 Your Coca-Cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia David you mind terribly if I turned on the radio. Yes, I'd mind terribly if you turn on the radio We want to turn on the radio for hear a program. What do you think your program? What program? Well, just about this time a woman comes on to talk about food. Oh, I'd rather eat it That's just the point darling this afternoon. I listen tonight. You eat mm-hmm. What do I eat today? Lemon rang pie What about the radio in the bedroom? Well birth is vacuuming. It always sounds if it's coming out of the loudspeaker So I'm in a pie or not. I would like to finish figuring this elevation before dinner I came home early, especially to do it hours till dinner David hours to figure in elevation All right, do your work. I will miss my program today. You don't have to sound so martyred about it I am martyred radio in the car. Oh, that's all right, David. Don't think about it another minute I'll get along not listening to the radio Really, I will oh So nice having you home. I guess there's a price for everything Getting off pretty cheap in the long run one four seven feet eleven inches by 78 3 10 Hey, David, you have to have mathematics to be an architect. Don't you you have to have peace and quiet, too Why do people always put those two words together peace and quiet? I wonder I'm sure I wouldn't know The doorbell David that's the doorbell mm-hmm. I heard it I wonder why don't you answer the door and see well if it is the doorbell. It's an interruption I wouldn't have you interrupt it for the world darling. What you wouldn't Talker here. How do you folks? Oh, howdy come on in. Mr. Tucker I just remember David when he interrupts. He really interrupts. We can't just send him away without a word I'll make it quick this time. I use it to me You won't talk to anybody else who happens around the doorbell just like a stranger and open the door like a neighbor Playing safe as a fox Greetings, Mrs. Norton. Greetings to you, Mr. Tucker. Are you working son? Well, I guess even an architect has to work sooner or later. Nothing to be ashamed of Sit down, Mr. Tucker. Hey Mr. Norton one faces it has to work on an elevation the other says it can make small talk I'll remember this never fear my husband. What's he talking about son? Nothing you know women, Mr. Tucker Yes, I surely do always talking women is wind their selves up in the morning and keep going till night and they're all unwound That's women all right. That is loyalty. All right, my husband and my neighbor Now what is it I can do for you, Mr. Tucker? Well, I I come over to make some plans with your son about spring plowing Bring plowing. Spring plowing. Yes, you plan on cultivating the meadowland Well, all but what I need for pasturing the cow. Right. That's just so I figured well This here's a ski my cooking up. I'll make it short. You got the labor and I got the machinery I figure you can use my farm equipment my plow my harrows and my team such your man Fritz We'll work our fields as if the whole we're one all kitten Kabuto together and save ourselves a heap of pennies Tucker isn't a little early in the winter to be talking about spring plowing them. What says there's plenty of timing got no knowledge of life I ball It is perfectly all right with me. I don't mind. I was just thinking that if you two are going to talk about spring I could turn on my radio program David you wouldn't mind too much. Would you radio hall women got deletion to the radio? Thank you for consenting, David Go ahead with your plans. Don't mind me. I'll turn it on soft Let's of course. I disturb not all ma'am free country comparative. Oh, well, mr. Tucker I I certainly do appreciate your proposition and now instead of the program regularly scheduled to be broadcast at this time My poor little program is not even on commemorating Pearl Harbor Day Today is Pearl Harbor exactly seven years ago at this very moment. The Japanese dropped their bombs on Pearl Harbor Their treacherous attack occurring in the middle of negotiations for a peaceful settlement of our differences Forced the United States entry into the Second World War seven years ago And so in memory of that moment which commenced one of the pitterest and one of the proudest chapters in American history We switch you now to Pearl Harbor for a speech And I don't need no remind me of the things I should not be taken away Pearl. I don't need no reminders about America's glorious chapter Come in Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor So familiar to everyone now. I remember it sounded so romantic so peaceful Pearl Harbor The pretty name for a place isn't it? It was Before those Japanese planes dropped their bombs and everything happened so fast after that one day You'd see a soldier on the street, and you'd turn around to stare the next day every other man was in uniform Everything changed didn't it? America woke up a War makes a fine alarm clock David. What were you doing Pearl Harbor Day? Seems like it's kind of day you're comparing notes on ain't it? Doing a lot of things. I'll bet you my store-bought teeth can tell you where they was I hope you win Mr. Tucker. You need those teeth worse than I did. Stop bragging son When I was your age, I didn't even know what an inlay was. Nope. No, uh, what was I about to say? How I spent Pearl Harbor Day. Oh, how'd you know that was on the tip of my tongue? Intuition maybe. Yep. Well, let me see you You have job then didn't you at the bottom of the ladder of a large architectural engineering firm and mighty glad you had it Hey, you bet I was still you had some conscience about the draft and signed up or you ain't the man I think you are so when them Japs dropped the pineapples That's GI lingo for explosive son on our ships kind of settle things for you and off you went Who was scared of inner rabbit more fighting mad than a pole cat and dog on site braver and hound dog Now ain't that the way it was? No, it was it was something like that. Yes, son That Sunday was a day that decided the course of men's lives and deaths Queer privilege fighting in the war. Oh But a great many things are easier in war Mr. Tucker and war you are given your gods to worship In peace you have to figure them out for yourself like quite profound words. You're speaking Mr. Norton you had an awful lot to lose didn't you David as much as I have now But I had an awful lot to win too and you got to keep winning as I see it the trouble with most folks is that they're Kind of misunderstand the word peace for meaning survival of themselves instead of the survival of their neighbors You know I'm to think I was washing my hair. It was what washing your hair If you find Mr. Tucker that my wife chooses to wash your hair at all of the most crucial moments in her life Oh, yeah, I didn't realize it was so crucial. It was only a child. I was 12 a child I said David was going to war Things had the things had turned out differently. My whole life would be different wouldn't it that strikes me as a masterpiece of understatement Mama knew what it meant when the news came. I remember she kissed me and then She went sat by the window knitting in her lap you see she She only told me this later David after you and I were engaged. We were engaged two whole days, Mr. Tucker Today's too long. I think Anyway, mama was engaged to my father when he went overseas in the First World War. I Was lucky. I was only 12 No brother no father No, you only you and your hair. Yeah What were you doing seven years ago, Mr. Tucker? Oh, not in much We we never had no radio till a few months before that when Delilah discovered them radio offers He had that blasted machine going night known and day So come that Sunday we was in the kitchen to island me and Dang radio was going in going I closed mirrors to it till all of a sudden a voice I heard pulled me right plum out of my chair them Japs had gone and done it dang fools All I can say is it got me so fighting mad. How well I know yep the first time in my life. I Was I was cussed sore that I'd live to be an old man 79 years old I was Wars to draw young man's blood not old man's like Tucker's But like I said, I I was so cussed sore that I aimed to do something do it quick by gum Just before I busted cleaning too. Well, what did you do, Mr. Tucker? I left Delilah rocking and crying in a chair be the radio and I took me out to the barn I Hitched up my horse to a plow and before I knew it I was turning over the earth in the lower matter here had been a thaw and the ground was soft She turned over good, but it was in early spring She knew it was time for her to start growing and giving My horse and plow and me we went up and down my fields preparing the land I guess I hardly know what I was doing till it was pitch dark and I heard Delilah's voice Calling me to the house Then I knew what I'd done in anger. I'd done right It'd be a mighty heap of food and crops needed and needed quick and I was getting my land ready It was every inch of it if an army moves on its stomach so to say then Jared Tucker He was going to help keep it moving leave it or not ma'am. I come back into that kitchen a younger man That night I heard the president speaking over Delilah's radio. Well anger left me Instead I had hope and faith and the girl dang this bumper Determination you ever seen alone you mr. Tucker must have been quite a bomb like Gibraltar it was Sure growth as I heard the president saying The true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle When we resort to force as now we must We are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good We Americans are not destroyers We are builders That's what says that's what the man who was president said not destroyers But builders yep Out of the ruins and the ashes we can build we did build during the war we found we had considerable strength Sure strikes me as being a terrible shame if we let that strength Fritter itself to waste because we ain't at war I'm looking for the men who'd worked to build together Instead of working to destroy together move the wheel to harness for a decent living If I could find the world full of them or even a half a world full we sure wouldn't have no more Pearl Harbor days That's a sin well Gabbled myself horse and face and I ain't even gonna apologize for it. You bet you're not a Dark it's gotten out. Yeah talks darn much here. You haven't had a chance to do your work. My work can wait Yes, darling. I know now you've more Urgent business on hand. So mr. Tucker pull up a chair. Let's make some plans because I accept your proposition When spring comes we'll work our fields together my labor your machinery And every inch of fertile ground will yield yep now you're talking son now you are talking then it's a deal neighbor It sure is a deal neighbor Standing around in shops waiting your turn can be a bore But if there's a cold cooler handy, that's another story For then you can drop in a nickel get yourself a frosty bottle of sparkling coca-cola and shop refreshed Hey, yeah, mr. King hitch up your job minute if you can I'll hitch it up till you tell me the unhitch it mr. Tucker Well, I want to say is we sure worked out a fine scheme for working our land. Well, that's very fine news Congratulations on being so far-sighted, but you're not the only one. I didn't say I was who else Claudia Claudia David has to get off to an early start in the morning and Claudia is far-sighted and she's organizing everything to make it easy for him Yeah, but does she does she that's the question mr. Tucker Well, see you tomorrow. Well, you know what? I think I think you're just stringing me along Well, you can not hit your jaw now, mr. King and talk Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time and now this is Joe King saying or a bar and Remember whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be when you think of refreshment Think of coca-cola Or coca-cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and ice-cold coca-cola is everywhere This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola