January 12, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
To Night, The DuPont Company brings you a magnificent failure
starring Burgess Melodist on the Cavalcade of America.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The nice story is about a man so far ahead
of his time that thoughtless neighbors called him a crazy school.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, it's called Josiah White crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
But like all great men, men with new ideas, Josiah
proved that his idea could work.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Unfortunately too, because well, your home tonight might be awfully
cold if it weren't for Josiah White. First, he's gane whitness.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
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Speaker 3 (01:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:31):
For better living through Chemistry and now BERGERK Meredith has
your file wife. In the Magnificent Plaisure on the DuPont
Cavalcade of America, the War.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
For Independence presented.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There was victory in the land a new nation, but
soon the celebration was over.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Just a few years.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Later, thoughtful men were staring at the beep defeat out
of victory.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Gentlemen, I'll tell you frankly, when something like this happens,
I feel we lost the war instead of having won it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Mister Smith, I object to that from Ark after the
Italian work of Washington Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Miss it's mister Howe. But I am not Washington, and
you are not Jefferson. And mister Danvers here is not
Benjamin Franklin, although sometimes I think he's trying to be gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I understand your bitterness, and it is obvious that most
of it is directed taught me.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But I still think the city of Philadelphia should have
a water that we know what you think, mister Danvers,
but it won't work. We cannot get a fuel that
is hard enough to run the new city pumps. That's
why we have no industry. That's what I meant when
I said we had lost the war exactly. We fought
even we got our independence, but now what can we
do with it. You still have to send to England
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even for.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The nails to build our city hall in a coal
That's why you can make these things. We have coal,
but it's Virginia and then we had to pull it
up in wagons to the mud until the freight caught
more than the call itself.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Gentlemen, I make a suggestion.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I have an idea just.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Fire, just to morn. But I've got to tell them.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yes, I know, but you, gentlemen, this led is just
sire White, how do you do Until last month he
was enough predate to my thoughts.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
He begs to come with me to this meeting.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Why, yes, Why? Because I think I know how.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To solve this problem.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Mister Danglers. It's been more than my employer. He's he's
my friend, and for his sake and for your sake,
he hasn't for the sake of the people. I've got
to tell you how you can make those city.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Pumps do their work.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now, this is a wonderful idea, certainly would be, but
don't you think if there was any way, don't you think,
gentleman and my would have found it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
No, no, you see.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Excuse me, gentlemen, but you can't find it because you've
been thinking.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Of wood and poor coal that we've been getting.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now, all you need is a hotter fire to give
more power to the pumps, right, but you have.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
To think of something new. And have you got something
you that will make a hotter fire? Yes, yes, I have, gentlemen,
I have what you need. I have it right here.
This is it. Look, I call it anthracize. It's a
different kind of coal. This stuff has been around for years.
Or gentleman, this is nothing but what they call black
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stone cares that's dry blackstone. But this stone will burn.
It will burn just about as much as any other
kind of stone. I've seen it tried. Now, mister Dan,
because I consider you're bringing this young man here an
imposition on our time and patience. But he's convinced. Yes, Oh,
I'm convinced, gentlemen, because I've seen it burn with my
own eye.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But when I was a boy, when I first came
to Philadelphia, I saw.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Man burn this black stone.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And I've never forgotten what does this man's mean? Gentlemen,
he did make this blackstone burn everyone in Philadelphia. Sorry
Oliver Evans and this crazy idea.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Will you please leave, young men and let us attend
about business. But this is your business.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
If the blackstones burn, why shouldn't you use them?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Because they don't burn? Now where you please go? I'm
I've seen them burn.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Us think what it would mean of the whole concert?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Just sire.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You can't convince them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Your pedical now very well, missus Danders. But someday I'll
convince them because I know.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
This is a wonderful idea.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Who's that?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Elizabeth?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Hurry?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I want you to see white.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Look at this house as from one end.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
To the other, Elisabeth, So do you see? Look in
the grave the blackstone's burning?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Excuse me? You gotta keep her blowing? Guy, Yes, it
is burning.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, I told him it was, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I knew it my last at.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Me when I told him that Oliver Evans had done
it all I wish mister Heavens was alive.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'd have to have them see that.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I can make it burn too.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Oh don't sy, That's just wonderful?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Is it funny?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Elizabeth, I've got it going here in the parlor, but
it still won't burn in the kitchen grate.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now I wonder wonders, why must be a reason it?
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Now you can tell him you were right all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Think what it means. Now they can run the pumps.
Now they can have factories I could do in England.
I knew it was a wonderful idea all the time.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Now that you've done it, why don't you rest?
Speaker 7 (06:49):
You've been working night and day.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh I can't rest, Elizabeth. I got to get mister
Danvers with show him all. He'll be so pleased. Where's
my hat? Where's all here? Lilisabeth? While I'm going, well,
you keep going on the flyer with.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You, just just cheap thinking what it means to the
whole country.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I love you, darling, but cheap blowing. I don't suppose
the other gentleman are going to like my letting you try.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
There's black stone stuff in the city furnis, jose sire.
But if this works, mister Damon, it's working. Look in
the furnace.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You can see it. Yes, I know I see, But
most of that fire is wood. But over there mister
Damon's see that there's there's a piece of black stone
on fire, can't you see?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But we there, you haven't got the steam up to fire.
All we need for that is more fire.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now, when the rest of the gentleman get here the carriage,
I guess it's him.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now we'll show him with we'll get this fire going,
all right, Jake, put in some more, put in, put.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
In a lot, yeah, put in. Come to sire. We've
got to go meet him. Oh, how do you do, gentlemen?
The smith? That's a hole, mister Danvers? What is? It's
just time?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We've asked you to come, gentlemen, because we wanted to
show you that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The black stone will burn. Oh, for heaven's sake, it's
that crazy young fellow talk to us at the meeting.
Are you still listening to his brand Denver? Yes, I am, gentlemen,
because he has proven that the black stone will burn.
I've seen it with my own eyes. Well I still
haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Where's the fire right over here in the furnace, gentlemen,
you can watch it burn.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Pretty soon. You'll see the pumps begin to work. You'll
be destined and pressed. As mister Danver's all right, take
you show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The gentleman our beautiful fire.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
How's it going? It ain't? What do you mean? And
black Stone smothered the whole thing. Now it's cold.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It in a boatload of fish. I don't understand. We
had it going, we saw it.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Ah another Oh, mister Dampers, are you deliberously trying to
make fools of Pacific Council?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's the smith may.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Have been fooled. All right, forget me get out of
Here's no way, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Little burns, it's got to it's so wonderful ideas.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Or come on then before the text players stick. Mister Howell,
all we've just to do is to find out the
right way to make this burn. Well, you're not going
to experiment in the city's furnace.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
You both get out of here at once.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Or you'll be put under rare.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well just fire. I guess now they think I'm a
bigger fool than ever. Oh, don't worry, mister Danvers.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All we have to do is get a big furnace
like this and keep trying until we learn how to
make these blacks don't burn when we want them, Yes,
your sire, but I haven't got a furnace, and you
haven't got a furnace.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We'll have to get one. Well where, Danvers, I know
them all mill off from the school killed River, near
where I was born.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I bet we could get that and fix it off.
Think what it'll mean when we show them that we're right.
An important thing, mister Danvers, is what it will mean
to the country. Oh, it's got to work, mister Danvers.
It's such a wonderful idea. Yes, mister Danvers. Oh, I'm
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glad to see you now. Will I get down off it?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Pleasure them there? Of how are you say? Just sorry?
Speaker 10 (10:21):
I'm worried.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What about the business is there and it's getting worse
all over the country. I've lost a lot of money.
Just sir, Well, we've got to get the milk on
it and makes the money.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
You just don't fret, mister dan Liz they're putting the
boilers in right now, and she looks, but I've got
over there in the corner.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yes, it's black gnome, But will it burns, your sire? Sure?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Just as as soon as we find out how to
make it, and when the workmen go.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Home tonight will start trying. Yes, I I would sort
of prefer not to have an audience, Jacob helpless. Don't
you worry, mister Ganders. You and I know we've got
hold of a good.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Idea, just fire.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Do you know what time it is? You know, mister Davis,
what diamonds? Three o'clock in the morning. Oh well, I
like to try this once more. Here, just sire to
tell you, I'm afraid your stone just will not burn.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I guess he's like mister White. You saw there's a
good fire, but want to put more stones? Are those
right outs?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
We saw it burn? I don't understand. We left the
furnace door wide open.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's plenty of air. Build on it myself, and shall
my loves be sure?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Just won't burn? Mister White? Done?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You and I had a vision, I guess. But from
now on I'm going to believe only half of what
I see, and I'll still be skeptical about this.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Damblers, you're not going to give up. Yes, I'm afraid
I am. When you get to be my age before
the faith you have desires too expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I was hoping I could stop them laughing and pladelphia,
But I've got to tell you, just sire, my money is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Gone, Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know you're going to tell me it's a wonderful idea. Yes,
all I know is that has cost me every set
I've got. Jake, will you go hardest up my horse?
I'm going back to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Then can I go home too? Mich to white chop?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Right? Yes, all right, all right, but I never heard
of a better id in my life, So.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Sire, you tried and tried. Now why don't you give us?
All right? Jake, close up furnace door, alright, go home
and get some rest and get this foolishness out of
your head. Sometimes I wish I could, but I can't.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yes, I never will, Josiah.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Is that you? Yes? Elizabeth?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Oh the Shamba Street? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
What time is it? It's four o'clock. I can sitting
here thinking, Wlizabeth.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Just sire, shouldn't the Blackstone burn?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But didn't go to dead there? You need some red, Elizabeth.
I think I'm a fool. You know they do.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I know That's why I'm married you.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, well, you mean you.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
May be a great manager, sire. If people think you're
a fool.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Is always that possibility that you have greatness?
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Because every great man has looked foolish.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Sometimes you sound foolish, even to me. But I don't
think you are.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I never had Elizabeth. Maybe I am foolish. But if
this thing would only work.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
If this country could find the right kind of fuel,
we could build an in the street. We'd get rolls
and canals and everything we need to make us a whole,
wonderful new nation. It was only work, So.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Sire, I've never heard you sound so unsure of yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Dam was given up. Yeah, he cost him so much money.
I feel bad about that.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
And are you thinking of giving up?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No?
Speaker 10 (14:11):
No, why should I?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah? I saw the storms burn, But oh can I
stop off? I could only find a way to do
it again? Jake, what is I'm not sure I heard you?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
He said?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
The miller's on fire.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Go see not. Don't worry, You're out. You right back, Jake. Here,
I am mister White the manue. You can see the
girl from here. It does here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Come on, Jake, hurry, mister White.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Where's the tall ragg fire? Still inside? Open the door,
Jake where you? Maybe we can get somebody here for
the wolf's clasp That night tea, mister Whitehall, wait until
I bake off?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Still up here?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Hurry, Jacob getting with waitful caban a minute, all right,
mister White, the careful, I'll grab it too. Wait, that
hill is non fire like fires in the fern. No, no, mister,
why you never had it fire? It's in the furnace.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The black stones are burning off. The white couldn't say
we try. Don't you remember who wants to try it
the wrong way? Don't sure I kept the door? Don't
can I even blowed on a goo? I know were
kind of burned like what that's the way that people
have always burned a sauce coal too.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
But don't you see when I went home?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You remember I told you to close the furnace door.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
That cous comat again her. I don't understand, mister whit
that's the way.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
The only area that could.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Get out of it. I had to come up from
the Buttom, that must be the reason. That doesn't matter.
At you look.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
At it, Oh, no one ever saw fire and counters
that before in their lives. Look at that's a stone on.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Fire, mister White, and d don't you take me on?
Put some water onto it.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I'll let it burn, don't put it off.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Jake, my wonderful ideas caught on fire.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That black stone is caught on fire, and well listening
to Burgess Meredith as Josiah White in the Magnificent Failure
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(16:29):
White had a lot of ideas about the progress.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Of industry in this country. As the second part of
our story opens, young.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Josiah's made a discovery that black stones can be burned.
Other day, we know those stones that amprecite coal. Back
in the early eighteenth century, people still had to be
sold on the idea.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
And Josiah was still far from realizing his ambitions.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Josiah, tell me, what did the men of the legislator
say when you spoke to them?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
They laughed what they liked laugh at me. It's like
they used to laughing Old Oliver Evans.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Oh how dare they laugh?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You proved you were right.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
You showed them that the answer site would burn.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I don't mind the laughing, Elizabeth, because they think the
whole thing's turned into a joke.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Even when I told them there was a whole mountain
of black stone up in the Lee High Valley. They
say it costs so much to haul it down over
the trails, no one could afford.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
To use it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
But I know if I could bring it down the
Lehigh River.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Why did they Did they give you permission to do that?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, they said they'd give me permission. They said, they
give me permission to ruin myself.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
But you know you can do it, Delfia. Josiah, of
course I know it. I even put it in riding.
I said, gentlemen, I'll bring the Blackstone down. It'll be
fifty percent sheep, I said, than any fuel they have
in Philadelphia and now.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And you will, Josiah, I know it well.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I think so all we.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Need to do, Elizabeth, put locks in the river where
they rapids are and turned the whole Leehigh into a canal.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
That's a wonderful idea, and I know it can be done.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Then tell me something, Yes, why did you mind their
laughing at you?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You did, didn't you? No? I didn't mind it.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Well, then why are you worried? I can tell you
I'll worried, Josiah.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Why I know what can be done, Liz, I got
all the ideas for it. I've got permission. Legislature But
now all I need is what money?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yes, I thought that was what was the matter in
that case, Josiah, will use our money?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
How do you mean?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
And in the money my father left me in his will.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
No, No, that's your money, Elizabeth. I won't use.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
That, Josiah. I am not as blind as those men
in Philadelphia. I shall have faith as long as you
keep yours.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I know my idea is a good one. But suppose something.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Did happen, then it will happen to both of us.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I want you to go and change that Lee High
River into.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
A great road of water, just as you've described it
to me so often, because I.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Too think it's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Hey, mister white Dinne here who says he's come up
from Philadelpia.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
To talk to you? Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Who is he?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's me, mister Jambers. All come here.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
How are you just tell me what's happening in Philadelphia?
Extend three hundred and sixty five tons with.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
The black Stone down there? What do they think of that?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
Just you?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
You told me once that.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
You were going to move this mountain from the Lehigh
Valley down to Philadelphia. Well that's what it's beginning to
look like a mountain on the water front of Philadelphia,
and it's.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Getting higher and higher. What do you mean, Yes, sire,
I thought it was mighty kind of you when you
took me in on this proposition. And maybe you're salesman
in Philadelphia, and I still think so. The only trouble
is I can't sell it, and I don't think anyone
else ever could either. Why not?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I could give you a thousand reasons why not, all
the reasons they've given me, but they all come down
to the same things.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
You just can't make people try. This is new and
they're used to be old. But this is better. This
doesn't have the clinkers like the old coal is. It's cleaner,
tire and good is getting more expensive. Of course I
haven't succeeded like I promised, but I'll soon. I'll soon
have a cheaper than wood are cold, and it's better.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I tell you, well, come see for yourself. I want
you to see how stupid people can be. And there's
another reason why I came up to talk to you.
Just sire. What's that Elizabeth. She's missed you, she's lonely.
You haven't been home for six months. Well, that's what
you say is true? How can I face it? You, sire,
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there's something about you. You will never be a failure
to me, no matter what happens. And I've got a
feeling that's just how Elizabeth will feel about it too.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I've missed you, Josiah. But more I'm frightened. The same
man who went up to the Lehigh Valley has not
come home.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I guess I'm not the same Elizabeth. There's now even
I know. I'm afraid.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
And you think what mister Danders says is true.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I found it out myself. I talked to every man
who owns the factory.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They're afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They're afraid that's changed over to the Blackstone. They're stopping
in their ignoral That's.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
What worries me. Josiah. That's been a tone in your voice.
I've never heard that before.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I know I shouldn't be better, Elizabeth than here. I
am with you and our own home, and we're warm
and cozy.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yes, let's be thankful for that.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Here it is the worst window that anyone can remember.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Why poor missus Robinson is telling me there's sickness in
his family.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
The house is freezing just like everyone else's, and We've
never been so warm.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
In all our lives.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yes, wedn't be grateful for that.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
You know, I should have given her some of our blackstones.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I spoke her husband would ever buy any? No, the
men wouldn't buy it. That's why the women folks are freezing.
Speaker 11 (22:11):
And I should have given her some so she could
show her husband. Yes, yes, I should have given some
to a lot of ladies.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
I know.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I'm telling you, Missus Perkinscy schaved our lives.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Our house was like an iceberg.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Everyone was sick. And she came over with some of that.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Blackstone and showed me how to use it, and we
were warm.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
For the first time this last July night. And it
so clean, mister Peter, missus Robinson told me about it.
It doesn't have any self awful thinkers. And you're sorry,
And just as she's fair. She is the best teach
of anything you ever saw. But you just tell her
husband then go have some.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I've changed to buy more.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
George, it's a fool and.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
We've got to go back to use that old fishing cold.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
But you wouldn't believe it was any good.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
There's more coming they here. It just where waters bringing
it down by the thousand turns. He's a man that
can do it. Maybe crazy, but you're smile now.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Host still the sign nothing take your time.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
And I was worried to see if you've never got
to get down out of that Lehigh Valley. In times
of the dinner, they've been planning this banquets a.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Week, Ohlizabeth, you know something. I must rather stay home
and have supper with you.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
How can you say that you should see the names
of the committee? All answers to anna you.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What Ilse tell you something, Elizabeth. I feel a little
foolish going to the celebration like that. After all, all
I did was make a kind of canal out of
the Lehigh River. And canals are so old fashioned.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Old fashion. Well, what world you talking about?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Crowds are too slow, too slow.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
No one ever moved fright so fast the sheep.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Before in this country.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I got a better idea, oh Josiah, the good idea, Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
What the country needs is a railroad. You heard me
tell you about the kind that got in England. I
got it all planned. Listen to me, Elizabeth. The land
is level, you know, all along the river. It would
be easy.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I could do it, I tell you it's a wonderful idea,
a wonderful idea. Well, some people may have lasted Josiah
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Whot and many other men, but the enthusiasm and perseverance
of these men carried their ideas through to success in
our magnificent anthracite industry. For example, to call the role
of the innovators and the men of vision, it's the
name not only Jusiophis, but also men like Colonel George Schumacher,
who proved the worth of anthracite and the working of iron.
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Philip Ginter pioneered in mining operations in the Lehigh Valley.
Colonel wires Erskine has it hundreds of others, And as
it is with anthracite, so it is with every other industry.
Hundreds of men with imagination and initiative in each adding
up to thousands have cooperated to build this country into
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the greatest industrial nation on earth. Now here's Gaine Whitman
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as Elizabeth, Martin Wilson as Danvers, Charles Penman as Smith,
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Speaker 3 (29:16):
Jake, and Alan Hewitt as Howell.
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To Night, The DuPont Company brings you a magnificent failure
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The nice story is about a man so far ahead
of his time that thoughtless neighbors called him a crazy school.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes, it's called Josiah White crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
But like all great men, men with new ideas, Josiah
proved that his idea could work.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Unfortunately too, because well, your home tonight might be awfully
cold if it weren't for Josiah White. First, he's gane whitness.
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Speaker 3 (01:22):
Should be kept away from it. Your local dealer probably
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your file wife. In the Magnificent Plaisure on the DuPont
Cavalcade of America, the War.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
For Independence presented.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There was victory in the land a new nation, but
soon the celebration was over.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Just a few years.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Later, thoughtful men were staring at the beep defeat out
of victory.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Gentlemen, I'll tell you frankly, when something like this happens,
I feel we lost the war instead of having won it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Mister Smith, I object to that from Ark after the
Italian work of Washington Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Miss it's mister Howe. But I am not Washington, and
you are not Jefferson. And mister Danvers here is not
Benjamin Franklin, although sometimes I think he's trying to be gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I understand your bitterness, and it is obvious that most
of it is directed taught me.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
But I still think the city of Philadelphia should have
a water that we know what you think, mister Danvers,
but it won't work. We cannot get a fuel that
is hard enough to run the new city pumps. That's
why we have no industry. That's what I meant when
I said we had lost the war exactly. We fought
even we got our independence, but now what can we
do with it. You still have to send to England
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even for.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
The nails to build our city hall in a coal
That's why you can make these things. We have coal,
but it's Virginia and then we had to pull it
up in wagons to the mud until the freight caught
more than the call itself.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Gentlemen, I make a suggestion.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I have an idea just.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Fire, just to morn. But I've got to tell them.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yes, I know, but you, gentlemen, this led is just
sire White, how do you do Until last month he
was enough predate to my thoughts.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
He begs to come with me to this meeting.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Why, yes, Why? Because I think I know how.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
To solve this problem.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Mister Danglers. It's been more than my employer. He's he's
my friend, and for his sake and for your sake,
he hasn't for the sake of the people. I've got
to tell you how you can make those city.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Pumps do their work.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now, this is a wonderful idea, certainly would be, but
don't you think if there was any way, don't you think,
gentleman and my would have found it.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
No, no, you see.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Excuse me, gentlemen, but you can't find it because you've
been thinking.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Of wood and poor coal that we've been getting.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now, all you need is a hotter fire to give
more power to the pumps, right, but you have.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
To think of something new. And have you got something
you that will make a hotter fire? Yes, yes, I have, gentlemen,
I have what you need. I have it right here.
This is it. Look, I call it anthracize. It's a
different kind of coal. This stuff has been around for years.
Or gentleman, this is nothing but what they call black
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stone cares that's dry blackstone. But this stone will burn.
It will burn just about as much as any other
kind of stone. I've seen it tried. Now, mister Dan,
because I consider you're bringing this young man here an
imposition on our time and patience. But he's convinced. Yes, Oh,
I'm convinced, gentlemen, because I've seen it burn with my
own eye.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But when I was a boy, when I first came
to Philadelphia, I saw.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Man burn this black stone.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And I've never forgotten what does this man's mean? Gentlemen,
he did make this blackstone burn everyone in Philadelphia. Sorry
Oliver Evans and this crazy idea.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Will you please leave, young men and let us attend
about business. But this is your business.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
If the blackstones burn, why shouldn't you use them?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Because they don't burn? Now where you please go? I'm
I've seen them burn.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Us think what it would mean of the whole concert?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Just sire.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You can't convince them.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Your pedical now very well, missus Danders. But someday I'll
convince them because I know.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
This is a wonderful idea.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Who's that?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Elizabeth?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Hurry?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I want you to see white.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Look at this house as from one end.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
To the other, Elisabeth, So do you see? Look in
the grave the blackstone's burning?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Excuse me? You gotta keep her blowing? Guy, Yes, it
is burning.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yes, I told him it was, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I knew it my last at.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Me when I told him that Oliver Evans had done
it all I wish mister Heavens was alive.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
I'd have to have them see that.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
I can make it burn too.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
Oh don't sy, That's just wonderful?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Is it funny?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Elizabeth, I've got it going here in the parlor, but
it still won't burn in the kitchen grate.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Now I wonder wonders, why must be a reason it?
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Now you can tell him you were right all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Think what it means. Now they can run the pumps.
Now they can have factories I could do in England.
I knew it was a wonderful idea all the time.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Now that you've done it, why don't you rest?
Speaker 7 (06:49):
You've been working night and day.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh I can't rest, Elizabeth. I got to get mister
Danvers with show him all. He'll be so pleased. Where's
my hat? Where's all here? Lilisabeth? While I'm going, well,
you keep going on the flyer with.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You, just just cheap thinking what it means to the
whole country.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'll be back.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I love you, darling, but cheap blowing. I don't suppose
the other gentleman are going to like my letting you try.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
There's black stone stuff in the city furnis, jose sire.
But if this works, mister Damon, it's working. Look in
the furnace.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You can see it. Yes, I know I see, But
most of that fire is wood. But over there mister
Damon's see that there's there's a piece of black stone
on fire, can't you see?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But we there, you haven't got the steam up to fire.
All we need for that is more fire.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now, when the rest of the gentleman get here the carriage,
I guess it's him.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now we'll show him with we'll get this fire going,
all right, Jake, put in some more, put in, put.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
In a lot, yeah, put in. Come to sire. We've
got to go meet him. Oh, how do you do, gentlemen?
The smith? That's a hole, mister Danvers? What is? It's
just time?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We've asked you to come, gentlemen, because we wanted to
show you that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
The black stone will burn. Oh, for heaven's sake, it's
that crazy young fellow talk to us at the meeting.
Are you still listening to his brand Denver? Yes, I am, gentlemen,
because he has proven that the black stone will burn.
I've seen it with my own eyes. Well I still
haven't seen it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Where's the fire right over here in the furnace, gentlemen,
you can watch it burn.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Pretty soon. You'll see the pumps begin to work. You'll
be destined and pressed. As mister Danver's all right, take
you show.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The gentleman our beautiful fire.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
How's it going? It ain't? What do you mean? And
black Stone smothered the whole thing. Now it's cold.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It in a boatload of fish. I don't understand. We
had it going, we saw it.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Ah another Oh, mister Dampers, are you deliberously trying to
make fools of Pacific Council?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It's the smith may.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Have been fooled. All right, forget me get out of
Here's no way, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Little burns, it's got to it's so wonderful ideas.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Or come on then before the text players stick. Mister Howell,
all we've just to do is to find out the
right way to make this burn. Well, you're not going
to experiment in the city's furnace.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
You both get out of here at once.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Or you'll be put under rare.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well just fire. I guess now they think I'm a
bigger fool than ever. Oh, don't worry, mister Danvers.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
All we have to do is get a big furnace
like this and keep trying until we learn how to
make these blacks don't burn when we want them, Yes,
your sire, but I haven't got a furnace, and you
haven't got a furnace.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We'll have to get one. Well where, Danvers, I know
them all mill off from the school killed River, near
where I was born.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I bet we could get that and fix it off.
Think what it'll mean when we show them that we're right.
An important thing, mister Danvers, is what it will mean
to the country. Oh, it's got to work, mister Danvers.
It's such a wonderful idea. Yes, mister Danvers. Oh, I'm
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glad to see you now. Will I get down off it?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Pleasure them there? Of how are you say? Just sorry?
Speaker 10 (10:21):
I'm worried.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
What about the business is there and it's getting worse
all over the country. I've lost a lot of money.
Just sir, Well, we've got to get the milk on
it and makes the money.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
You just don't fret, mister dan Liz they're putting the
boilers in right now, and she looks, but I've got
over there in the corner.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yes, it's black gnome, But will it burns, your sire? Sure?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Just as as soon as we find out how to
make it, and when the workmen go.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Home tonight will start trying. Yes, I I would sort
of prefer not to have an audience, Jacob helpless. Don't
you worry, mister Ganders. You and I know we've got
hold of a good.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
Idea, just fire.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Do you know what time it is? You know, mister Davis,
what diamonds? Three o'clock in the morning. Oh well, I
like to try this once more. Here, just sire to
tell you, I'm afraid your stone just will not burn.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I guess he's like mister White. You saw there's a
good fire, but want to put more stones? Are those
right outs?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
We saw it burn? I don't understand. We left the
furnace door wide open.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's plenty of air. Build on it myself, and shall
my loves be sure?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Just won't burn? Mister White? Done?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You and I had a vision, I guess. But from
now on I'm going to believe only half of what
I see, and I'll still be skeptical about this.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Damblers, you're not going to give up. Yes, I'm afraid
I am. When you get to be my age before
the faith you have desires too expensive.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I was hoping I could stop them laughing and pladelphia,
But I've got to tell you, just sire, my money is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Gone, Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I know you're going to tell me it's a wonderful idea. Yes,
all I know is that has cost me every set
I've got. Jake, will you go hardest up my horse?
I'm going back to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Then can I go home too? Mich to white chop?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Right? Yes, all right, all right, but I never heard
of a better id in my life, So.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Sire, you tried and tried. Now why don't you give us?
All right? Jake, close up furnace door, alright, go home
and get some rest and get this foolishness out of
your head. Sometimes I wish I could, but I can't.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yes, I never will, Josiah.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Is that you? Yes? Elizabeth?
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Oh the Shamba Street? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
What time is it? It's four o'clock. I can sitting
here thinking, Wlizabeth.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Just sire, shouldn't the Blackstone burn?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
But didn't go to dead there? You need some red, Elizabeth.
I think I'm a fool. You know they do.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I know That's why I'm married you.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, well, you mean you.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
May be a great manager, sire. If people think you're
a fool.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Is always that possibility that you have greatness?
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Because every great man has looked foolish.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Sometimes you sound foolish, even to me. But I don't
think you are.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I never had Elizabeth. Maybe I am foolish. But if
this thing would only work.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
If this country could find the right kind of fuel,
we could build an in the street. We'd get rolls
and canals and everything we need to make us a whole,
wonderful new nation. It was only work, So.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Sire, I've never heard you sound so unsure of yourself.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Dam was given up. Yeah, he cost him so much money.
I feel bad about that.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
And are you thinking of giving up?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No?
Speaker 10 (14:11):
No, why should I?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah? I saw the storms burn, But oh can I
stop off? I could only find a way to do
it again? Jake, what is I'm not sure I heard you?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
He said?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
The miller's on fire.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Go see not. Don't worry, You're out. You right back, Jake. Here,
I am mister White the manue. You can see the
girl from here. It does here.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Come on, Jake, hurry, mister White.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Where's the tall ragg fire? Still inside? Open the door,
Jake where you? Maybe we can get somebody here for
the wolf's clasp That night tea, mister Whitehall, wait until
I bake off?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Still up here?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Hurry, Jacob getting with waitful caban a minute, all right,
mister White, the careful, I'll grab it too. Wait, that
hill is non fire like fires in the fern. No, no, mister,
why you never had it fire? It's in the furnace.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I tell you.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
The black stones are burning off. The white couldn't say
we try. Don't you remember who wants to try it
the wrong way? Don't sure I kept the door? Don't
can I even blowed on a goo? I know were
kind of burned like what that's the way that people
have always burned a sauce coal too.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
But don't you see when I went home?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You remember I told you to close the furnace door.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
That cous comat again her. I don't understand, mister whit
that's the way.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
The only area that could.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Get out of it. I had to come up from
the Buttom, that must be the reason. That doesn't matter.
At you look.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
At it, Oh, no one ever saw fire and counters
that before in their lives. Look at that's a stone on.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Fire, mister White, and d don't you take me on?
Put some water onto it.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I'll let it burn, don't put it off.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Jake, my wonderful ideas caught on fire.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That black stone is caught on fire, and well listening
to Burgess Meredith as Josiah White in the Magnificent Failure
on the Casualty of America sponsored by the DuPont's company
Naper a Better Thing for better Living through Chemistry, Josiah
(16:29):
White had a lot of ideas about the progress.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Of industry in this country. As the second part of
our story opens, young.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Josiah's made a discovery that black stones can be burned.
Other day, we know those stones that amprecite coal. Back
in the early eighteenth century, people still had to be
sold on the idea.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
And Josiah was still far from realizing his ambitions.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Josiah, tell me, what did the men of the legislator
say when you spoke to them?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
They laughed what they liked laugh at me. It's like
they used to laughing Old Oliver Evans.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Oh how dare they laugh?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You proved you were right.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
You showed them that the answer site would burn.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I don't mind the laughing, Elizabeth, because they think the
whole thing's turned into a joke.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Even when I told them there was a whole mountain
of black stone up in the Lee High Valley. They
say it costs so much to haul it down over
the trails, no one could afford.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
To use it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
But I know if I could bring it down the
Lehigh River.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Why did they Did they give you permission to do that?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yes, they said they'd give me permission. They said, they
give me permission to ruin myself.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
But you know you can do it, Delfia. Josiah, of
course I know it. I even put it in riding.
I said, gentlemen, I'll bring the Blackstone down. It'll be
fifty percent sheep, I said, than any fuel they have
in Philadelphia and now.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And you will, Josiah, I know it well.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I think so all we.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Need to do, Elizabeth, put locks in the river where
they rapids are and turned the whole Leehigh into a canal.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
That's a wonderful idea, and I know it can be done.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Then tell me something, Yes, why did you mind their
laughing at you?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
You did, didn't you? No? I didn't mind it.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Well, then why are you worried? I can tell you
I'll worried, Josiah.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Why I know what can be done, Liz, I got
all the ideas for it. I've got permission. Legislature But
now all I need is what money?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Yes, I thought that was what was the matter in
that case, Josiah, will use our money?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
How do you mean?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
And in the money my father left me in his will.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
No, No, that's your money, Elizabeth. I won't use.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
That, Josiah. I am not as blind as those men
in Philadelphia. I shall have faith as long as you
keep yours.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I know my idea is a good one. But suppose something.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Did happen, then it will happen to both of us.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
I want you to go and change that Lee High
River into.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
A great road of water, just as you've described it
to me so often, because I.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Too think it's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Hey, mister white Dinne here who says he's come up
from Philadelpia.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
To talk to you? Yes?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Who is he?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It's me, mister Jambers. All come here.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
How are you just tell me what's happening in Philadelphia?
Extend three hundred and sixty five tons with.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
The black Stone down there? What do they think of that?
Speaker 10 (19:33):
Just you?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
You told me once that.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
You were going to move this mountain from the Lehigh
Valley down to Philadelphia. Well that's what it's beginning to
look like a mountain on the water front of Philadelphia,
and it's.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Getting higher and higher. What do you mean, Yes, sire,
I thought it was mighty kind of you when you
took me in on this proposition. And maybe you're salesman
in Philadelphia, and I still think so. The only trouble
is I can't sell it, and I don't think anyone
else ever could either. Why not?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I could give you a thousand reasons why not, all
the reasons they've given me, but they all come down
to the same things.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
You just can't make people try. This is new and
they're used to be old. But this is better. This
doesn't have the clinkers like the old coal is. It's cleaner,
tire and good is getting more expensive. Of course I
haven't succeeded like I promised, but I'll soon. I'll soon
have a cheaper than wood are cold, and it's better.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I tell you, well, come see for yourself. I want
you to see how stupid people can be. And there's
another reason why I came up to talk to you.
Just sire. What's that Elizabeth. She's missed you, she's lonely.
You haven't been home for six months. Well, that's what
you say is true? How can I face it? You, sire,
(20:49):
there's something about you. You will never be a failure
to me, no matter what happens. And I've got a
feeling that's just how Elizabeth will feel about it too.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
I've missed you, Josiah. But more I'm frightened. The same
man who went up to the Lehigh Valley has not
come home.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I guess I'm not the same Elizabeth. There's now even
I know. I'm afraid.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
And you think what mister Danders says is true.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I found it out myself. I talked to every man
who owns the factory.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They're afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
They're afraid that's changed over to the Blackstone. They're stopping
in their ignoral That's.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
What worries me. Josiah. That's been a tone in your voice.
I've never heard that before.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I know I shouldn't be better, Elizabeth than here. I
am with you and our own home, and we're warm
and cozy.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yes, let's be thankful for that.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Here it is the worst window that anyone can remember.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Why poor missus Robinson is telling me there's sickness in
his family.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
The house is freezing just like everyone else's, and We've
never been so warm.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
In all our lives.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yes, wedn't be grateful for that.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
You know, I should have given her some of our blackstones.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I spoke her husband would ever buy any? No, the
men wouldn't buy it. That's why the women folks are freezing.
Speaker 11 (22:11):
And I should have given her some so she could
show her husband. Yes, yes, I should have given some
to a lot of ladies.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
I know.
Speaker 8 (22:28):
I'm telling you, Missus Perkinscy schaved our lives.
Speaker 7 (22:31):
Our house was like an iceberg.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Everyone was sick. And she came over with some of that.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Blackstone and showed me how to use it, and we
were warm.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
For the first time this last July night. And it
so clean, mister Peter, missus Robinson told me about it.
It doesn't have any self awful thinkers. And you're sorry,
And just as she's fair. She is the best teach
of anything you ever saw. But you just tell her
husband then go have some.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I've changed to buy more.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
George, it's a fool and.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
We've got to go back to use that old fishing cold.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
But you wouldn't believe it was any good.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
There's more coming they here. It just where waters bringing
it down by the thousand turns. He's a man that
can do it. Maybe crazy, but you're smile now.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Host still the sign nothing take your time.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
And I was worried to see if you've never got
to get down out of that Lehigh Valley. In times
of the dinner, they've been planning this banquets a.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Week, Ohlizabeth, you know something. I must rather stay home
and have supper with you.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
How can you say that you should see the names
of the committee? All answers to anna you.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What Ilse tell you something, Elizabeth. I feel a little
foolish going to the celebration like that. After all, all
I did was make a kind of canal out of
the Lehigh River. And canals are so old fashioned.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Old fashion. Well, what world you talking about?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Crowds are too slow, too slow.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
No one ever moved fright so fast the sheep.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Before in this country.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I got a better idea, oh Josiah, the good idea, Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
What the country needs is a railroad. You heard me
tell you about the kind that got in England. I
got it all planned. Listen to me, Elizabeth. The land
is level, you know, all along the river. It would
be easy.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I could do it, I tell you it's a wonderful idea,
a wonderful idea. Well, some people may have lasted Josiah
(24:48):
Whot and many other men, but the enthusiasm and perseverance
of these men carried their ideas through to success in
our magnificent anthracite industry. For example, to call the role
of the innovators and the men of vision, it's the
name not only Jusiophis, but also men like Colonel George Schumacher,
who proved the worth of anthracite and the working of iron.
(25:10):
Philip Ginter pioneered in mining operations in the Lehigh Valley.
Colonel wires Erskine has it hundreds of others, And as
it is with anthracite, so it is with every other industry.
Hundreds of men with imagination and initiative in each adding
up to thousands have cooperated to build this country into
(25:31):
the greatest industrial nation on earth. Now here's Gaine Whitman
(25:56):
speaking for the parts.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
As a result of long continue nwing research in the
field of commercial explosives, the DuPont Company to day manufactures
more than two hundred different formulations of dynamite, as well
as other explosives, blasting supplies and extensories. DuPont research has
also brought the life new and more efficient ways of
using explosives, including a new and better way to fire them,
(26:23):
the DuPont blasting timer. It is now known that in
some types of blasting, better.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Results are obtained when one dig blast is divided into
a number of little.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Ones fired with almost unbelievable accuracy a few thousands of
a second of part the new DuPont invention, the DuPont
Blasting Timer, devonates blasts in just this way. It looks
like a portable radio. Inside the blox cams so delicately
machined that they operate with greater accuracy than a fine
(26:56):
stop watch, clothes switches that fire the shots one after another.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
In developing natural resources, such.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
As coal and other minerals, blasting must occasionally be carried
out near residential and business districts. Here the timer is
of service because it reduces the vibration of the ground.
The DuPont timer also makes delay shooting even safer than before,
providing an accurate means of firing the charges without using
(27:25):
electric blasting cats in the drill holes, and blessening the
danger that an unfired charge will remain in the hole
and go off later by accidents. In addition, tests indicate
that the DuPont blasting timer will be a considerable aid
in rock quarries, bringing down the rock in smaller pieces,
(27:45):
which means greater efficiency and lowid costs. This new DuPont
invention is another contribution to efficiency and safety from the
DuPont Company, maker of Better Things for better Living through
can Ministry.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Next week, the DuPont Cavalcade brings to Dane Clark and
Donald Reid and the Voice of the Wizard, the dramatic
story of young Thomas Alva Edison, whose genius writes the
world today. Yes, Edison was a genius, or a wizard
or whatever superlat if you care to use. But he
was a human being too, just like all the rest
of us. To be shore and listen next Monday to
(28:34):
the Voice of the Wizard, the human Story of Thomas
Alva Edison, starring Dane Clark and Donna Reid on the
Cavalcade of America. The music for the Nice DuPont Cavalcade
(28:56):
was composed by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Borry.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Our Cavalcade play was written by Philip Lewis.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And was based on the book Josiah White by Elanor
Marthon in the cast with Burgess Meredith, where Alice Ryanhardt
as Elizabeth, Martin Wilson as Danvers, Charles Penman as Smith,
Cameron Andrews as.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Jake, and Alan Hewitt as Howell.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
This is Ed Gurrison inviting you to listen next week
to Dane Clark and Donna Reid.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
In the Voice of the Wizard on the Cavalcade.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
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