Read the passage below and answer the question. I guess we’re all hunting like everybody else for a way the diligent and sensible can rise to the top and the lazy and quarrelsome can sink to the bottom. But it ain’t easy to find. Meanwhile, we do all we can to help those that can’t help themselves and those that can we leave alone.
Mr. Webb, Act I

In at least one hundred words, explain the implications of Mr. Webb’s statement considering the timeline of national and world events during the 1930s.