August 15, 2025 • 30 mins
A sitcom that portrays the everyday life of a typical American family, focusing on the father's guidance and wisdom. The show combines humor with moral lessons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Why did daddy switch to post them?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Your father says, there's no caffeine in post them, nothing
to spoil your sleep, And your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
His father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young his father.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
A half hour visit with your.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Neighbor, The Andersons brought to you by instant post them
a good tasting drink that's entirely caffeine free, and by
post forty percent brand Flakes, America's largest selling brand flakes.
(00:48):
Lighthouse families, the Andersons of six oh seven Maple Street
generally stick pretty closely together.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But they have a day every now and then when
the family.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Structure threatens to come on glue. This, I'm afraid is
going to be one of those days. It's Saturday afternoon,
and Jim Anderson is just coming in the back door
like this, Margaret, and.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm home mother, only this skirt crest too? In my
organy dress, Oh yes, in my gray suit. Hell, I'm
working as fast as I can. Don't rush.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
What's going on here?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'll have to take all my blauses too, and my
hello father sweaters and let's see what else?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Take your blauses? Where? What's happening.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh, father, I have the most wonderful news.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Really, what is it?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
All my hair curlers are bend, are broken?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Say that is startling news.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So I'll just buy some new ones when I get there.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
When you get ware? What's all this about? Is it
a big secret?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh? No, father, it's just utterly devastating, that's all only
I see.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, it's nice to get the details. What's it's all about, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, she's going to take a job, a job?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Really?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes, father, I'm moving to Cedar Falls. I'm gonna stay
with Jennie leigotsand mother. Do you think I ought to
take my record player? That's up to you? Now?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wait a minute here, did you say moving? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Father, I don't think i'll take the record player?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Or maybe I should.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You mean you're you're levy.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Of course, yes, but look at me, dear, It isn't
my idea.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I've got to start packing. What happened to my green blouse?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's probably in your.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Closet, Margaret. Did you hear what she said?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes? I heard it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Moving to ced Hearr Falls? Are you going to let her?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I didn't say she couldn't. And you always tell me
I should go along with these things. Let the children
work out their own problem.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yes, but she's not through college yet. She can't just
quit in the middle of the term like this.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well I don't agree with it either, but this opportunity
came up. As a matter of fact, it came through
the placement bureau at the college, so they evidently approve
of it. They said she could continue her studies by extension.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh. What kind of a job is this?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh, some sort of secretarial work. I guess it's with
some company there, and see the falls with some company?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Is that all you know about it?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, I'm sure it's a reputable firm.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, how do you know? You don't even know the
name of it. Sounds like some why by night deal
to me, Daddy. I don't think we ought to rush
into this thing, Daddy, I'm working.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
In high heels.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Look day, Oh, Kathy, take those ugly shoes off. What
did you get those?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
There's some money?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh? Well, the shoes are all right, but it's just
they don't look right on you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Look, daddy, I can stand straight up without beating my knee.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, take them off. I don't like to see little
girls hobbling around at high heels. You children grow up
too fast as it is. Without pushing it. Betty's leaving,
the families breaking.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Up now, don't get upset, Dear. That's what you tell me.
You say, take it easy. Things always work out.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Watch how fast I can work in meat, daddy.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Kathy, I told you to take those off before you
trip and hurt yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I won't trip. I've been practicing.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Look, Danny, do you think betty'll come home for weekends?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Katty? You're not lucky.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Kathy. I told you to get those things off before
you break a leg.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Can't sell, I can't do anything around here, Dear.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I know you're upset over Betty, but I don't think
you ought to take it out on Kathy.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I wasn't. I meant what I said. I don't want
it to trip and hurt herself.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh, I don't think there's much danger of that. Besides,
if she falls down a few times, she'll stop wearing them.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I don't get this sudden change. What happened to you all?
Let things work out naturally theory.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't recall that I ever espouse any such theory.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Jim, Dear. Ever since the children were born you sah.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Can I? Oh hello, Dan? You home?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No, I'm on a live bait boat out in Puget Sound.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I say, Dad, how would you like to have me
bring home a big sack of owls?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
A sack of owls? Now? Just what would we do
with a sack of owls?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Claude Mesna says they're valuable. You can sell the feathers.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You don't say for money, my son? A feather merchant
owl feathers yet?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Joe Phillips and Claude me, you're going out tapping tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh you are well, that is, if it's.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
All right with you.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But I'm wondering if it's a good idea for you
boys to.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Daddy all right, shrimp boat get lost? Me and Dad
are talking business.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh turn blue the road. Squeegee, I don't have to
do it, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Can I ask you question?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Daddy? All right? What is it? Kitten? Calm?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Can I wear just one of these shoes?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Kitten?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Look? I don't want you to think I'm being mean you,
but when I ask you to do something, remember that
it's for your own good, So please do it?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh John?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, anyway, Dad, Me and Joe and Claude.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Do you know where my good hairbrush is?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh gosh, where have you looked for it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It's not there? But which one do you mean?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The black one?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Ask Kathy?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
If she took it, why don't you take the white one?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Never mind, I'll find it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now. There's an intelligent conversation.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Well, anyway, Dad, Claud's dad said he'd drive us out
as far as Red Rock Bridge and then we'll hike
the rest of the way in carry our sleeping bags and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
All that sleeping bags.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Sure, we don't want to sleep on the bare ground.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Is this an overnight trip? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Sure, can I go?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
But in the first place, I don't like the idea
of you boys out there chasing owls getting caught in
those traps.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
We don't use traps. We sneak up on them in
the dark with a net.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, if anybody sees you out there chasing owls, they'll
be after you. Within that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
There's no danger of that, it'll be dark.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And in the second place, isn't it pretty cold to
be camping out in sleeping bags? What if you get
caught in a snowstorm?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Oh heck, dad, it's not gonna snow.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
No, But it could Oh, Dad, you can feel it
in the air.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I'll look up the weather report in the paper.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh you can't go by that.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Look, Daddy, if it says no snow, can I go?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Here's my suit weather? It won't need much pressing, all right?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Did you find the black hairbrush? Betty?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I was hunting for the white one?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh? Well, did you find the white one?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
No? But I found the black one.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
How about it, Dad? Well, but I think I explained
my position quite clearly.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Holy Call, I knew it would turn out like this.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Father.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well wait, Bud, I just a concentration camp. Father, that's
what is it, Princess.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I hate to ask you this, and I'll pay it
back as soon as I get my first paycheck. But
I'll need some money for the bare necessities, random meals.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And movies and phonograph records and.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, Aveti, are you sure you know what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Certainly, Father.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What about this outfit you're going to work for? Does
sound very reliable to me?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now, Dear, we've gone all through that.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, I'm not convinced.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Father. Do you know the company I'm going to work for?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, I don't even know the name of it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Then, how do you know it's unreliable?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, I well from some of the things your mother
was telling me about it fly by night and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Dear you said that, not me. I didn't tell you
anything about it because I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
See there, nobody knows anything about this company.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well I do. I know all about it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's the William t Ripple Company Ripple and they manufacture.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Manufacture what, Well, how should I know.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm only going to work in the office. I'm not
going to be out in the factory punching a conveyor
belt or whatever they do.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Well, that settles it. You're not going to do anything
until I investigate this outfit and find out just what
kind of shenanigin's they're mixed up in.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Jim, if you don't want Betty to leave, just come
right out and say, oh no, it's not that I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Want to stand in their way, but I certainly feel
it's my jury.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Can I go if I wear my red flannels?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Don't bother me about that now, only both father.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I've already said I'd take the job.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
But you don't even know what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And Ralph is.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Going to drive me over to cedar Ball.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well, my wait, let me finish what I was going
to say.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Father, I should think you'd be overjoyed that your daughter
is going to start making ninety five dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Ninety five dollars a week, well, that must be a month.
They wouldn't pay a beginner that much.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's a week. I'm positive, Betty.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Listen. I'm only trying to help you, dead father.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I talked to the man myself.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Dad, all right, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
How about it? If I were two pair of red flannels.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But I told you I didn't want you to go,
and that's that. If you were older, it would be different.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'm older than I was last year.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Betty. Here's your suit. Thanks, looks like I won't need
it now the way father's talking.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, Betty, now please listen. As I said, I don't
want to stand in your way. But on the other hand,
I certainly feel it's my duty to investigate this company
before I let my daughter walk into some shaky enterprise
you'll regret later on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Shaky Dear, quoting your theory of the past, I think
it would be good experience.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
For her, Margaret. I wish you wouldn't keep bringing up
my theories or she leaves this house. I'm going to
make a few phone calls.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Father, there's no one you can call now. It's Saturday afternoon.
Places closed till Monday.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I can't help that. I'm going to find out more
about this. What is it? The Dribble Company?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Ripple william T? Mother? What am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I'll go have a talk with your father, but
I'll be truthful with you. It doesn't look too promising.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Mother. What does he think I am a child?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Bud.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
What have I done now?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Nothing? It's what you're not getting to do that. I
want to talk about what's going on?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Get lost him.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I think it's high time we took drastic measures.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Can I take him too?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
All right, sit down, squeegee, but be quiet. We are
going to have a meeting, a meeting. The way things
have been going around here, the way we're all being
treated like infants, has got to stop.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We've got to assert ourselves.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
We the United Anderson's are going to revolt.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, the Anderson children are going to revolt because they
aren't being treated like grown ups. Well, maybe you have
the same kind of problem at your home. If you have,
here's a suggestion from our childcare expert, Ed Prentice. Well,
I guess just about every youngster likes to act and
feel as grown up as possible. Why. I don't know. Personally,
(12:30):
I'd rather be a kid myself, but anyway, that's how
they want to be. And well, here's one way, a
perfectly safe and easy way to let them. Sure, let
them enjoy. Post them the grown up drink that's completely
safe for the whole family. Let them have their hot
post them right along with you. Even little toddlers. You see.
(12:52):
Instant post them satisfies their yearning for a good, hot,
grown up drink, yet contains absolutely nothing the no caffeine,
no drugs of any kind. And say, you know, that's
something for us grown folks to remember, particularly those of
us who suffer sleepless nights are jangled nerves due to
(13:12):
the caffeine and coffee and tea. Of course, not everybody's
affected that way by caffeine. Many aren't, But if you are,
why not make caffeine free. Post them your steady drink.
Instant post them for you and the kids too. You'll
all enjoy it. Tastes mighty good and heartening. That's instant.
(13:32):
Post them get a jar tomorrow. Okay, Well, a.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Great revolt is on at six oh seven Maple Street
as the amalgamated Anderson kids set themselves and establish right
in such momentous issues as one stumbling around in high
heeled shoes, two taking a job in Cedar Falls, and
three going owl trapping. While this meeting is in progress,
(14:10):
self appointed mediator Margaret is having her little discussion with Jim,
who is acting under what he considers basic parental duty
like this, Honey, I understand all that perfectly, but I
still say that I'd be a poor parent indeed if
I didn't check into this job of Betty's.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
But you can't do anything about it now. You called
over to see the falls and found out the place
is closed on Monday. And why don't you just relax
and let things work themselves.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Uh, I've got Ed Davenport down at the Chamber of
Commerce checking out it for me. He'll find out something.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Oh dear, you know how these things go. If you
don't fight it, something always comes up and it's all forgotten.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Margaret, you can't just sit by and trust to luck.
Betty's too young, too inexperience to take off like this.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Jim Cedar falls is all of thirty five miles away.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Why she doesn't even know what the company manufactures. They're
making a legitimate product. Why are they keeping it so quiet?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
They're not keeping it quiet? Betty just forgot to find
out what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'd better find out exactly who it was who got
this job for Betty.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
She told you it was the college.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Where is she still in the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think so. All the children are in there with
the door closed. I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It was probably Ralph who promoted this whole thing. Sounds
like his work.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah, and then he says snow, says it's gonna snow.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Budge, Wow, what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Hello dad, father, you can't come in here.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
No, we're having a meeting.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh what kind of a meeting?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh, just a meeting. Hi, Daddy. We'll let you know
about it later. Guess what, Daddy, we're revolting?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh? I wouldn't go so far as to say that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We are, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Find out, Kathy, keep quiet, and father, you've got to
leave till.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
The meeting's over.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I see, well, I guess I know when I'm not wanted,
but hurried up because there's some things I want to
ask you, Madam Chairman.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You'll get your chance to talk. Father.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Well, fine, I look forward to it. Goodbye, Daddy, I'm leaving.
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, did you find out anything?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Plenty? There's a big deal going on in the kitchen.
Sounds like mutiny. Mutiny as to having a big meeting,
And from what little I could pick up, I'm the
principal target of their attack.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
What are they saying?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I didn't get very much of it, but I think
if I opened the door just to crack.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh, now, Jim, you're not going to eavesdrop?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, this concerns me. It might be very interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, I'm not going to listen.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
And then on top of that, and I'll get this.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Baddy all right, you registered your complaint. Now you don't
need to go into any.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
More of it.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
The plenty every kilvers. I even offered to wear two
pair of red flannels.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Daddy says, I can't walk in these shoes. Look how
good I can do it? Betty?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Get that, honey, Kathy, you've demonstrated a hundred times.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Now, sit down, not old enough, he says.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The point is that we're all agreed that we've got
to do something about.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Father, right right, I just decided they've got to do
something about me.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't blame them.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Our main complaint is that father has failed to keep
up with us and with the turn.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, his trouble is that he's just too utterly modeled.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Tea, you can say that again.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, he thinks we're still living back in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I thought you were.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, I just happen to catch that. So our next
step is to draw up a resolution and present it
to him, right.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
In New Year's resolution.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, a resolution telling him what changes we want made
and what we intend to do.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And that from now on we want.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
To be treated as adults instead of babies. After all,
we're old enough to know a thing or two.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Your dog gone right, Yeah, I know a heck of
a lot more about dropping owls than he does.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
All Right, you kids, keep quiet now and i'll draw
up the resolution. Okay, Well, I do you want to
see me walking these shoes?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
No, they're drawing up a resolution, now. I bet that's
going to be a world shaking document.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I should be in there helping them write it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, I think they'll do a good job. And outside
of the things they said about me, their other statements
make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
As near as I could tell, all these statements they
made were about you.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, what I mean is, oh, that's probably a Davenport
calling back. I hate to interrupt the meeting, but I
guess I'll have to barge into the kitchen to answer.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
There's an extension, you know in the den.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh yeah, that's right, dead huh.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Oh what are you doing here behind the door?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh nothing, I was just talking to your mother for
a second.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Oh well you're wanted on the phone.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh well, thanks.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Come in, but make it snappy, dead.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yes, sir, yeah, make it snappy daddy, Oh I will.
I won't take a chance with this gang. Hello. Oh, hello, Ed,
what did you find out? You're right, Betty, that's where
he was. Oh I see, uh huh you're sure about that? Uh? Well,
much obliged, dad. Maybe we can have lunch sometime next week. Fine, goodbye?
(19:39):
Is the meeting about over?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
No, we'll tell you when.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, we'll tell you when, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I shall have waited with eager anticipation.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Was it ed?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yes, it was ed?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Well, what do you have to say?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Oh, we had some information on the Ripple Company, the
manufactured leather goods.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh that doesn't sound very shaky.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
As far as he could tell, they're a good, reliable outfit.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, don't get worried, dear. Let's just play along and
see what happens.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Margaret, I can't understand your complete lack of interest, Dear.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm only repeating what you and yourself have said.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Okay, Dad, you can come in now. Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, good?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
May I come in too?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Just a minute, Betty, is it okay if mom comes
to yes, I guess so, okay, Mom, come on in.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Thank you very kindly.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Father.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You sit right there here?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Where do I sit?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Reading?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Where?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
It doesn't matter?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Mommy do o? Kathy? I bet you're glad you're not daddy.
All right, let's have order in here, mister James Anderson.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
We as a committee of three, have drawn a resolution
which we are utterly desirous of reading to you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
And I'm utterly desirous of hearing saying.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right here it is we, Betty Anderson. But Anderson
and Kathy Anderson, do hereby resolve as follows, Hi, Danny,
he quiet jug head. Whereas we have reached varying ages,
as the case may be, we feel that it is
utterly high time that we were treated accordingly.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Know what that means, Daddy, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Whereas we feel quite capable of figuring a few things
out for ourselves and making a few of our own decisions,
we hereby intend to take the following courses of action.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, they have a drink of water.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Number One, I, Kathy Anderson do hereby intend to wear
whatever type foot wear at various times and on various occasions.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Is I so plea? I got them on right now,
see Daddy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Number two, I Bud Anderson, do hereby and ten not
to be prevented or restrained from going owl trapping by
utterly spurious weather reports about snow and et cetera. And furthermore,
I do not intend to wear two suits of red flannels,
either inside the sleeping bag or outside. Number three I,
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Betty Anderson, being of sound mind and practically grown up,
do here.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I know do hereby utterly insists that I'm going to
Cedar Falls for.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
The purpose of making ninety five dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
A weekading the rest of it, Princess, Where are you going? Father,
I'm hauling down my flag and retreating to the den.
Then it's okay to go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh dear, just a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I know when I'm out numbered Margaret, and.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's all right to take the job.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Father. Sure, go to Cedar Falls. Make ninety five dollars
a week. It's your life. I'm not going to interfere.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Can I wear mommy's shites?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I don't care, Kidden wear stilts if you want to.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Hear.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You don't have to give in to everything.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
What are you going to do, honey, I'm just going
to sit here in the den and lick my wounds.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now, don't take that attitude, Jim.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
No, honey, you said that. Just relax and let things
work out. I'm going to follow your theory this time,
my theory. You've been telling me this all afternoon. Now
I'm going to do it, and I'm not going to
be responsible for what happens. Let the family fall apart.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh dear, hadn't you better answer the phone?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Why answer it? I'm going to relax and let things
work out. May you're gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Ringing aren't you gonna answer the phone dead?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
No, it's probably for Betty anyway.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Oh yes, who oh, well just a minute, Betty, it's
for you.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Who is it Ralph?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
No, it's some guy by the name of Masteruson is
something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh, that's the man of the placement bureau. It's about
my job, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
When do things start working out?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah? I didn't say what they were going to? Yes,
this is she what switchboard training? No, I haven't had
any of that. Mine's been mostly shorthand and typing and
all that. Gee, I don't even know what a leather
stamping machine is. Well, mister Masterson, couldn't I just take
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the secretarial part of it and.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe take less pay than the ninety five a week?
What a mom.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
To hear that, Margaret, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Guess you'd better tell her I won't take it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Thank you, mister Masterson.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Goodbye, Princis. I was just thinking, I'll bet Ed Davenport
down at the Chamber of Commerce could use a good
girl in his office this summer after school's out.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Father were right, it was ninety five a month.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, well, I'll talk to Ed next week. As a
matter of fact, I'm going to have lunch with him.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Well, Joe and claud are expecting me off of Joe's
house and I order, Holy Kyle, look out the window.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Father, do you really think mister Davin Crawly jumping Kyle?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
God?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
I never would have believed it.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Believe what?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Look, it's snowing. You called Joe and tell them the
trips off, Tell him to bring his skis and come
on over.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I'll be upstairs unpacking.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well there, what do you say?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Now? Well, honey, it's like I've always said, if you
just relax, give these things time, they always work out.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
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Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well, the short live revolt on Maple Street is now
a little more than a memory, and the activities in
the light frame house have settled back into such earthy
routine tasks as preparing dinner, which Margaret is doing at
this very moment.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Jim is just entering the kitchen to check on its progress,
like this, Mmm, that smells good when we eat.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
No, it won't be long.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Have you checked on Kathy lately?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, she's abandoned your shoes in the front hall at
this moment, she's outdoors playing fox and Geese in the
snow with Bud.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh my, Jim, tell me truthfully, how did you know
it was going to snow?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Oh? Just naturally, brilliant. I guess.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, not tell well.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
After an intensive study of the pressure areas, father, Oh hello,
princess father.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I've just torn up that resid and drawn up a
new one.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
This one says we're sighed for the way we acted.
We all realize that. Well, you know best, Oh Betty.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I wish you were right but you're not. I was
just lucky. Lucky, yes, but I think I've learned a
good lesson today. I've learned I have some pretty self
reliant grown up kids, and from now on maybe your
father will be a little less Shall we say, Model.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
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Speaker 3 (29:42):
This is bill forman speaking Did I play Truth or
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Speaker 4 (00:21):
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Lighthouse families, the Andersons of six oh seven Maple Street
generally stick pretty closely together.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But they have a day every now and then when
the family.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Structure threatens to come on glue. This, I'm afraid is
going to be one of those days. It's Saturday afternoon,
and Jim Anderson is just coming in the back door
like this, Margaret, and.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm home mother, only this skirt crest too? In my
organy dress, Oh yes, in my gray suit. Hell, I'm
working as fast as I can. Don't rush.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
What's going on here?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'll have to take all my blauses too, and my
hello father sweaters and let's see what else?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Take your blauses? Where? What's happening.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Oh, father, I have the most wonderful news.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Really, what is it?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
All my hair curlers are bend, are broken?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Say that is startling news.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
So I'll just buy some new ones when I get there.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
When you get ware? What's all this about? Is it
a big secret?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh? No, father, it's just utterly devastating, that's all only
I see.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Well, it's nice to get the details. What's it's all about, Margaret?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, she's going to take a job, a job?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Really?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yes, father, I'm moving to Cedar Falls. I'm gonna stay
with Jennie leigotsand mother. Do you think I ought to
take my record player? That's up to you? Now?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Wait a minute here, did you say moving? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Father, I don't think i'll take the record player?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Or maybe I should.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You mean you're you're levy.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Of course, yes, but look at me, dear, It isn't
my idea.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I've got to start packing. What happened to my green blouse?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's probably in your.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Closet, Margaret. Did you hear what she said?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes? I heard it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Moving to ced Hearr Falls? Are you going to let her?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I didn't say she couldn't. And you always tell me
I should go along with these things. Let the children
work out their own problem.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yes, but she's not through college yet. She can't just
quit in the middle of the term like this.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well I don't agree with it either, but this opportunity
came up. As a matter of fact, it came through
the placement bureau at the college, so they evidently approve
of it. They said she could continue her studies by extension.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh. What kind of a job is this?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh, some sort of secretarial work. I guess it's with
some company there, and see the falls with some company?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Is that all you know about it?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, I'm sure it's a reputable firm.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Well, how do you know? You don't even know the
name of it. Sounds like some why by night deal
to me, Daddy. I don't think we ought to rush
into this thing, Daddy, I'm working.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
In high heels.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Look day, Oh, Kathy, take those ugly shoes off. What
did you get those?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
There's some money?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh? Well, the shoes are all right, but it's just
they don't look right on you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Look, daddy, I can stand straight up without beating my knee.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, take them off. I don't like to see little
girls hobbling around at high heels. You children grow up
too fast as it is. Without pushing it. Betty's leaving,
the families breaking.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Up now, don't get upset, Dear. That's what you tell me.
You say, take it easy. Things always work out.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Watch how fast I can work in meat, daddy.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Kathy, I told you to take those off before you
trip and hurt yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I won't trip. I've been practicing.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Look, Danny, do you think betty'll come home for weekends?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Katty? You're not lucky.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Kathy. I told you to get those things off before
you break a leg.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Can't sell, I can't do anything around here, Dear.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I know you're upset over Betty, but I don't think
you ought to take it out on Kathy.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I wasn't. I meant what I said. I don't want
it to trip and hurt herself.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh, I don't think there's much danger of that. Besides,
if she falls down a few times, she'll stop wearing them.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I don't get this sudden change. What happened to you all?
Let things work out naturally theory.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I don't recall that I ever espouse any such theory.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Jim, Dear. Ever since the children were born you sah.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Can I? Oh hello, Dan? You home?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
No, I'm on a live bait boat out in Puget Sound.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I say, Dad, how would you like to have me
bring home a big sack of owls?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
A sack of owls? Now? Just what would we do
with a sack of owls?
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Claude Mesna says they're valuable. You can sell the feathers.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You don't say for money, my son? A feather merchant
owl feathers yet?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Joe Phillips and Claude me, you're going out tapping tonight.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Oh you are well, that is, if it's.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
All right with you.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But I'm wondering if it's a good idea for you
boys to.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Daddy all right, shrimp boat get lost? Me and Dad
are talking business.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Oh turn blue the road. Squeegee, I don't have to
do it, Daddy?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Can I ask you question?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Daddy? All right? What is it? Kitten? Calm?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Can I wear just one of these shoes?
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Kitten?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Look? I don't want you to think I'm being mean you,
but when I ask you to do something, remember that
it's for your own good, So please do it?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh John?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Well, anyway, Dad, Me and Joe and Claude.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Do you know where my good hairbrush is?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Oh gosh, where have you looked for it?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It's not there? But which one do you mean?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The black one?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Ask Kathy?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
If she took it, why don't you take the white one?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Never mind, I'll find it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now. There's an intelligent conversation.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Well, anyway, Dad, Claud's dad said he'd drive us out
as far as Red Rock Bridge and then we'll hike
the rest of the way in carry our sleeping bags and.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
All that sleeping bags.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Sure, we don't want to sleep on the bare ground.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Is this an overnight trip? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Sure, can I go?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
But in the first place, I don't like the idea
of you boys out there chasing owls getting caught in
those traps.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
We don't use traps. We sneak up on them in
the dark with a net.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, if anybody sees you out there chasing owls, they'll
be after you. Within that.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
There's no danger of that, it'll be dark.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And in the second place, isn't it pretty cold to
be camping out in sleeping bags? What if you get
caught in a snowstorm?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Oh heck, dad, it's not gonna snow.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
No, But it could Oh, Dad, you can feel it
in the air.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I'll look up the weather report in the paper.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh you can't go by that.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Look, Daddy, if it says no snow, can I go?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Here's my suit weather? It won't need much pressing, all right?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Did you find the black hairbrush? Betty?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I was hunting for the white one?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh? Well, did you find the white one?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
No? But I found the black one.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
How about it, Dad? Well, but I think I explained
my position quite clearly.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Holy Call, I knew it would turn out like this.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Father.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Well wait, Bud, I just a concentration camp. Father, that's
what is it, Princess.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I hate to ask you this, and I'll pay it
back as soon as I get my first paycheck. But
I'll need some money for the bare necessities, random meals.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And movies and phonograph records and.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, Aveti, are you sure you know what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Certainly, Father.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
What about this outfit you're going to work for? Does
sound very reliable to me?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now, Dear, we've gone all through that.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well, I'm not convinced.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Father. Do you know the company I'm going to work for?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
No, I don't even know the name of it.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Then, how do you know it's unreliable?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Well, I well from some of the things your mother
was telling me about it fly by night and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Dear you said that, not me. I didn't tell you
anything about it because I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
See there, nobody knows anything about this company.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well I do. I know all about it.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It's the William t Ripple Company Ripple and they manufacture.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Manufacture what, Well, how should I know.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'm only going to work in the office. I'm not
going to be out in the factory punching a conveyor
belt or whatever they do.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Well, that settles it. You're not going to do anything
until I investigate this outfit and find out just what
kind of shenanigin's they're mixed up in.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Jim, if you don't want Betty to leave, just come
right out and say, oh no, it's not that I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Want to stand in their way, but I certainly feel
it's my jury.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Can I go if I wear my red flannels?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Don't bother me about that now, only both father.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I've already said I'd take the job.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
But you don't even know what it is.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And Ralph is.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Going to drive me over to cedar Ball.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Well, my wait, let me finish what I was going
to say.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Father, I should think you'd be overjoyed that your daughter
is going to start making ninety five dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Ninety five dollars a week, well, that must be a month.
They wouldn't pay a beginner that much.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's a week. I'm positive, Betty.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Listen. I'm only trying to help you, dead father.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I talked to the man myself.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Dad, all right, what is it, Bud?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
How about it? If I were two pair of red flannels.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
But I told you I didn't want you to go,
and that's that. If you were older, it would be different.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'm older than I was last year.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Betty. Here's your suit. Thanks, looks like I won't need
it now the way father's talking.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, Betty, now please listen. As I said, I don't
want to stand in your way. But on the other hand,
I certainly feel it's my duty to investigate this company
before I let my daughter walk into some shaky enterprise
you'll regret later on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Shaky Dear, quoting your theory of the past, I think
it would be good experience.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
For her, Margaret. I wish you wouldn't keep bringing up
my theories or she leaves this house. I'm going to
make a few phone calls.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Father, there's no one you can call now. It's Saturday afternoon.
Places closed till Monday.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I can't help that. I'm going to find out more
about this. What is it? The Dribble Company?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Ripple william T? Mother? What am I going to do?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I'll go have a talk with your father, but
I'll be truthful with you. It doesn't look too promising.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Mother. What does he think I am a child?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Well, I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Bud.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
What have I done now?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Nothing? It's what you're not getting to do that. I
want to talk about what's going on?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Get lost him.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I think it's high time we took drastic measures.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Can I take him too?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
All right, sit down, squeegee, but be quiet. We are
going to have a meeting, a meeting. The way things
have been going around here, the way we're all being
treated like infants, has got to stop.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We've got to assert ourselves.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
We the United Anderson's are going to revolt.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, the Anderson children are going to revolt because they
aren't being treated like grown ups. Well, maybe you have
the same kind of problem at your home. If you have,
here's a suggestion from our childcare expert, Ed Prentice. Well,
I guess just about every youngster likes to act and
feel as grown up as possible. Why. I don't know. Personally,
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I'd rather be a kid myself, but anyway, that's how
they want to be. And well, here's one way, a
perfectly safe and easy way to let them. Sure, let
them enjoy. Post them the grown up drink that's completely
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something for us grown folks to remember, particularly those of
us who suffer sleepless nights are jangled nerves due to
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(13:32):
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Speaker 4 (13:49):
Great revolt is on at six oh seven Maple Street
as the amalgamated Anderson kids set themselves and establish right
in such momentous issues as one stumbling around in high
heeled shoes, two taking a job in Cedar Falls, and
three going owl trapping. While this meeting is in progress,
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self appointed mediator Margaret is having her little discussion with Jim,
who is acting under what he considers basic parental duty
like this, Honey, I understand all that perfectly, but I
still say that I'd be a poor parent indeed if
I didn't check into this job of Betty's.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
But you can't do anything about it now. You called
over to see the falls and found out the place
is closed on Monday. And why don't you just relax
and let things work themselves.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Uh, I've got Ed Davenport down at the Chamber of
Commerce checking out it for me. He'll find out something.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Oh dear, you know how these things go. If you
don't fight it, something always comes up and it's all forgotten.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Margaret, you can't just sit by and trust to luck.
Betty's too young, too inexperience to take off like this.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Jim Cedar falls is all of thirty five miles away.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Why she doesn't even know what the company manufactures. They're
making a legitimate product. Why are they keeping it so quiet?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
They're not keeping it quiet? Betty just forgot to find
out what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'd better find out exactly who it was who got
this job for Betty.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
She told you it was the college.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Where is she still in the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I think so. All the children are in there with
the door closed. I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It was probably Ralph who promoted this whole thing. Sounds
like his work.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah, and then he says snow, says it's gonna snow.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Budge, Wow, what's going on here?
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Hello dad, father, you can't come in here.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
No, we're having a meeting.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Oh what kind of a meeting?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh, just a meeting. Hi, Daddy. We'll let you know
about it later. Guess what, Daddy, we're revolting?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Oh? I wouldn't go so far as to say that, Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
We are, Daddy.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Find out, Kathy, keep quiet, and father, you've got to
leave till.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
The meeting's over.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I see, well, I guess I know when I'm not wanted,
but hurried up because there's some things I want to
ask you, Madam Chairman.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
You'll get your chance to talk. Father.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Well, fine, I look forward to it. Goodbye, Daddy, I'm leaving.
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, did you find out anything?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Plenty? There's a big deal going on in the kitchen.
Sounds like mutiny. Mutiny as to having a big meeting,
And from what little I could pick up, I'm the
principal target of their attack.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
What are they saying?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I didn't get very much of it, but I think
if I opened the door just to crack.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Oh, now, Jim, you're not going to eavesdrop?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, this concerns me. It might be very interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, I'm not going to listen.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
And then on top of that, and I'll get this.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Baddy all right, you registered your complaint. Now you don't
need to go into any.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
More of it.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
The plenty every kilvers. I even offered to wear two
pair of red flannels.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Daddy says, I can't walk in these shoes. Look how
good I can do it? Betty?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Get that, honey, Kathy, you've demonstrated a hundred times.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Now, sit down, not old enough, he says.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The point is that we're all agreed that we've got
to do something about.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Father, right right, I just decided they've got to do
something about me.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't blame them.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Our main complaint is that father has failed to keep
up with us and with the turn.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, his trouble is that he's just too utterly modeled.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Tea, you can say that again.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, he thinks we're still living back in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I thought you were.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, I just happen to catch that. So our next
step is to draw up a resolution and present it
to him, right.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
In New Year's resolution.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
No, a resolution telling him what changes we want made
and what we intend to do.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And that from now on we want.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
To be treated as adults instead of babies. After all,
we're old enough to know a thing or two.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Your dog gone right, Yeah, I know a heck of
a lot more about dropping owls than he does.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
All Right, you kids, keep quiet now and i'll draw
up the resolution. Okay, Well, I do you want to
see me walking these shoes?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
No, they're drawing up a resolution, now. I bet that's
going to be a world shaking document.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I should be in there helping them write it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, I think they'll do a good job. And outside
of the things they said about me, their other statements
make a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
As near as I could tell, all these statements they
made were about you.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, what I mean is, oh, that's probably a Davenport
calling back. I hate to interrupt the meeting, but I
guess I'll have to barge into the kitchen to answer.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
There's an extension, you know in the den.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh yeah, that's right, dead huh.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Oh what are you doing here behind the door?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Oh nothing, I was just talking to your mother for
a second.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Oh well you're wanted on the phone.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh well, thanks.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Come in, but make it snappy, dead.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yes, sir, yeah, make it snappy daddy, Oh I will.
I won't take a chance with this gang. Hello. Oh, hello, Ed,
what did you find out? You're right, Betty, that's where
he was. Oh I see, uh huh you're sure about that? Uh? Well,
much obliged, dad. Maybe we can have lunch sometime next week. Fine, goodbye?
(19:39):
Is the meeting about over?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
No, we'll tell you when.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, we'll tell you when, Daddy.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
I shall have waited with eager anticipation.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Was it ed?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yes, it was ed?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Well, what do you have to say?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Oh, we had some information on the Ripple Company, the
manufactured leather goods.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh that doesn't sound very shaky.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
As far as he could tell, they're a good, reliable outfit.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, don't get worried, dear. Let's just play along and
see what happens.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Margaret, I can't understand your complete lack of interest, Dear.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I'm only repeating what you and yourself have said.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Okay, Dad, you can come in now. Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Well, good?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
May I come in too?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Just a minute, Betty, is it okay if mom comes
to yes, I guess so, okay, Mom, come on in.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Thank you very kindly.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Father.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You sit right there here?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Where do I sit?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Reading?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Where?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
It doesn't matter?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Mommy do o? Kathy? I bet you're glad you're not daddy.
All right, let's have order in here, mister James Anderson.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
That's me.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
We as a committee of three, have drawn a resolution
which we are utterly desirous of reading to you.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
And I'm utterly desirous of hearing saying.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right here it is we, Betty Anderson. But Anderson
and Kathy Anderson, do hereby resolve as follows, Hi, Danny,
he quiet jug head. Whereas we have reached varying ages,
as the case may be, we feel that it is
utterly high time that we were treated accordingly.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Know what that means, Daddy, I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Whereas we feel quite capable of figuring a few things
out for ourselves and making a few of our own decisions,
we hereby intend to take the following courses of action.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Yeah, they have a drink of water.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Number One, I, Kathy Anderson do hereby intend to wear
whatever type foot wear at various times and on various occasions.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Is I so plea? I got them on right now,
see Daddy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Number two, I Bud Anderson, do hereby and ten not
to be prevented or restrained from going owl trapping by
utterly spurious weather reports about snow and et cetera. And furthermore,
I do not intend to wear two suits of red flannels,
either inside the sleeping bag or outside. Number three I,
(22:25):
Betty Anderson, being of sound mind and practically grown up,
do here.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I know do hereby utterly insists that I'm going to
Cedar Falls for.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
The purpose of making ninety five dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
A weekading the rest of it, Princess, Where are you going? Father,
I'm hauling down my flag and retreating to the den.
Then it's okay to go ahead.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh dear, just a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I know when I'm out numbered Margaret, and.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It's all right to take the job.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Father. Sure, go to Cedar Falls. Make ninety five dollars
a week. It's your life. I'm not going to interfere.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Can I wear mommy's shites?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I don't care, Kidden wear stilts if you want to.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Hear.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
You don't have to give in to everything.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
What are you going to do, honey, I'm just going
to sit here in the den and lick my wounds.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Now, don't take that attitude, Jim.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
No, honey, you said that. Just relax and let things
work out. I'm going to follow your theory this time,
my theory. You've been telling me this all afternoon. Now
I'm going to do it, and I'm not going to
be responsible for what happens. Let the family fall apart.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Oh dear, hadn't you better answer the phone?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Why answer it? I'm going to relax and let things
work out. May you're gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Ringing aren't you gonna answer the phone dead?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
No, it's probably for Betty anyway.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Oh yes, who oh, well just a minute, Betty, it's
for you.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Who is it Ralph?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
No, it's some guy by the name of Masteruson is
something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh, that's the man of the placement bureau. It's about
my job, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
When do things start working out?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah? I didn't say what they were going to? Yes,
this is she what switchboard training? No, I haven't had
any of that. Mine's been mostly shorthand and typing and
all that. Gee, I don't even know what a leather
stamping machine is. Well, mister Masterson, couldn't I just take
(24:28):
the secretarial part of it and.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe take less pay than the ninety five a week?
What a mom.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
To hear that, Margaret, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Guess you'd better tell her I won't take it.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Thank you, mister Masterson.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Goodbye, Princis. I was just thinking, I'll bet Ed Davenport
down at the Chamber of Commerce could use a good
girl in his office this summer after school's out.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Father were right, it was ninety five a month.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, well, I'll talk to Ed next week. As a
matter of fact, I'm going to have lunch with him.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Well, Joe and claud are expecting me off of Joe's
house and I order, Holy Kyle, look out the window.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Father, do you really think mister Davin Crawly jumping Kyle?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
God?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
I never would have believed it.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Believe what?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Look, it's snowing. You called Joe and tell them the
trips off, Tell him to bring his skis and come
on over.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I'll be upstairs unpacking.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Mother.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well there, what do you say?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Now? Well, honey, it's like I've always said, if you
just relax, give these things time, they always work out.
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Speaker 4 (27:10):
Well, the short live revolt on Maple Street is now
a little more than a memory, and the activities in
the light frame house have settled back into such earthy
routine tasks as preparing dinner, which Margaret is doing at
this very moment.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Jim is just entering the kitchen to check on its progress,
like this, Mmm, that smells good when we eat.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
No, it won't be long.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Have you checked on Kathy lately?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, she's abandoned your shoes in the front hall at
this moment, she's outdoors playing fox and Geese in the
snow with Bud.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Oh my, Jim, tell me truthfully, how did you know
it was going to snow?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Oh? Just naturally, brilliant. I guess.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, not tell well.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
After an intensive study of the pressure areas, father, Oh hello,
princess father.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I've just torn up that resid and drawn up a
new one.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
This one says we're sighed for the way we acted.
We all realize that. Well, you know best, Oh Betty.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
I wish you were right but you're not. I was
just lucky. Lucky, yes, but I think I've learned a
good lesson today. I've learned I have some pretty self
reliant grown up kids, and from now on maybe your
father will be a little less Shall we say, Model.
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