 The craft foods company presents Harold Perry as the great gilder sleeve right The great gilder sleeve is brought to you by the craft foods company makers of parquet margarine Every day millions of women all over America serve parquet margarine because it tastes so good To say they're favorite margarine Parquet margarine P.A.R.K.A.Y. It's wonderful Now let's see what's going on in summer field gilder sleeves niece and nephew are in the parlor getting down to work I need your books Lee Roy Well kindly get them off the sofa. You're not supposed to dump them in the parlor anyway We want to move them around We were not so started you can study some place else Nice work we were not he'll be in here. Well, again throw my stuff all over the place Roy you sound like a pair of hyenas Study me Roy I've told you a thousand times you can't concentrate on arithmetic in that zippity doodle at the same time I'll turn that never mind. I'll do it It bothers me That will do me Roy your sister's marks demonstrate clearly that she has a sounder method of study than yours You keep your nose in your book young man. If you need something to keep your wake, I will supply it All right now study We'll get at it Why is it you keep postponing it? We all have to do things we dislike you know I don't mind it. I kind of enjoy it. Well, yeah, something's okay. This looks okay. I kind of like it Well, now we're beginning to get at the root of this whole thing Studying is not something to be enjoyed Leroy. It's hard grinding work reading a book It's nothing of the kind. No wonder you're not learning anything. You'd concentrate you wouldn't enjoy it so much Let me see you concentrate What do you mean concentrate? Do you mean to tell me your teacher hasn't taught you how to concentrate? What goes on at that school anyway? She just tells us to read the stuff reading it is worthless You've got to chew it over in your mind my boy Concentrate on it get the meat out of it think about every word start doing it right and you learn something now I'm gonna help you Leroy. How I'm gonna sit right here and see that you concentrate Exactly I'll get going I'll examine you when you're through so don't think you can fool me Hmm Someday you'll thank me for this Leroy Yeah, the birdie will answer it Leroy you just keep working Sit down Leroy you knew how to concentrate you wouldn't even hear that doorbell By all means ready come on in Lila Huh? Oh Hello, my address Leroy. Hi. Hi, Mr. Rancel Leroy is learning how to study Lila. Oh, that's just fine. I certainly won't disturb him That's rock Martin. You've got to go to the majestic with me and see a picture. I've been saving it for you Saving a picture. Oh, you know what I mean There are some pictures that just don't mean a thing unless you go with somebody You have to see them with exactly the right person or you don't enjoy them This picture needs your sense of humor Well, I'd like to go Lila, but I promise Leroy I'd show him how to study The boy doesn't seem to know how to drive himself at his books. He's just been waltzing through history instead of digging at it Oh poor Leroy. I know how that is. Well, anyway, I've got to stick right here Lila. Sorry Gracious Leroy isn't gonna study all night is he? The next show doesn't start till 8 20. You think possibly? Leroy I don't want you to skimp my boy. I want you to keep digging keep chewing every word. Okay Lila why don't we just sit here on the sofa? Yeah, would you mind Marjorie? Oh, don't mind me. I'm just waltzing through geometry Yeah, Lila, you and I can sit here and look at the magazine or something so we won't bother Leroy All right, and we'll be just as quiet as two little church mice He won't even know we're here. That's right You don't have the ladies home general, do you? No Colliers they have funny cartoon Look at this little Lulu. What? Oh, I'm sorry Leroy. That's okay. Maybe I can study upstairs better Oh, no, you don't you stay right here where I can help you Look a dog and a policeman sit I like to keep mentioning this drug my art and but what time is it? Let's see Five after eight. Thank you my dear Don't you think yes Leroy aren't you pretty near finished pretty near doesn't go as fast with your system That's why my system is better Mrs. Ransom and I have to go now. Are you prepared? I guess so I've only got about another half a page the important question is have you learned anything you see how concentration helps. Oh, you bet What have you been studying history is it let me see that book we ought to go Just want to check up a little early left. We can drive down Now which was the lesson you were supposed to learn here chapter 22 Customs of the pilgrims. Oh American history. Well, I don't need the book. Let's see When did we fight the Revolutionary War? What I don't think we're up to it yet up to it The gods Leroy that's where American history starts We Roy's only on the pilgrim they were 150 years before the revolution. I'll handle this my dear Guess they were at that Can we go now? In just a second Lila gotta find out if this boy has learned his lesson Pilgrims a well who was captain miles standish. I think we had him last week never mind when you had him Who was he? He was not he married John Alden. I mean Priscilla Confounder, don't you know anything? You don't know any history. What do you learn at that school? Can you spell? I can spell some Let's hear you spell separate. I don't think we've had it spell it wrong never mind How much is nine times nine quick that settles it? I'll have a talk with your teacher tomorrow morning Get your things on Lila. Yeah, I've been all ready for ten minutes. Where's my hat? It's clearly Roy that you've never learned anything and I'm gonna find out why I'll go to school with you tomorrow Please don't take me to school That will do Leroy. What are you going to see? It's the yeah, what is it Lila? Oh, I know you love it Rock my heart and it's the egg and I More about the great gilded sleeve and just a method Right now a word from the craft foods company makers of parquet margarine Delicious flavor fresh parquet margarine is the craft quality margarine. 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Find a way to run a school Class Donald Castro and George McPherson have to sit on the windowsill Leroy, what are you going around there for? Let's go in this door What for this way is shorter more direct Nonsense come on Miss good friend of mine. I'll take that chance. Come on inside Your uncle's a member of the school board remember Don't worry you're with me Water lagers Which way here Lee Roy up the stairs If you have to talk to somebody why don't you talk to miss goodman? She's the principal and you wouldn't have to interrupt because I want to talk to your teacher She's the one who's responsible for what you learn or what you don't learn We won't argue anymore about it Lee Roy Which way down here just your room I What's her name again Yes, mr. Gillis leave I wonder if I could have a word with you Just minute class suppose you just review for a few minutes what we did yesterday and arithmetic Get your books out and just review quietly to yourself. I'll be right back You wanted to see mr. Gillis leave oh, yes, Lee Roy's father his uncle. Oh Yes, his uncle. I'm sorry. I have so many I'm sorry. I'm late miss Wally. I didn't bring an excuse All right Lee Roy just take your seat miss Wally. I'll be brief I came down here to find out why Lee Roy isn't learning anything I don't think he's doing any worse than the average in the class as a matter of fact, then all I can say it doesn't speak very well for the class Go take your seat Lee Roy. I'll handle children children just hand your books, please. Well Well, mr. Gillis leave, mr. Gillis leave. I don't know what to say. We do the best we can the children try I know they do Robert no But it's hard for them and it's hard for all of us You see I'm not blaming the children Lee Roy is as smart as anybody after all. He's my nephew But he doesn't learn anything He doesn't know anything he comes home. I asked him a simple question about well anything. I'm afraid you don't understand our problem Mr. Gillers leave I Understand the problem and it's as simple as ABC the problem is to pound some learning into them Now they got the proper discipline here in the proper instruction Mr. Gillis the kind I got when I was a boy I don't know who you are to come down here in the middle of class and complain. I'm a taxpayer. That's who I am In case you didn't know miss I happen to be a member of the school board It might pay you to remember that then I should think you've realized I have 48 children in this class We have two sessions. It's all day every day and evenings and weekends too. It's more than I can handle Just what's going on here. I'm sorry Things got a little out of hand here. Why don't you just go down to the teacher's room for a little while? I'll take over things. It's got too much for me. I'm sorry. I understand. Don't worry. Go have a cigarette Oh You let the teachers smoke here just in their restroom, of course why what kind of an example is that for the children You smoke at home, don't you? That's different I don't see how teachers are people, you know, they have to have some rights Excuse me, Robert Rosenblum. You're in charge of the class until miss Wiley returns. I expect you to maintain order Come along Throckmorton. I'd like you to come down to my office with me. Okay, you kids Let's have a quiet now first one to start anything. I'm gonna Sit down Throckmorton here anywhere Well nice to see you Eve. I just what was your purpose in coming down here this morning Well, I just dropped in for a little chat with Leroy's teacher. I thought I know I heard you Heaven protect me from hysterical women. I'm glad you're not that kind to you miss Wiley is one of our most competent and most Value teachers the children adore her and rightly she happens. Oh, let's face it She may be a lovely person and all that but the woman is obviously a hysterical type And that's not the kind to be handling children such caring on I never Yes Have you the slightest idea what it is to be a teacher these days? Well, I ensure I don't think you have I'm on the school board. I ought to know something. I didn't see you at the last meeting No, I was busy or the one before that. Oh that one. I've forgotten why I couldn't make that Anyway, well, we don't get paid hardly anything, you know Eve. It's mostly honorary The teachers are paid hardly anything to but they're down here every day all day long and nobody honors them for it Instead people like you come down here and find false with them and order them about like servants Oh, you've got me wrong. I just wanted to know why why why isn't my little boy learning anything? I'll tell you why Because we've got just about twice as many children here as we can handle there aren't enough seats There isn't enough equipment. It's old the textbooks are out of date We can't hope to teachers. We'd like to talk more than all we can do is try to keep order and hope just hope that Somehow they'll learn something. Well, the things are so bad. They are believe me. Why haven't you taken it up with the school board? I've taken it up with the school board over and over again Perhaps you've missed those meetings all they do is give me long explanations about why nothing whatever can be done Materials are hard to find we mustn't raise the tax rate. We mustn't overexpand Maybe some people will move away and there won't be so many children Well, that's true about building materials Hogan brothers were able to build an annex on their store. Where did they get the materials? Well, that's a point Meanwhile, three of our teachers have resigned for next year and I don't blame them Why would anybody want to be a teacher? Why? Well, they're overworked. They're underpaid They have to try to dress respectively on nothing a week because oh dear. We must be respectable at all times Why Mrs. Vernon has to work in the five and ten on Saturdays and all through vacation just to support her one child and Miss Dorcas has to work at the library evenings after teaching all day We get no help no encouragement no gratitude. Nope. No respect even Sometimes it gets why just I just leave you aren't gonna blow up now Oh, it seems hopeless the whole thing seems hopeless. I don't see how we can go on with it if you aren't thinking of quitting There isn't a teacher in the whole country who hasn't thought of quitting or you can't quit Eve That would be terrible. The whole school would fall apart if you quit No one cares what happens to the school or the children either. No one cares, but the teachers now That's not true people don't realize that's all why if I know you stay right here you stay right here Don't you go resigning or anything? I'll show you whether people care or not I Mutually covenanted and agreed judge You'll be with me right now judge. This is important. Very well We'll continue with this later Judge I want you to call a meeting of the school board tonight. We're not due for another meeting gilded chill them That's a June 4th and call a special meeting. You're the president of the board, aren't you? I have that honor if you want to hold on to it get on your horse call a meeting by June 4th We may have no school now. Yeah, I don't know what this is all about It's just another of your false alarms why I passed the school only this morning. Well, there's a devil to pay down there judge I'll tell you that the teachers are up in arms. I have not been so a guy. I'm advising you Well, I passed there only this morning. You mean they're contemplating anything like a strike. I'm sure they don't have to strike You know judge they can just quit just quietly quit and that's what they're doing three of them have quit already for next year Well, there's always a certain amount of turnover among the teachers. I'm sure it's nothing to be alarmed about Why I passed the school only this morning You told me that you take the trouble to find out what's going on there instead of just passing it by By the teachers haven't had a raise the teachers have my complete sympathy and understanding I think they know that why I passed the school only this morning But there are other things we have to think we're trying to hold taxes down We have to think of that. She said you'd say that would it miss Goodwin? I don't mind telling you she's about ready to quit herself. Well, it's the end of the term. She's tired She needs a vacation. I'd like a vacation myself. Listen, you old goat. I don't want to waste my time arguing with you I want you to put this up to the board. Will you call a meeting? These are no new problems guilty We've had them brought to our attention No, I see no reason to call a meeting before our regular Fortnight either you call a meeting of our resign from the board here or now. How do you like that? I Think that might be a very good idea. Then I won't do it No by George. I'll stick around how guilty you aren't going to be a troublemaker You bet your sweet life. I am I can't get you up off your hindquarters. You old goat I'll go to some people who can I'll go to the parents. We'll see what they have to say Now guilty we have our eye on these things why I passed the school only this morning I The gilded leave it's such a pleasure to have you with us. That's a pleasure to be here. Mrs. Pettibone. Yes, indeed. I want you. I'm planning to monopolize you completely. I Do hope you're going to sing to the lady. Well, that was not my purpose in asking to come here I was hoping to be allowed to address your organization. Oh Briefly that is after all these charming ladies are most of them parents and mothers if the married ones What was to be the topic of your address may I ask I want to tell them some things They ought to know about what's happening to our schools. It's really very serious. We got to get people around There's a lot of political no, I'm afraid that might be rather controversial Controversial course. It's controversial one of the most controversial problems in this town if people only knew it Why only I'm sorry, but you see we have a policy We never allow anything Controversial to be brought up at our meeting nothing nothing controversial. No, it keeps things so much pleasant Oh, we find but I thought the women's club that was interested in education. Oh, it is yes once a month We need and serve tea like this and talk about things but nothing controversial. I know you'll understand We have a policy perhaps you'll sing for us later. Won't you have some cake? Oh, Mrs. I give Ladies and gentlemen Let's stop pretending. This isn't just a story We made up about what might be going on in a mythical town named Summerfield It's what's going on right now in almost every city in town in this country Our schools are overcrowded our teachers are underpaid our children are being robbed Robbed of an education at the only time in their lives. They can get it Very little is being done about it because of poor pay overwork and shabby treatment Teachers are leaving the teaching profession in droves. No new teachers are coming along to take their places There's no inducement to anyone to become a teacher with things as they are We have been proud of our public school system Have we reason to be in this country only one and five tenths percent of our national income is spent for education in Great Britain where they're having a tough go of it these days. They spend twice that and Who are we short changing our own children? The future of the world is in their hands on every side of us We see the ignorance and stupidity that can rush us into another war the only cure for stupidity is education For the sake of our national security as well as for the sake of our children themselves We must do all that we can to raise the level of education You may not realize how bad the situation is we urge you to go to your own child's school and find out for yourself Find out how many children there are in his class find out whether he's getting what's coming to him Find out whether your local school board is cutting corners at his expense if they are do something about it You're the only one who can Join the parent teachers association or any other group interested in the welfare of your school Don't just pay your dues take an active part insist that your child's teacher be paid a living wage Insist that she be given the position of respect in the community that she deserves so that others will be attracted to the profession Insist that your school board reduce the size of classes provide enough teachers in enough school rooms that your child will get the attention He needs if it means raising the tax rate a little remember We're doing it for our children. 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