July 31, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mother, Why does daddy insist on Instant Sanka coffee?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Your father says, Instant Sanka is one hundred percent pure
coffee and the only instant coffee that lets him sleep.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
And your father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Yes, it's father knows best. Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert
Young's father. A half hour visit with your neighbors, The
Anderson brought to you by Instant Sanka Coffee and Post
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(00:38):
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fifteen ounce packet.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
They're good and so good for you. Well, it's a
pleasant Saturday morning in.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Springfield, and out at the White Frame House on Maple Street,
the stream of life seems to be rolling along with
scarcely a murmur. In fact, the only sound at the
moment comes from the breakfast room, where Margaret is talking
on the telephone like this.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It does seem odd I talked to Grace just the
other day. She didn't say anything about.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Do you suppose one of the other girls could have
picked it up?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I believe Mildo was there, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Have you seen?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Here you are?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh what do you want, dear?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I wanted to ask you about this soon.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, it was early in the afternoon. No, I remember,
because Grace came in before I did. It wasn't on
the chair when I came in. I'm sure I certainly
would have noticed it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
What is it, Jim?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Never mind, honey, I'll wait till you finish.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Is it important? No?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Why?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Just wondering what happened to this blue suit of mine?
I put it on and for some reason?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I think it's a job for the PTA.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Oh, it's the use.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh wait, dear, don't go away.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'll talk to you later. Evelyn, we'll get it straightened out.
Bye bye.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm sorry, dear, I just couldn't hang up.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Grace Milligan lost her book with all the minutes of
the PTA meetings and everyone's Friday.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now, what's the trouble, No.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Trouble, It's just that something's happened to this blue suit
I have on? It doesn't fit, it's too tight.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, there's a very simple answer to that, Dear.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I know it's that darn dry cleaner.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Dear, the last time you wore that suit was over
a year ago.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
What's that got to do with the cleaners?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The suit hasn't been to the clean Well.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Then, who's shrunk it?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The suit hasn't shrunk. You've expanded.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You mean I've gained weight, Margaret. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well you have bye, wait, exactly what I did ten
years ago.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I never put on weight, you know that.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Have you wighed yourself lately?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, but I'll go upstairs and do it right now.
It has to be this suit. I guess i'd know
if I were putting on Wait.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hi, Mom, Hello, Bud.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Do you know the most important thing for a captain
on a ship?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, that's hard to say.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's been a long time since I was the captain
of a ship.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Do you want me to tell you?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Tell me what, Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
What's the most important thing to a captain on a ship?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh, that reminds me. You can put the water on
the table.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
It's a telescope. What is the most important thing to
a captain on a ship, Bud.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
A telescope? Look out the kitchen window. Can you see
the bird sitting on top of the flagpole on top
of the city hall.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I can't even see the flag pole. How can you
see a bird?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I can't. But if I had Joe's telescope and there
was a bird sitting up there, we could look through
Joe's telescope and see every feather on the bird. Really,
I can buy it for a dollar and a half
by what Joe's telescope. It's in perfect condition. It has
glass in both ends.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well, you were giving your allowance on Wednesday. Go ahead
and buy it.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I can't, Mom, there were some other things I had
to get.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You haven't spent your allowance already.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Well I didn't spend it exactly. Just Sota goes, so Mummy,
fade out, knucklehead. I'm talking to mom.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I'm trying to get lunch. Angel, What is it?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Betty says she needs fifty cent?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Tell her I got here first.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
God, it's a strange thing. I just can't understand it. Honey.
What's this?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Are you sure our scales are right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Mother?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Just a minute, Betty, I told Joe i'd let him
know about the telescope. How about it?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Mom?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Well, by Margaret, what, dear, what are you doing with
the can of soup? What you've been carrying it around
the kitchen. You don't seem to know where you're going.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, I am a little confused, dear. There's a bird
sitting on top of the city.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hall, and Betty wants fifty cents and but needs a telescope.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
And I'm trying to get lunch. Lunch, that's what the
soup's for.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Afker. She didn't answer me yet.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Look, kids, I was here first, dat I was talking
to mom, and Kathy butted in.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
All right, but just a minute, let me talk to
your father. Now, what about the scale?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well, there must be something wrong with him. I weighed
myself just now. I've gained nine pounds. They can't be right.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm sorry that they are, Dear. That's the reason your
soup doesn't fit. You've put on weight.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I can't believe it. I never put on weight. I've
been particularly careful about it, you know that, Margaret. Now,
why all of a sudden I should gain nine pounds
doesn't make sense?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
All one, two, three, four.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Oh, what are you doing, bud?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I was just testing. I was talking and I could
hear myself all right, but it didn't seem like anybody
else could.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well, you're coming in loud and clear. Now what do
you want? Uh? Dear?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Would you mind taking the children in the dinner someplace
so I can get lunch?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Come on, kids? Nine pounds? It doesn't seem possible. Mother,
What is it? Princess? Mother's in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh, I want to see you. Father. I'll be right down.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, Daddy, take your time, princess. You have two ahead
of you. Now, who's first? Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I need is a dollar and a half to first?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I get a quarter?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Now? What is this?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
It's for a telescope, Dad, you can look at the moon.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I've seen the moon.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
A quarter for me? Fifty cents per bead?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I wait, back up, back up.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You kids are supposed to have your own money. What
happened to your allowances?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Father?
Speaker 8 (06:54):
I'm bad you're here. I simply have to have three dollars.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Three dollars, how about you? We're trying for fifty cents.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Well that was when I thought you'd gone and i'd
have to get it from mother. Fifty cents would be
all I could get from her. But where money is concerned,
you're so much more understanding.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I see understanding in this case being a word meaning
soft in the head.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
That I told Joe i'd let him know, and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I got to have a quarter for the movie.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
All right, now, hold everything? May I ask one question.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
All three of you were giving your week's allowance on
Wednesday three days ago.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
I don't know, Father.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
The money just.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Goes, Yeah, it just goes, it sure does. What are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The whole trouble is that you kids don't take care
of your money. You just throw it around.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
We don't throw our money around.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
No, we buy things with it, but that's just it.
You buy anything and everything that comes along. You kids
seem to have the idea that parents were just made
to hand out money. But you don't seem to realize
is that there's a limit to what you can spend.
The point I'm trying to put over is that you
kids have to learn to manage your money, to plan
and get along with what you have.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Well, how can we, father, we don't have anything?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You have your allowances.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's about three feet long what did Joe's telescope goes
up like an accordion?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
But have you heard anything I've been saying?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Do you children understand what I mean? Do you grasp
the importance of it?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Father? Sure, then I do.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Daddy, well, thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Now me, I have the three dollars.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Oh no, the telescope's a dollar and a half.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Can I have my quarter?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I don't know. Maybe there's something I'm doing wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Why can't I make it clear to you kids that
you you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Can't buy everything you see? There has to be a limit.
What if you were out in the world living on
a salary, but we're not.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
If we had a salary, that'd be different.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Oh, if a guy gets a salary, then he can
do something.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I should.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Wish I had a salary, hm, Daddy, Yes, what's a salary.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
It's money that's paid to you when you work. So
you kids think you could do better if you had.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
A salary, Why, certainly then we'd have something to go on.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
All right, I'll tell you what I'll do.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You will have jobs that you do around the house.
So for one week we'll try a little experiment.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I'm going to pay each of you a salary.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Really, father, no kid?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Now wait, there's a catch to it. The idea behind
this whole thing is to see if you can manage
your money. So you'll have to pay for your room
and board.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
What do we do with a board?
Speaker 8 (09:57):
That's our meals?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
We gotta eat?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Bo Oh, never mind. I think it's a simply superior idea.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Father, Yoh, wait till I tell Joel, I suppose we
do this.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I'll pay you three dollars a day.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Three bucks a day? Oh man.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Now you'll have to pay for your meals, say twenty
five cents for breakfast, twenty five cents for lunch, and
fifty cents for dinner.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's fair enough.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
I guess three bucks a day.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
So that's a dollar for your meals. And we'll say
a dollar a day for your room. That's two dollars,
and then twenty five cents a day.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
For your laundry.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Gee, that's two and a quarter a day. It only
needs seventy five cents.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, with phone calls at say five cents each, you
still have at least fifty cents a day.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Clear profit three bucks a day?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What about me, daddy, I don't need as much as
Bud and Batty.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We'll figure you at half price for everything. Kitten, I'll
give you a dollar and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Get ready for lunch, dear bring the children.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
I guess I could man inch gee a dollar and
a half.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
What are you gonna do with your money? Shroomp?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think I'll buy a car?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
What's going on in here?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Guess what?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Father's putting us on a salary three bucks a day?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
What's this? We're going to try it for a week.
I'm going to pay them a salary for the work
they do around the house. But dear boy, Bud and
Betty get three dollars a day out of this.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
They have to pay twenty five cents for breakfast, twenty
five cents for lunch, and fifty cents per dinner.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Holy smoke, that's a dollar a day just.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
To eat, believe me. But on you, we're gonna lose money.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Then they'll pay a dollar a day for room and
twenty five cents for laundry, plus five cents each for
phone calls.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
All except Kathy. She goes at half priced.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, we can try it, but lunch is on the table.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Can you postpone the employment project? Until later.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Let's start it now. Three bucks a day.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Father.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
You have a wicked gleam in your eye. Is this
a trick of some kind?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
What do you mean a trick?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
You look too happy about it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Please, lunch is on the table, Betty.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Quit arguing just a minute.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I'll tell you what we'll do.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Father.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
We'll try this three dollars a day and pay our
own expenses. If you do it.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Too, me, you'd better come to lunch. Deer, you're getting
into deep water.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
How could he pay money to himself?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Could you do that?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Well, yes I could. But why you see, he doesn't
want to do it. There's something fishy. I knew there was.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
There's nothing of the kind.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Then why don't you do it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
If you insist, I'll go along with you, same pay,
same expenses.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's a deal.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
But dear, how can you boy? Three bucks a day?
You gotta call Joe.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
I get the phone first.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I have to call Jane.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I gotta go tell Pat.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I hold it a second.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Remember, you have to live on your salary for the
whole week. We know, father, If you spend it all
before the week's over, Remember, you don't eat if you
can't pay your room rent out you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Go, Yo, we understand. Give me the phone.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
I whis first?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Remember five cents a call?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
All right, father, dear, lunch and will start.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
The kids will be along.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Oh, Joe, but it's okay. On the telescope.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Hurry up, I've gotta call Janie.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'll pay cash. I have money.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Jim Anderson, what in Heaven's name do you think you're
doing well?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I've tried every other method I know to teach the
children to take care of their money. This one is drastic,
but it'll be effective.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
At the rate they're.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Going, their week's salary will last them about three days,
possibly until Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Then listen to the.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Wailing and the moaning when we tell them no money,
no meals.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
This will teach them a lesson they'll never forget. Well.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I hope it works, dear, But remember you're in this
ride along with them.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Eh, don't worry about me, honey.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
As the burglar said as the police put him in
the patrol wagon, I'm just going along for the ride. Well,
in just a minute, we'll see whether father is giving
the youngsters some good financial advice or vice versa right now, mother,
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here's some excellent advice for you about the breakfast you
serve your family. Chances are, mother, you know that brand
is good for your family because it provides important keep
regular benefits. Maybe you've even served it but found that
the family wasn't enthusiastic about its taste. Well, now try
Post forty percent brand flakes and discover that something wonderful
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(15:16):
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Speaker 2 (15:25):
Remember, for goodness sake, eat Post brand flakes so good.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
And so good for you.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
This weekend, mother, by Post forty percent brand flakes in
the new family size fifteen ounce package. It's the cereal
bought by far more people than any other brand flakes.
Remember they're good and so good for you. Well, let's
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see how the big financial experiment is working out at
the ends. Last Saturday, when Jim decided to pay each
of the children a salary for their.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Work around the house, he was pretty sure the money
would be gone by Tuesday at the latest.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
In fact, it was starting to burn holes in their
pockets almost before the deal was made. And now here
it is Friday afternoon, the last day of the experiment.
Can the kids go all the way and upset Jim's
carefully laid plan. Well, let's see, the head of the
Anderson household is just arriving home from the audience like this.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Margaret him in the kitchen deer.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Hello, Honnie, Hi, how is your day? Another usual? Where
are the children?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh, they're out somewhere by the way. How did you
happen to wear that old suit today?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, it looked like it might rain this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'm surprised you could get into it. You're moving up
into the heavyweight class.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I am taking care of that weight situation. How are
the kids doing with their money? Did they pay for
their lunches?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yep, cash on the line, all three of them they did.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
How about you? Did you pay for yours?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Certainly?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
But I can't understand how they've managed to make that
money stretch.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
The way they started out, I was sure they'd never
make it. They haven't borrowed any from you, have they?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
No, and they paid for everything. I put the money
in a jar up in the cupboard.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
But how have they done it?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Probably by being careful watching their pennies. That's what you
wanted them to.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Do, wasn't it. Yes, But they certainly didn't think they'd
do it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You sound like you're disappointed.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
No, I'm not disappointed, but I am surprised. Of course.
The week isn't over yet. They still have dinner tonight
to pay for.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
They have enough to pay for it. I'm quite sure.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
You do well, Margaret. Don't be silly, of course.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It hasn't been easy, starting off every day with just
three dollars and then paying you a dollar for the room,
twenty five cents for breakfast, and then the laundry, and
fifty cents for dinner.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It hasn't left anything for high living.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
But I've managed, and I have fifty cents to pay
for my dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
No, you're very thrifty, dear, but I just.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Can't imagine how the kids did it. I was sure
they'd go broke.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, you should be proud of them.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Oh I am.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
But well, as I said, it isn't over yet. The
end of the week is always the hard pull on
a salary, paying for that last meal.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Excuse me, I have to get this cast roll back
in the oven.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
We're having a one dish dinner tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh mother, I oh, hello, father?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Well, hello, princess, how are you me? I'm all right,
no problems.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Well, to tell you the real positive truth, father, I
do have kind of a problem.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
So it finally happened, Eh, Princess.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You just couldn't make that money stretch to the end
of the week. No, Father, I know it can slip
through your fingers before you know it. Princess, I'm not
going to lecture you. If you've spent your salary, then
it's gone. You'll simply have.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
To But it isn't gone.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
It isn't.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
No, I've kept track. I have fifty cents left to
pay for dinner tonight.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Life's just one disappointment after another, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Dear Rart. I'm not disappointed. I just well, what was
the problem, Princess.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
I'm going to the football game with Ralph tonight and
his car isn't.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Running all that.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I guess you can take hours.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Oh, thank you, father, You're a doll, an absolute doll.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Betty, find Kathy and Bud. Dinner's almost ready.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Oh do you like that, Margaret? Never, never before has
Betty been able to hold on to her money any
longer than it took her to get to a store. Now,
why all of a sudden does she do a thing
like this?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I don't know, But why question?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Well, she hasn't learned anything.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You never appreciate water until the well runs dry, you
know that, Betty?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Get ready for dinner, Deer, Hi, Mommy, Hi, Kaddy?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Hello, Angel, Oh kitting, We're about ready to sit down
to dinner. Are you going to be with us tonight?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I have my quarter? See?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Oh, oh, good for you.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Where in the world is Bud? Dinner's already he's.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Playing football out in the lot. What are we having?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
We're having soup and a nice big casserole.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Wash your hands, Angel, and go to the table and
call Betty Betty.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
And it beats me, absolutely beats me.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What's the matter, dear?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
You just can't depend on kids anymore. Come to the table, father,
I'm coming.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Kathy bitter goud and called Bud he was out in
the vacant lots, scuffling with a bunch of roughnecks.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Make room on the table. The soup's hot.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Barm bom bomb.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh you're in here, get washed, Bud?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I do?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Oh you home? Dan? No, Bud, I'm picking blueberries in yosemity.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Oh, I'm hungry. Let's eat.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You have your fifty cents, Bud?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Sure, it's right here.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Here's the money, jark, do you eat the kitty?
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Here's mine?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
There's mine?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Well, Bud, Oh gosh, where is it?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
What happened my fifty cents? It was right here in
my pocket?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
You mean you've lost it?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I had it before I got into the game. Now
it's gone.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh but now no denier for bad But I had it.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well, that's unfortunate, son, But if that was all you
had left out of your salary, you could have been
more careful.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Don't I get to eat?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That's up to your father.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well, I don't want to be unreasonable, son, but you
knew the rules.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The idea of this whole experiment was to make you
children responsible for your own money. Yeah, but I'm hungry,
I know, son. But if you were out earning your
own living, getting along on a salary. You couldn't afford
to lose money like that.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
But I had it. It was in my pocket.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I don't doubt it.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
But suppose you were out on your own eating in restaurants,
you couldn't go in and say I had some money,
but I lost it.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Can I sit here and watch?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I guess so?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Put your fifty cents in, Jim. The soup's getting cold,
all right.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
You see, But the rest of us have.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Where's that fifty cents? There's a hole in my pocket?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
This darnal suit, Oh father, not you.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I had it. It was right in this pocket. I
had my comb in fifty cents. There's a hole in
my pocket. You can see it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Well, that's a shame, dear, Not just a minute.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
This is different. You saw the hole in my.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Pocket, Dear.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
If you were out earning your own living, you before
to lose money like that.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I didn't lose it. It fell through the hole.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
If you were eating in restaurants, you couldn't go in
and say I had some money, but it fell through
a hole.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Margaret, you mean that. I can't.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
I'm sorry, but you know what you told the children?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You made up.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Through well, If that isn't a fine, how do you do?
Speaker 8 (23:23):
The point is, Father, you must be careful with your money.
You should have made sure it wouldn't fall out of
your pocket. You can't just throw it around.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
All right, come on, Bud, just go in the living
room while the rest of you eat.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Okay, no fair plotting.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
We're not plotting. She did.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Are you sure you don't have any nickels or dimes
or anything?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Not a nickel?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Well? I looked through all of my Hey, I found
something in the pocket of this jacket.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
We can eat dead?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I got two ticks.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
It gets to the father and sons bank with Friday night.
That's tonight, Why George, why not get a good meal?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Probably if we hurry, let's go, Dad, I'm star get
your coat on.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Son.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'll take the tickets. But how long have you had
these tickets?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
These tickets are for the father and Son's bank with
Friday nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I guess they wouldn't be good now.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Oh great, are you leaving, dear? Eh? No, we've changed
our minds. Dead.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Maybe we better go back in the dining room. Maybe
they'll drop something.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Margaret yeah, what is it, dear?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Eh, you and the children are right. I didn't mean
to be grouchy, just hungry.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I guess, yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, I think you proved your point, dear, and the
children have learned a very valuable lesson.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why don't we call off the game and you and
burn money?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Rules?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Rules?
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Dad, something's burning?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Oh good, heavens the cast role in the oven?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
Get it out quiet by the way, Bud, move your
big feet.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Cut open the oven. Oh, it's burned to a cruise.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I forgot all about it. And that was our dinner.
How did I ever do such a thing.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, it's too bad, but I think it solves our problem.
How father, Well, this cancels the last meal of the week.
So I vote that your mother takes us all out
to dinner. Me How with that jar full of money
that we've paid.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
In all week?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
What for that?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
A perfectly super idea?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
All right, get your coats on, I'm star.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Just one thing I'd like to mention, honey.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yet, Dear, if you were out.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Earning your own living cooking in a restaurant, you'd have
to be more careful. Yes, dear, I didn't think i'd
make of it. By George I got the last word.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
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good night, and we hope it will be a good
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hours after you go to bed turning and tossing sleeplessly
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Speaker 5 (27:26):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
The Andersons are back in the white frame house on
Maple Street, all fed and feeling considerably better. There's still
a slight haze of burned.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Casserole in the air, but it's cleary. Jim and Margaret
are counting out what's left of the kitty like.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
This fourteen fifty Here, dear.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I have eleven seventy five. There's still another stack of coins.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'm still wondering how you managed to get along all
week on twenty five cents for lunch?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And how did you buy gasoling for the car.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I didn't eat lunches. I didn't buy gas for the car.
I walked to the office.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I not only trimmed the budget, I trimmed my waistline.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The children learn a lesson than handling money, and I
lost eight pounds.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh, you're so smart.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I won't deny it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
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Speaker 6 (28:52):
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Speaker 4 (28:55):
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Speaker 5 (29:33):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
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Speaker 5 (01:00):
They're good and so good for you. Well, it's a
pleasant Saturday morning in.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Springfield, and out at the White Frame House on Maple Street,
the stream of life seems to be rolling along with
scarcely a murmur. In fact, the only sound at the
moment comes from the breakfast room, where Margaret is talking
on the telephone like this.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It does seem odd I talked to Grace just the
other day. She didn't say anything about.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
It, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Do you suppose one of the other girls could have
picked it up?
Speaker 6 (01:35):
I believe Mildo was there, Margaret.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Have you seen?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Here you are?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh what do you want, dear?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I wanted to ask you about this soon.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, it was early in the afternoon. No, I remember,
because Grace came in before I did. It wasn't on
the chair when I came in. I'm sure I certainly
would have noticed it.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
What is it, Jim?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Never mind, honey, I'll wait till you finish.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Is it important? No?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Why?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Just wondering what happened to this blue suit of mine?
I put it on and for some reason?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, I think it's a job for the PTA.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Oh, it's the use.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Oh wait, dear, don't go away.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I'll talk to you later. Evelyn, we'll get it straightened out.
Bye bye.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm sorry, dear, I just couldn't hang up.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Grace Milligan lost her book with all the minutes of
the PTA meetings and everyone's Friday.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Now, what's the trouble, No.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Trouble, It's just that something's happened to this blue suit
I have on? It doesn't fit, it's too tight.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, there's a very simple answer to that, Dear.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
I know it's that darn dry cleaner.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Dear, the last time you wore that suit was over
a year ago.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
What's that got to do with the cleaners?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The suit hasn't been to the clean Well.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Then, who's shrunk it?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The suit hasn't shrunk. You've expanded.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You mean I've gained weight, Margaret. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well you have bye, wait, exactly what I did ten
years ago.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I never put on weight, you know that.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Have you wighed yourself lately?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, but I'll go upstairs and do it right now.
It has to be this suit. I guess i'd know
if I were putting on Wait.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hi, Mom, Hello, Bud.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Do you know the most important thing for a captain
on a ship?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well, that's hard to say.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's been a long time since I was the captain
of a ship.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Do you want me to tell you?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Tell me what, Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
What's the most important thing to a captain on a ship?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oh, that reminds me. You can put the water on
the table.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
It's a telescope. What is the most important thing to
a captain on a ship, Bud.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
A telescope? Look out the kitchen window. Can you see
the bird sitting on top of the flagpole on top
of the city hall.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I can't even see the flag pole. How can you
see a bird?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
I can't. But if I had Joe's telescope and there
was a bird sitting up there, we could look through
Joe's telescope and see every feather on the bird. Really,
I can buy it for a dollar and a half
by what Joe's telescope. It's in perfect condition. It has
glass in both ends.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well, you were giving your allowance on Wednesday. Go ahead
and buy it.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I can't, Mom, there were some other things I had
to get.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You haven't spent your allowance already.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Well I didn't spend it exactly. Just Sota goes, so Mummy,
fade out, knucklehead. I'm talking to mom.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I'm trying to get lunch. Angel, What is it?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Betty says she needs fifty cent?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Tell her I got here first.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
God, it's a strange thing. I just can't understand it. Honey.
What's this?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Dear?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Are you sure our scales are right?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Mother?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Just a minute, Betty, I told Joe i'd let him
know about the telescope. How about it?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Mom?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Well, by Margaret, what, dear, what are you doing with
the can of soup? What you've been carrying it around
the kitchen. You don't seem to know where you're going.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, I am a little confused, dear. There's a bird
sitting on top of the city.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Hall, and Betty wants fifty cents and but needs a telescope.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
And I'm trying to get lunch. Lunch, that's what the
soup's for.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Afker. She didn't answer me yet.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Look, kids, I was here first, dat I was talking
to mom, and Kathy butted in.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
All right, but just a minute, let me talk to
your father. Now, what about the scale?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well, there must be something wrong with him. I weighed
myself just now. I've gained nine pounds. They can't be right.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm sorry that they are, Dear. That's the reason your
soup doesn't fit. You've put on weight.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
I can't believe it. I never put on weight. I've
been particularly careful about it, you know that, Margaret. Now,
why all of a sudden I should gain nine pounds
doesn't make sense?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
All one, two, three, four.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Oh, what are you doing, bud?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
I was just testing. I was talking and I could
hear myself all right, but it didn't seem like anybody
else could.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Well, you're coming in loud and clear. Now what do
you want? Uh? Dear?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Would you mind taking the children in the dinner someplace
so I can get lunch?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Come on, kids? Nine pounds? It doesn't seem possible. Mother,
What is it? Princess? Mother's in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh, I want to see you. Father. I'll be right down.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, Daddy, take your time, princess. You have two ahead
of you. Now, who's first? Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I need is a dollar and a half to first?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I get a quarter?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Now? What is this?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
It's for a telescope, Dad, you can look at the moon.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I've seen the moon.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
A quarter for me? Fifty cents per bead?
Speaker 6 (06:48):
I wait, back up, back up.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You kids are supposed to have your own money. What
happened to your allowances?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Father?
Speaker 8 (06:54):
I'm bad you're here. I simply have to have three dollars.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Three dollars, how about you? We're trying for fifty cents.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Well that was when I thought you'd gone and i'd
have to get it from mother. Fifty cents would be
all I could get from her. But where money is concerned,
you're so much more understanding.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I see understanding in this case being a word meaning
soft in the head.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
That I told Joe i'd let him know, and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I got to have a quarter for the movie.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
All right, now, hold everything? May I ask one question.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
All three of you were giving your week's allowance on
Wednesday three days ago.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
I don't know, Father.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
The money just.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Goes, Yeah, it just goes, it sure does. What are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
The whole trouble is that you kids don't take care
of your money. You just throw it around.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
We don't throw our money around.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
No, we buy things with it, but that's just it.
You buy anything and everything that comes along. You kids
seem to have the idea that parents were just made
to hand out money. But you don't seem to realize
is that there's a limit to what you can spend.
The point I'm trying to put over is that you
kids have to learn to manage your money, to plan
and get along with what you have.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Well, how can we, father, we don't have anything?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You have your allowances.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's about three feet long what did Joe's telescope goes
up like an accordion?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
But have you heard anything I've been saying?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Do you children understand what I mean? Do you grasp
the importance of it?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Father? Sure, then I do.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Daddy, well, thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Now me, I have the three dollars.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Oh no, the telescope's a dollar and a half.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Can I have my quarter?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Daddy?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
I don't know. Maybe there's something I'm doing wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Why can't I make it clear to you kids that
you you.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Can't buy everything you see? There has to be a limit.
What if you were out in the world living on
a salary, but we're not.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
If we had a salary, that'd be different.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Oh, if a guy gets a salary, then he can
do something.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I should.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Wish I had a salary, hm, Daddy, Yes, what's a salary.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
It's money that's paid to you when you work. So
you kids think you could do better if you had.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
A salary, Why, certainly then we'd have something to go on.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
All right, I'll tell you what I'll do.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
You will have jobs that you do around the house.
So for one week we'll try a little experiment.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I'm going to pay each of you a salary.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Really, father, no kid?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Now wait, there's a catch to it. The idea behind
this whole thing is to see if you can manage
your money. So you'll have to pay for your room
and board.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
What do we do with a board?
Speaker 8 (09:57):
That's our meals?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
We gotta eat?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Bo Oh, never mind. I think it's a simply superior idea.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Father, Yoh, wait till I tell Joel, I suppose we
do this.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I'll pay you three dollars a day.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Three bucks a day? Oh man.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Now you'll have to pay for your meals, say twenty
five cents for breakfast, twenty five cents for lunch, and
fifty cents for dinner.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
That's fair enough.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
I guess three bucks a day.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
So that's a dollar for your meals. And we'll say
a dollar a day for your room. That's two dollars,
and then twenty five cents a day.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
For your laundry.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Gee, that's two and a quarter a day. It only
needs seventy five cents.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Well, with phone calls at say five cents each, you
still have at least fifty cents a day.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Clear profit three bucks a day?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What about me, daddy, I don't need as much as
Bud and Batty.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We'll figure you at half price for everything. Kitten, I'll
give you a dollar and a half.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Get ready for lunch, dear bring the children.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
I guess I could man inch gee a dollar and
a half.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
What are you gonna do with your money? Shroomp?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think I'll buy a car?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
What's going on in here?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Mother?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Guess what?
Speaker 8 (11:14):
Father's putting us on a salary three bucks a day?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
What's this? We're going to try it for a week.
I'm going to pay them a salary for the work
they do around the house. But dear boy, Bud and
Betty get three dollars a day out of this.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
They have to pay twenty five cents for breakfast, twenty
five cents for lunch, and fifty cents per dinner.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Holy smoke, that's a dollar a day just.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
To eat, believe me. But on you, we're gonna lose money.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Then they'll pay a dollar a day for room and
twenty five cents for laundry, plus five cents each for
phone calls.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
All except Kathy. She goes at half priced.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, we can try it, but lunch is on the table.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Now.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Can you postpone the employment project? Until later.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Let's start it now. Three bucks a day.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
That's fine with me.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Father.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
You have a wicked gleam in your eye. Is this
a trick of some kind?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
What do you mean a trick?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
You look too happy about it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Please, lunch is on the table, Betty.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Quit arguing just a minute.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
I'll tell you what we'll do.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Father.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
We'll try this three dollars a day and pay our
own expenses. If you do it.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Too, me, you'd better come to lunch. Deer, you're getting
into deep water.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
How could he pay money to himself?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Could you do that?
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Dad?
Speaker 8 (12:40):
Well, yes I could. But why you see, he doesn't
want to do it. There's something fishy. I knew there was.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
There's nothing of the kind.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Then why don't you do it?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
All right?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
If you insist, I'll go along with you, same pay,
same expenses.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's a deal.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
But dear, how can you boy? Three bucks a day?
You gotta call Joe.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
I get the phone first.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I have to call Jane.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I gotta go tell Pat.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I hold it a second.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Remember, you have to live on your salary for the
whole week. We know, father, If you spend it all
before the week's over, Remember, you don't eat if you
can't pay your room rent out you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Go, Yo, we understand. Give me the phone.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
I whis first?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Remember five cents a call?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
All right, father, dear, lunch and will start.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
The kids will be along.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Oh, Joe, but it's okay. On the telescope.
Speaker 8 (13:32):
Hurry up, I've gotta call Janie.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'll pay cash. I have money.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Jim Anderson, what in Heaven's name do you think you're
doing well?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I've tried every other method I know to teach the
children to take care of their money. This one is drastic,
but it'll be effective.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
At the rate they're.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Going, their week's salary will last them about three days,
possibly until Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Then listen to the.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Wailing and the moaning when we tell them no money,
no meals.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
This will teach them a lesson they'll never forget. Well.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I hope it works, dear, But remember you're in this
ride along with them.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Eh, don't worry about me, honey.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
As the burglar said as the police put him in
the patrol wagon, I'm just going along for the ride. Well,
in just a minute, we'll see whether father is giving
the youngsters some good financial advice or vice versa right now, mother,
(14:32):
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Speaker 2 (15:25):
Remember, for goodness sake, eat Post brand flakes so good.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
And so good for you.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
This weekend, mother, by Post forty percent brand flakes in
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bought by far more people than any other brand flakes.
Remember they're good and so good for you. Well, let's
(16:06):
see how the big financial experiment is working out at
the ends. Last Saturday, when Jim decided to pay each
of the children a salary for their.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Work around the house, he was pretty sure the money
would be gone by Tuesday at the latest.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
In fact, it was starting to burn holes in their
pockets almost before the deal was made. And now here
it is Friday afternoon, the last day of the experiment.
Can the kids go all the way and upset Jim's
carefully laid plan. Well, let's see, the head of the
Anderson household is just arriving home from the audience like this.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Margaret him in the kitchen deer.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Hello, Honnie, Hi, how is your day? Another usual? Where
are the children?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh, they're out somewhere by the way. How did you
happen to wear that old suit today?
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, it looked like it might rain this morning.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'm surprised you could get into it. You're moving up
into the heavyweight class.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I am taking care of that weight situation. How are
the kids doing with their money? Did they pay for
their lunches?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yep, cash on the line, all three of them they did.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
How about you? Did you pay for yours?
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Certainly?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
But I can't understand how they've managed to make that
money stretch.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
The way they started out, I was sure they'd never
make it. They haven't borrowed any from you, have they?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
No, and they paid for everything. I put the money
in a jar up in the cupboard.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
But how have they done it?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Probably by being careful watching their pennies. That's what you
wanted them to.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Do, wasn't it. Yes, But they certainly didn't think they'd
do it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You sound like you're disappointed.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
No, I'm not disappointed, but I am surprised. Of course.
The week isn't over yet. They still have dinner tonight
to pay for.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
They have enough to pay for it. I'm quite sure.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
You do well, Margaret. Don't be silly, of course.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It hasn't been easy, starting off every day with just
three dollars and then paying you a dollar for the room,
twenty five cents for breakfast, and then the laundry, and
fifty cents for dinner.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
It hasn't left anything for high living.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
But I've managed, and I have fifty cents to pay
for my dinner tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
No, you're very thrifty, dear, but I just.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Can't imagine how the kids did it. I was sure
they'd go broke.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, you should be proud of them.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Oh I am.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
But well, as I said, it isn't over yet. The
end of the week is always the hard pull on
a salary, paying for that last meal.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Excuse me, I have to get this cast roll back
in the oven.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
We're having a one dish dinner tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh mother, I oh, hello, father?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Well, hello, princess, how are you me? I'm all right,
no problems.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Well, to tell you the real positive truth, father, I
do have kind of a problem.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
So it finally happened, Eh, Princess.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
You just couldn't make that money stretch to the end
of the week. No, Father, I know it can slip
through your fingers before you know it. Princess, I'm not
going to lecture you. If you've spent your salary, then
it's gone. You'll simply have.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
To But it isn't gone.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
It isn't.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
No, I've kept track. I have fifty cents left to
pay for dinner tonight.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Life's just one disappointment after another, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
Dear Rart. I'm not disappointed. I just well, what was
the problem, Princess.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
I'm going to the football game with Ralph tonight and
his car isn't.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Running all that.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I guess you can take hours.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
Oh, thank you, father, You're a doll, an absolute doll.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Betty, find Kathy and Bud. Dinner's almost ready.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Oh do you like that, Margaret? Never, never before has
Betty been able to hold on to her money any
longer than it took her to get to a store. Now,
why all of a sudden does she do a thing
like this?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
I don't know, But why question?
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Well, she hasn't learned anything.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You never appreciate water until the well runs dry, you
know that, Betty?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Get ready for dinner, Deer, Hi, Mommy, Hi, Kaddy?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Hello, Angel, Oh kitting, We're about ready to sit down
to dinner. Are you going to be with us tonight?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I have my quarter? See?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Oh, oh, good for you.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Where in the world is Bud? Dinner's already he's.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Playing football out in the lot. What are we having?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
We're having soup and a nice big casserole.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Wash your hands, Angel, and go to the table and
call Betty Betty.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
And it beats me, absolutely beats me.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
What's the matter, dear?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
You just can't depend on kids anymore. Come to the table, father,
I'm coming.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Kathy bitter goud and called Bud he was out in
the vacant lots, scuffling with a bunch of roughnecks.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Make room on the table. The soup's hot.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Barm bom bomb.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Oh you're in here, get washed, Bud?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I do?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Oh you home? Dan? No, Bud, I'm picking blueberries in yosemity.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Oh, I'm hungry. Let's eat.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
You have your fifty cents, Bud?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Sure, it's right here.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Here's the money, jark, do you eat the kitty?
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Here's mine?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
There's mine?
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Well, Bud, Oh gosh, where is it?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
What happened my fifty cents? It was right here in
my pocket?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
You mean you've lost it?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I had it before I got into the game. Now
it's gone.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Oh but now no denier for bad But I had it.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Well, that's unfortunate, son, But if that was all you
had left out of your salary, you could have been
more careful.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Don't I get to eat?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That's up to your father.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Well, I don't want to be unreasonable, son, but you
knew the rules.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
The idea of this whole experiment was to make you
children responsible for your own money. Yeah, but I'm hungry,
I know, son. But if you were out earning your
own living, getting along on a salary. You couldn't afford
to lose money like that.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
But I had it. It was in my pocket.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
I don't doubt it.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
But suppose you were out on your own eating in restaurants,
you couldn't go in and say I had some money,
but I lost it.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Can I sit here and watch?
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I guess so?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Put your fifty cents in, Jim. The soup's getting cold,
all right.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
You see, But the rest of us have.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Where's that fifty cents? There's a hole in my pocket?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
This darnal suit, Oh father, not you.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I had it. It was right in this pocket. I
had my comb in fifty cents. There's a hole in
my pocket. You can see it.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Well, that's a shame, dear, Not just a minute.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
This is different. You saw the hole in my.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Pocket, Dear.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
If you were out earning your own living, you before
to lose money like that.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I didn't lose it. It fell through the hole.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
If you were eating in restaurants, you couldn't go in
and say I had some money, but it fell through
a hole.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Margaret, you mean that. I can't.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
I'm sorry, but you know what you told the children?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You made up.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Through well, If that isn't a fine, how do you do?
Speaker 8 (23:23):
The point is, Father, you must be careful with your money.
You should have made sure it wouldn't fall out of
your pocket. You can't just throw it around.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Daddy.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
All right, come on, Bud, just go in the living
room while the rest of you eat.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Okay, no fair plotting.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
We're not plotting. She did.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Are you sure you don't have any nickels or dimes
or anything?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Not a nickel?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Well? I looked through all of my Hey, I found
something in the pocket of this jacket.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (23:57):
We can eat dead?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I got two ticks.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
It gets to the father and sons bank with Friday night.
That's tonight, Why George, why not get a good meal?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Probably if we hurry, let's go, Dad, I'm star get
your coat on.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Son.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'll take the tickets. But how long have you had
these tickets?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
These tickets are for the father and Son's bank with
Friday nineteen fifty one.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
I guess they wouldn't be good now.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Oh great, are you leaving, dear? Eh? No, we've changed
our minds. Dead.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Maybe we better go back in the dining room. Maybe
they'll drop something.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Margaret yeah, what is it, dear?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Eh, you and the children are right. I didn't mean
to be grouchy, just hungry.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
I guess, yeah, me too.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, I think you proved your point, dear, and the
children have learned a very valuable lesson.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Why don't we call off the game and you and
burn money?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Rules?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Rules?
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Dad, something's burning?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Oh good, heavens the cast role in the oven?
Speaker 8 (25:19):
Get it out quiet by the way, Bud, move your
big feet.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Cut open the oven. Oh, it's burned to a cruise.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I forgot all about it. And that was our dinner.
How did I ever do such a thing.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, it's too bad, but I think it solves our problem.
How father, Well, this cancels the last meal of the week.
So I vote that your mother takes us all out
to dinner. Me How with that jar full of money
that we've paid.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
In all week?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
What for that?
Speaker 8 (25:55):
A perfectly super idea?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
All right, get your coats on, I'm star.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Just one thing I'd like to mention, honey.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yet, Dear, if you were out.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Earning your own living cooking in a restaurant, you'd have
to be more careful. Yes, dear, I didn't think i'd
make of it. By George I got the last word.
Speaker 9 (26:26):
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Speaker 5 (27:26):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
The Andersons are back in the white frame house on
Maple Street, all fed and feeling considerably better. There's still
a slight haze of burned.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Casserole in the air, but it's cleary. Jim and Margaret
are counting out what's left of the kitty like.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
This fourteen fifty Here, dear.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
I have eleven seventy five. There's still another stack of coins.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I'm still wondering how you managed to get along all
week on twenty five cents for lunch?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And how did you buy gasoling for the car.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
I didn't eat lunches. I didn't buy gas for the car.
I walked to the office.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
I not only trimmed the budget, I trimmed my waistline.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The children learn a lesson than handling money, and I
lost eight pounds.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh, you're so smart.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I won't deny it.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
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