January 10, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
The night, the DuPont Company brings you rain Fakers, starring
Burgess Meredith. I'm the Cavalcade of America. Rainfakers is a
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story about the weather, and in our play tonight, a
rain maker is going to tangle with the scientists from
the Weather Bureau.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now, if you don't know about the tricks that.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Rain makers use, you will find out in a moment.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
And ladies and gentlemen, the forecast for tonight is fireworks.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
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through chemistry, do not. We present Burgess Meredith as Walt
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Swanson in rain Fakers on the DuPont Cavalcade of America.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Ah, the weather. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does
anything about it. Wrong. I'm sorry, but you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Huh about what the weather people do?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Do things about it?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
As a matter of fact, I did something about the
weather once, Missell.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, and who are you?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
My name is Walt Swanson. I'm a weather man, a meteorologist.
If you want to be high brow.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
M h well, how long is this rain going to last?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
This rain will.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Lasts about one second?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh? Come now, is that.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What you mean by doing things about the weather having
our studio sound man on your sign?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I weigh the weather, records, temperatures, observe the direction of
the wind, chart the course of storms, measure rainfall, predict
bloods worn against hurricanes, and so far as it's possible,
provide weather information in an accurate forecast. That's reporting weather,
predicting it. That's not doing.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Anything about it. Nobody can do anything about the weather.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I did. I did once.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Just what did you do, mister weatherman?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, it all began with.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Colonel Daisy and a rain maker. It was quite a
while back. Some man a minute ago. You made me
some dandy weather. No, that's that's not what I want.
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Can you dig me up a hot July day, say
about one hundred and two without a breath of air
stirring of this? Oh that's perfect, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now. I'm on my way to work.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But today, you see, I don't look forward to my
job much. Hello, Ed, think of all the ice cream meals.
Folks ain't spend the stamp.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They don't have to things like this. Well, it's gotta
break sooner or later.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ain't you got some idea when? Oh I wish I
had ed well, salon Salon. Now that was Ed Car
of Car's drug store opening its place up. He's next
door to the courthouse where the weather Bureau is. Now
inside of the courthouse, I turn right.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And I start upstairs.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Ah, here is mister McDonald coming down the stairs as
I go up. Well, this is kind of early for you,
miss McDonald. You don't call these bankers hours, do you.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I was just up with the weather bureau walk looking
for you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What's the matter? Am I overdrawn?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I wish that's all it was?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, what's up? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I don't have to tell you how many farmers in
this area have loans at our bank, and that's all right,
that's what we're there for. We can't make money if
we don't lend it just the same. Well, many of
those notes should do right now, more coming all the time.
We'd like to extend them, of course, but if the
crop fails, they can't pay as simple as that. So
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how do you think our chances look for rain?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Well, I can just tell you, miss McDonald, there's never
been a drought yet that lasted forever.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
If it lasts long enough to kill the crop, it
might as well be forever as far as the bank's concerned.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Can't you give me some idea when it'll rain?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Look, mister McDonald, I don't control the weather. This drought
isn't just a whim of mine.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Now, there's no need to get excited. I merely asked
if you knew when it would rain, and you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I didn't mean to lose my temper, but this thing's
been getting on my nerves.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Well, something's got to be done, and I've got an idea.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's got to rain soon. I sure hope.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
So, Oh, will you be coming over at the house
for dinner Sunday. You're beat, but good.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'll tell Jane when I get home.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Goodbye, goodbye, poor man. He's really upset.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Now, do you hear that? That's the teletype in my office.
The clearing house at Denver is sending us weather reports
from all over the northern half of the Western Hemisphere.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know, the man learned.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
A long time ago that weather travel, But as long
as it traveled faster than men and horses, there was
no way to spread reports in time to do.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Anyone any good.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
But then the telegraph and the telephone changed all that,
and weather forecasting the way that we know it now
grew up.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Side by side with modern communications.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Ah, good morning Jenkins, morning missus Swatson, he disabute, Yeah,
sure is what's your dry ball breeding?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I didn't two already?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And he changed the pressure.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No, I think this hire is going to last forever we.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Don't get some indication of rain soon. I'm going into
a new business.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Boss, Your worries are over.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hello, brownie, Why what are you talking about a drought?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's washed up.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
If you just lean back and relax, we'll be having
rain any minute now.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
The Farmer's Association is going to hire that eminent scientist
Colonel Daisy and the rain Maker, and he's gonna fix everything.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You're kidding.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Having a big meeting tonight at the Oddfellow's Hall. The
Colonel's gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Hand me that phone.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What are you gonna call?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I'm not gonna sit here and let farmers pay out
good money to a jip artist like the colonel.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Hello operator two two nine, ring too? Ple.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Oh, by the way, some English professor called up from
the State University. He wants to come over here and
observe for a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
An English professor.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
He's writing a book, believe it or not, on the
weather in Shakespeare's play. No kidd if I told him
he could stand around and watch as long as he
didn't get in the way.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Okay, will you sure? Maybe he'll give this copy of
the book.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Hello, Hello, Jane.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Dude, was gonna be you, Walt?
Speaker 8 (07:30):
I could just tell away the phone ring.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's the deal I have with the phone company. I
mean it, Walt, I did know it was you.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
I get feelings like as their rifles always dinner Sunday.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Haven't you got a feeling about that too? I got
a feeling we'll have roast. B Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Oh, well he couldn't keep me away. Say, Jane, is.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Your father back yet?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Dad still out.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Has he said anything to you about the Farmer's Association
hiring somebody called Colonel Daisyan.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah that's the guy.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Oh yeah, Dad's going to talk to the folks about it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh, thank Heaven for that.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
People respect your father and they'll believe him when he
tells them that this colonel's a fake. What'd you say, wal,
The Colonel Dasian's a crook and a fake.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's what your father thinks.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Isn't it why No Dad likes him. It's his idea
to hire up Jane, and I think it's wonderful too.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
We just got to.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Have rain, Jane. This man can't make it rain.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Well that's not what the thousands and thousands of people say.
The place where he's brought.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Rain, they's bless him and thank you and pay him. Well,
of course they pay him.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
It's worth anything to get rid.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But all he does is to collect for rain that
would fall anyway. And I refuse to stand by and
see people swindle. If you ask me, you're just because
the colonel knows more about weather than you do, Jane.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
It's it's no good as arguings. I'll call your father later,
goodbye bye.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, how do you like that?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
If the people want to pay a rain make her
what do you care? It isn't your dough, It isn't
just the money.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
But every time one of those crooks gets away with
a deal like this, the whole weather Bureau looks silly.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I don't like it.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
What are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
For one thing, you and I are going to attend
that meeting tonight. You know, a song man, I want
the noise.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Of wind, the great big bag of winds.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
On the.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Frenchy freakingsecutive page of Broke. I made rain in Lewisburg
on the eighteenth.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Of that fun That's just what I mean by bag
of win. That old Blowhard's brought out a good crowd, though,
And they're not all farmers either.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Ed Carr's here from the drug store, from.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
A man McDonald and Jane and even the little professor
who's writing the book showed up and nobody's laughing, nobody's
even smiling.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Don't tell me that they believe that guy.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
And two days later, in the eye of Central to
I broke all my own record by bringing more the full.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Three inches of rain.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
But you folks, you folks, don't hit the resident what
I've done in other praises.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You want know what I could.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Do here, right right right, all right, all right, I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You I can make it rain.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
Ask the question why you certainly may or speak right up?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Just PARTI and making rain the stageous.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Remy is quite a complicated scientific processor.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Among other things, I.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
Discharge radiomagnetic waves into the upper regions.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
I doubt if I could make the process entirely clear
to a layman.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I know something about meteorology. I'm head of the weather.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Bureau here woo, so you're a fair.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Weather friends, people said, know what they're getting before they.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Make what they're getting certain is rain.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
If they don't, nobody hey me, I said, but why
are you gonna make it rain?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That's the point. Sooner or later, whether it's father changed,
but's on the coin. And I failed to see why
you or anybody else to.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Cash it on.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Nor do I, sir.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
The whole purpose of my method is to make rain
where it will not fall naturally.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You guarantee to make it rain within a specific period
of time.
Speaker 11 (11:26):
Yes, once the radiomagnetic rain maker has been started, rain
invariably falls within three days.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You guarantee that it'll rain here in free day.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
I did not say that, sir, But I will guarantee
rain within three days from the time the radiomagnetic waves.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Are launched a pause before I can turn them off.
It is sometimes necessary to spend a few days is
softening up the elements by other means I.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
See studying Weather Bureau forecast, Colonel. If I had to
depend on.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
The Weather Burea for my rain.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I wouldn't stay in business. Wrong, would I fault? No, sir,
they specialize in downs.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
I asked you what good would weather reports drew me?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Anyhow?
Speaker 9 (12:19):
They're only two days ahead, and I start three.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Weather Bureau gives two days forecasts because they aren't entirely
accurate for longer than that.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
And to the colonel say right, but any good meteorologists
can predict three or four even five days in events
and be right four times.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And he's wrong. Why don't you see? All rain makers
got to.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Do is to get a hold of these early reports,
start his mumbo jumbo and gamble on rain, and seven
times out of ten he'll be right, and you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Pay through the No, what are you car with me?
Turn money? Your money? But why do you throw it?
A wife? Enough? You call rain? Doesn't lord? Look? I
studied weather since I was eighteen years old. There's no
known scientific method of making rain. A rain is caused
by warm voice air rising that warms clouds. And when
these clouds contense, why that it rains?
Speaker 10 (13:11):
It's just you said rain was paused by hot.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Air rising indirectly it is.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
And why with all this government bock, why it's pouring now?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
This meaning.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
These people, these people don't want theories.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They want rains.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
And my ride said, if you want rain, that's what
your's going to get.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, let's see what I mean, brownie.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Let's get back to the office. I gotta make some
long distance calls. I'll show this phony up if it's
the last thing I do.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You are listening to Burgess Meredith as Walt Swanson, the
weatherman in Rain Fakers on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored
by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better
living through chemistry.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
As the second part of our story opens, Swanson, with
the aid of our studio or Sandman, is telling me
about the time he tangled with Colonel Daisy and the rainmaker.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
How do things stand now, mister weatherman, We are.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Very bad dings. You see.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
The colonel got his contract and I got hard feeling.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well just a minute, at the beginning of this program,
you said you were the one that did something about
the weather.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I know, I'm coming to that, sun man. You suppose
you could fire a distant cannon every once in.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
A little while.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Oh that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That represents Colonel Daisien softening up the elements.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
See.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
One of the most persistent notions about weather is that
gunfire or fireworks causes rain, and so many people believe
it that it's a shame that it isn't true.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It doesn't rain on the fifth of July anymore, it
doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Third But the statistics show it often rains after big battle.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh sure it guys.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Commanders don't want their armies to fight on soggy ground,
so they wait several days after rain before ordering an offensive.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You see, and by the time the battle's over, it's
usually time for rain again.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That's how that old wives tale got started. Well, let's
get back to the weather Bureau.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Say Walt, you told me to let you know when
the Professor came back again.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
He's here now, Oh.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Good, now, look I want to see him.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Professor. You're learning all about the weather.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
It's so complicated.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I don't know if I shall ever get it strange.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
That's exactly the way I feel about Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Indeed, you know, Professor, you really.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Ought to see are in on the roof on the Jenkins.
But I want you to take Professor raft to the
roof and whim how we measure the upper air draft
with the balloon and theater life today?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Right this way, Professor, Thank you so.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Much, mister Jenkins. But that if mister Swatson wouldn't mind,
I'd prefer to go later after the weather maps being made.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That fascinates me more than in it will still be
on the map by the time you get down, Professor.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
That case, i'll go, Professor kind of ste Brownie, Brownie,
give me that map with you. You know, you take
this map and I'll hide yours down here. What you
can get it later when the Professor's gone.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What gives this map doesn't match today's reports.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
The Colonel's not the only guy that can make rain, Brownie,
You and I gonna whip up some rain too. For days,
I've been trying to find out where that old fraud
gets his weather reports.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Sure he works that way.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, why do you think he keeps that cannon going
day and night. It's just to fill in time till
he knows for certain that rains on the way. Then
he turns that phony apparatus on. Only this time, when
he turns it on, he won't get rain.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I must be dumb, but I don't get any of this.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I've checked all the weather services. The Colonel's not getting
his information there, so he has to get it somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But where I'll bite where, Well, he's getting it from us.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
This professor upstairs, now he's a fake. I called the
university and they never heard of him. I've got a
hunch that he's an experienced meteorologist.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You'll think he reads our maps and passes on the
dope to the colonel.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I'm certain I know what I phoned spring Town and
some of those other places where this colonel's operated, and
the professor, it so happens, has been observing in their
bureaus at the same time that Daisien was in town.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now do you believe me?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Oh, dirty whether they got in Shakespeare's plays.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You don't know how dirty.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Look at this map that I gave you.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's all wrong. Walk the way you've got it here,
we've be getting rain in a few days.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yes, if only the Professor thinks that way, we're all that.
You'll tell the kernel that rain is due, and that
old fake will turn that radio magnetic gadget on too soon.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Oh it's a great scheme, walk, but it's dangerous business
issuing false report.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
No, they won't be.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Any false reports.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You see.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Every day we'll make two maps, a regular one for
the bureau and a special one for the professor, showing
a nice fat rainstorm.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right around the corner.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Thank you, sir, mister Jenkins. That was fascinating, gradual like
the professor, still at the map. Yes, now that's some
interesting changes.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Here, Yes, yesterday. Now look at this.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
You see this week's line here. We call it a
cold front. Will you notice how it's moothed south? Yes, yes,
I see, I see. You notice at this point that
the barometric pressure has come down two millibars. Yes, yes,
most interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The idea.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I hope someday I should be able to Oh my goodness,
that's the matter. Oh, I've just remembered there's a call
I must make use our fault.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I thank you just the same.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
This is long distance. I just used the booth down surely.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Now, what did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I think he's going to phone the colonel.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Within five minutes that rain machine will be going full blast.
That means the Colonel guarantees to bring rain within three days.
He'd better be some rainmaker, now, sal Man, I got.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Something tough for you.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I want the noise of one radio magnetic rain making machine.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Very that's perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Now at the fairgrounds, the Colonel turned the darn thing
on this machine on the minutes of Professor Carding, and
the crowd's been collecting ever since, some of them carrying umbrella.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Oh that's quite a gadget, Like those sparks splashing out
of the something.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It certainly wows the crowd. I don't know whether I
like this jack or not ball. What do you mean? Well,
folks get their hopes up and they don't get rain.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Well, hello, Wald, I'm so surprised to see you here.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Why shouldn't I be here?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
You were the man who thought the Colonel couldn't make rain.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, I still do well, just listen to that rain machine.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Just listen.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
You can just feel little work.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
It will work, Jane, believe me that it won't work.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Well. All I have to say to you, Will Swanson,
is that I hope you get caught without a rain
coat or an umbrella or anything.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, if I do, it won't be in the Colonel's
rain party. Colonel times up?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What do you mean, sir?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Your contract guaranteed to produce rain within seventy two hours.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Three days and three days are up?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Well, something kicked the cruse seems to have gone a
bit wrong. Some grac I feigned it necessary to continue on.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No, why don't you give up?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Colonel.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It's not a cloud in the sky.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
My contract, Sir, is not with you. It's with these
gentlemen of the farm Association here.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Right, that's right, they's this business.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I'm sure another few hours will do the trick. Gentlemen,
bell what do you fellas say? Before you say anything?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Mister brown here and I want to tell you a
little story about some weather maps.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
While friends. A few days ago, a stranger showed up.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
At this point, Brownie and I.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Told our story about Professor Rapp and how he got
the reports from the colonel.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Well you've heard it all, you know, so I see
no point in repeating it anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It had a double effect on the farmers. First they
terminated their contract with the colonel.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Take her, get the tone and stay out, don't ever
come by.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
And then they turned off his machine. And the next
morning they expressed their gratitude to me.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Morning ed pretty smart, ain't you, mister smart? Well you
must have got.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Up on the wrong side this morning. Hello, mister McDonald,
how are you well?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Mister Swanson?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Sure showed death fellow up, didn't you. Yeah, made us
all look pretty foolish too, especially me after all, Daisy
in was my idea. Wait a minute, Well, if you're
so allfired smart, where's the rain? You haven't done very
much about that, have you?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Looks like you've showed yourself up too. Only listen to reason.
Oh and about.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Dinner tomorrow, forget it, Jane said, to tell you not
to bother coming over.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I see, thanks.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I should have picked the right way to win friends
and influence people.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Funny war Hello Brownie. Oh the long face, Jane? Still so, Jane,
Everybody's so.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
That's what you get for showing people up.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
It's fable really griped at the weather. You know they
take it out on me.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You fixed the Colonel's wagon in here.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Wait, things are now, it's got a cold comfort.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Something special's cooking on the teletype. What's it say, Jenkins? Hey,
get this cold front sweeping down from the north.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
What let me see that?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Wonderful? Give me the phone, Brownie, get on the other phone.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Will you notify the gazette and the radio station operator
two to nine, ring two? Please, here's the rest of
the report lost, Thanks Jenkins. Look at Oh it looks
like Colonel Daisy in left town just a little bit
too soon.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, Jane, this is all right.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Don't talk to me, just listen. I'm no Colonel Daisy
and or anything like that. But your rain is coming,
and plenty.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Of it, you know what they say. See you'll see
it all right by noon tomorrow. And if you're affording me.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
If you're just trying to be smart again, this is
a good fight for cought. Hello, Jane, wal swans in
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your drenched to the skin.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Oh, just look at you. Come inside and get out
of those wet dreams. Oh quick, kick that coat off. Honestly,
anyone who'd gotten a downpour like this.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I know that you weren't expecting me, but I know
I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
I guess that's why I sat an extra place at
the table, and why I haven't let Dad start dinner.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Oh Wald, I think you're wonderful.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
I know you're a weather man and all that, But
how did you know the rain would start just when
it did?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Darling? It's really very simple.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
My coin's hurt.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Nowadays you can't find one person in the.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Whole day's travel who believes in rain makers.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Now that's partly due, as we have seen, to cheerful
young scientists who set out to disprove the quack doctrine
of the rainmaker. When we the American people, need to
get a job done, we don't rub our hands against.
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The rabbit's foot. We roll up our sleeves and go
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That's the spirit that has given America more and better
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The night, the DuPont Company brings you rain Fakers, starring
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story about the weather, and in our play tonight, a
rain maker is going to tangle with the scientists from
the Weather Bureau.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Now, if you don't know about the tricks that.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Rain makers use, you will find out in a moment.
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And ladies and gentlemen, the forecast for tonight is fireworks.
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Swanson in rain Fakers on the DuPont Cavalcade of America.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Ah, the weather. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does
anything about it. Wrong. I'm sorry, but you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Huh about what the weather people do?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Do things about it?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
As a matter of fact, I did something about the
weather once, Missell.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, and who are you?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
My name is Walt Swanson. I'm a weather man, a meteorologist.
If you want to be high brow.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
M h well, how long is this rain going to last?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
This rain will.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Lasts about one second?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh? Come now, is that.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
What you mean by doing things about the weather having
our studio sound man on your sign?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Not at all.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I weigh the weather, records, temperatures, observe the direction of
the wind, chart the course of storms, measure rainfall, predict
bloods worn against hurricanes, and so far as it's possible,
provide weather information in an accurate forecast. That's reporting weather,
predicting it. That's not doing.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Anything about it. Nobody can do anything about the weather.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I did. I did once.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Just what did you do, mister weatherman?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Well, it all began with.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Colonel Daisy and a rain maker. It was quite a
while back. Some man a minute ago. You made me
some dandy weather. No, that's that's not what I want.
(03:37):
Can you dig me up a hot July day, say
about one hundred and two without a breath of air
stirring of this? Oh that's perfect, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now. I'm on my way to work.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
But today, you see, I don't look forward to my
job much. Hello, Ed, think of all the ice cream meals.
Folks ain't spend the stamp.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They don't have to things like this. Well, it's gotta
break sooner or later.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ain't you got some idea when? Oh I wish I
had ed well, salon Salon. Now that was Ed Car
of Car's drug store opening its place up. He's next
door to the courthouse where the weather Bureau is. Now
inside of the courthouse, I turn right.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And I start upstairs.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Ah, here is mister McDonald coming down the stairs as
I go up. Well, this is kind of early for you,
miss McDonald. You don't call these bankers hours, do you.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I was just up with the weather bureau walk looking
for you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What's the matter? Am I overdrawn?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I wish that's all it was?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, what's up? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I don't have to tell you how many farmers in
this area have loans at our bank, and that's all right,
that's what we're there for. We can't make money if
we don't lend it just the same. Well, many of
those notes should do right now, more coming all the time.
We'd like to extend them, of course, but if the
crop fails, they can't pay as simple as that. So
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how do you think our chances look for rain?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Well, I can just tell you, miss McDonald, there's never
been a drought yet that lasted forever.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
If it lasts long enough to kill the crop, it
might as well be forever as far as the bank's concerned.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Can't you give me some idea when it'll rain?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Look, mister McDonald, I don't control the weather. This drought
isn't just a whim of mine.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Now, there's no need to get excited. I merely asked
if you knew when it would rain, and you don't.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I didn't mean to lose my temper, but this thing's
been getting on my nerves.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Well, something's got to be done, and I've got an idea.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's got to rain soon. I sure hope.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
So, Oh, will you be coming over at the house
for dinner Sunday. You're beat, but good.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'll tell Jane when I get home.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Goodbye, goodbye, poor man. He's really upset.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Now, do you hear that? That's the teletype in my office.
The clearing house at Denver is sending us weather reports
from all over the northern half of the Western Hemisphere.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You know, the man learned.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
A long time ago that weather travel, But as long
as it traveled faster than men and horses, there was
no way to spread reports in time to do.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Anyone any good.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
But then the telegraph and the telephone changed all that,
and weather forecasting the way that we know it now
grew up.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Side by side with modern communications.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Ah, good morning Jenkins, morning missus Swatson, he disabute, Yeah,
sure is what's your dry ball breeding?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I didn't two already?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And he changed the pressure.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
No, I think this hire is going to last forever we.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Don't get some indication of rain soon. I'm going into
a new business.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Boss, Your worries are over.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Hello, brownie, Why what are you talking about a drought?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
It's washed up.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
If you just lean back and relax, we'll be having
rain any minute now.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (06:47):
The Farmer's Association is going to hire that eminent scientist
Colonel Daisy and the rain Maker, and he's gonna fix everything.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You're kidding.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Having a big meeting tonight at the Oddfellow's Hall. The
Colonel's gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Hand me that phone.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What are you gonna call?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I'm not gonna sit here and let farmers pay out
good money to a jip artist like the colonel.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Hello operator two two nine, ring too? Ple.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Oh, by the way, some English professor called up from
the State University. He wants to come over here and
observe for a couple of days.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
An English professor.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
He's writing a book, believe it or not, on the
weather in Shakespeare's play. No kidd if I told him
he could stand around and watch as long as he
didn't get in the way.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Okay, will you sure? Maybe he'll give this copy of
the book.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Hello, Hello, Jane.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Dude, was gonna be you, Walt?
Speaker 8 (07:30):
I could just tell away the phone ring.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
That's the deal I have with the phone company. I
mean it, Walt, I did know it was you.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
I get feelings like as their rifles always dinner Sunday.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Haven't you got a feeling about that too? I got
a feeling we'll have roast. B Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Oh, well he couldn't keep me away. Say, Jane, is.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Your father back yet?
Speaker 5 (07:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Dad still out.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Has he said anything to you about the Farmer's Association
hiring somebody called Colonel Daisyan.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah that's the guy.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
Oh yeah, Dad's going to talk to the folks about it.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh, thank Heaven for that.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
People respect your father and they'll believe him when he
tells them that this colonel's a fake. What'd you say, wal,
The Colonel Dasian's a crook and a fake.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's what your father thinks.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Isn't it why No Dad likes him. It's his idea
to hire up Jane, and I think it's wonderful too.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
We just got to.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Have rain, Jane. This man can't make it rain.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Well that's not what the thousands and thousands of people say.
The place where he's brought.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Rain, they's bless him and thank you and pay him. Well,
of course they pay him.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
It's worth anything to get rid.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But all he does is to collect for rain that
would fall anyway. And I refuse to stand by and
see people swindle. If you ask me, you're just because
the colonel knows more about weather than you do, Jane.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
It's it's no good as arguings. I'll call your father later,
goodbye bye.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Well, how do you like that?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
If the people want to pay a rain make her
what do you care? It isn't your dough, It isn't
just the money.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
But every time one of those crooks gets away with
a deal like this, the whole weather Bureau looks silly.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I don't like it.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
What are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
For one thing, you and I are going to attend
that meeting tonight. You know, a song man, I want
the noise.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Of wind, the great big bag of winds.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
On the.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
Frenchy freakingsecutive page of Broke. I made rain in Lewisburg
on the eighteenth.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Of that fun That's just what I mean by bag
of win. That old Blowhard's brought out a good crowd, though,
And they're not all farmers either.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Ed Carr's here from the drug store, from.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
A man McDonald and Jane and even the little professor
who's writing the book showed up and nobody's laughing, nobody's
even smiling.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Don't tell me that they believe that guy.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
And two days later, in the eye of Central to
I broke all my own record by bringing more the full.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Three inches of rain.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
But you folks, you folks, don't hit the resident what
I've done in other praises.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You want know what I could.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Do here, right right right, all right, all right, I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You I can make it rain.
Speaker 10 (10:24):
Ask the question why you certainly may or speak right up?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Just PARTI and making rain the stageous.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Remy is quite a complicated scientific processor.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Among other things, I.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
Discharge radiomagnetic waves into the upper regions.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
I doubt if I could make the process entirely clear
to a layman.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I know something about meteorology. I'm head of the weather.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Bureau here woo, so you're a fair.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Weather friends, people said, know what they're getting before they.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Make what they're getting certain is rain.
Speaker 9 (11:01):
If they don't, nobody hey me, I said, but why
are you gonna make it rain?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That's the point. Sooner or later, whether it's father changed,
but's on the coin. And I failed to see why
you or anybody else to.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Cash it on.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Nor do I, sir.
Speaker 9 (11:16):
The whole purpose of my method is to make rain
where it will not fall naturally.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You guarantee to make it rain within a specific period
of time.
Speaker 11 (11:26):
Yes, once the radiomagnetic rain maker has been started, rain
invariably falls within three days.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You guarantee that it'll rain here in free day.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
I did not say that, sir, But I will guarantee
rain within three days from the time the radiomagnetic waves.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Are launched a pause before I can turn them off.
It is sometimes necessary to spend a few days is
softening up the elements by other means I.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
See studying Weather Bureau forecast, Colonel. If I had to
depend on.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
The Weather Burea for my rain.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I wouldn't stay in business. Wrong, would I fault? No, sir,
they specialize in downs.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
I asked you what good would weather reports drew me?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Anyhow?
Speaker 9 (12:19):
They're only two days ahead, and I start three.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Weather Bureau gives two days forecasts because they aren't entirely
accurate for longer than that.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
And to the colonel say right, but any good meteorologists
can predict three or four even five days in events
and be right four times.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And he's wrong. Why don't you see? All rain makers
got to.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Do is to get a hold of these early reports,
start his mumbo jumbo and gamble on rain, and seven
times out of ten he'll be right, and you.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Pay through the No, what are you car with me?
Turn money? Your money? But why do you throw it?
A wife? Enough? You call rain? Doesn't lord? Look? I
studied weather since I was eighteen years old. There's no
known scientific method of making rain. A rain is caused
by warm voice air rising that warms clouds. And when
these clouds contense, why that it rains?
Speaker 10 (13:11):
It's just you said rain was paused by hot.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Air rising indirectly it is.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
And why with all this government bock, why it's pouring now?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
This meaning.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
These people, these people don't want theories.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They want rains.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
And my ride said, if you want rain, that's what
your's going to get.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, let's see what I mean, brownie.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Let's get back to the office. I gotta make some
long distance calls. I'll show this phony up if it's
the last thing I do.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You are listening to Burgess Meredith as Walt Swanson, the
weatherman in Rain Fakers on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored
by the DuPont Company, maker of better things for better
living through chemistry.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
As the second part of our story opens, Swanson, with
the aid of our studio or Sandman, is telling me
about the time he tangled with Colonel Daisy and the rainmaker.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
How do things stand now, mister weatherman, We are.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Very bad dings. You see.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
The colonel got his contract and I got hard feeling.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well just a minute, at the beginning of this program,
you said you were the one that did something about
the weather.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I know, I'm coming to that, sun man. You suppose
you could fire a distant cannon every once in.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
A little while.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Oh that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
That represents Colonel Daisien softening up the elements.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
See.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
One of the most persistent notions about weather is that
gunfire or fireworks causes rain, and so many people believe
it that it's a shame that it isn't true.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
It doesn't rain on the fifth of July anymore, it
doesn't have.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Third But the statistics show it often rains after big battle.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh sure it guys.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Commanders don't want their armies to fight on soggy ground,
so they wait several days after rain before ordering an offensive.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You see, and by the time the battle's over, it's
usually time for rain again.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That's how that old wives tale got started. Well, let's
get back to the weather Bureau.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Say Walt, you told me to let you know when
the Professor came back again.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
He's here now, Oh.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Good, now, look I want to see him.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Professor. You're learning all about the weather.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
It's so complicated.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I don't know if I shall ever get it strange.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
That's exactly the way I feel about Shakespeare.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Indeed, you know, Professor, you really.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
Ought to see are in on the roof on the Jenkins.
But I want you to take Professor raft to the
roof and whim how we measure the upper air draft
with the balloon and theater life today?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Right this way, Professor, Thank you so.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Much, mister Jenkins. But that if mister Swatson wouldn't mind,
I'd prefer to go later after the weather maps being made.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That fascinates me more than in it will still be
on the map by the time you get down, Professor.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
That case, i'll go, Professor kind of ste Brownie, Brownie,
give me that map with you. You know, you take
this map and I'll hide yours down here. What you
can get it later when the Professor's gone.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What gives this map doesn't match today's reports.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
The Colonel's not the only guy that can make rain, Brownie,
You and I gonna whip up some rain too. For days,
I've been trying to find out where that old fraud
gets his weather reports.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Sure he works that way.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Well, why do you think he keeps that cannon going
day and night. It's just to fill in time till
he knows for certain that rains on the way. Then
he turns that phony apparatus on. Only this time, when
he turns it on, he won't get rain.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I must be dumb, but I don't get any of this.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I've checked all the weather services. The Colonel's not getting
his information there, so he has to get it somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But where I'll bite where, Well, he's getting it from us.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
This professor upstairs, now he's a fake. I called the
university and they never heard of him. I've got a
hunch that he's an experienced meteorologist.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You'll think he reads our maps and passes on the
dope to the colonel.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
I'm certain I know what I phoned spring Town and
some of those other places where this colonel's operated, and
the professor, it so happens, has been observing in their
bureaus at the same time that Daisien was in town.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Now do you believe me?
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Oh, dirty whether they got in Shakespeare's plays.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You don't know how dirty.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Look at this map that I gave you.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's all wrong. Walk the way you've got it here,
we've be getting rain in a few days.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yes, if only the Professor thinks that way, we're all that.
You'll tell the kernel that rain is due, and that
old fake will turn that radio magnetic gadget on too soon.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Oh it's a great scheme, walk, but it's dangerous business
issuing false report.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
No, they won't be.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Any false reports.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You see.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Every day we'll make two maps, a regular one for
the bureau and a special one for the professor, showing
a nice fat rainstorm.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right around the corner.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Thank you, sir, mister Jenkins. That was fascinating, gradual like
the professor, still at the map. Yes, now that's some
interesting changes.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Here, Yes, yesterday. Now look at this.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
You see this week's line here. We call it a
cold front. Will you notice how it's moothed south? Yes, yes,
I see, I see. You notice at this point that
the barometric pressure has come down two millibars. Yes, yes,
most interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The idea.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I hope someday I should be able to Oh my goodness,
that's the matter. Oh, I've just remembered there's a call
I must make use our fault.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I thank you just the same.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
This is long distance. I just used the booth down surely.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Now, what did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I think he's going to phone the colonel.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Within five minutes that rain machine will be going full blast.
That means the Colonel guarantees to bring rain within three days.
He'd better be some rainmaker, now, sal Man, I got.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Something tough for you.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I want the noise of one radio magnetic rain making machine.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Very that's perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Now at the fairgrounds, the Colonel turned the darn thing
on this machine on the minutes of Professor Carding, and
the crowd's been collecting ever since, some of them carrying umbrella.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Oh that's quite a gadget, Like those sparks splashing out
of the something.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It certainly wows the crowd. I don't know whether I
like this jack or not ball. What do you mean? Well,
folks get their hopes up and they don't get rain.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Well, hello, Wald, I'm so surprised to see you here.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Why shouldn't I be here?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
You were the man who thought the Colonel couldn't make rain.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, I still do well, just listen to that rain machine.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Just listen.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
You can just feel little work.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
It will work, Jane, believe me that it won't work.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Well. All I have to say to you, Will Swanson,
is that I hope you get caught without a rain
coat or an umbrella or anything.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Well, if I do, it won't be in the Colonel's
rain party. Colonel times up?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
What do you mean, sir?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Your contract guaranteed to produce rain within seventy two hours.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Three days and three days are up?
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Well, something kicked the cruse seems to have gone a
bit wrong. Some grac I feigned it necessary to continue on.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No, why don't you give up?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Colonel.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
It's not a cloud in the sky.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
My contract, Sir, is not with you. It's with these
gentlemen of the farm Association here.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Right, that's right, they's this business.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I'm sure another few hours will do the trick. Gentlemen,
bell what do you fellas say? Before you say anything?
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Mister brown here and I want to tell you a
little story about some weather maps.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
While friends. A few days ago, a stranger showed up.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
At this point, Brownie and I.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Told our story about Professor Rapp and how he got
the reports from the colonel.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Well you've heard it all, you know, so I see
no point in repeating it anyway.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
It had a double effect on the farmers. First they
terminated their contract with the colonel.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Take her, get the tone and stay out, don't ever
come by.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
And then they turned off his machine. And the next
morning they expressed their gratitude to me.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Morning ed pretty smart, ain't you, mister smart? Well you
must have got.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Up on the wrong side this morning. Hello, mister McDonald,
how are you well?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Mister Swanson?
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Sure showed death fellow up, didn't you. Yeah, made us
all look pretty foolish too, especially me after all, Daisy
in was my idea. Wait a minute, Well, if you're
so allfired smart, where's the rain? You haven't done very
much about that, have you?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Looks like you've showed yourself up too. Only listen to reason.
Oh and about.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Dinner tomorrow, forget it, Jane said, to tell you not
to bother coming over.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I see, thanks.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I should have picked the right way to win friends
and influence people.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Funny war Hello Brownie. Oh the long face, Jane? Still so, Jane,
Everybody's so.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
That's what you get for showing people up.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
It's fable really griped at the weather. You know they
take it out on me.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You fixed the Colonel's wagon in here.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Wait, things are now, it's got a cold comfort.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Something special's cooking on the teletype. What's it say, Jenkins? Hey,
get this cold front sweeping down from the north.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
What let me see that?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Wonderful? Give me the phone, Brownie, get on the other phone.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Will you notify the gazette and the radio station operator
two to nine, ring two? Please, here's the rest of
the report lost, Thanks Jenkins. Look at Oh it looks
like Colonel Daisy in left town just a little bit
too soon.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh, Jane, this is all right.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Don't talk to me, just listen. I'm no Colonel Daisy
and or anything like that. But your rain is coming,
and plenty.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Of it, you know what they say. See you'll see
it all right by noon tomorrow. And if you're affording me.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
If you're just trying to be smart again, this is
a good fight for cought. Hello, Jane, wal swans in
(24:28):
your drenched to the skin.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Oh, just look at you. Come inside and get out
of those wet dreams. Oh quick, kick that coat off. Honestly,
anyone who'd gotten a downpour like this.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I know that you weren't expecting me, but I know
I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
I guess that's why I sat an extra place at
the table, and why I haven't let Dad start dinner.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Oh Wald, I think you're wonderful.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
I know you're a weather man and all that, But
how did you know the rain would start just when
it did?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Darling? It's really very simple.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
My coin's hurt.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Nowadays you can't find one person in the.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Whole day's travel who believes in rain makers.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Now that's partly due, as we have seen, to cheerful
young scientists who set out to disprove the quack doctrine
of the rainmaker. When we the American people, need to
get a job done, we don't rub our hands against.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
The rabbit's foot. We roll up our sleeves and go
to work.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
That's the spirit that has given America more and better
practical applications of science than any other country in the world.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Our star Burgess Meredith will return in just a moment.
But first, here's gain.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Whipmen speaking for DuPont. Did you ever move a zipper
up and down slowly? And watch the way the little
teeth locked together.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Try it some time.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You can marvel at the thought and planning that go
into an airplane engine or an automobile. But for downright
ingenuity and a small package, a zipper is a minor miracle.
You find yourself wondering who was clever enough to get
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They will not rust, nor will they be affected by
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the usual.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Dry cleaning solvents.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
So light that they can be used on the sheerest
marcazettes and chiffons. They are strong and durable enough to
give long service on heavy garments, and they can be
run through a washing machine without trouble.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
The first to reach you will.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Be black or ivory colored, but manufacturers plan to add
a range of colors in popular shades.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
When our DuPont.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Research Laboratory produced the first nylon no one in the
DuPont Company would have predicted that nylon would one day
be used to make zippers.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The vigilant, never.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Failing ingenuity of people working in other businesses, however, saw
in nylon plastic a better material from which to make
slide fasteners.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Nylon plastic is one of the DuPont.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Company's better things for better living through chemistry.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And now our star Burgess, Meredith.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Thank you, And now if I may, I'd like to
talk for a moment about traffic accidents. According to the
National Safety COUNSUL, the traffic death toll during the holiday
period is almost three times as great as for the
same time during.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
The rest of the year.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
To safeguard against accidents, reduce your speed while driving to
fit the prevailing road and weather conditions. And remember accidents
don't always happen to somebody else. Each one of us
is a potential accident victim, and no one of us
can afford to be careless, So keep tragedy out of
your home.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Drive carefully.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Next week, the DuPont Cavalcade brings you Shirley Booth in The.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Woman on Lime Rock.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's an unusual and dramatic story of the Sea of
Ida Lewis, who in eighteen fifty eight took her father's
place as keeper of the light at Limerock, Rhode Island.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
For fifty two years.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Ida Lewis kept the light burning.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
In fog and storm, good.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Weather or bad or the men who went down to
the sea in ships. Be sure and listen next Monday
at this same time to the Woman on Lime Rock,
starring Shirley Booth on the Cavalcade of America.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
The music for Tonight's DuPont Cavalcade was composed by Arden
Cornwall and conducted by Donald Bories. Our Cavalcade play was
written by Frank Gabrielson. In the cast with Burgess Meredith, Tonight,
We're Ted Jewett as the Colonel, Vicky Bola as Jane
Edgar Staley as the Professor, Alan Hewitt as Brown, and
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Cameron Prudam as MacDonald. This is Ted Pearson wishing all
Cavalcade of America listeners a very happy New Year from
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