January 18, 2025 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Now The Man with Green Fingers starring Lionel Barrymore as
Luthor bear Bank on the Cavalcades of America.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh oh, hello, where'd you come from?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The mere?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Well? Now down there's a long wail just where, in
particular to my house. I see, Well, why don't you
come in? Can?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I know a flowers is like you?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
He is your can? Come on? There's no fence here.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, there was no fence around that wonderful guy gotten
up in the Santa Rosa Valley in California. No offense
to hide the beauty and loveliness grown by the genius
of a man who made more bontiful.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
In the country. He loved.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
This man loved flowers and children. He was never too
busy to take care of either one.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And wonderingly, the small.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Boy who went into the garden that day in eighteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Three said, you've got city flowers?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Er, thank you? What's your name? Head? Head? Uh mind? Ruther,
Ruther Burbank.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I know what kind of flowers there?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Which one to have?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yellow?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
One choreopsis?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh for what, well, let's call it a fancy daisy.
Let it go that after all, big names for flowers like.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Well, It's silly, isn't it. Sure I like you. I
do because they're like you. How would you like to
walk around and see the flowers? I'd like to mister Burbank.
Ye wait a minute now.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
If you and I are going to be friends, it's
one thing you'll have to remember the first name, mister.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
You gotta call me Luther. All right, Luthor? Good? Now
you know what a cactus is? Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Cactus as good?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
That's your sticky.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh well, no, I don't think there's anything on earth
that isn't some good tad.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
For example, you take this cactus. Why did you break
that off?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I look close to Dad, you'll see the meat inside, juicy, rich, succulent.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What what's that means? Good to eat? Oh? Nobody?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Cactus.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Cow's might if they didn't stick their tongues on the needle.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And cactus is good?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh maybe not now, but some Daysad, I'll draw a
cactus of nose.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Fine, no needles.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Now we'll walk over here and I'll show you the
biggest blackberries every shore.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Dead wallace over here, Meames.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Oh well, Dad, you come.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Home and let mister Burbank alone. Well, I'm sorry, mister Burbank,
but he.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Gets away from me. It's all right. Well, but every
day now for three weeks, he's keeping you from your work.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Please please, I like to add morale. He asked me questions,
Missus Brenner. And then the more he asked, the more
I asked.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, he's sure, he's not bother not. He's a big
help to me, all.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Right, but if he tacks to pesty, mister, I will.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Sure go buy, Missus Brenner.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And then.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Sure, Now where were we?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You were telling me about the new cat.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, catalog catalog.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's right now, you see, Tad, I don't want to
keep all these things from myself. I want to give
them to America. Well you look at it this way.
Tad Man's born, he lives, and he dies. But between
living and dying he should work to out his country. Oh,
(04:32):
my new catalog will advertise what I've.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Done with plants. Other men can do the same. They
can get slips and seeds, and they can raise.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Fine berries and flowers. Yes, good everything, Missus Brenda.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Oh it's you. Yeah, I guess dropped by to see
what's the matter with nothing, mister Burbanks.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Tad's fun. Oh well, I was expecting him to come
over this evening when he didn't show. Upsks, you needn't
expect Tad to come to see you anymore ever.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Missus Brenner, Missus Brena, what's the matter. What's happened, Missus Brenda?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I thought i'd find you here.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh, if something was wrong with Tad, Missus Brenner. Won't
let me, won't let me in.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
There's nothing wrong with Tad.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Luther, looks like you stirs up a home.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's mace. I don't know what you're talking about. It
shouldn't you catalog? A catalog? What that God do with
all of this?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Now, come on home, I'll check you there. Come on, Luther,
and no, not to the town. We we'll go around
the other way. It's better not to let anybody see
you right now.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But that can't be it, George, it just can't be it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It is though, Look, Luther, we've been all right if
you just hadn't used the word creations in your new catalog.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
But that's exactly what my plants are. I took them,
crossed them and bodied them and helped them.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
George Dishpool, maybe so, but there it is. I expected
skepticism from scientists and botanists.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well that's healthy. I can prove my theories to them.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yes I know, but the people here say you denied God.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I my God. I denied God. Now listen, Luther, you
know how these things are. Oh I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I did create new plants, but I did it with
the help of nature. I took what God put on
earth and used my own God given mind to improve.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Don't you see that's just it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You were tampering with something that's better.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Let's alone that I laughed along.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
By the same token, Galileos would have left the lords
and mechanics undiscovered. By the same standard of judgment, Newton
and the Harvey and all the rest of them should
have turned their faces from science, should have allowed knowledge
to remain stagnant.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Don't tell it to me, Luther. I'm your brother. I
believe in you.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But when people think somebody's taken away even a little
bit of their faith, they get mad.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
They blame you for that. O sir, who is it? Chad?
(07:50):
What are you doing over here at this hour? And
your night shirt? I'm trying to feel uh well, come
on to me an uh oh, that's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I had to see you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
That name wouldn't let me out of the house, so
I snuck over. Oh, I see, I sit down, sad. Oh,
what do you want to see me about? It ain't true,
it's a booster. It's what through that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You're a bad man, even wicked?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Is that what the tools? I heard them they were talking, sad.
Did you hear him say I was an atheist? I
heard them?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
What's said?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Uh? Person who doesn't believe in a god? You mean you?
You don't you remember the day we planted that speeded
tree in my front yard? Yes, Slooter, Well, I suppose
I left a little seedling out in the hot sun.
There was no water. What would have happened to it?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I would have died.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But we planned it. We used the earth, the water,
the roop. I candid it. And it's grue, didn't I?
H Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I merely started that. God did the rest. God and
the richness of the soil and the minerals in the
earth and rain. And I didn't create fad I did.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I helped. I did the same with the other things,
like I help. Oh you don't see these no, Lucy, Ah,
Well some day you will, some day you will. But
he said, they're gonna run you out.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
They ain't gonna let you sting you anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Hey, they said that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Eh, yes, you say, don't let him run you away.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I like you, Lucy, I like you an awful lot.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, I like you bad. I like you an awful lot.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah? I don't know that the thing like this is
hard to fight, but maybe I think it's something. Maybe
maybe I'll think it's something. Maybe you will come to
(10:15):
water order. Well, I guess we all know what we're
here for. I want to read something to you from
a catalog put up by Luther Burbank. There's these new creations.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Are not foundlings, but exemplifications of the knowledge that life
forces of plants may be combined and guided to produce
results not imagined by horticulturists.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I want to call your.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Attention to that word creation. It is not life honey,
man on God Earth at.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Himself, I think the Creator. But anybody that does that
is the nying his maker in one way. Mister William Burbank,
all right, you got coming in.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Here Americans to defend themselves with whims.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Do you mind? We want no glass fuller in this town. Uh. First,
you gotta prove I am one you deny. You said
you've created something. I admit. I'm proud of this boy.
That's what Jerry came here to say.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No, no, no, I haven't finished. I want to hear
the charge against.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Me atheism the bank.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Why because you said in this her catalog that you
created new plans the bank are. Ain't any man that
can say that it's God's province to create to put
things on her.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Has any one of you before ever seen one of
the plans I've described.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
My cattalows No, because they are new creations that ain't
got a thing.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
To do with it. You said created.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Any man who said.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
He creates his time to take God's place, he's denying God.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And you're deninne the fact that these are new plans.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Now you get out of her burbanks, there's nothing you
can say to the knything.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
We know what you are, a godless man. I demand
the right to to be hurt out of here before
you get the moment, Pope, the moment, Oh geudge Morton,
you want to say something, Yeah, we'll go right ahead.
Gorge close yours, Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Whether the charge against Luther Fairbank is true or not,
is beside the point that the moment for George Morton,
you know that The point now is will.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You condemn a man without krying him perst he.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Already condemned himself in your mind? There, I say, if
you condemn him without hearing, then you finalate to heritage
just free men.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
In a free country. If you want that charge against you,
then send Luca Fairbanks from this room.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Now, go ahead, mister Fairbanks.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Thank you, George Martin.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I have nothing much to say. I can't defend myself
against such a charge.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Because it's not defensible. What kind of an answer is?
What kind of an answer would you like, mister? Do
what you believe in?
Speaker 7 (13:05):
If anything?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
All right? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I cannot say I believe in your God, your God,
mister Williams, your personal self conceived God, jealously, God's secrets
from man.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
My God is one of kindness and justice, of God
who gives and points the way to greater and more
wonderful things for mankind. I believe in the immortality of influence.
It's in our own keeping and possession. It's God given
(13:43):
to us, the greatest.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
And most potent gifts of all our.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Benefits and possibilities. Your influence is your birthright and your epithet.
It's to make you ephemeral, inconsequential, or it can sing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Luther Burbank, accused of atheism because in the catalog of
New Plants he used the word creations, has tried to
defend himself at a town meeting.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
It is now the next day at the railroad station.
Fluc What are you doing here on the way? Gord?
Now listen, Lucy, you can still work here.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You don't have to pay any attention to what people
say all that. Yes, there's the meeting, but I said that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I didn't do any They don't hate you. It's just
that well they can't understand. That's words.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
If they understood what they hated, I could say. I
could find.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
That you're letting them drive you away, Gorge. I want
people to like me. It's to like them. I couldn't
work among them, knowing how they felt. Thinking over some
bare Nope, but Luther not you look yours. Look they
even coming here this season. I take the train, and
you think I could stay. I'll take care. No, no,
(15:13):
don't say anything to them. Luther.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Let me handle, why either one not you.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I thought we'd catch up with your hair.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So did I. Mister Williams, nice of you to see
me off.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Look for Luther. I I'd like to talk to you.
And I think we said everything at the meeting, and we.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Were no, not everything.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I well, I guess you kind of took the breath
out of us with that catalog. But well, Doc Donald,
we want you to stay. We'll call up and down
the valley are starting to go. The things, all the
things you created. I'm not asking it for myself, but
for them. You should have thought of that too, helped
me with my bag or Luther. Good by, mister Williams,
(15:55):
you're really going Luther. Yes, Georgia and I worked hard here.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I've tried to give people better fruits than the fair
of flowers.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Doing that would have satisfied me. But I'm trying to
do it. I ran up against the worst.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Enemy progress ever had, ignorance, sand misunderstand.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Oh let him have those Wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
He said, you're going away looser, But you're not.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
You're not, are you? But you can't.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I can't tendly garden myself, so all.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Die those flowers we put out will die. Can I
you can't leave, Lucer? What about the gardens?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
The tree replied, he won't grow without you.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Head All right, come on, Luther, I'll give you a
lift back of my ring. No, no, thanks, no, I'm
just taking my bag pad, I walk it. You go ahead, George.
All right, Lucer, we see you here? Sure? Sure? Oh?
Thank you dad? H what were you well? I'll tell
(17:04):
you something right now. We've got a lot of work
to do to catch up you.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Willie the Burbank place, sure, right down the road.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You can't miss it.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
No flowers in the world like the ones in his gardens.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Those features, why those are Burbank features. Richest, biggest, juiciest
features ever rolled loose. The bird Bank has given the
world the richness of his genius.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
He deserves to make the stumm acclaim from every scientist
and botanists in the world. Here's their Luther Burbank, the
(18:10):
plant with it. Yeah, not a week at job helping nakere.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Oh? I'd just like to see your gardens.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
People told me I mustn't leave the Santa Rosa Valley
without seeing your flower.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Good, good, good, But you're busy. I can come back later,
I should say, come on, some of his old fans
here never has been. What's that Florida coryopsis? Oh I
want Corey? Hello Luther, But where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Every place, every flower. I knew you'd come back to
see me. Let me look at you. Oh, the same
finals in both forty one now forty I'm going in Fotimwell,
why that had make me an old man? Is seventy
seven and I'm not that old. No, no, you're not Luthering.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No shirt, it's it out. Remember this three year This
isn't the same seat that we planted.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Thirty three years thirty three years.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard all about your head, Igor, Yet
must be fine to be famous. You're talking about me
being famous. I've in a lot of places looking and
there's hardly a place in the world that people don't
know about you and what you've done. Just I fought
around until something happens, like that spineless cactus. That took
(19:44):
me a little while, but I finally convinced nature she
was making a mistakes.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
She was nice about it, though. Let me fool around
till I got that. Luther. Remember the day you were
gonna leave here. Ye, well, you thank me that day.
I didn't understand why, and you said you'd tell me somebody.
I think you know now, Dad, I'd rather hear it
from you. It's well, Tad. You reminded me of the
(20:13):
garden that would die if I left it. Then I
knew that it wasn't what people thought or said that
mattered so much, Tad, it was what they left behind.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And if I can leave the world just a little
more beautiful than when I entered it, well that's all
I want.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Lother lother all morning, lother on. He's waiting for you
under the cedar, back, telling me it's almost time for lunch.
I will, I will, lother lother come on there away, Up,
it's almost noon, and booth, it's alway like mister Wallace.
(21:06):
You could wake him up. You forgot too. He's facing
his flowers. He always loved them best. No, don't cry.
He wouldn't want.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He said, if he could make the world a more
beautiful place, he'd be contented.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He's done that, hasn't.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
He Leave him here for a little while, missus Merrill
facing his flowers.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I believe, in the end, more thousands of influences. If
in our own keeping and pusasion.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Your influence, if your birthright and your epath, it can
make you a emerald inconsequential or.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Contain through the ears. Even if I
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Can give the world better fruits and pair of flowers,
well I'll be contented.
Now The Man with Green Fingers starring Lionel Barrymore as
Luthor bear Bank on the Cavalcades of America.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Oh oh, hello, where'd you come from?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The mere?
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Well? Now down there's a long wail just where, in
particular to my house. I see, Well, why don't you
come in? Can?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I know a flowers is like you?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
He is your can? Come on? There's no fence here.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
No, there was no fence around that wonderful guy gotten
up in the Santa Rosa Valley in California. No offense
to hide the beauty and loveliness grown by the genius
of a man who made more bontiful.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
In the country. He loved.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
This man loved flowers and children. He was never too
busy to take care of either one.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And wonderingly, the small.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Boy who went into the garden that day in eighteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Three said, you've got city flowers?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Er, thank you? What's your name? Head? Head? Uh mind? Ruther,
Ruther Burbank.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I know what kind of flowers there?
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Which one to have?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yellow?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
One choreopsis?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh for what, well, let's call it a fancy daisy.
Let it go that after all, big names for flowers like.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Well, It's silly, isn't it. Sure I like you. I
do because they're like you. How would you like to
walk around and see the flowers? I'd like to mister Burbank.
Ye wait a minute now.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
If you and I are going to be friends, it's
one thing you'll have to remember the first name, mister.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
You gotta call me Luther. All right, Luthor? Good? Now
you know what a cactus is? Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Cactus as good?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
That's your sticky.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh well, no, I don't think there's anything on earth
that isn't some good tad.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
For example, you take this cactus. Why did you break
that off?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I look close to Dad, you'll see the meat inside, juicy, rich, succulent.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What what's that means? Good to eat? Oh? Nobody?
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Cactus.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Cow's might if they didn't stick their tongues on the needle.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
And cactus is good?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh maybe not now, but some Daysad, I'll draw a
cactus of nose.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Fine, no needles.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Now we'll walk over here and I'll show you the
biggest blackberries every shore.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Dead wallace over here, Meames.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Oh well, Dad, you come.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Home and let mister Burbank alone. Well, I'm sorry, mister Burbank,
but he.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Gets away from me. It's all right. Well, but every
day now for three weeks, he's keeping you from your work.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Please please, I like to add morale. He asked me questions,
Missus Brenner. And then the more he asked, the more
I asked.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Well, he's sure, he's not bother not. He's a big
help to me, all.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Right, but if he tacks to pesty, mister, I will.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Sure go buy, Missus Brenner.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And then.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Sure, Now where were we?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
You were telling me about the new cat.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, catalog catalog.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's right now, you see, Tad, I don't want to
keep all these things from myself. I want to give
them to America. Well you look at it this way.
Tad Man's born, he lives, and he dies. But between
living and dying he should work to out his country. Oh,
(04:32):
my new catalog will advertise what I've.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Done with plants. Other men can do the same. They
can get slips and seeds, and they can raise.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Fine berries and flowers. Yes, good everything, Missus Brenda.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Oh it's you. Yeah, I guess dropped by to see
what's the matter with nothing, mister Burbanks.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Tad's fun. Oh well, I was expecting him to come
over this evening when he didn't show. Upsks, you needn't
expect Tad to come to see you anymore ever.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well that.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Missus Brenner, Missus Brena, what's the matter. What's happened, Missus Brenda?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I thought i'd find you here.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh, if something was wrong with Tad, Missus Brenner. Won't
let me, won't let me in.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
There's nothing wrong with Tad.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Luther, looks like you stirs up a home.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's mace. I don't know what you're talking about. It
shouldn't you catalog? A catalog? What that God do with
all of this?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Now, come on home, I'll check you there. Come on, Luther,
and no, not to the town. We we'll go around
the other way. It's better not to let anybody see
you right now.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But that can't be it, George, it just can't be it.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It is though, Look, Luther, we've been all right if
you just hadn't used the word creations in your new catalog.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
But that's exactly what my plants are. I took them,
crossed them and bodied them and helped them.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
George Dishpool, maybe so, but there it is. I expected
skepticism from scientists and botanists.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well that's healthy. I can prove my theories to them.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yes I know, but the people here say you denied God.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I my God. I denied God. Now listen, Luther, you
know how these things are. Oh I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I did create new plants, but I did it with
the help of nature. I took what God put on
earth and used my own God given mind to improve.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Don't you see that's just it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
You were tampering with something that's better.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Let's alone that I laughed along.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
By the same token, Galileos would have left the lords
and mechanics undiscovered. By the same standard of judgment, Newton
and the Harvey and all the rest of them should
have turned their faces from science, should have allowed knowledge
to remain stagnant.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Don't tell it to me, Luther. I'm your brother. I
believe in you.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But when people think somebody's taken away even a little
bit of their faith, they get mad.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
They blame you for that. O sir, who is it? Chad?
(07:50):
What are you doing over here at this hour? And
your night shirt? I'm trying to feel uh well, come
on to me an uh oh, that's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I had to see you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
That name wouldn't let me out of the house, so
I snuck over. Oh, I see, I sit down, sad. Oh,
what do you want to see me about? It ain't true,
it's a booster. It's what through that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
You're a bad man, even wicked?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Is that what the tools? I heard them they were talking, sad.
Did you hear him say I was an atheist? I
heard them?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
What's said?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Uh? Person who doesn't believe in a god? You mean you?
You don't you remember the day we planted that speeded
tree in my front yard? Yes, Slooter, Well, I suppose
I left a little seedling out in the hot sun.
There was no water. What would have happened to it?
Speaker 6 (08:53):
I would have died.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But we planned it. We used the earth, the water,
the roop. I candid it. And it's grue, didn't I?
H Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I merely started that. God did the rest. God and
the richness of the soil and the minerals in the
earth and rain. And I didn't create fad I did.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I helped. I did the same with the other things,
like I help. Oh you don't see these no, Lucy, Ah,
Well some day you will, some day you will. But
he said, they're gonna run you out.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
They ain't gonna let you sting you anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Hey, they said that.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Eh, yes, you say, don't let him run you away.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I like you, Lucy, I like you an awful lot.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, I like you bad. I like you an awful lot.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah? I don't know that the thing like this is
hard to fight, but maybe I think it's something. Maybe
maybe I'll think it's something. Maybe you will come to
(10:15):
water order. Well, I guess we all know what we're
here for. I want to read something to you from
a catalog put up by Luther Burbank. There's these new creations.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Are not foundlings, but exemplifications of the knowledge that life
forces of plants may be combined and guided to produce
results not imagined by horticulturists.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I want to call your.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Attention to that word creation. It is not life honey,
man on God Earth at.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Himself, I think the Creator. But anybody that does that
is the nying his maker in one way. Mister William Burbank,
all right, you got coming in.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Here Americans to defend themselves with whims.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Do you mind? We want no glass fuller in this town. Uh. First,
you gotta prove I am one you deny. You said
you've created something. I admit. I'm proud of this boy.
That's what Jerry came here to say.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No, no, no, I haven't finished. I want to hear
the charge against.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Me atheism the bank.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Why because you said in this her catalog that you
created new plans the bank are. Ain't any man that
can say that it's God's province to create to put
things on her.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Has any one of you before ever seen one of
the plans I've described.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
My cattalows No, because they are new creations that ain't
got a thing.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
To do with it. You said created.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Any man who said.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
He creates his time to take God's place, he's denying God.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
And you're deninne the fact that these are new plans.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Now you get out of her burbanks, there's nothing you
can say to the knything.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
We know what you are, a godless man. I demand
the right to to be hurt out of here before
you get the moment, Pope, the moment, Oh geudge Morton,
you want to say something, Yeah, we'll go right ahead.
Gorge close yours, Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Whether the charge against Luther Fairbank is true or not,
is beside the point that the moment for George Morton,
you know that The point now is will.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You condemn a man without krying him perst he.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Already condemned himself in your mind? There, I say, if
you condemn him without hearing, then you finalate to heritage
just free men.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
In a free country. If you want that charge against you,
then send Luca Fairbanks from this room.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Now, go ahead, mister Fairbanks.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Thank you, George Martin.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I have nothing much to say. I can't defend myself
against such a charge.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Because it's not defensible. What kind of an answer is?
What kind of an answer would you like, mister? Do
what you believe in?
Speaker 7 (13:05):
If anything?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
All right? All right?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I cannot say I believe in your God, your God,
mister Williams, your personal self conceived God, jealously, God's secrets
from man.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
My God is one of kindness and justice, of God
who gives and points the way to greater and more
wonderful things for mankind. I believe in the immortality of influence.
It's in our own keeping and possession. It's God given
(13:43):
to us, the greatest.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
And most potent gifts of all our.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Benefits and possibilities. Your influence is your birthright and your epithet.
It's to make you ephemeral, inconsequential, or it can sing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Luther Burbank, accused of atheism because in the catalog of
New Plants he used the word creations, has tried to
defend himself at a town meeting.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
It is now the next day at the railroad station.
Fluc What are you doing here on the way? Gord?
Now listen, Lucy, you can still work here.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You don't have to pay any attention to what people
say all that. Yes, there's the meeting, but I said that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I didn't do any They don't hate you. It's just
that well they can't understand. That's words.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
If they understood what they hated, I could say. I
could find.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
That you're letting them drive you away, Gorge. I want
people to like me. It's to like them. I couldn't
work among them, knowing how they felt. Thinking over some
bare Nope, but Luther not you look yours. Look they
even coming here this season. I take the train, and
you think I could stay. I'll take care. No, no,
(15:13):
don't say anything to them. Luther.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Let me handle, why either one not you.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I thought we'd catch up with your hair.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So did I. Mister Williams, nice of you to see
me off.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Look for Luther. I I'd like to talk to you.
And I think we said everything at the meeting, and we.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Were no, not everything.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
I well, I guess you kind of took the breath
out of us with that catalog. But well, Doc Donald,
we want you to stay. We'll call up and down
the valley are starting to go. The things, all the
things you created. I'm not asking it for myself, but
for them. You should have thought of that too, helped
me with my bag or Luther. Good by, mister Williams,
(15:55):
you're really going Luther. Yes, Georgia and I worked hard here.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I've tried to give people better fruits than the fair
of flowers.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Doing that would have satisfied me. But I'm trying to
do it. I ran up against the worst.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Enemy progress ever had, ignorance, sand misunderstand.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Oh let him have those Wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
He said, you're going away looser, But you're not.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
You're not, are you? But you can't.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I can't tendly garden myself, so all.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Die those flowers we put out will die. Can I
you can't leave, Lucer? What about the gardens?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
The tree replied, he won't grow without you.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Head All right, come on, Luther, I'll give you a
lift back of my ring. No, no, thanks, no, I'm
just taking my bag pad, I walk it. You go ahead, George.
All right, Lucer, we see you here? Sure? Sure? Oh?
Thank you dad? H what were you well? I'll tell
(17:04):
you something right now. We've got a lot of work
to do to catch up you.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Willie the Burbank place, sure, right down the road.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You can't miss it.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
No flowers in the world like the ones in his gardens.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Those features, why those are Burbank features. Richest, biggest, juiciest
features ever rolled loose. The bird Bank has given the
world the richness of his genius.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
He deserves to make the stumm acclaim from every scientist
and botanists in the world. Here's their Luther Burbank, the
(18:10):
plant with it. Yeah, not a week at job helping nakere.
What can I do for you?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Oh? I'd just like to see your gardens.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
People told me I mustn't leave the Santa Rosa Valley
without seeing your flower.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Good, good, good, But you're busy. I can come back later,
I should say, come on, some of his old fans
here never has been. What's that Florida coryopsis? Oh I
want Corey? Hello Luther, But where did you come from?
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Every place, every flower. I knew you'd come back to
see me. Let me look at you. Oh, the same
finals in both forty one now forty I'm going in Fotimwell,
why that had make me an old man? Is seventy
seven and I'm not that old. No, no, you're not Luthering.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
No shirt, it's it out. Remember this three year This
isn't the same seat that we planted.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Thirty three years thirty three years.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard all about your head, Igor, Yet
must be fine to be famous. You're talking about me
being famous. I've in a lot of places looking and
there's hardly a place in the world that people don't
know about you and what you've done. Just I fought
around until something happens, like that spineless cactus. That took
(19:44):
me a little while, but I finally convinced nature she
was making a mistakes.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
She was nice about it, though. Let me fool around
till I got that. Luther. Remember the day you were
gonna leave here. Ye, well, you thank me that day.
I didn't understand why, and you said you'd tell me somebody.
I think you know now, Dad, I'd rather hear it
from you. It's well, Tad. You reminded me of the
(20:13):
garden that would die if I left it. Then I
knew that it wasn't what people thought or said that
mattered so much, Tad, it was what they left behind.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
And if I can leave the world just a little
more beautiful than when I entered it, well that's all
I want.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Lother lother all morning, lother on. He's waiting for you
under the cedar, back, telling me it's almost time for lunch.
I will, I will, lother lother come on there away, Up,
it's almost noon, and booth, it's alway like mister Wallace.
(21:06):
You could wake him up. You forgot too. He's facing
his flowers. He always loved them best. No, don't cry.
He wouldn't want.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
He said, if he could make the world a more
beautiful place, he'd be contented.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He's done that, hasn't.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
He Leave him here for a little while, missus Merrill
facing his flowers.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
I believe, in the end, more thousands of influences. If
in our own keeping and pusasion.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Your influence, if your birthright and your epath, it can
make you a emerald inconsequential or.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Contain through the ears. Even if I
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Can give the world better fruits and pair of flowers,
well I'll be contented.
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