May 2, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (01:14):
Families today are pretty much the same as families yesterday.
Fathers and mothers and children never changed very much from
one generation to another, and the other present spark Plug
is always a typical teenage boy like Henry Aldrich. The
scene is the Allridge dining room. The time is morning.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Could you please pass the toast?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Marry another peeth, Henry, yes?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Please?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And father, well, I please.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Have another egg, Dear, that'll make three eggs.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, mother, Henry, your normal appetite is rather frightening.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
But now you're eating like a man with a purpose.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
She wiz.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I do have a purpose, father, I'm building myself up.
I'm on the debating team.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
You're on the debating team, Dear.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Well, I'm not exactly on it, mother, I'm really just
trying out for it. They're having the trials this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
How did you happen to go out for debating, Henry?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Well, it's it's just sort of the kind of thing
that appeals to me. Mother, wouldn't be too much troubled
open the can of sardines.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Sardines for breakfast?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, everyone says the fish is brain food. Isn't that so?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Father? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I didn't keep them from getting caught.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Aren't you gonna finish your toast?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Marry here? You can have it?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Thanks, And well you'll please pass the marmalade.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
How much do you have to wigh to make the
debating team?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't have to weigh anything. But I don't see
any point in going to a thing halfheartedly.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Well there, if you do make the team, and I
hope Aunt Harriet will come to hear you.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Speak, she just won't believe her, is she away?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Why should everybody be so amazed just because I'm anxious
to improve my mind? I think everybody ought to improve
their mind.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
No sense in overdoing it, though, Well, I won't go overboard. Father,
On which side of the debate? Are you speaking?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
On? Which side?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You have two sides, haven't you?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Father? They don't even have a team yet. Do you
really think you can make the.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Team, Dear Well, I hope so, Mother. I hate to
be doing all this eating for nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't think it'll be entirely wasted.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Would you excuse me please while I run upstairs and
get some notes?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I got you, Yes, Dear Sam, I'm simply delighted.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Henry made a
good debater. He's sort of a chip off the old block.
He has a quick mind, thinks fast on his feet.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Who do you suppose that is nother?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Don't bother to come to the door?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Anybody is Henry for waiting?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Willy Henry'll be down in just a minute.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
How does he feel this morning?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Missus?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
All Richard?
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Is he a little nervous?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Why should he be nervous?
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Well, you know, trying out for the debating team it
can be pretty nerve wracking.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Henry didn't act like he was nervous.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
He didn't eat like it either.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Are you going to try out for the team, Willie?
Speaker 8 (03:39):
Oh no, I'm honest.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
How many eggs do you eat today?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Eggs?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes, to keep yourself in good condition for debating.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Oh I'm not on the talking end of the team.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
On which end are you?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
I'm the manager?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Well, I'm sure that's a very important job, Willie.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
What I really went out for was the track team.
But my left just went back on me.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What are the duties of a manager?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Well, for one thing, I correspond.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You got respond with who with all.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
The other managers? We get together and correspond, sort to
write letters, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh yeah, that's quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Now, I'm sure you do it very well, Willy.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Yes, ma'am. I worry about it quite a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And you persuaded Henry to go out for the debating team.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Oh no, sir, that was on account of Ellen Ellen, Yes, sir,
Ellen Standish, what does she have to do with it?
She's very pretty and she's also on the team.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I know who she is. Mother. She's that girl that
can talk your head off. That's the one, Ellen standing.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
She's very pretty, though, but she is the one that
talks a lot, sure to everyone except Henry, and he
figured that if he could get on the team, she
talked to him.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well, that explains Henry's sudden craving for the finer things.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Yes, sir, but she's pretty, mister Alrich. It's been a
great pleasure.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
For me, just a manager, Ellen, Ellen Standish, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I am. I just finished my tryout for the debating team.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh did you sure?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I thought perhaps you'd be glad to know I may
be on the team with you. Are you going down
the halloways?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm going into the library here, oh, say Henry said you.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
What is it, Homer?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Ellen, I just finished my tryouts.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Are you going out for the team too? Sure?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We'll all be together?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Oh and goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Goodbye Ellen Ellen.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Henry.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
They said you and I should wait in the classroom
across the hall until the tryouts.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Are all over. Okay, let's go in, boy, I sure,
hope I make the team. But what subject did you
talk about? I talked about how I helped my mother
grow tomatoes.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Last summer, Henry, it isn't pronounced tomato.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
It isn't no in parliamentary procedure. It's tomato.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Tomato. Well, who do you know that calls it tomato?
Did you ever hear anybody talk about French fried potatoes?
That isn't the point, Henry.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Common people call it tomato, But when you're trying to
make the debating team, it's tomato.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Hate fellas, I got.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Some great news for you have, Willie.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Did we make the team?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The faculty is in confers right now.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
I'll let you know as long as they tell me, Hey, Willie.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Willie, what are we gonna ask him?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Henry?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Whether I could give part of my speech over As
a matter of fact, Homer, I know a lot of
people who aren't common who say tomato.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
Well, Henry, all I know is that if I had
to stand up before three members of the faculty, IV
mighty sure I said tomato.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Boy.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
The part that makes me mad, Homer, is I could
have just as well said asparagus and been on.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Safe ground, Hate fellows.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The meeting's over.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
What if they decide Willie, Yeah, what, well, one of
you guys is gonna be awfully disappointing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We are tell us which one it is.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Now Listen, Henry, I'm the manager, and I'll make the
announcement when I'm good and ready. Besides, it shouldn't make
any difference to you how they decided.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You mean I didn't make it.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
No, they liked Homer's voice better they did, no kidding.
Sure it Carrie's father. They say they can hear your
voice even in the last role.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Of the balcony.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Lucy Adams also made the team.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, I gotta go back in.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
At tennis on cars Fonda.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
See, Henry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
She does nothing to be sorry about Homer.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
If you want to know the truth, I'm glad I
didn't make it. Lucy Adams on it and everything Ellen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Standish is on it. You know, Homer, we've been friends
for a long time, haven't we.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well, I was just thinking you've done a lot of
nice things for me, so I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Do you a favor.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You are sure, I'm going to take your place on
the team just out of friendship, and I won't charge
your sin Why, well, don't you want.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
To get off the team?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
When did I say that?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I shouldn't think you'd want to be honest?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Hey, Henry, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What Willie?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You made the team and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, you're on it too, Homer.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Hi am, Henry, that gets rid of Lucy Adams.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
No, it doesn't. She's on the team too. Who whose
place do I take?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Ellen?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Stanishes Ellen's Ellen's yes, she just resigned.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
They're Homer. No, obviously, what you've done it.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Isn't Homer's fault.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Ellen says she's.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Entirely too nervous to debate.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Hello, Henry, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh hello Lucy.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Henry, I'm going home.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But Homer, haven't you heard Lucy? You don't think debating
is gonna make you nervous?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh? No, I feel wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I think I'll resign, Henry.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
You aren't gonna resign? Just as we've got our first
debate scheduled?
Speaker 10 (08:29):
Are you for?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
When?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Willy?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Didn't you know for a week from next Friday night?
Speaker 8 (08:34):
I've been corresponding about it this last August?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Who are we debating?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
With Middletown High School?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
The subject has resolved that the steam engine has contributed
more to the progress of civilization than the horse.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, on which side are we? The horses? We take
the negative? Sure, we don't.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Believe in steam engines, Henry.
Speaker 12 (09:00):
Don't you think the horse has done more than the
steam engine? I don't know, Lucy, Henry, you don't seem interested.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Lucy. I just don't think it gonna be any good
at this. If I can't.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Convince myself, how am I gonna convince a whole auditorium
full of people.
Speaker 12 (09:11):
That's the way I felt at first. Here you have
a cookie my mother's bay. No, thank you, they have
fudge fillings.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Fudge fillings. Well, I'll try just half a one here.
Speaker 12 (09:22):
Think of what the horse has done for agriculture, Henry.
Sixty percent of the farms in this country still use horses.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Not Ryan might have the other half of that cookie?
Speaker 12 (09:32):
Sure, here, and Henry, how did the covered wagons cross
the plains?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
White horse by horse?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Our forefathers didn't know what a steam engine was?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
What's true, Lucy? And do you always have cookies like this?
Of course?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
See how interesting it is.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
What's beginning to show some possibilities. They excuse me for
reaching in front of you.
Speaker 12 (09:51):
When you get through with those cookies, Henry, there are
some more in the kitchen. Oh my goodness, I wonder
whether that's Willing phoning Willing Hello.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Hello, Lucy?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh is that you Homer? Yes, it's Henry there, Henry.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
She was What does Homer want here? Oil? Homer? Can't
you get away from her? Henry? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Do I pity you?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Do you know when I dug up in the library
this afternoon?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
What all about the eel hippis, the wunipus.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
The eo hippis.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
It was a prehistoric horse and it stood less than
two feet high.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What was it used for? I don't think it was
used for anything, but I think we ought to mention it.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Henry. It'll show we dug into it.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They had four toes four. Imagine, Henry, you have another cookie?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Thanks, Lucy, cookie and Homer? Did you ever think of this?
How do they speak of a steam engine? Bhy, it's
horse powers?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Sure, boy, Henry, that's wonderful.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Write it down, Lucy, and I'll write down about the
el hippos?
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Sure, mister Chairman, Honorable Judges.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Worthy opponents the subject.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We've been asked to discuss this evening is.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Resolve and read you have to wave your arms?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Was I waving my arms?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Father?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Go on, when we are through, ladies and gentlemen, it
will be clearly seen that the horse is one animal
that cannot be replaced?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What time does the debate begin? This evening at eight fifteen?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And boyfather were a cinch to win. Where was I?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Hey, the horse is an animal that cannot be replaced?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Oh yeah, what are steam engines made of? Ladies and gentlemen?
Of stealing iron and stealing coal? And how do they
first get them out of the mines? I'll tell you how.
It'll be a pleasure buy a horse, father. Don't you
think that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Knock him for a loop?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm afraid it will.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I prepared this whole thing in a week. And what
makes pulleys go round?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Belts?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
And what are belts made of? From horses hides? And
what was the first machine ever made a cart? And
what pulled the cart? A horse? Then how about Paul Revere?
It's common gossip known by every school child how we
saved America with a horse?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And then father, I go on and end up with
a long speech.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
About the EO hippos, the eo hippos.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Yes, sir, it was a prehistoric horse that Harley came
up to my knees.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Don't you think it's pretty good?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, it has one or two weak points, Henry.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
If father, what you heard is only one third of
our argument. We've divided it into three parts. I cover
the horse as a historical contribution, the Homer covers it
during the present, and Lucy covers it from the female
point of view.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Henry, I've just pressed your blue seage suit for you.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Vacuum, mother, And when you get up on the platform,
don't turn your back to the audience.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Why not? Mother?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And the seed is shiny and ready.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Do you mind if I raise one or two questions?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, there's something about my speech that puzzles you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The first place.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Iron is not hauled out of mines by horses but
by mules.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Well, oh, Father, I don't like to argue, but when
you get right down to it, a mule sort.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Of a horse.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
A mule is a mule.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I could show you a book that says a mule
as a horse.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I'd like to see it.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Well, anyway, I don't think that's the point, father. The
question is which has done more for civilization.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, supposing you're worthy, opponents, remind your audience that the
first cart was not pulled by a horse, but by
a man.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No horse, no horse, not.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Even a neo hippos, And supposing to mention the fact
very good driving belts are made not only from horse hide,
but from cowhide.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But father, you keep evading the issue. What I'm talking
about is horses.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
All right, then let's talk about them. And what way
did Paul Revere's horse help promote progress?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Well, it stands the reason if you hadn't had a horse,
you wouldn't have been able to spread the alarm before
the enemy came. Supposing had to wait around until the
steam engine was invented.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And by what means was the enemy approaching one horseback?
In other words, it was a case of one horse
trying to get away from a number of other horses.
Therefore the horses all cancel each other up and have
nothing to.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Do with the gates.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Did you say that again, Father, Make it a little clearer.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'm a lawyer. I don't have to be clear.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Yes, Mother, you to go upstairs and watch already, Yes, dear,
dinner's on the table.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Dinner.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Gee, Mother, it's a funny thing, but all of a
sudden something happened to my stomach.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
What's the matter, dear? Have you lost your confidence?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I just wish I hadn't gotten mixed up in this
darn debate.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Now there, you go upstairs and get washed.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
You'll feel better.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yes, Mother, you and father are gonna sit down in front,
are you?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We are well?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Don't do that, father? Every time I see your face,
if forget all.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
About horses, Henry, please go upstairs.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yes, Mother, I feel just as though I were sitting
on the Guillethye.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Sad did I overhear you criticizing Henry's talk?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I was simply pointing out one or two of his
weak spots. There's nothing wrong with that, my.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Goodness, Sam, Now you're just brued about it.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
You know how.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Henry is all answer the phone maybe to the base
being called off? There, Sam is a very good example
of how you've unnerved it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Alice, I give you my word. I was say for
trying to help the boy.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Well, I'm quite sure that if I had to stand
up before an audience of several hundred people, I wouldn't
want my father.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
To upset me.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Just before I went.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
On Henry, Yes, father, when you threw on the phone,
come in here.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Yes, Sam, you're gonna wear your best suit, aren't you
just to.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Go over to the high school?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well here, I bought a new hat.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
After all, we don't want to be a disgrace to Henry,
and I do want Henry to win, if only because
of that Ellen's standy?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What has she done?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Mary heard that Ellen got off.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
The team just because Henry was on it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She where's is Lucy nervous? Poor kids?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Well, don't you be nervous.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Henry, your father and I are trying not to be.
What did Lucy call you about?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Just to say she's so scared she can't eat your dinner.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well you should have told her to have a cup
of tea.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That's all I'm gonna have, Henry.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm going up and finish washing before you go up.
There's something more wrong with my speech.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, I'd like to explain that the only reason I
criticized your talk was to find.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Out how much you believed it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh, you see, if you don't believe with all your
heart and soul that the horse has been more important
than the judges, won't believe you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh, but I do believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Father, Well, I suppose I'm a little sentimental about it,
but it isn't just for misnake and.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
For years that I want to win. It's really for
all horses in general.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Henry, can I speak to you for a minute.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Where did you come from? Willie? I just met the Middletown.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Debating team at the station, and boy, have they made
a mess of things. Oh well, we're taking the negative
of the argument, aren't we.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Young?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Well, so are they?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You mean they've taken our side?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Can you imagine our dirty.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Trick like that?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I could a thing like that have happened.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Well, something seems to have gone wrong with the correspondence, Willie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You mean it was really your fault, Henry.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
I'd like you to see all the correspondence I've handled
on this. I bet you'd make one or two minor
mistakes yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Well, mister Bradley, our principal, says, our team has to
take the other side.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The other side. Willie, you mean I have to be
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after working on a debate for ten days, Henry has
just learned that his team has been preparing the wrong side.
The scene opens in the high School Principles. The time
is that same evening.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But mister Bradley, isn't fair to the team. It isn't
even fair to the audience, Henray.
Speaker 13 (19:06):
The mistake was made by our manager. The least we
can do is take the affirmative and.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Go ahead with a debate.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But in the meantime, how about the horse?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I think the horse will I'm just.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Said, mister Bradley. Rememberized their speech is word for word.
I've even learned a whole eulogy to the horse. I
can't just give the whole thing and insert the word
steam engine instead of horse, can I?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Henray?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why do we have debates?
Speaker 13 (19:27):
Well in order to develop our faculties for thinking and reasoning,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
See, mister Bradley, I'm no good at a thing like that.
I can't argue.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We're doing a pretty good job of it right now.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But I'm losing.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, as are developing.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Your faculty come in here, yes, Lucy.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, look, Henry, could we ask mister Bradley to do this?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
To do what?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Why don't both teams agree.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
Right the stock that the horse has made the greatest
contribution to civilization and then let the judges decide which
team is the most sincere.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Sure, mister Bradley, that would be interesting.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
No, the Middletown team are guests, and the least we
can do is have a difference of.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Opinion with it. Yes, nurse here.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What's the matter of Homer?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Well, it's a funny thing, but I have chills and
a headache.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Chills and a headache, yes, sir, and.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
My jaws heard.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I think I'm coming down with the months.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Didn't you have the month's last fall?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Homer?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
But mister Bradley, I've just been talking with the Middletown team.
They don't feel half as keen about the.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Horse as we do.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Why don't we be generous and give them the steam engine?
Speaker 13 (20:30):
Henry and Homer, you have exactly thirty minutes in which
to prepare your arguments. Middletown will take the negative, and
if Centerville is half the high school, I think it is,
we shall take the affirmative. What is more, ladies and gentlemen,
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members of the faculty, since the Centreville team has just
learned at the last moment, and it must change sides,
it will, so to speak, be swapping horses in the
middle of the street in favor of the steam engine.
And I suppose that the picture of water that rests
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on this stand is for the affirmative to make steam with,
and for the negative to give to their horses. And
the first speaker for the negative, by I mean the affirmative,
By yes, the affirmative is a Homer Brown.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
The question we have been asked to discuss was, oh boy,
I mean, ladies and gentlemen and honorable judges, speaking of
man's best friend, the horse, the steam engine. Instead of
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boring you for my full six minutes, I believe I
can prove my point in practically less than a minute.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
And what is more, ladies and gentlemen. When a lady
who lives in Chicago sees a hat that she wants
in New York, how do they get it to her
by horse back?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
No, The next point I wish to bring to your
attention is that little run of a beast the eohippus,
it was.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Never good for anything at all.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Eighties and gentlemen, you have heard both sides of the
argument and the rebuttal for the negative. The Centreville team
did not utilize all of its original time, and I
do not know whether any of its members would care
to think part of the rebubble.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
If so, we will now hear from Henry Aldrich.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Mister chairman Centerville High School, has several things to say.
My worthy opponents have tried to impress on you that
if it weren't for the horse, we wouldn't have any
steel or iron with which.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
To build steam engines. May I ask where they ever
got any such idea.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
As that horses aren't used in mines? Mules are the
next point, my worthy opponent says that the first cart
was pulled by a horse. For his information, a man
pulled the first cart. And now they're glad to ride
in steam engines and relax, And how did the Middletown
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team get here this evening by another steam engines? Another point,
my opponents would have you believe that it if it
hadn't been for Paul Vere's horse, we wouldn't be here
in this happy, carefree land. But what was Paul Revere's
horse trying to get away from more horses?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It was horses, ladies and gentlemen that was causing all
the trouble. And I asked you, is that what you
could call progress? No?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
No, A thousand times no.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
The affirmative restladies and.
Speaker 13 (24:28):
Gentlemen while the judges retire to try to reach their decision,
a very difficult decision. I'm sure the orchestra will entertain
us with a number which they had rehearsed before they
discovered their own teams to take the affirmative. It is
called light cavalry overtures.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
The judges reached the decision.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yet, I think they're coming on stage right now.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Do you think Henry one?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I don't know, Alice, so I thought he talked.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Beautifully, and he certainly looked better than any of the
boys on the Middletown team.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It is in gentlemen, had Alice. Mister Braddy is going
to announce the decision. After careful consideration.
Speaker 13 (25:16):
The judges have voted unanimously in favor of the negative.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Which side is the negative?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Middletown?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Do you mean Henry laws?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He did?
Speaker 13 (25:27):
I should like to congratulate not only the winners, but
our team as well, in spite of the fact that
we lost. Never have I heard pioneer examples of extemporaneous speaking.
If I hadn't known to the contrary, I would have
said that the last speaker, Henry Aldridge, had prepared his
rebuffal in advance.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Mister Chairman.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yes, mister Fontein, I happened to be one of the judges.
Speaker 13 (25:51):
May I ask, was the negative Middletown?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The negative was Middletown?
Speaker 13 (25:58):
Well, the manager who gave us ours ups of paper
to mark the verdict on apparently got things twisted.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Regardless of which side they had.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
The decision went to Centerville.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Was one taken?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He said?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I don't wish that Ellen Standish's mother could have been
here tonight.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Hello, mother, How are you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Let me take your hands?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Was it was because of you, father that we got
the decision?
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I was worried for a few minutes, though I.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Was afraid Middletown would mention the fact that most of
the British troops were not on horseback but on foot.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Do you mean they weren't on horseback?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Not so far as I know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, she whiz.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Sam have you seen the morning paper?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now that's what's the new.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Listen to this.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Before a capacity audience last night, Centerville High School defended
the negative side of a heated battle in which they
were particularly effective in our going for the affirmative. Henry
Aldrich kept the visiting opponents completely baffled to the very
end as to whether he favored the Colonists or the British.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Henray, is that you in the kitchen? Yes, father, Henry?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Are you eating more cookies after cleaning out the cookie
jar at loose his house?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Well, gosh, father, a fella gets hungry all over again
after walking home.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Nah, Henry, the wonder.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I'm always hungry. All I ever do is walk, walk here,
walk there.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
If there's a hidden meaning to this walkie talkie conversation, please.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Bring it out in the open, because I'm going to bed.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Hidden meaning, father, I think the.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Last time you acquainted me with your walking expeditions it
ended with a sales talk to buy you a car.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Oh, you won't have to buy this one, father, It's
free a Plymouth convertible, first prize in the Big Plymouth
Car contest.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
If I wasn't too.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Young at inner myself, but I figure. With my help,
you'd be as sich to win.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh please, Henry, not to night, I'm a bit tired.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Not tonight, father, The contest doesn't start till Thursday.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's when the New Plymouth comes out.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
All right, remind me Thursday and we'll go down and
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Speaker 1 (28:15):
Now, would you get up to bed?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Yes, father, just as soon as I finished these cookies boy.
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Henry is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Jack Grimes.
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Speaker 1 (01:14):
Families today are pretty much the same as families yesterday.
Fathers and mothers and children never changed very much from
one generation to another, and the other present spark Plug
is always a typical teenage boy like Henry Aldrich. The
scene is the Allridge dining room. The time is morning.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Could you please pass the toast?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Marry another peeth, Henry, yes?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Please?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
And father, well, I please.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Have another egg, Dear, that'll make three eggs.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, mother, Henry, your normal appetite is rather frightening.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
But now you're eating like a man with a purpose.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
She wiz.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I do have a purpose, father, I'm building myself up.
I'm on the debating team.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
You're on the debating team, Dear.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
Well, I'm not exactly on it, mother, I'm really just
trying out for it. They're having the trials this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
How did you happen to go out for debating, Henry?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Well, it's it's just sort of the kind of thing
that appeals to me. Mother, wouldn't be too much troubled
open the can of sardines.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Sardines for breakfast?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, everyone says the fish is brain food. Isn't that so?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Father? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I didn't keep them from getting caught.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Aren't you gonna finish your toast?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Marry here? You can have it?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Thanks, And well you'll please pass the marmalade.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
How much do you have to wigh to make the
debating team?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't have to weigh anything. But I don't see
any point in going to a thing halfheartedly.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
Well there, if you do make the team, and I
hope Aunt Harriet will come to hear you.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Speak, she just won't believe her, is she away?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Why should everybody be so amazed just because I'm anxious
to improve my mind? I think everybody ought to improve
their mind.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
No sense in overdoing it, though, Well, I won't go overboard. Father,
On which side of the debate? Are you speaking?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
On? Which side?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
You have two sides, haven't you?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Father? They don't even have a team yet. Do you
really think you can make the.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Team, Dear Well, I hope so, Mother. I hate to
be doing all this eating for nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't think it'll be entirely wasted.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Would you excuse me please while I run upstairs and
get some notes?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I got you, Yes, Dear Sam, I'm simply delighted.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Henry made a
good debater. He's sort of a chip off the old block.
He has a quick mind, thinks fast on his feet.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Who do you suppose that is nother?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Don't bother to come to the door?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Anybody is Henry for waiting?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Willy Henry'll be down in just a minute.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
How does he feel this morning?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Missus?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
All Richard?
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Is he a little nervous?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Why should he be nervous?
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Well, you know, trying out for the debating team it
can be pretty nerve wracking.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Henry didn't act like he was nervous.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
He didn't eat like it either.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Are you going to try out for the team, Willie?
Speaker 8 (03:39):
Oh no, I'm honest.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
How many eggs do you eat today?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Eggs?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yes, to keep yourself in good condition for debating.
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Oh I'm not on the talking end of the team.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
On which end are you?
Speaker 8 (03:52):
I'm the manager?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Well, I'm sure that's a very important job, Willie.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
What I really went out for was the track team.
But my left just went back on me.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
What are the duties of a manager?
Speaker 8 (04:04):
Well, for one thing, I correspond.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You got respond with who with all.
Speaker 8 (04:08):
The other managers? We get together and correspond, sort to
write letters, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh yeah, that's quite an accomplishment.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Now, I'm sure you do it very well, Willy.
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Yes, ma'am. I worry about it quite a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And you persuaded Henry to go out for the debating team.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Oh no, sir, that was on account of Ellen Ellen, Yes, sir,
Ellen Standish, what does she have to do with it?
She's very pretty and she's also on the team.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
I know who she is. Mother. She's that girl that
can talk your head off. That's the one, Ellen standing.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
She's very pretty, though, but she is the one that
talks a lot, sure to everyone except Henry, and he
figured that if he could get on the team, she
talked to him.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Well, that explains Henry's sudden craving for the finer things.
Speaker 8 (04:49):
Yes, sir, but she's pretty, mister Alrich. It's been a
great pleasure.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
For me, just a manager, Ellen, Ellen Standish, Well.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I am. I just finished my tryout for the debating team.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh did you sure?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I thought perhaps you'd be glad to know I may
be on the team with you. Are you going down
the halloways?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I'm going into the library here, oh, say Henry said you.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
What is it, Homer?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Ellen, I just finished my tryouts.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Are you going out for the team too? Sure?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
We'll all be together?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Oh and goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Goodbye Ellen Ellen.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Henry.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
They said you and I should wait in the classroom
across the hall until the tryouts.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Are all over. Okay, let's go in, boy, I sure,
hope I make the team. But what subject did you
talk about? I talked about how I helped my mother
grow tomatoes.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Last summer, Henry, it isn't pronounced tomato.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
It isn't no in parliamentary procedure. It's tomato.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Tomato. Well, who do you know that calls it tomato?
Did you ever hear anybody talk about French fried potatoes?
That isn't the point, Henry.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Common people call it tomato, But when you're trying to
make the debating team, it's tomato.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Hate fellas, I got.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Some great news for you have, Willie.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Did we make the team?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The faculty is in confers right now.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
I'll let you know as long as they tell me, Hey, Willie.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Willie, what are we gonna ask him?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Henry?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Whether I could give part of my speech over As
a matter of fact, Homer, I know a lot of
people who aren't common who say tomato.
Speaker 10 (06:28):
Well, Henry, all I know is that if I had
to stand up before three members of the faculty, IV
mighty sure I said tomato.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Boy.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
The part that makes me mad, Homer, is I could
have just as well said asparagus and been on.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Safe ground, Hate fellows.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The meeting's over.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
What if they decide Willie, Yeah, what, well, one of
you guys is gonna be awfully disappointing.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
We are tell us which one it is.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Now Listen, Henry, I'm the manager, and I'll make the
announcement when I'm good and ready. Besides, it shouldn't make
any difference to you how they decided.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
You mean I didn't make it.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
No, they liked Homer's voice better they did, no kidding.
Sure it Carrie's father. They say they can hear your
voice even in the last role.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Of the balcony.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Lucy Adams also made the team.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, I gotta go back in.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
At tennis on cars Fonda.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
See, Henry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
She does nothing to be sorry about Homer.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
If you want to know the truth, I'm glad I
didn't make it. Lucy Adams on it and everything Ellen.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Standish is on it. You know, Homer, we've been friends
for a long time, haven't we.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well, I was just thinking you've done a lot of
nice things for me, so I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Do you a favor.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
You are sure, I'm going to take your place on
the team just out of friendship, and I won't charge
your sin Why, well, don't you want.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
To get off the team?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
When did I say that?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I shouldn't think you'd want to be honest?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Hey, Henry, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
What Willie?
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You made the team and I didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
No, you're on it too, Homer.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Hi am, Henry, that gets rid of Lucy Adams.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
No, it doesn't. She's on the team too. Who whose
place do I take?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Ellen?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
Stanishes Ellen's Ellen's yes, she just resigned.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
They're Homer. No, obviously, what you've done it.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Isn't Homer's fault.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Ellen says she's.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Entirely too nervous to debate.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Hello, Henry, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh hello Lucy.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
It is wonderful.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Henry, I'm going home.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But Homer, haven't you heard Lucy? You don't think debating
is gonna make you nervous?
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Oh? No, I feel wonderful.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I think I'll resign, Henry.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
You aren't gonna resign? Just as we've got our first
debate scheduled?
Speaker 10 (08:29):
Are you for?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
When?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Willy?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Didn't you know for a week from next Friday night?
Speaker 8 (08:34):
I've been corresponding about it this last August?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Who are we debating?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
With Middletown High School?
Speaker 8 (08:38):
The subject has resolved that the steam engine has contributed
more to the progress of civilization than the horse.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, on which side are we? The horses? We take
the negative? Sure, we don't.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Believe in steam engines, Henry.
Speaker 12 (09:00):
Don't you think the horse has done more than the
steam engine? I don't know, Lucy, Henry, you don't seem interested.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Lucy. I just don't think it gonna be any good
at this. If I can't.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Convince myself, how am I gonna convince a whole auditorium
full of people.
Speaker 12 (09:11):
That's the way I felt at first. Here you have
a cookie my mother's bay. No, thank you, they have
fudge fillings.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Fudge fillings. Well, I'll try just half a one here.
Speaker 12 (09:22):
Think of what the horse has done for agriculture, Henry.
Sixty percent of the farms in this country still use horses.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Not Ryan might have the other half of that cookie?
Speaker 12 (09:32):
Sure, here, and Henry, how did the covered wagons cross
the plains?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
White horse by horse?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Our forefathers didn't know what a steam engine was?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
What's true, Lucy? And do you always have cookies like this?
Of course?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
See how interesting it is.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
What's beginning to show some possibilities. They excuse me for
reaching in front of you.
Speaker 12 (09:51):
When you get through with those cookies, Henry, there are
some more in the kitchen. Oh my goodness, I wonder
whether that's Willing phoning Willing Hello.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Hello, Lucy?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Oh is that you Homer? Yes, it's Henry there, Henry.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
She was What does Homer want here? Oil? Homer? Can't
you get away from her? Henry? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Do I pity you?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Do you know when I dug up in the library
this afternoon?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
What all about the eel hippis, the wunipus.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
The eo hippis.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
It was a prehistoric horse and it stood less than
two feet high.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
What was it used for? I don't think it was
used for anything, but I think we ought to mention it.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Henry. It'll show we dug into it.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They had four toes four. Imagine, Henry, you have another cookie?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Thanks, Lucy, cookie and Homer? Did you ever think of this?
How do they speak of a steam engine? Bhy, it's
horse powers?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Sure, boy, Henry, that's wonderful.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Write it down, Lucy, and I'll write down about the
el hippos?
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Sure, mister Chairman, Honorable Judges.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Worthy opponents the subject.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We've been asked to discuss this evening is.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Resolve and read you have to wave your arms?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Was I waving my arms?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Father?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Go on, when we are through, ladies and gentlemen, it
will be clearly seen that the horse is one animal
that cannot be replaced?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What time does the debate begin? This evening at eight fifteen?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And boyfather were a cinch to win. Where was I?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Hey, the horse is an animal that cannot be replaced?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Oh yeah, what are steam engines made of? Ladies and gentlemen?
Of stealing iron and stealing coal? And how do they
first get them out of the mines? I'll tell you how.
It'll be a pleasure buy a horse, father. Don't you
think that's gonna.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Knock him for a loop?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I'm afraid it will.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I prepared this whole thing in a week. And what
makes pulleys go round?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Belts?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
And what are belts made of? From horses hides? And
what was the first machine ever made a cart? And
what pulled the cart? A horse? Then how about Paul Revere?
It's common gossip known by every school child how we
saved America with a horse?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And then father, I go on and end up with
a long speech.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
About the EO hippos, the eo hippos.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Yes, sir, it was a prehistoric horse that Harley came
up to my knees.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Don't you think it's pretty good?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, it has one or two weak points, Henry.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
If father, what you heard is only one third of
our argument. We've divided it into three parts. I cover
the horse as a historical contribution, the Homer covers it
during the present, and Lucy covers it from the female
point of view.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Henry, I've just pressed your blue seage suit for you.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Vacuum, mother, And when you get up on the platform,
don't turn your back to the audience.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Why not? Mother?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And the seed is shiny and ready.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Do you mind if I raise one or two questions?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, there's something about my speech that puzzles you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The first place.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Iron is not hauled out of mines by horses but
by mules.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Well, oh, Father, I don't like to argue, but when
you get right down to it, a mule sort.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Of a horse.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
A mule is a mule.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I could show you a book that says a mule
as a horse.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I'd like to see it.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Well, anyway, I don't think that's the point, father. The
question is which has done more for civilization.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Well, supposing you're worthy, opponents, remind your audience that the
first cart was not pulled by a horse, but by
a man.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
No horse, no horse, not.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Even a neo hippos, And supposing to mention the fact
very good driving belts are made not only from horse hide,
but from cowhide.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But father, you keep evading the issue. What I'm talking
about is horses.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
All right, then let's talk about them. And what way
did Paul Revere's horse help promote progress?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Well, it stands the reason if you hadn't had a horse,
you wouldn't have been able to spread the alarm before
the enemy came. Supposing had to wait around until the
steam engine was invented.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And by what means was the enemy approaching one horseback?
In other words, it was a case of one horse
trying to get away from a number of other horses.
Therefore the horses all cancel each other up and have
nothing to.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Do with the gates.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Did you say that again, Father, Make it a little clearer.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I'm a lawyer. I don't have to be clear.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Yes, Mother, you to go upstairs and watch already, Yes, dear,
dinner's on the table.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Dinner.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Gee, Mother, it's a funny thing, but all of a
sudden something happened to my stomach.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
What's the matter, dear? Have you lost your confidence?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I just wish I hadn't gotten mixed up in this
darn debate.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Now there, you go upstairs and get washed.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
You'll feel better.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yes, Mother, you and father are gonna sit down in front,
are you?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
We are well?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Don't do that, father? Every time I see your face,
if forget all.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
About horses, Henry, please go upstairs.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yes, Mother, I feel just as though I were sitting
on the Guillethye.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Sad did I overhear you criticizing Henry's talk?
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I was simply pointing out one or two of his
weak spots. There's nothing wrong with that, my.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Goodness, Sam, Now you're just brued about it.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
You know how.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Henry is all answer the phone maybe to the base
being called off? There, Sam is a very good example
of how you've unnerved it.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Alice, I give you my word. I was say for
trying to help the boy.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Well, I'm quite sure that if I had to stand
up before an audience of several hundred people, I wouldn't
want my father.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
To upset me.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Just before I went.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
On Henry, Yes, father, when you threw on the phone,
come in here.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Yes, Sam, you're gonna wear your best suit, aren't you
just to.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Go over to the high school?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well here, I bought a new hat.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
After all, we don't want to be a disgrace to Henry,
and I do want Henry to win, if only because
of that Ellen's standy?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What has she done?
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Well?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Mary heard that Ellen got off.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
The team just because Henry was on it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
She where's is Lucy nervous? Poor kids?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Well, don't you be nervous.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Henry, your father and I are trying not to be.
What did Lucy call you about?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Just to say she's so scared she can't eat your dinner.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well you should have told her to have a cup
of tea.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
That's all I'm gonna have, Henry.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I'm going up and finish washing before you go up.
There's something more wrong with my speech.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, I'd like to explain that the only reason I
criticized your talk was to find.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Out how much you believed it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh, you see, if you don't believe with all your
heart and soul that the horse has been more important
than the judges, won't believe you.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh, but I do believe it.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Father, Well, I suppose I'm a little sentimental about it,
but it isn't just for misnake and.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
For years that I want to win. It's really for
all horses in general.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Henry, can I speak to you for a minute.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Where did you come from? Willie? I just met the Middletown.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Debating team at the station, and boy, have they made
a mess of things. Oh well, we're taking the negative
of the argument, aren't we.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Young?
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Well, so are they?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You mean they've taken our side?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (16:46):
Can you imagine our dirty.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Trick like that?
Speaker 1 (16:48):
I could a thing like that have happened.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
Well, something seems to have gone wrong with the correspondence, Willie.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
You mean it was really your fault, Henry.
Speaker 8 (16:58):
I'd like you to see all the correspondence I've handled
on this. I bet you'd make one or two minor
mistakes yourself.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Well, mister Bradley, our principal, says, our team has to
take the other side.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
The other side. Willie, you mean I have to be
a trader to the horse.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And we'll return to the old Rich family in just
a moment.
Speaker 13 (17:29):
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Speaker 1 (17:39):
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
A new kind of car.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You kind of car is right?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
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Speaker 1 (18:00):
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Speaker 3 (18:01):
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
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Particular attention to the new features of the Plymouth seventy
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just for telling what you like most about this great
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(18:29):
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three Plymouth. Now getting back to the troubles of Henry Auldridge. Well,
(18:51):
after working on a debate for ten days, Henry has
just learned that his team has been preparing the wrong side.
The scene opens in the high School Principles. The time
is that same evening.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
But mister Bradley, isn't fair to the team. It isn't
even fair to the audience, Henray.
Speaker 13 (19:06):
The mistake was made by our manager. The least we
can do is take the affirmative and.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Go ahead with a debate.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
But in the meantime, how about the horse?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I think the horse will I'm just.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Said, mister Bradley. Rememberized their speech is word for word.
I've even learned a whole eulogy to the horse. I
can't just give the whole thing and insert the word
steam engine instead of horse, can I?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Henray?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Why do we have debates?
Speaker 13 (19:27):
Well in order to develop our faculties for thinking and reasoning,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
See, mister Bradley, I'm no good at a thing like that.
I can't argue.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We're doing a pretty good job of it right now.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
But I'm losing.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yeah, as are developing.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Your faculty come in here, yes, Lucy.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, look, Henry, could we ask mister Bradley to do this?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
To do what?
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Why don't both teams agree.
Speaker 12 (19:50):
Right the stock that the horse has made the greatest
contribution to civilization and then let the judges decide which
team is the most sincere.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Sure, mister Bradley, that would be interesting.
Speaker 13 (19:59):
No, the Middletown team are guests, and the least we
can do is have a difference of.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Opinion with it. Yes, nurse here.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What's the matter of Homer?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Well, it's a funny thing, but I have chills and
a headache.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Chills and a headache, yes, sir, and.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
My jaws heard.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I think I'm coming down with the months.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Didn't you have the month's last fall?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Homer?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
But mister Bradley, I've just been talking with the Middletown team.
They don't feel half as keen about the.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Horse as we do.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Why don't we be generous and give them the steam engine?
Speaker 13 (20:30):
Henry and Homer, you have exactly thirty minutes in which
to prepare your arguments. Middletown will take the negative, and
if Centerville is half the high school, I think it is,
we shall take the affirmative. What is more, ladies and gentlemen,
(20:53):
members of the faculty, since the Centreville team has just
learned at the last moment, and it must change sides,
it will, so to speak, be swapping horses in the
middle of the street in favor of the steam engine.
And I suppose that the picture of water that rests
(21:16):
on this stand is for the affirmative to make steam with,
and for the negative to give to their horses. And
the first speaker for the negative, by I mean the affirmative,
By yes, the affirmative is a Homer Brown.
Speaker 10 (21:43):
The question we have been asked to discuss was, oh boy,
I mean, ladies and gentlemen and honorable judges, speaking of
man's best friend, the horse, the steam engine. Instead of
(22:04):
boring you for my full six minutes, I believe I
can prove my point in practically less than a minute.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
And what is more, ladies and gentlemen. When a lady
who lives in Chicago sees a hat that she wants
in New York, how do they get it to her
by horse back?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
No, The next point I wish to bring to your
attention is that little run of a beast the eohippus,
it was.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Never good for anything at all.
Speaker 13 (22:45):
Eighties and gentlemen, you have heard both sides of the
argument and the rebuttal for the negative. The Centreville team
did not utilize all of its original time, and I
do not know whether any of its members would care
to think part of the rebubble.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
If so, we will now hear from Henry Aldrich.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Mister chairman Centerville High School, has several things to say.
My worthy opponents have tried to impress on you that
if it weren't for the horse, we wouldn't have any
steel or iron with which.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
To build steam engines. May I ask where they ever
got any such idea.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
As that horses aren't used in mines? Mules are the
next point, my worthy opponent says that the first cart
was pulled by a horse. For his information, a man
pulled the first cart. And now they're glad to ride
in steam engines and relax, And how did the Middletown
(23:47):
team get here this evening by another steam engines? Another point,
my opponents would have you believe that it if it
hadn't been for Paul Vere's horse, we wouldn't be here
in this happy, carefree land. But what was Paul Revere's
horse trying to get away from more horses?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It was horses, ladies and gentlemen that was causing all
the trouble. And I asked you, is that what you
could call progress? No?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
No, A thousand times no.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
The affirmative restladies and.
Speaker 13 (24:28):
Gentlemen while the judges retire to try to reach their decision,
a very difficult decision. I'm sure the orchestra will entertain
us with a number which they had rehearsed before they
discovered their own teams to take the affirmative. It is
called light cavalry overtures.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
The judges reached the decision.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yet, I think they're coming on stage right now.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Do you think Henry one?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I don't know, Alice, so I thought he talked.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Beautifully, and he certainly looked better than any of the
boys on the Middletown team.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It is in gentlemen, had Alice. Mister Braddy is going
to announce the decision. After careful consideration.
Speaker 13 (25:16):
The judges have voted unanimously in favor of the negative.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Which side is the negative?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Middletown?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Do you mean Henry laws?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He did?
Speaker 13 (25:27):
I should like to congratulate not only the winners, but
our team as well, in spite of the fact that
we lost. Never have I heard pioneer examples of extemporaneous speaking.
If I hadn't known to the contrary, I would have
said that the last speaker, Henry Aldridge, had prepared his
rebuffal in advance.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Mister Chairman.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yes, mister Fontein, I happened to be one of the judges.
Speaker 13 (25:51):
May I ask, was the negative Middletown?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
The negative was Middletown?
Speaker 13 (25:58):
Well, the manager who gave us ours ups of paper
to mark the verdict on apparently got things twisted.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Regardless of which side they had.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
The decision went to Centerville.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Was one taken?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
He said?
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I don't wish that Ellen Standish's mother could have been
here tonight.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Hello, mother, How are you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Let me take your hands?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Was it was because of you, father that we got
the decision?
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I was worried for a few minutes, though I.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Was afraid Middletown would mention the fact that most of
the British troops were not on horseback but on foot.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Do you mean they weren't on horseback?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Not so far as I know.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Well, she whiz.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Sam have you seen the morning paper?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now that's what's the new.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Listen to this.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Before a capacity audience last night, Centerville High School defended
the negative side of a heated battle in which they
were particularly effective in our going for the affirmative. Henry
Aldrich kept the visiting opponents completely baffled to the very
end as to whether he favored the Colonists or the British.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Henray, is that you in the kitchen? Yes, father, Henry?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Are you eating more cookies after cleaning out the cookie
jar at loose his house?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Well, gosh, father, a fella gets hungry all over again
after walking home.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Nah, Henry, the wonder.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I'm always hungry. All I ever do is walk, walk here,
walk there.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
If there's a hidden meaning to this walkie talkie conversation, please.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Bring it out in the open, because I'm going to bed.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Hidden meaning, father, I think the.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Last time you acquainted me with your walking expeditions it
ended with a sales talk to buy you a car.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Oh, you won't have to buy this one, father, It's
free a Plymouth convertible, first prize in the Big Plymouth
Car contest.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
If I wasn't too.
Speaker 6 (28:01):
Young at inner myself, but I figure. With my help,
you'd be as sich to win.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Oh please, Henry, not to night, I'm a bit tired.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Not tonight, father, The contest doesn't start till Thursday.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
That's when the New Plymouth comes out.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
All right, remind me Thursday and we'll go down and
see the new Plymouth.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Now, would you get up to bed?
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Yes, father, just as soon as I finished these cookies boy.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
On New Plymouth convertible.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Aldridge Family is transcribed as written by Clippeth Goldsmith.
Henry is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Jack Grimes.
Mister and Missus Aldridge are House Jamison and Katherine Rot.
Your announcers Dick Dudley.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Good night everybody, and remember you have an important date
Thursday to meet the new fifty three Plymouth.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Tonight it's the Phil Harris Alice Faith Show on NBC
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