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💕 A charming slice of Americana, Colonel Effingham’s Raid (1946) blends gentle satire, romance, and civic pride in a heartfelt tale of an outspoken retired colonel who takes on local politics with wit and determination.  📽️ Plot Summary: Colonel William Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a retired Army officer, returns to his Georgia hometown and is shocked by corruption in local government. Rallying the townspeople — with the reluctant help of his young cousin Albert (William Eythe) and spirited Ella Sue (Joan Bennett) — the Colonel wages a crusade to save the town’s historic courthouse. What begins as one man’s stand soon blossoms into a community-wide battle for honor, heritage, and justice.  🕰️ Year Released: 1946 🎭 Genre: Comedy, Drama, Satire 🎬 Directed by: Irving Pichel 🎞️ Starring: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn  🎯 Why Watch It? ✔️ Charles Coburn in a witty, scene-stealing role ✔️ A clever mix of small-town comedy and social satire ✔️ A heartfelt story of tradition vs. corruption ✔️ Classic 1940s Hollywood charm with patriotic undertones  🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE 👍 | COMMENT 💬 | SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more small-town comedies & public domain classics!  👇 Explore More Vintage Comedy & Drama Classics Here: 📺 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnT7hNTlq29mZQJKn7wrNglY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎞️ #ColonelEffinghamsRaid #CharlesCoburn #JoanBennett #WilliamEythe #classicmovies #fullmovie #publicdomain #1940s #comedydrama #satire ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💌🇺🇸 Can one retired colonel inspire a whole town to stand up for what’s right? Find out in the witty and heartwarming Colonel Effingham’s Raid (1946)! ________________________________________

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00:00:00The

00:00:30THE END

00:01:00I shall never forget that warm April evening in 1940

00:01:12when the first hint reached me that Cousin Willie had reappeared full-blown

00:01:16in the life of our little southern town of Fredericksville, Georgia.

00:01:21Until the moment he telephoned and invited me to supper,

00:01:23I hadn't even known I had a Cousin Willie.

00:01:30Is this Albert Marbury?

00:01:33Yes, sir.

00:01:35Are you Cousin Willie?

00:01:36I am.

00:01:37Come in, my boy, come in.

00:01:40It's good to see kinfolks again.

00:01:42I used to know you when you were no taller than a duffel bag.

00:01:45Emma, here's your Cousin Albert.

00:01:47Good evening, Albert.

00:01:48Hello, Cousin Emma.

00:01:49Well, I didn't know you were going to be here.

00:01:52Oh, yes.

00:01:53Nothing would do Will but that I must keep house for him.

00:01:56You know, we were just talking about you.

00:01:59I'd care if Will's as full of curiosity as an old cat

00:02:01and tried to catch up on everybody and everything.

00:02:05Let's see, Cousin Will, you're, uh...

00:02:07Our mother's second cousin, Albert.

00:02:10Of course.

00:02:11I remember.

00:02:12Mom talked about you.

00:02:13You sent us a bolo knife in the Philippines one Christmas.

00:02:16I did.

00:02:17Sit down, Albert.

00:02:18Suffer'll be ready any time now.

00:02:20Thanks.

00:02:21Uh, you back in Frederick's show for good now, Cousin Will?

00:02:24I don't know.

00:02:25I've only been here a week.

00:02:26Hardly time enough to decide whether this is a garrison or a bivouac area.

00:02:30But you're retired, aren't you?

00:02:32Yes, Uncle Sam has turned the old horse out to graze.

00:02:35What may I offer you to drink, my boy?

00:02:37Well, if Cousin Emma doesn't mind...

00:02:39Oh, don't pay any attention to me.

00:02:41Orderly!

00:02:42Uh, I guess a little whiskey and branch water or anything else you say.

00:02:48Yes, sir?

00:02:49Well, 98.

00:02:50Good evening, Mr. Hal.

00:02:51I thought you were working down at the depot.

00:02:53Well, yes, I was till the colonel mobilized me up here.

00:02:55Orderly, bring us two rum tempicos.

00:02:57Yes, sir.

00:02:58Go on and get them.

00:03:01It's a nice place you have here.

00:03:03Comfortable quarters.

00:03:05But we were speaking of my retirement, Albert.

00:03:07Albert, I confess I've been looking forward to it merely as an assignment to a new post.

00:03:12A new command means a new point of view.

00:03:14New problems, new solutions.

00:03:18You must have a lot of old friends around here, Cousin Willie.

00:03:20Enough at least for a good Saturday afternoon poker game.

00:03:23Yes, this post is not wholly without his social aspects.

00:03:27But first, Albert, tell me about Fredericksville.

00:03:30Well, there's nothing to tell.

00:03:32It's just like any one of a hundred towns in Georgia.

00:03:35What's the population now?

00:03:37Oh, about 30,000.

00:03:38How many voted in the last election?

00:03:43Four or five thousand, I'd say.

00:03:45You mean 25,000 took no part in the action?

00:03:48Well, you know how folks are around here.

00:03:51Politics and polite society just don't mix.

00:03:53They mixed when your grandfather was a boy.

00:03:55Perhaps Fredericksville is neglecting its history.

00:03:58Yes, sir.

00:03:59That road out in front was the very road over which the late General Sherman was expected to advance on Fredericksville in 1864.

00:04:05But General Sherman didn't come to Fredericksville, Will.

00:04:08True enough, Emma.

00:04:09Why didn't he?

00:04:10Didn't he think our town was as important as Atlanta?

00:04:13Lots of folks around here have never felt the same about Atlanta since he passed us by, had they, Cousin Emma?

00:04:19You aren't still expecting General Sherman, are you, Cousin Willie?

00:04:22Every populated center is always in danger, Albert.

00:04:25Call in your sentries and the enemy appears.

00:04:28A community's history is its family tree.

00:04:31It's a well-drink, Cousin Willie.

00:04:35The mess is ready, Miss Emma.

00:04:36All right.

00:04:38Just bring your drink along with you to the table, Albert.

00:04:41No use that in supper get cold just because Will's wound up like this.

00:04:45No, my boy.

00:04:46Fredericksville didn't spring up like a mushroom overnight out of the molded earth.

00:04:50It was wrested by steady hand and steady eye from the reluctant wilderness.

00:04:55Wrested from a British king's tyranny.

00:04:57Wrested from Sherman.

00:04:58Wrested from the noxious mire of defeat and reparations.

00:05:02It is for us, the living, my boy.

00:05:04For you and me and every decent citizen in the community to see to it that Fredericksville does not forget that.

00:05:10Yes, sir.

00:05:11Try to keep it in mind.

00:05:12By morning, I had forgotten about Cousin Willie, for it was Confederate Memorial Day.

00:05:25In Confederate Monument Square, the mayor, head of the Home Folks Party, which had governed our town for as far back as I could remember,

00:05:33was delivering his usual glowing tribute to the lost cause.

00:05:36But I yield to no man in everlasting pride in that gallant band of gray-clad heroes.

00:05:45With the mayor's salubrious phrases still ringing in my ears, I return to my job under the leader.

00:05:55Say, how about handing this to Duton?

00:05:57Sure.

00:05:57Well, thanks.

00:06:06Say, maybe this isn't going to be such a phony war after all.

00:06:11Give that a neat column banner, Pete.

00:06:13Nazis sweep through Norway.

00:06:17Got a cigarette, Al?

00:06:18Thanks.

00:06:22What about his honor's tribute to the lost cause?

00:06:24Oh, yes.

00:06:25We mustn't let the war interfere with anything big like that.

00:06:30And to beat that, it's locked.

00:06:32It's tighter than...

00:06:32Well, that's the trouble of the world today.

00:06:34No faith in human nature.

00:06:36Why do you reckon a dame would want to lock up a few measly cigarettes?

00:06:39Maybe we should have a chisel.

00:06:43Well, there's one thing you can bet on.

00:06:45Miss Carey would never have done such a thing when she was society editor.

00:06:48No, Miss Carey was one swell old girl.

00:06:51Oh, the salt of the earth.

00:06:53But this new dame...

00:06:54Yeah.

00:06:54And all these fancy things here.

00:06:57Venetian blinds and flowers and rugs.

00:07:00Yeah, just like I say.

00:07:02There ought to be a law against women in newspapers.

00:07:03Go east.

00:07:04Yes, sir.

00:07:06Look at this.

00:07:07How come that other paper up the street gets a full-page ad from Crow Marty's and we only get six inches?

00:07:12Well, I'll tell you how it is, Mr. Eise.

00:07:14No, I know.

00:07:15The news supports the city hall and the city hall tells Crow Marty's where to spit.

00:07:19Yeah, it's about the size of it.

00:07:20Well, it's got to stop, boys.

00:07:21It's costing us money.

00:07:22I want the mayor's speech on page one.

00:07:25You understand?

00:07:25Yes, sir.

00:07:26What else you got on the stove, Dewey?

00:07:28Well, the British are getting ready to pull out of Norway.

00:07:30No, no, no.

00:07:30I mean your locals.

00:07:32Well, Doc Putin says they're going to change the name of the square.

00:07:34What square?

00:07:36Confederate Monument Square.

00:07:37Change it to what?

00:07:38Toulon Square, after old Pud Toulon.

00:07:40So they're going to name the square after that old crook.

00:07:43Hold up your story on that.

00:07:44Right.

00:07:45Eavesdropper.

00:07:46Maybe she doesn't understand that he was the founder of the Home Folks Party.

00:07:49I understand plenty.

00:07:51The way he lived on the city, the poor white relatives he kept on the payroll.

00:07:54Isn't there anyone around here who'll stand up for what he thinks?

00:07:56My father was still editor of this paper.

00:07:58You know, Dewey, that was another nice thing about Miss Carey.

00:08:01He never caught her sticking her nose into men's business.

00:08:03Oh, Miss Carey was sure restful.

00:08:05A credit of pure southern womanhood, if ever I saw it.

00:08:19Dewey, I want a Sunday editorial on Pud Toulon.

00:08:22Pud Toulon?

00:08:24He's been dead for 20 years.

00:08:25Well, dig him up.

00:08:26Unless I miss my guess, here's our chance to get in solid with the folks down at City Hall.

00:08:30You know, hit the civic leader angle, talk about what he did for the city.

00:08:33Four or two.

00:08:35Ended off on the note, the leader takes pride in joining its voice to the clamor for naming Monument Square after its benefactor and so forth.

00:08:43The time has come and the growth of the expansion of our city and so forth, however you feel it.

00:08:49Give it the works.

00:08:49But isn't that dynamite?

00:08:51Listen, I'm from Ohio.

00:08:52Maybe I don't feel the way you southerners do about these things.

00:08:55I've got to think about the red and black ink on the books.

00:08:57My bosses sitting up in Chicago aren't worrying about what Stonewall Jackson did at Manassas.

00:09:02And let me see it before you set it up.

00:09:04I may want to add something.

00:09:07You might have been surprised to all Pud, I'll bet.

00:09:14Beg pardon?

00:09:16Where will I find the managing editor?

00:09:19Right in there.

00:09:26I'm Colonel Effingham, sir.

00:09:28W.C.

00:09:28Born Effingham.

00:09:29Colonel, United States Army, retired.

00:09:31Good morning, Colonel.

00:09:32Take a chair.

00:09:36You're visiting in Fredericksville, Colonel?

00:09:39Not at all.

00:09:40I was born in Fredericksville.

00:09:42My father and my grandfather and my great-grandfather were all born in Fredericksville.

00:09:46To an Effingham, Fredericksville is home.

00:09:48I see.

00:09:49My people have always been soldiers.

00:09:51My grandfather fell at Chickamauga.

00:09:53His grandfather at Saratoga.

00:09:55When Beauregard fired on Fort Sumter, my own father, unfortunately, was only nine.

00:09:59That was a little young.

00:10:01I myself was wounded at San Juan Hill.

00:10:03I was at the Siege of Panama.

00:10:05For 50 years, Mr. Editor, the forces of civilization had been held at bay on the isthmus, unable to join the waters of two great oceans.

00:10:13And do you know what blocked them?

00:10:14Gatlin guns?

00:10:16Mini balls?

00:10:16Superior forces?

00:10:17Guerrilla bands?

00:10:19Mosquitoes.

00:10:21Well, perhaps one of my boys could fix up a little story for Sunday.

00:10:25Stegermeyer Fasciata.

00:10:27For half a century, the enemy, less than a quarter of an inch in stature, blocked the economic march of a nation of a hundred million people.

00:10:34It was insupportable.

00:10:35Well, Colonel...

00:10:35We blockaded General Stegermeyer to wit the Mosquito.

00:10:38We cut him off from reinforcements.

00:10:40We hammered his communications.

00:10:42So you're back in Fredericksville for good now, Colonel.

00:10:44We sprayed his concentrations with oil.

00:10:46We screened his wells.

00:10:47We put fifth columns of fish in the water to attack his ammunition dumps.

00:10:52But more of that another day.

00:10:53What I'm leading up to, Mr. Editor, is the possibility of a column of war commentary in your paper.

00:10:58War commentary?

00:11:00War commentary?

00:11:00I've read both the leader and the news, and though I realize the news has the larger circulation, your former editor, Mr. Sam Dozier, was an old and honored friend of mine.

00:11:09Well, uh, we couldn't offer you enough, Colonel.

00:11:12We're only a small paper.

00:11:14We haven't got much money to pay.

00:11:15Blood, sir, I don't want pay.

00:11:17I'm offering my services free.

00:11:19Well, I'd like to think it over.

00:11:22How can I get in touch with you?

00:11:24My telephone is 514, sir.

00:11:26Good day, sir.

00:11:27Good day, Colonel.

00:11:30But the lover, who is that guy?

00:11:35I'm proud to say I never saw him before in my life.

00:11:37Sometimes I wonder what I ever did to deserve things like this.

00:11:41What's the harm in trying it?

00:11:43Are you crazy?

00:11:44Oh, I know it wouldn't be as good as taking on another comic, but you're always looking for something to fill up that page, and he's a local guy, column two or three times a week on the editorial page, Mike.

00:11:55But Mosquitoes, his grandfather.

00:11:57Oh, I know, but this is a funny town, Earl.

00:12:01It's built around grandfathers and mosquitoes.

00:12:04You know, this war in Europe is picking up.

00:12:06Got a lot of people worried.

00:12:08We may be getting into it ourselves.

00:12:09Can't tell.

00:12:11In that case, a lot of the boys will be joining up.

00:12:13And after all, the old boy was a colonel in the United States Army, you don't get to be a colonel in peacetimes for nothing, you know.

00:12:21You might set well with a lot of folks who think we had a military expert right here in the paper.

00:12:24Yeah, that's...

00:12:25I think you ought to try it, Earl.

00:12:29What have you got to lose?

00:12:31Okay, I'll take a chance.

00:12:34Call it on the firing line.

00:12:36But if you ask me any time you buy something for nothing, that's just what you get.

00:12:40Did you ever hear of a guy named W. Seaborne Effingham?

00:12:48What's he done?

00:12:49He's going to run a column in our little paper.

00:12:51Column?

00:12:52I didn't know he could write.

00:12:53Anybody can write, Bob.

00:12:54As long as we're going to do it, let's do it right.

00:12:56Build up the old guy two or three days before you start.

00:12:59Get a few informal shots of the author at work and at play.

00:13:02Oh, you better let me handle it.

00:13:03All right, take Jake along to get the pictures.

00:13:05No, I'll go along.

00:13:06Two of us will make him nervous.

00:13:07Two of us didn't make him nervous this morning.

00:13:08And for my personal information, find out the name of the last lunatic asylum he attended.

00:13:14I can tell him that now.

00:13:15Why, do you know the guy?

00:13:16That's my cousin Willie.

00:13:21Orly?

00:13:22On to Devils.

00:13:25Orly, our guest here wants a dog.

00:13:27Is there an animal on the post?

00:13:29There's a buck, Colonel.

00:13:30Buck, I don't know him, but have him report here at once.

00:13:32Yes, sir.

00:13:34Oh, hello, Miss Emma.

00:13:35Oh, I don't know what Will's thinking about.

00:13:39This is the first time an Effingham has ever done such a thing.

00:13:43What do people say?

00:13:45It's bad enough getting your name in the paper when you're born or get married or die.

00:13:49It's not my idea.

00:13:50He's a man of determination.

00:13:52Yes, the Effingham men have always been men of determination.

00:13:56Hey, hey, hey, one.

00:13:57Hey.

00:13:59Well, attention.

00:14:00Attention.

00:14:01Attention.

00:14:05Attention.

00:14:09It's got reader confidence written all over it.

00:14:12What's his name?

00:14:14W.S. Seaborn Effingham.

00:14:16Colonel, United States Army.

00:14:18Retired.

00:14:19The dog.

00:14:20Buck.

00:14:21His name's Rover.

00:14:27Our subscribers seemed to open their arms to the pair.

00:14:29The first thing we knew, our leading citizens were giving parties for

00:14:33in the most stylish houses in town.

00:14:37Good evening, Mr. Amman.

00:14:38Good evening, Mr. Amman.

00:14:40Well, Will, how's the old publicity, Howard?

00:14:44Good to see you, Clyde.

00:14:45Good to see you, Clyde.

00:14:46Good to see you, Clyde.

00:14:47Man, they've certainly been giving you plenty of write-ups.

00:14:49Everybody in town must know Colonel Leffingham

00:14:51and his faithful old dog, Rover, by now.

00:14:55How does it feel to be in the limelight, Will?

00:14:56Well, I'm used to being shot at.

00:14:58Anyhow, Will, we want you to know we're right behind you.

00:15:01Thanks, Clyde.

00:15:02Sorry, I can't offer you anything but punch.

00:15:04But if you boys will step out into the kitchen.

00:15:07I've already sweetened it just a mite, Mr. Clyde.

00:15:11Here's to you, Will.

00:15:13And to our good old Billygo days together.

00:15:15And to Will's new column.

00:15:16Oh, yes.

00:15:17Here's your good health.

00:15:20I can't get over it.

00:15:22Old Will here, a colonel in the army, been everywhere, seen everything,

00:15:25and we've just sat home and kind of milled you.

00:15:28On the contrary.

00:15:29You gentlemen have made substantial successes in your chosen fields of endeavor.

00:15:33Jesse and you, Sterling, presidents of Flourishing Banks,

00:15:36and Clyde, head of the Southeastern Fertilizer.

00:15:38Oh, we managed to keep a roof over our heads.

00:15:40Will, I'll be here.

00:15:43You don't remember me.

00:15:46Clara Breckenbree.

00:15:47Clara Meigs, now.

00:15:49You remember Charlie Meigs.

00:15:51Yes.

00:15:51He was a dance at school with us.

00:15:54He was always a lucky dog.

00:15:55I would have known you anywhere, Clara.

00:15:58Still the finest figure in Georgia.

00:16:00Oh, now, Will.

00:16:01There you go.

00:16:02The same old flapperer.

00:16:04I declare I don't know how you ever escaped marriage.

00:16:06Colonel Eppingham, I'm Alice Sue Dozier.

00:16:08I believe you knew my father, Sam Dozier.

00:16:10Sam Dozier?

00:16:11One of the most courageous editors Georgia ever produced.

00:16:13I rank him with Henry Grady.

00:16:15I'm delighted to know his daughter.

00:16:17You'll probably see a lot of this little girl now that you're fellow workers.

00:16:20Fellow workers.

00:16:20I felt some Dozier had to be on the leader.

00:16:22It's a pleasure to join forces with you any day, my dear.

00:16:25To the ladies under whose sheltering wings lives the valor of Fredericksville.

00:16:32Excuse me, Alice Sue.

00:16:34Oh, hello, Ed.

00:16:35Colonel Eppingham, this is Mr. Edward Bland, professor of economics in the high school.

00:16:38Good evening.

00:16:38How are you, Colonel?

00:16:40Isn't this our dance?

00:16:41Oh, I'm sorry, Ed, but I've been saving this one for Colonel Eppingham.

00:16:44Will you dance with me, Colonel?

00:16:44It's an honor, my dear.

00:16:46I don't mean to be sacrilegious, but you know who Will reminds me of, if he had a beard.

00:17:08General Lee...

00:17:10Yes, I can see the resemblance, but I'm afraid General Lee wouldn't lend his name to a column

00:17:19in the public quint.

00:17:20That's right.

00:17:22Thank you, sir.

00:17:28The End

00:17:58The End Of The World Cometh Brother Are You Saved I've Been Saved Brother

00:18:09Hallelujah Hallelujah Don't I Know

00:18:14Good Morning Albert How Are You My Boy Fine Cousin Willie How's The War Going Albert Tell Me Does

00:18:24What's His Name Know About This Plot

00:18:27What Plot

00:18:27The Plot To Name Our Confederate Square After That Carpet Bagger

00:18:32Well I couldn't say

00:18:34The Information Hasn't Been Made Public Yet

00:18:35Well Let's Go Tell Him

00:18:36It's Time For New Spippers To Unlimber Their Big Guns

00:18:39Well I Can't Go Right Now

00:18:40I Have To Write A Story

00:18:41Well I'll Go See You Myself

00:18:42Mr. Holtz Isn't Here

00:18:43He Had To Go To Atlanta For The Day

00:18:44Well Surely There's A Second In Command

00:18:46No Mr. Holtz Is A Man You Have To See

00:18:47There's No Hurry

00:18:48Next Time You're In Town

00:18:49Why Don't You Stop By And Have A Chat With

00:18:50Yes I'm Sure He'll Be Glad To Do Everything He Can

00:18:53It Isn't A Question Of Doing Everything He Can

00:18:55A New Service Run For The Good Of The Community Isn't It

00:18:58Well

00:18:59Isn't It

00:19:00Exactly

00:19:01Well And On My Boy

00:19:02Good Day LSO

00:19:03Then Cousin Willie Struck

00:19:08It Was Exactly As If He'd Hurled A Custard Pie To Established Government

00:19:12The Response To The Town Was Quick And Emphatic

00:19:16What Do You Make Of It

00:19:20Doc After All We've Done For Earl Holtz It's Like Finding A Rattlesnake In Your Bureau Draw

00:19:26Hello

00:19:29Is This The Leader

00:19:31Is It True That They're Going To Rename Monument Square

00:19:36Well As Far As I Can Determine Mrs. Meggs It's An Unfounded Rumor

00:19:39Thank You Very Much

00:19:41Yes We'll Do Everything We Can

00:19:43Study Desk

00:19:45No No The Colonel Doesn't Happen To Be In At The Moment

00:19:48Mr. Holtz Is The Editor

00:19:50Yes He's The Man You Want To See

00:19:52What's Going On

00:19:53Oh I Never Read His Tripe I Just Turned It On The Hook

00:19:56I Thought The Old Guy Was Gonna Write A War Column

00:19:59Holtz Said To Give Him His Head

00:20:00Here He's Your Cousin

00:20:02Who Is Pud Pulling

00:20:04Never Got Through The Sixth Grade

00:20:05Came Interested In Politics When Working In The Cotton Mills

00:20:09Set Himself Up As Head At A Home Folks Party

00:20:11Robbed This City For 20 Years

00:20:14How Does This Compare With The Contribution Of Our Glorious Confederate Dead

00:20:18City Desk

00:20:21Isn't It Horrible

00:20:23Nobody Complained About The City Government For As Long As I Can Remember

00:20:27And Just As Peace And Friendship And Mutual Understanding Was Taking Place Between Them And Us

00:20:33Glad You Liked It Ma'am

00:20:35The United Daughters Of The Confederacy Congratulating Us

00:20:40Say Is This Cousin Of Yours Just A Nut Or Is He Just A Nut

00:20:45Well He He Doesn't Understand

00:20:47Trouble Is He's Been In The Army For So Long

00:20:49He Just Doesn't Understand The Rest Of The World

00:20:51Give Him A Chance He'll Catch On

00:20:52What Are You And I Going To Use For Money While He's Catching On

00:20:55Uh Uh Uh

00:20:56Uh Uh

00:20:56How'd It Get By You Dewey

00:21:13Where?

00:21:15Hey

00:21:16City Desk

00:21:19It's For You Mr. Holtz

00:21:22Hello

00:21:24Mr. Holtz

00:21:25Uh This Is Mrs. Clyde Manadieu

00:21:28I Just Want To Tell You How Terribly Pleased I Am

00:21:31How Terribly Pleased All My Friends Are With The Position Colonel Effingham Has Taken On Your Paper

00:21:35In Regard To The Renaming Of Confederate Monument Square

00:21:39Thank You

00:21:40Goodbye

00:21:41Have You Heard Anything From The City Hall Yet

00:21:48They Wouldn't See It Unless On The Sport Page

00:21:51Seems To Me Mr. Holtz That If This Thing Was Signed By A Special Writer

00:21:55It Wouldn't Necessarily Represent The Policy Of The Paper

00:21:57Mrs. Manadieu's Words Must Have Fallen So Sweetly On His Ear As To Undermine His Sense Of Reality

00:22:09At Any Rate His Reaction Was Simply To Write A New Editorial To Fit The Circumstances

00:22:15Offered In The Spirit Of Writing A Wrong

00:22:18I Read It With Satisfaction

00:22:25As I Ordered My Sausage In Harmony In The Manhattan Café

00:22:30Then I Turned The Page To Cousin Willie's Column

00:22:37What's The Matter Coffee Too Hot

00:22:46Listen

00:22:47We Shall Not Submit

00:22:49It Is Not Enough That We Stand To The Defense

00:22:52And Hold The Name Of The Square

00:22:53As It Has Been For Near A Generation

00:22:55Let Us Improve The Square

00:22:57Oh

00:22:57Picture If You Will

00:23:01In A Circle About That Shaft

00:23:03Of Georgia Marble

00:23:04Thirteen Live Oak Trees

00:23:06Oh

00:23:07Ain't You Feeling Good Al?

00:23:10Have You Read What He's Been Up To Now?

00:23:14Oh I Think That'd Be Nice

00:23:15Nice Shade

00:23:17It's Nice To See The Leaves Blowing In The Summertime

00:23:20Look Every Year Or Two Somebody Brings Up The Question Of The Trees

00:23:23Well Where We Be With Our Trees?

00:23:25You Want This Place To Look Like A Country Town?

00:23:27Well Anyhow I'm Not Going To Do It

00:23:31No Use Bringing The Whole Thing Up Again

00:23:33And Trying To Embarrass Everybody

00:23:34Gee I Never Heard Of A Tree Embarrassing Anybody

00:23:37What's The Matter Al?

00:23:39The Begging Bird?

00:23:41Did You Ever Read This Little Piece Called On The Firing Line?

00:23:44Yeah Yeah Sure

00:23:45But We Always Read It

00:23:47Sort Of A Nicer Fella

00:23:49Look At The Dog

00:23:50My Wife She Carried From With A Favor

00:23:52What Are You Gonna Do About All Those Trees?

00:23:56Little Something Spent For Beauty Is A Goodbye

00:24:00Before I Read What He Says

00:24:02I Never Know We Had Such Interesting Things In This Town

00:24:06You Live In A Place

00:24:08And You Never Know What Happens

00:24:11Way Back

00:24:11It Makes You Feel

00:24:14Like Somebody

00:24:16You Know The Old Guy Got A Something To There

00:24:21On Guard

00:24:37Straighten Your Body Man

00:24:39Straighten Your Body

00:24:39Bend Your Knees

00:24:40Well Mr. Conister

00:24:41Won't You Rather Have A Rump Tam Pico

00:24:43Position

00:24:44One Two

00:24:45Watch Your Feet Man Watch Your Feet

00:24:48Oh Mr. Conner

00:24:48I Don't Go Wack My Feet In Here Too

00:24:50Come In Albert

00:24:51We're Just Keeping In Shape

00:24:52Have A Seat

00:24:53Cousin Malik

00:24:54You Know The Mayor Don't You?

00:24:56I Haven't Had The Pleasure Meeting His Honor

00:24:57Well The Mayor Is A Garden Fancier

00:25:00He Loves Trees And Flowers

00:25:02Seems To Me It'd Be Nice If You Consult Him About Planting Those Trees

00:25:06Naturally He'd Like To Be

00:25:07In On Any Civic Improvement Of This Type

00:25:09You Know Take A Little Of The Credit

00:25:11I Don't Care Anything About The Credit

00:25:12I Want The Trees

00:25:13On Guard

00:25:14Touché

00:25:16You Might Welcome The Chance For The Trees Just To Show Their Hearts In The Right Place

00:25:20I Don't Know Albert Whether Their Hearts In The Right Place Or Not

00:25:23Stand Up To It Man

00:25:24Uh Mr. Conister

00:25:25Are You Sure You Don't Want No Rump Tam Pico

00:25:27Oh God

00:25:27They're Nice Fellas

00:25:31They're Only Trying To Do What's Right

00:25:32Mustn't Forget Cousin Willie

00:25:34That They Haven't Had The Advantage Of An Education

00:25:36And Travel And That Sort Of Thing Like Some Of The Rest Of Us Have Had

00:25:39You'd Be Surprised If Some Of Those Boys Come To

00:25:41Wouldn't Surprise Me At All Albert

00:25:43But I Don't See Why Our Biggest And Most Important Project

00:25:46The Administration Of Government

00:25:47Should Be Handed Over Lock, Stock And Barrel

00:25:50To A Bunch Of Incompetence

00:25:51On Guard

00:25:52But President Willie

00:25:53I Don't Think You're Quite Giving The Boys A Due

00:25:54You

00:25:55When We Turned On The Malarial Mosquitos In The Canal Zone

00:25:58Do You Think The Mosquitos Were Not Getting There Due

00:26:00On Guard

00:26:01Somebody Has To Run The Government

00:26:03The Citizens Won't Do

00:26:04If It Weren't For The Home Folks Party

00:26:06There Wouldn't Be Any Government At All

00:26:07Is It Your Impression Albert

00:26:09That These People Are Acting As Trustees

00:26:11Until Such Time As The Citizens Come Of Age

00:26:14And Can Take Over The Government Themselves

00:26:16Well Anyhow I Think You Ought To Have A Chat With The Mayor Sometime

00:26:19All Right I Will

00:26:20Orally Bring The Car Please

00:26:22Can I Drop You By Your Office My Boy

00:26:24You're Not Going To See The Mayor Right Now

00:26:25As Soon As I Can Change My Clothes

00:26:26There's No Hurry Cousin Willie

00:26:28Any Old Time Will Do

00:26:28Son When You Get To Be 65

00:26:30It's A Good Time To Hurry

00:26:31Well Your Name Is Familiar To Me Colonel

00:26:44But I Can't Seem To Put My Finger Just Where I've Run Into It Before

00:26:47Are You Here In Fredericksville In Connection With National Defense

00:26:52Defense Of America Is The Nearest Thing To My Heart

00:26:55What I Want To Discuss With You Mr. Mayor

00:26:57Is The Desirability Of Planting Thirteen Trees

00:27:00In A Circle About The Confederate Monument

00:27:02You Write That Column In The Leader

00:27:04I Do

00:27:04I Knew Your Name Was Familiar To Me

00:27:07Well Colonel I Tell You What You Do

00:27:09Now Understand There's Nobody In Fredericksville

00:27:12That Loves Trees More Than I Do

00:27:13Any Kind Of Beautification Appeals To Me

00:27:16But There's A Water Main On The Monument Square

00:27:18That Might Be Disturbed

00:27:20And You Can't Dig Up A Water Main

00:27:22Just To Plant A Few Trees

00:27:23Now Why Don't You Go See Mr. Clemmer

00:27:25The City Engineer

00:27:26I Couldn't Do A Thing Without His Approval

00:27:28It's Been Nice To See You Colonel

00:27:30Any Time I Can Be Of Service

00:27:32Good Day Sir

00:27:33See What I Had To Put Up With

00:27:37No Gratitude

00:27:39Sometimes I Wonder Why I Ever Let Him

00:27:41Put Me Up For Bear In The First Place

00:27:43I Don't Blame You Cousin Ed

00:27:45And Don't You Cousin Ed Me Around Here

00:27:47I Am Enough To Contend With Without Relatives

00:27:49Look Ed You're Making A Mountain Out Of A Mole Hill

00:27:54The Way To Handle These Nuts Is To Agree With Them

00:27:57Let Him Plant His Trees

00:28:01Are You Crazy

00:28:02Do You Want To Undermine The Whole City Government

00:28:04No No Certainly Not Doc

00:28:06But While We're Improving The Park

00:28:07Planting The Trees

00:28:08We'd Just Go One Step Farther

00:28:10And Improve The Whole Square

00:28:11By Putting Up The New Courthouse

00:28:13He'll Think The Whole Idea Is His

00:28:15What Do You Think Doc

00:28:17My Granny

00:28:18I Believe Joe's Got Something There

00:28:20Yes And You I Think We've Hit The Nail Right On The Head

00:28:24From Now On This Effingham Colonel's Playing Second Base On Our Team

00:28:29So You're Gonna Tear Down The Courthouse

00:28:53I Have Nothing To Do With It

00:28:55You Could Stop It

00:28:55How You Could If You Wanted To

00:28:57Look The Old Fire Trap's About Ready To Fall Apart Anyhow

00:28:59Well How'd It Wear Out So Quickly

00:29:00It's Been Worn Out For Years It Just Discovered

00:29:02Well Why Didn't You Keep It Repair

00:29:03Look Why Do You Suppose I'd Have Anything To Do With This

00:29:06I Just Tell The Facts

00:29:07Well You Tell Some Of Them

00:29:08Isn't It A Fact That They've Already Signed A Contract With Bill Silk

00:29:10The Mayor's Brother-in-law To Build A New One

00:29:12I Don't Know Anything About That

00:29:14Well You Want To Know That's Your Job Isn't It

00:29:15Say What's The Matter With You Today Anyhow

00:29:21I've Got A Slight Case Of Moral Indigestion

00:29:23You Don't Understand The Old Building's Just Tumbling Down

00:29:25The Floor Is Unsafe The Stone Is Disintegrated

00:29:27The Roof So Good

00:29:28Why You Sound Like Somebody In Berlin

00:29:30Describing Democracy

00:29:30Do You Think Every Building That's 150 Years Old

00:29:32Is Tumbling Down

00:29:33Sure And If It Isn't It Ought To Be

00:29:34The End Of The World Cometh Brother

00:29:46Are You Prepared?

00:29:48I Will Be As Soon As Our Artillery

00:29:49Comes Into Position

00:29:50You'll Have To Excuse Me Colonel

00:29:57London's Just Been Blitzed

00:29:58Just A Moment If You Please

00:29:59May I Presume To Ask

00:30:00What Is The Attitude Of This Newspaper

00:30:02Regarding The Destruction Of That Final Landmark

00:30:05Our Courthouse

00:30:06Oh Later Colonel

00:30:06Later

00:30:07Dewey Get This Set Up

00:30:08I've Searched Your Column

00:30:09For A Word Of Condemnation

00:30:11Of This Diabolical Plot

00:30:12But I Can Find Nothing Sir

00:30:13I'm Afraid You Don't Understand

00:30:14Colonel

00:30:15The Courthouse Is In A Pretty Dangerous Condition

00:30:17Who Says So May I Ask

00:30:18The Two Best Structural Engineers

00:30:19In This Section

00:30:20Local Engineers

00:30:21The Condition Cannot Be Determined

00:30:23Except By A Man From Out Of Town

00:30:24One Who Has Never Even Heard Of This Courthouse

00:30:27When I Was In The Canal

00:30:28Excuse Me Colonel

00:30:29I Just Remember The Date

00:30:30I Had The Privilege Of Seeing The Great Miraflory's Locks

00:30:32Hewn Out Of The Jungle

00:30:33One Of The Greatest Feats Of Skill

00:30:35In That Entire Monumental Project

00:30:37A Man Principally Responsible

00:30:39Was A Captain Hickok

00:30:40Now Major U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers

00:30:42Major Hickok Is Now Retired And Living In Atlanta

00:30:45Let Him Look At This Building

00:30:47He'll Tell You Whether He's Falling Down Or Not

00:30:49Colonel

00:30:49Nothing Would Give Me More Pleasure

00:30:51Than To Help In Getting Your Friend

00:30:53This Little Job

00:30:54But No Loyal Citizen Of Fredericksville

00:30:56Wants To Ask Atlanta Anything

00:30:57Besides Of The Cost Of Bringing Him Here

00:30:59Floods I'll Get Him Here For Nothing

00:31:01Doesn't That Imply A Lack Of Confidence

00:31:02In The Government

00:31:03It Certainly Does

00:31:04I've Discussed This Matter

00:31:05With A Number Of Responsible Citizens

00:31:07And They Agree That The Leader

00:31:08True To Its Name

00:31:09Should Sponsor A Movement

00:31:10What Responsible Citizens

00:31:12People You Know

00:31:12They'll Come Forward When The Time Is Right

00:31:14Never Fear

00:31:15I'm A Newspaper Man Colonel

00:31:17Not An Evangelist

00:31:18My Function Is To Inform Our Readers

00:31:21Of What's Going On In The World

00:31:22Not To Advise Them

00:31:23If A Group Of Citizens

00:31:25Want A Third Engineer

00:31:26To Look At This Courthouse

00:31:27Bring Him In

00:31:27I'll Print The Story

00:31:29That's Our Position

00:31:30As You Say Mr. Adenter

00:31:32Long Distance Please

00:31:39You Never Get Anything For Nothing

00:31:48You Never Get Anything For Nothing

00:31:48I Always Did Know That

00:31:49You Got Me Into This

00:31:49Remember I Told You What Would Happen

00:31:51For All I Say

00:31:52And You Don't Stand There

00:31:53With Your Mouth Open

00:31:53Do Something

00:31:54He's Your Cousin

00:31:55I Tell You

00:31:56No Private Citizen

00:31:57Has The Right To Go Meddling

00:31:58In Public Affairs

00:31:58That Don't Concern Him

00:31:59Pulling Us Into It

00:32:01Confound It

00:32:02It's Sedition

00:32:03Now I Don't Want To Reverse The Charges

00:32:12Charge It To The Leader

00:32:14Naturally We Didn't Carry Any Buildup

00:32:26On Major Hickok's Coming To Fredericksville

00:32:28But I Was Detailed To Accompany Him

00:32:31And The Colonel On Their Tour Of The Building

00:32:32Just To Make Sure

00:32:34They Didn't Go Into A Huddle

00:32:35And Fling Us A Fast One

00:32:36Of Course If The Major

00:32:39Should Happen To Agree With The Local Contractors

00:32:41That A New Building Was Needed

00:32:44It Was To Be A Page One Story

00:32:46With A Byline

00:32:47I Don't Quite See How This Old Wreck

00:32:49Rage A Society Call

00:32:50I'm Just Here On My Own

00:32:52Curiosity?

00:32:52Interest

00:32:53Trying To Check Up

00:32:54Trying To Make Sure I Won't Draw Any Wrong Conclusions

00:32:56Possibly Or Print Them

00:32:58How Do I Get Up Under The Rope?

00:33:00Right This Way Gentlemen

00:33:01Mind Yourselves

00:33:09You Can Wait Over There

00:33:13Can I?

00:33:15Won't Find Anyone Socially Prominent Up There

00:33:17After You My Dear

00:33:21Fire Up There?

00:33:30Way Back Just After The War

00:33:32War Between The States?

00:33:34No Sir

00:33:34That Other War

00:33:35Surface Car

00:33:37I'd Like To See The Rope

00:33:38Give Me A Hand Will You?

00:33:53I Don't Want To Go Out There

00:33:54You Ruin Your Clothes

00:33:55What's The Matter With That Eppingham Colonel Anyhow?

00:34:09Bringing In That Old Has-Been Engineer From Atlanta

00:34:11Is He A Red Or Something?

00:34:13Wait Let's Get Down To Grassroots

00:34:14What Does This Guy Own?

00:34:17Five Acres From The Country And A Five Hundred Dollar Ford

00:34:19But What Sort Of Business Is He In?

00:34:21Maybe We Ought To Inspect His Plumbing

00:34:23He's Retired

00:34:25What Does He Live On Then?

00:34:26Yeah He Gets A Pension From The United States Government

00:34:28He's Still Got A Water Bill Hasn't He?

00:34:30Reformers Are Mighty Touchy About Water Bills

00:34:33Gentlemen The Question Before Us Is The New Courthouse

00:34:36Exactly

00:34:36And If We Don't Watch Out

00:34:38He's Going To Get People To Thinking

00:34:39We're Trying To Railroad This Thing Through

00:34:41The People Don't Care

00:34:43I Don't Know Doc

00:34:44You Can Never Tell About That

00:34:45Well My Idea Is To Get The Jump On Him

00:34:47Call A Public Meeting

00:34:48Discuss The Whole Thing Right Out In The Open

00:34:51Show Him We're Not Trying To Hide Anything

00:34:53But Ed You're My Brother-in-Law

00:34:55And The Contract For The Courthouse Has Already Been Signed

00:34:57Don't You Worry Bill

00:34:58You'll Build It

00:34:59We Only Want To Do What's Right And Proper

00:35:02Besides

00:35:03How Many People Came To The Last Public Meeting

00:35:06Must Have Been Fifteen Counting You And Me

00:35:08That's A Good Idea Chief

00:35:10Let The Public Get It Off His Chest

00:35:12The Public Hasn't Got Anything On Its Chest But His Shirt

00:35:15Right Doc

00:35:16Suppose You Call Holtz Around The Leader

00:35:18Let Him Have The Story

00:35:19We'll Set The Meeting For A Week From Tonight

00:35:21In The Courthouse

00:35:22In The Superior Courtroom

00:35:23Think That'll Be Big Enough Your Honor?

00:35:25Well It's Not Up To Us To Get A Crowd

00:35:36The

00:36:02well I don't like subtlety maybe you like petitions petitions would you like to sign

00:36:17one I would not what sort of petition

00:36:32listen honey child you've reached the age of reason do you really think free people in a free

00:36:39country are going to sign their commercial death warrants I'm not asking you to sign I asked you

00:36:44if you want to I have nothing against the old courthouse as a matter of fact I have a personal

00:36:49attachment for it just think cousin Willie stirring up a lot of unnecessary trouble he's stirring up a

00:36:54lot of trouble all right sort of feel sorry for the old guy he's like a rabbit bouncing out of his

00:37:00nice briar patch and leaping lickety-split across the field under the muzzles of 12 gauge shotguns

00:37:05more like a rabbit to sit cowering in his nest right on the desk will you oh well the National

00:37:16Guard has just got in some new 30 caliber of machine guns go on over and have a talk with

00:37:20Captain Rampey will you see if you can get a little story for Sunday well it's water cooled this is your

00:37:30water jacket your hose your water can

00:37:34it fires from a belt of 250 rounds

00:37:38and it fires at the rate of 500 to 550 rounds per minute not steadily of course but in short bursts and a

00:37:46funny thing happened the captain talked and talked but I didn't hear a word he says from right to

00:37:53left the transfer I just kept looking at that uniform and wondering how Ellis sue would like me in it

00:37:58well here this field manual will tell you all about it

00:38:01well sir how are you Marbury

00:38:26by the way did I tell you

00:38:31tell me what

00:38:35I've offered my services to the government

00:38:40that's swell Ed you are you are now addressing private Marbury the Georgia National Guard

00:38:47I don't understand nothing to understand democracy is threatened I reach for my gun it's as simple as that

00:39:00funny that all of a sudden you should be so much more concerned about democracy than Europe and

00:39:16democracy in Fredericksville I dear girl what happens in Europe is directly connected with what happens in

00:39:22Fredericksville you can isolate our town and forget all about Europe

00:39:26neither can you isolate Europe which is 3,000 miles away and forget about Fredericksville right here

00:39:37under your nose okay okay I'll sign your petition sorry we've done very well without you

00:39:43hope it isn't your trigger finger

00:39:47Thursday night was more fitting to moonlight and mint juleps into public meetings but to everyone's

00:39:59amazement there was quite a turnout you stay together ladies mostly widows and old maid ants they know as

00:40:09much about running the town as a jack rabbit yeah but they're the talky type

00:40:16well there seems to be a scarcity of bank presidents and captains of industry where's

00:40:22mr. Clyde men and you probably in a dugout he usually is when there's any shooting

00:40:26the sooner we get started the better chance we have of getting out of this place before it collapses

00:40:40just a minute mr. mayor if you please sir these ladies have not found seats oh ladies I think you'll

00:40:47find comfortable seats over by the window I know you're all anxious to get through with this so

00:40:57you can go on about your own affairs to the contrary mr. mayor this matter requires considerable discussion

00:41:02there he goes we've invited you here tonight ladies and gentlemen to express any opinion you

00:41:12may have asked of the disposition of this old building now I'm going to ask the clerk to put

00:41:17into evidence as exhibit a the reports of two independent contractors who have examined the

00:41:23building also sweet and legal nice looking couple lovely from that report ladies and gentlemen you'll be

00:41:33able to see that it is not a question of what we would like to do with this grand old building

00:41:38it's a question of what we can do mr. mayor

00:41:41before presenting a petition to repair this building I'd like to have your permission to read a report

00:41:51on the state of this edifice a report by major anthony t hickok united states army corps of engineers

00:41:57retired but we don't know anything about this gentleman you've heard of the mirror florey's locks i presume

00:42:08sir why no sir i don't think i've ever heard of that particular brand have you heard of the panama canal

00:42:13why yes i've heard that major hickok was the engineer in charge of that monumental achievement in the

00:42:19panama canal he's examined this building from top to bottom and has filed his report has this man a

00:42:25license yes has this man a license a license he has a congressional medal of honor and mr. mayor i move that

00:42:35the chair accept the major's report in evidence certainly i was just about to make the same

00:42:40suggestion proceed sir that the structure should have been allowed to deteriorate to such an extent

00:42:48as now is a matter of apparent negligence concerning which it is not my duty to report

00:42:54but the building is by no means beyond repair to destroy such a dignified and harmoniously proportioned

00:43:05structure is something which the pride of this community should go to great lengths to prevent

00:43:11the council will be glad to take this report under its due consideration mr mayor i make a motion that the chair call for a rising vote of those in favor of preserving this building

00:43:26may i inquire if it is in order to call upon this meeting for a vote on a matter which is entirely

00:43:40the responsibility of the duly elected city officials does a gathering of citizens require a government license

00:43:46to vote on a public question well i i don't deny the right of this or any other anomalous body to express its opinion

00:43:54but that opinion must not be forced upon the council which has had the benefit of the advice of competent engineers known and respected by all of us this this is not a matter in which a pressure group should try to enforce its will

00:44:06this building doesn't belong to the city council to dispose of as they choose it belongs to the people of the city of fredericksville and the county of fredericks 500 000 strong

00:44:16i'm afraid the gentleman's idea of our population is as exaggerated as some of his other ideas the figure is highly conservative sir

00:44:28this courthouse doesn't belong merely to the citizens of today but of yesterday on the steps of this building general george washington addressed the citizens of fredericksville

00:44:38in this very room the delegates from the young state of georgia assembled to ratify the federal constitution

00:44:46this embodiment of our common memories is a symbol of law and order and of democratic procedure

00:44:52a symbol of what we fought the revolution for it represents a heritage of our free government handed down to us through perilous years

00:45:02it belongs to every citizen who trod these streets before us it belongs to every citizen who will tread these streets after you and i are gone sir no the figure is not exaggerated

00:45:16the only exaggeration is in naming any figure at all for the owners of this building are as impossible to number as the generations yet unborn

00:45:28the old boy is quite an order but the contract's been signed the council is of course interested in the opinions of the citizens whatever is done with this old building is going to cost money the taxpayers money and it is our duty to see that that money is well spent

00:45:56now in order to either rebuild or repair we will need wpa help if a grant can be secured from the wpa it will take care of one third of the cost

00:46:08but the wpa is not interested in repairing old buildings however there is every reason to believe that a grant of one third can be obtained toward building a new courthouse

00:46:24may i ask what would be the approximate cost of these two projects approximately 375 000 for a new courthouse

00:46:36and for repairing 390 000 of it you mean to say it would cost 15 000 less to build a new courthouse than to repair this one

00:46:48fifteen thousand dollars on the face of it man but when you add to that saving the hundred and twenty thousand dollars that the wpa will probably grant you have a total saving to the taxpayers

00:47:00of something like a hundred and fifty thousand dollars preposterous what kind of repairs would cost three hundred and ninety thousand dollars

00:47:06it's all contained here sir on the report of the architect which unfortunately is too long to read

00:47:14this building should be preserved no matter what the cost

00:47:20i question the figures submitted for the cost of repairing this building objection noted sir furthermore

00:47:28no matter how much is spent on a new building you cannot buy for it the history and dignity of this one

00:47:34unfortunately the city government cannot be conducted on mere dignity we are entrusted with a duty of providing the county

00:47:42with safe and proper means for carrying on its business has the wpa already agreed to grant a hundred and twenty thousand dollars

00:47:48twenty thousand dollars for a new courthouse why uh i move the meeting be adjourned i second the motion

00:47:55it is moved a second to this meeting be adjourned all those in favor say aye aye

00:48:00aye opposed no

00:48:02motion carried reading adjourned

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00:48:42motion carried out

00:48:43motion carried out

00:48:44motion carried out

00:48:45motion carried out

00:48:46motion carried out

00:48:47I have nothing but praise for the magnificent behavior of the troops well

00:48:52at least I'm glad it's all over there's been no order to sound retreat madam

00:48:57I'm scarcely mobile right an editorial to go with it something like since the

00:49:09WPA refuses to aid in financing the repairing of the old courthouse even the

00:49:15most sentimental citizen will be practical enough to realize and so

00:49:18forth and so forth lay it on thick hey chape look at this full page ad for

00:49:22Sunday from crow marty's good boy yeah well don't thank him thank your pals down

00:49:27City Hall they passed the word to crow marty's you see that's what comes of

00:49:30playing ball on the right team see to it we keep on doing that city desk and for

00:49:38you mr. holds Atlanta calling hello speaking it's him yes curl your cousin in

00:49:50other words sir the local authorities seem to be suffering from a considerable

00:49:55misapprehension the WPA has one not agreed to aid in the building of a new

00:50:01courthouse and to has not refused to aid in the repairing of the present structure

00:50:07in fact the WPA has not even been approached in the manner therefore since it

00:50:14was this misrepresentation regarding the attitude of the WPA that caused the

00:50:19citizens at the recent public meeting to hesitate as to how to cast their vote I

00:50:23insist mr. editor that you'll demand a new public meeting I'll inform the mayor of

00:50:28your suggestion Colonel that's the best I can promise goodbye give me strength

00:50:35what are we gonna do with them why don't the officials do something is the whole

00:50:39country headed for chaos is he trying to start a second party here with all the

00:50:43wastes of campaigns why some of these people have been in office since they got

00:50:46out of the fifth grade they know their job is he trying to turn them all out on the

00:50:50street you're not gonna print that are you if we don't the news will blow it wide

00:50:54open especially when they see what we got from crow marty's Al go and tell the

00:50:59mayor we've got to run it maybe they can think of something who me he's your cousin

00:51:04why did he have to come back here nice and peaceful and contended couldn't he stay in

00:51:12Panama with general stegamaya to whip the mosquito

00:51:15for your identification gang hello this makes you know mr. Marbury one of our

00:51:20bright young reporters and one of our most patriotic citizens well yes of course

00:51:24you're a relative of my very dear friend could laughing about you sort of they're

00:51:29devoted

00:51:29the town took it like a man

00:51:58two or three people called in about the meeting but they were mostly just surprised or sorry

00:52:05there was no suggestion of resistance my idea of the fault lies with the high command we made

00:52:12the tactical error of withholding our reserves too long the time has now come to throw in our

00:52:17storm troops and our capital ships then you're not discouraged colonel discouragement has no more

00:52:21place in a soldier's equipment than an inner spring mattress to our capital ships full speed ahead and as

00:52:28Admiral Farragut said you know about the torpedoes

00:52:35top on the list of the colonel's reserves was his friend sterling tignor well uh what do you want me to do will I want you to help us save this fine old courthouse it belongs to the people and the people want it saved will let me tell you something I've been watching all this to do about the courthouse

00:52:52it reminds me of somebody trying to open up a can of sardines with a pocket knife

00:52:59you're going about this the wrong way if you want to save that courthouse you can do it

00:53:06are you suggesting bribery

00:53:08these are practical men you're dealing with

00:53:10they listen to reason

00:53:12I'd be willing to make a personal contribution of any reasonable amount myself what you suggest is unthinkable and indecent all you need do is write a letter to the paper as a private citizen calling for another public meeting in the light of this new information from the WPA write a letter to the paper

00:53:27why don't you know if I did that tomorrow morning the whole municipal checking account would be closed out nonsense it's you fellows who are impractical what can they do with it they can't walk around town with the money in the pocket they take it right up the street to jesse bibbs bank no no you reformers don't have a sense of reality will you don't have a sense of reality will

00:53:42you don't seem to grasp the hard-headed facts the hard-headed facts are if you don't repair something that needs repairing pretty soon you won't have it to repair I'm sorry but there's no use arguing about it good day

00:53:57good day

00:54:00I'm sorry but there's no use arguing about it good day

00:54:05I'm sorry but there's no use arguing about it

00:54:07good day

00:54:10I'm sorry will but you're making a mistake a great mistake to antagonize these people antagonize you advocate appeasement no but what you're proposing is that I stab my stockholders in the back and that I most assured he will not do what about all the widows and orphans who own stock in the bank of Fredericksville

00:54:35what are you afraid of man no citizen has anything to fear from a politician the young man of this town will be going off to war soon they volunteered to serve their country in time of war when they come home they must be prepared to volunteer to serve their community and dive of peace to confront every enemy of progress wherever he shows his head what sort of example are we going to set them sorry you won't see this realistically will idealism is a

00:55:05idealism is all right and it's idealism is everything Jesse without it you go stumbling along in the dark day after day it's your match in the dark tower romantic then whatever you want to call it there's nothing more romantic in any of us than to think we are not romantic we are such stuff as dreams are made on well never mind there's one man in this town will see things the way I do

00:55:35I do not know the tune we'll see if you fellas dance yes sir I should have consulted Clyde man in view in the first place he'll put a stop to this this invasion

00:56:05how is he

00:56:16how is he

00:56:16you might have culdin Mr. Tool

00:56:19where's Ms. Emma

00:56:20she's inside

00:56:21oh

00:56:25Albert thank goodness you come

00:56:26maybe you can do

00:56:27something with

00:56:28him

00:56:28any change cuz no

00:56:29no

00:56:30he just sits there staring out the window

00:56:32ever since his best friend that Clyde manned you turned him down the whole

00:56:38fight seems to gone out of him he just can't understand Clyde managed you of

00:56:43all people been able to make him take his menace yes that's what worries me he

00:56:50takes it without hardly any person at all and you know how cranky he used to

00:56:54be about medicine it's not like well to give in so easy could I see him yes go

00:57:00right on up maybe you can do something with him oh stop playing that thing about

00:57:05he can't hear yourself think around here I ain't playing on Miss Emma I ain't

00:57:09touching since the curve well then play it stop acting like there was a funeral in

00:57:14the house

00:57:16I just thought I'd stop by for a minute before we leave

00:57:40leave yes sir company's pulling out nine-thirty forgive me my boy I'd clean

00:57:51forgotten it I'll be there oh no cousin will you mustn't do that you better stay

00:57:58here and take care of yourself Albert I've made the unpardonable error of

00:58:03overestimating the quality of my reserves oh you mean man are doing that

00:58:09crowd well I that's not as bad as it looks cousin will he no Albert there's

00:58:18only one phase of this whole campaign I can look back on with satisfaction when I

00:58:24first saw you again I must say you seemed as indifferent to the fate of

00:58:28Fredericksville as all the rest but after you began to consider the life

00:58:32story of Fredericksville and realize the toil and blood and sorrow that

00:58:37Fredericksville had grown from your indifference began to leave you and you

00:58:43enlisted in the National Guard sure Colonel but now that we've come to a time of new

00:58:50growth when toil and blood and sorrow again called for I'm proud Albert proud that you

00:59:00step forward among the first the same is true of your comrades in arm I didn't do

00:59:08anything cousin Willie they just drafted me anyway Albert I want you to have this

00:59:15oh no cousin Willie I couldn't take that this was the first wristwatch in the Panama Canal Zone

00:59:22it hasn't lost a minute in 34 years

00:59:27gee doesn't worry that's a while I should like to think of it carrying you into action

00:59:40in action my boy timing is very important thank you sir well I guess I'd better be shoving off

00:59:55bye sir goodbye my boy God bless you

01:00:10bye

01:00:40Hello, Dr. Evans.

01:00:44Oh, good afternoon, Albert.

01:00:45Say, Doc, what's the real lowdown in the current room?

01:00:48Well, I'll tell you, Albert.

01:00:50He ought to be in a hospital, but I can't do a thing with him.

01:00:53He refused to budge from the house.

01:00:55Is he going to get well?

01:00:57Not unless we can put some fight back into him.

01:00:59Give him something to get well for.

01:01:01The way he is now at his age, it's hard to say.

01:01:05But we'll do our best.

01:01:06Goodbye.

01:01:10Goodbye.

01:01:40Order.

01:01:57Hold.

01:02:00Right.

01:02:02Please.

01:02:04First, Sergeant.

01:02:06Dismissed the company yes, sir

01:02:20Inspection

01:02:27That's man

01:02:36Hello

01:02:39So you've come to cover the story have you put you don't think I came to see you do you Ella Sue want something to eat soldier?

01:02:54Have you a statement for the press

01:02:56Only that I wish to convey what a steam city leaders my heart felt appreciation

01:03:01Well, it's delicious barbecued thing without which democracy is we have known it in Georgia

01:03:19You know I

01:03:21Think you ought to hang a service down the door of the society's one why?

01:03:27You got me into this me that you'd like the uniform

01:03:30Well, I'll bet this is so sudden

01:03:33Remember that day at the courthouse up in the catwalk when uh

01:03:37Wind blew your skirts up, but I'll be how sweet of you to know

01:03:41Guess that was a turning point in my life

01:03:43All right

01:03:45Seen your legs before but they never impressed me as being anything unusual

01:03:48Just one of them now

01:03:51Suddenly I realized there was something about them

01:03:53Didn't seem to fit in with that first little day when the officer hit her cigarettes

01:03:56I mean there was something sort of special and personal I didn't even suspect you knew I had legs

01:04:05Just began to bother me. That's all

01:04:08You mean there's something profane in your feelings towards me

01:04:14Definitely I'll bet you are not

01:04:18After that I never felt the same towards you towards anything for that matter

01:04:21That I thought maybe you'd like the uniform

01:04:25Why didn't you tell me?

01:04:27I reckon I couldn't figure out how to say it without getting serious

01:04:31Seriousness won't pitch

01:04:33Listen, honey child. I'm a southerner. Seriousness is one thing. I'm scared to death

01:04:37I'm scared to death

01:04:45Ladies and gentlemen

01:04:49It is my privilege and distinguished pleasure

01:04:53To present his honor

01:04:55The mayor

01:04:56This is a red-letter day in the glorious history of Fredericksville

01:05:06When the sons of Georgia once more answer the call of duty

01:05:12Words fail me to express the gratitude that we the citizens of this community

01:05:17Feel for you young men who are going forth like your fathers of old

01:05:23To preserve and protect our way of life

01:05:27And the ideals of government of the people

01:05:31For the people and by the people

01:05:35Some of you may even be called upon to make the supreme sacrifice

01:05:41In defense of our ideals and our homes

01:05:44But boys, I want you to remember this

01:05:48You can always count on the folks at home

01:05:51And when the war is won

01:05:53You come marching back in triumph

01:05:56You'll find the home folks right here waiting for you

01:06:00And the home folks party

01:06:01Quiet, I want to make a speech

01:06:15Quiet, I want to make a speech

01:06:20I've listened to all the bunk I want to

01:06:23We guys are going out to do a job that's got to be done

01:06:26Maybe we won't get back in time for the next election

01:06:31But when we do get back

01:06:33We want to make sure that we're going to have something to say about what's going on around here

01:06:38Too many of us have sat back like scared rabbits

01:06:45We're scared to talk

01:06:48Scared to vote

01:06:49Scared to even look at things the way they are

01:06:53But maybe by the time we get this job done we won't scare so easy

01:06:58Maybe more people heard Colonel Effingham than you thought

01:07:05When an honest man speaks out you'd be surprised how many people hear him

01:07:10Maybe they're tired of political tricks

01:07:13And grabs and run-arounds and shenanigans

01:07:15Maybe they want that town run and not run down

01:07:19And about this courthouse

01:07:20Leave it right where it is

01:07:22See towards it it's fixed up by the time we get back

01:07:25If it's not fixed up we're going to want to know why

01:07:33And leave Monument Square alone too

01:07:35We had enough of Pud tooling while he was here in person

01:07:38Am I right fellas?

01:07:40Yes

01:07:45All right, what's your answer, Mr. Mayor? We want it straight

01:07:50Yeah

01:07:52Boys, boys

01:07:54We want it right here in front of the whole town

01:07:56So there be no stalling

01:07:58Well, uh...

01:08:00Come on!

01:08:01Boys, boys

01:08:02Why, I...

01:08:16We promise

01:08:18You know we wouldn't do anything to harm that grand old building

01:08:21That's all we wanted to know

01:08:24So long, everybody

01:08:27Fall in!

01:08:28I'm flying!

01:08:30Goodbye, I was saying.

01:08:31Darling.

01:08:38Left!

01:08:40Please!

01:08:42Right shoulder!

01:08:44Pull!

01:08:46Forward!

01:08:48Up!

01:08:50Wait!

01:08:56Hey!

01:08:58Hey!

01:09:00Hey!

01:09:02Hey, hey!

01:09:04Hey!

01:09:10Hey!

01:09:12Hey!

01:09:16Hey!

01:09:18Hey!

01:09:19I'm sorry, Will. I was wrong. From now on, you can count on me. The others, too. Yes, yes, Will. Good luck, Will.

01:09:41Colonel, do you want to hurry and get back on the job? We need you.

01:09:44Great column, Dewey. I always said so. Oh, that's right, Will. You did. Always.

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