprise...

...the world has ever seen.

- [Knocks]...

Smile?

- It is time to provide a smashing answer...

...for those cynical men

who say that a democracy...

...cannot be honest,

cannot be efficient.

If you will help,

this can be done.

I therefore hope that you will watch

the work in every corner of the nation.

Feel free to criticize.

Tell me of instances

where work can be done better...

...[Chicken Flaps, Squawks]

Or where improper practices prevail.

Neither you nor I want criticism...

...conceived in a purely fault-finding

or partisan spirit.

But I am jealous of the right

of every citizen...

...to call to the attention

of his or her government...

...[Snoring]

Examples of how the public money

can be more effectively spent...

...for the benefit of the American people.

Never since m- [Switches Off]...

Smile.

- [Stops Snoring]

A-#1.

[Laughs]

I heard ya comin'.

Y-You beat the Shack.

Rode in on 19, eh?

- Well, that's not exactly it.

Mmm. Say, it figured.

You had to try him sometime.

Twenty miles in an empty stockcar

ain't exactly tryin' him.

That's just coppin' a feel.

- Ah, you're still A-#1.

Ah.

- [Chuckles] Wha-

Ohh.

Ho-ho-ho-ho.

It's only a week old.

Ah, ha-ha.

Ah, it's a sweet-thinkin',

fast-truckin' man ya are.

Shack hurt ya?

Never laugh at the devil.

- I ain't laughin'.

Fine.

[Chuckles]...

...[Strains]

Well, now- now you beat the Shack...

...climbed the sky, slept with the stars,

why the hell don't ya settle, huh?

Like me. Look.

I talked with F.D. R...

I fought with Pershing,

slept with Harlow- [Chuckles]

Tamed tigers, drunk poison...

...seen the elephant and gone over the falls.

I've been on the road and with it...

...and haven't moved my ass

more than a foot from here in the last year.

That ain't a question.

- Got an answer.

Oh, I, uh, lost my bindle

to a couple of road kids.

Well, shall we go among 'em?

Let's go among them.

[Clanging Metal]

- [Smile] Quiet, all right. That's right.

Listen all of you guys.

Come this way.

Gather ye round.

I got the news.

I got the message. [Laughs]

- [Continues Clanging]

Come on. Open up, you stew bums

and alkie stiffs. Get in here.

Open up, ya shovel bums,

fakirs, mushers and gray cats.

Ya think you're the road, do ya? Ha-ha.

Well, he's the road.

He's the Emperor of the North Pole.

He came in on a 19.

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