So Shines a Good Deed in A by Franklin P. Adams

Naughty World"

There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich; / He gave away his millions to the colleges and sich; / And people cried: "The hypocrite! He ought to understand / The ones who really need him are the children of this land."

When Andrew Croesus built a home for children who were sick, / The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick, / And writers said: "He thinks about the drooping girls and boys, / But what about conditions with the men whom he employs?"

There was a man in our town who said that he would share / His profits with his laborers, for that was only fair, / And people said: "Oh, isn't he the shrewd and foxy gent?

It cost him next to nothing for that free advertisement."

There was a man in our town who had the perfect plan / To do away with poverty and other ills of man, / But he feared the public jeering, and the folks who would defame him, / So he never told the plan he had, and I can hardly blame him.