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All right, ladies.

Now, the next step on the agenda
is the selection of committees

for the buffet supper.

Uh, Mable Randal will be in
charge of fruit cocktail.

Vera, you are creamed chicken.

And Kathy, you're desert.

I would suggest apple pie.

Oh, but my husband
likes lemon meringue.

Lemon meringue?

Ooh, but meringue gets
so soggy sitting around.

Make it apple pie.

Now wait a minute, Martha.

Let's be parliamentary
about this.

I make a motion
it's lemon meringue.

All right, I have a
meringue motion on the floor.

Well, let's call for a show
of hands and we'll vote on it.

Oh, hello, Mr. Williams.

Hello there.

Hi, sweetie.

Hello, darling.

Den mother's meeting?

Right you are.

Go right ahead.

Don't let me interrupt you.

All right, now all those
in favor of apple pie

please raise their hands.

That's one, two,
three, four apple pies.

All those in favor
of lemon meringue?

That's one meringue.

Well, that does it.

Apple pie is it.

Now, for the last
item, the distribution

of raffle books to the
various dens so the cubs

can start selling the tickets.

Oh, and don't forget, mothers.

Tell your boys that the one
who sells the most tickets

wins a bicycle, donated by
Schreiber's bicycle shop.

That should be quite
a good incentive, hmm.

All right now, Vera, how many
will you take for your den?

Well now, let's see, I'd say
about five books for each boy.

Five?

That sounds just about right.

Good.

Mabel?

Same, and I'll take
Edna's quota too.

Good.

Kathy?

Oh, I'll go along
with the crowd.

All right, that's five for you.

I'll take five each
for the boys in my den.

All except for my son Tommy.

I think that he can
handle 25 for a starter.

25?

Yes, you know how
aggressive he is.

Yes, he is quite a boy at that.

Gets it from Tom Sr. Like
father like son, I always say.

Honey, why don't you speak up?

I mean, our son is no
wallflower either, you know.

If Tommy can handle
25 books, Rusty

can handle the same amount.

25 for Rusty?

Excuse me, what does
"ah ha ha ha" mean?

Oh well, I mean 25 books
for Rusty, that's ridiculous.

You're absolutely right.

Make it 35.

Very well, Mr Williams.

We'll start Rusty
off with 35 books.

Thank you. that will be fine.

Kathy dear, you will send
back all the unsold books

as soon as possible.

Of course.

I think my Tommy may need them.

Look, Mrs. Greenson,
they'll be no unsold books.

My son happens to
be a go getter too.

He'll be the one who will be
coming back for more books.

I assure you.

I just hope he's careful
with his new bike.

If anybody will be
riding a new bike,

I'll bet it will be my Tommy.

How would you like to put
your money where your mouth is?

We're conducting an
orderly meeting here.

That's no way to talk
to our chair lady.

I apologize, Mrs. Greenson.

I was out of order.

Well, that's better.

I make a motion you put your
money where your mouth is.

Fine, thank you very much.

Very nice of you.

Who were you talking to?

To the janitor, honey, about a
place to put Rusty's new bike.

What bike?

The one he's going to win.

Oh, honey, he just got
the tickets this morning.

Aren't you being a
wee bit premature.

Look, sweetheart,
if there's anything

to this saying like father like
son, I'm not being premature.

Honey, I was raised in a
neighborhood where you had

to compete just to stay alive.

I mean this is just a little
ticket selling contest here.

Rusty is my boy.

I'll bet you two to one
before the day is out he

comes back for more books.

Oh, Danny.

I bet he's sold half
of his quota right now.

Hi Dad.
Hi Kathy.

-Hello son.
-Hello , honey.

Kathy, where did you
put those raffle books?

What did I tell you.

He's back for more
books already.

How many have you sold?

None, I forgot to
take them with me.

You forgot?

Where are they, Kathy?

Oh they're right in
that drawer there, Rusty.

Rusty, how could
you forget them.

Get on the ball, boy.

How do expect to win the bike.

I don't.

Tommy Greenson
will win the bike.

-What?
-He wants everything.

Come back here.

What kind of an
attitude is that?

Come on.

Where's the initiative?

Where's that Williams drive?

Where's my son?

I'm right here.

Not when you talk
like that, you're not.

My son is a go getter.

My son is a winner, a person
who overcomes all odds no matter

how great and wins overall.

That's my son.

No, that's Mr. Greenson's son.

Russell, how can you give
up without a struggle?

Don't you want the bike?

Sure, but I got a
birthday coming up soon.

And I thought--

Figured your old man
would buy you one.

Well, I'm not going
to buy you one.

I'm disappointed, Russ.

So am I. Thought I'd get
a bike for my birthday.

Guess I'll go fix lunch.

Wait a minute.

Go fix lunch?

How can you think of
lunch at a time like this?

We have a son who
doesn't realize how

important it is to be a winner.

And that's all you can say,
I think I'll go fix lunch?

Well, if you really
want my opinion,

I think it's just as
important for Rusty

to learn that
everybody can't win.

What about the boys who
come in second and third?

Second and third?

I'm betting him to win and
you're talking place and show.

What kind of thinking is that?

Look, the boy's character
is being molded now.

Oh Danny, why don't you admit?

You're much more concerned
about your own pride being hurt

than you are about
Rusty's character.

Is that so?

Um huh.

Well let me tell you
something, Mrs. Williams.

What?

Why don't you go fix lunch?

Why didn't I think of that?

Look, Russ, I know
everybody can't win.

I understand that some
guy's got to come in second,

some guy's got to come in third.

But at least the fellows
who come in second and third

tried to win.

You're not even trying.

Well gee, Daddy, everybody
knows Tommy Greenson always

wins everything.

He's just one of those guys.

That's all.

What kind of guy is
he one of those of?

Who always wins.

That's what guys
he's one of those of.

Don't be smart, huh.

Look, Tommy Greenson
wins because he tries.

And he tries hard.

You, you give up
without a struggle.

You go through life
like that, you'll

never succeed at anything.

Well gee whiz.

Look, sweetheart,
there's more involved

here than just a raffle
ticket selling contest.

Your whole life is going
to be a series of contests.

You don't want to be a
failure in life, do you?

Well gee whiz, Daddy, I
don't expect it keep selling

raffle tickets for a living.

You want me to be
proud of you, don't you?

Sure.

Well then make me proud of you.

I wasnt' a quitter
when I was your age.

And you mustn't be
a quitter either.

You gotta keep
saying to yourself,

I'll sell the most
raffle tickets.

I will win the bike.

You say it over and over
until you believe it.

You mean if I keep
saying it I'll believe it?

Of course.

Now, repeat after me.

I will sell the
most raffle tickets.

I will sell the
most raffle tickets.

I will win the bike.

-I will win the bike.
-Atta boy.

-Atta boy.
-All right.

All right.

Cut it out!

Go sell the tickets.

That you, Russ.

Yeah, Dad.

I've been waiting for you, boy.

Well, how many
ticket did you sell?

You mean today?

Yeah, today.

Well, that depends.

How many are you going to buy?

Well I'll buy 12.

12?
Wow.

Yeah, how many have you sold?

Including the ones
you just bought?

Including the
ones I just bought.

12.

You mean you didn't sell any?

Sure, I just told you 12.

I can't understand it.

Come here.

Come here.

Show me how you went about it.

But I'm hungry.

You'll eat after while.

Now show me how
you went about it.

You sell me a raffle ticket.
-But--

No buts about it.

Now look, you go outside,
ring the doorbell.

I'll answer the door.

Now you sell me a raffle ticket.

You understand?

And remember, you
got to have courage.

You stand up there.

Never let the customer
know you're afraid of him.

You know what I mean?

Yes, I've gotta stand there,
look him straight in the eye.

And not let him know I'm afraid.
-That's my boy.

Come on.
Come on, let's practice.

Come on.

Any time you're ready.

OK, ring the doorbell.

All right.

Come on.

Here we go.

Come on.

Well, what's the matter?

I lost my nerve.

Holy Toledo.

In your own house
you lost your nerve?

No wonder you couldn't
sell any tickets.

What kind of a thing is
that, you lost your nerve?

Now come on.

I'll be the lady of the house.

And you sell me a raffle ticket.

I can't.

Why not?

You don't look like a lady.

OK Stanislavsky,
I'll look like a lady.

Go ahead.

Don't look like a lady.

You gotta draw
picture for the kid.

So I'll look like a lady.

Don't look like a lady.

Bringing up the children'll
drive you crazy.

OK, now I look like a lady.

Madame.

What's the matter?

You're the silliest
looking lady I ever--

Cut it out.

Now come on.

Sell the tickets.

Excuse me, Madame.

Yes, young man?

I'm selling raffle tickets.

Uh huh.

Do you want any?

-Well now I--
-Thanks anyway.

Wait a minute.

No wonder you didn't
sell any tickets.

Who would buy it?

That's not salesmanship.

That's you're just defeated
from the very beginning.

Well gee whiz, nobody
else bought any.

Why should you?

I'll show you how to
sell a raffle ticket.

No you be the lady of the house.

I'll be you.

Watch the charm,
how I come in and I

look the beautiful house over.

Pay compliments.
Watch.

All right.

Now watch.

Ready.

How do you do?

Are you the lovely
lady of the house?

Sorry, I have a boy of my
own who is selling them too.

What are you doing?

That's what the lady did to me.

What am I going to
do with you, Russ?

What am I going to do with you?

Is that the way you're going
to be when you grow up?

Well gee whiz, Daddy,
who says I'm going

to grow up to be a salesman?

Sweetheart, no matter
what you grow up to be

you gotta be a salesman.

You have to sell yourself.

That goes if you're
a doctor, a lawyer,

a musician, or anything.

You've got to sell yourself.

Why do you suppose people laugh
at me on the nightclub floor?

They laugh at the jokes.

They enjoy my songs.

Why?

It's not because my jokes are
better than the next fellows.

Or that I've got a great voice,
which heaven knows I haven't.

It's because I've
sold myself first.

And once I've sold myself
they'll buy anything from me.

They'd buy anything.

Yeah.

Well you can't keep up
with our kids today.

It's impossible.

I swear, I don't believe, I
do not believe that my mother

and father raised 10 children.

How did they do it?

I've got only three and
they're driving me crazy.

Kids today, they know so much.

They know too much,
the little monsters.

To stay ahead of your
kids today you gotta

be a walking book of knowledge.

I know my daughter Terry is now
talking about going to college.

I've had only one
year of high school.

She speaks to me
through an interpreter.

How much you have to know
to keep up with your kids.

Now my folks were simple
normal people, stay at homes.

They didn't have to know what
was going on two blocks away.

Today we gotta know what's
going on all over the world.

I remember my
mother couldn't tell

me how to get to Coney Island.

Me, I gotta tell my kid
how to get to the moon.

The atomic age, electronics,
spaceships, rocket ships,

satellites.

Everybody wants to
go to outer space.

You know, I wish they would.

Maybe we'd have a
little peace down here.

I mean, in the old
days life was simpler.

People were relaxed.

Today everybody is in
a big hurry to die.

I remember when I was
a kid, Barney Oldfield

set a world speed record.

He astounded the nation.

He drove a racing
car 60 miles an hour.

Try going 60 miles an hour today
on one of your modern highways.

You get pinched for
obstructing traffic.

Wait till you see
the latest cars,

air brakes, and unbreakable
windshields, 600 horsepower.

Wait till you see them.

Next you're going to
drive 180 miles an hour

and stop on a dime.

The you press a button
and a putty knife

scrapes you off the windshield.

This they call progress.

Look at the food.

Who enjoys a meal anymore?

They got powdered eggs,
powdered milk, powdered soup.

They don't serve
you a meal anymore.

They blow it at you.

I don't know.

Our folks had it a lot
easier than we did.

See, my dad accentuated
the positive with a club

about that long.

And I think that's
a cue for a song.

Earl, let's have
a song here, huh.

(SINGING) You have got to
accentuate the positive.

Eliminate the negative,
latch on to the affirmative,

don't mess with Mr. In Between.

You've got to spread
joy up to the maximum.

Bring gloom down to the minimum.

Have faith or pandemonium's
libel to walk upon the scene.

To Illustrate my last remarks,
there's Jonah in the whale

and Noah in the ark.

What did they do?

Just when everything
looks so dire,

oh they said we got to
accentuate the positive.

Eliminate the negative.

Latch on to the affirmative.

Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

No, back off the negative.

Come on the positive.

Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

Thank you very much.

I want to dedicate that
song to my son, who

incidentally is here tonight.

My boy has been accentuating
the negative here of late.

See, I've been trying to
teach him some salesmanship.

He hasn't sold one raffle ticket
since the contest started.

And I thought that maybe
tonight you folks could help

my boy to believe in himself.

Put the lights up.

Will you, Charlie.

Stop yawning and
come on up here.

This is my boy, Rusty.

And why don't you tell the
folks what you're doing, son?

Go ahead, don't be nervous now.

Well--

Yeah.

I'm selling raffle tickets.

And--

AUDIENCE MEMBER
1: I'll take two.

Well.

AUDIENCE MEMBER
2: I'll take four.

AUDIENCE MEMBER 3: Hey
give me some tickets, kid.

Oh.

AUDIENCE MEMBER 4: Me too.

AUDIENCE MEMBER 5: I'll
take a whole book full.

Well Going ahead.

Start-- that's wonderful, Russ.

-I'll take a couple over here.
-Right over there.

This fellow will take one too.

I'll have five.

Fine .

Over here, Rusty.

I'll make change for you.

Russ, hurry now.

We'll be late.

OK, Daddy, I just want
to count this money again.

That makes about the 10th
time he's counted his money.

That's nice.

Oh come on, honey.

Get off it, will you?

I told you how I felt
about it last night.

And I haven't changed my mind.

You ought to be excited,
for heaven's sake.

The kid sold a lot
of tickets, 31 books.

He sold them or you sold them?

What did I have to do with it?

You saw him sell them.

Oh yes, I saw him
sell them after you

made a big sales pitch for him.

All right, so I helped
him a little bit.

Is that such a crime?

All parents help their
kids sell things.

How many parents have a
captive audience to sell

raffle tickets to by the gross?

What kind of a crack is that?

Oh, Danny, you ought to
be ashamed of yourself.

Well how do you like this?

I have to apologize for
doing something for my son?

Danny, are you doing
it for your son?

Or are you doing it for
your own ego as his father?

My ego as his father has
nothing to do with it.

I did it to prove to
him that he doesn't have

to take a backseat to anybody.

I had to prove to him
that he could sell more

tickets than Tommy Greenson.

And all you've
succeeded in proving

is that Danny Williams
could sell more

tickets than Tommy Greenson.

Look, sweetheart, all
Rusty lacked was confidence.

But now he's got it.

How do you know that?

I know it because
the last five books

of tickets he sold all
by himself, on his own,

to absolute strangers.

And that's the truth.

Well at least that's something.

Aw, Danny, I don't mean that
you shouldn't help Rusty.

But to help a boy too
much is a big mistake.

Look, sweetheart,
our son's future

is far too important
for me to be

splitting hairs about whether
I helped him too much or not.

Besides, you sold
a lot of tickets.

It's for a worthy cause.

Hello, I'm Tommy Greenson.

Hello, Tommy, come on in.

Hello Mrs. Williams.

Is it all right if I go to
the meeting with you folks?

Why sure, of course.

Aren't your folks going, son?

Well of course they are.

His mother is the chair lady.

Yeah, but Dad had to
take her over early.

So I wondered if it would be all
right if I went with you folks.

Why that's fine, Tommy.

Why don't you sit down a minute?

Rusty is still dressing.

Thank you.

Well, all set to turn
the tickets in, eh?

I sure am.

I figure I got a good
chance to win the bike too.

Oh?

I'm only two tickets
short of 30 books.

Two tickets short
of 30 books, hey.

Looks like somebody
else's father's

got some pretty good
connections too.

Huh?

I said that that's a
lot of ticket to sell.

it's sure been a big job.

You know, I had to get
up at 6:00 every morning

since the contest started.

6:00 in the morning?

What for, Tommy?

To sell tickets.

From 7:00 to 8:00 I
stand in the subway

and try and get people
on their way to work.

Of course, you don't
sell too many that way.

But if you do it every
morning, it adds up.

Then after school I
go to all the stores

and I try and get people
coming out of the movies.

Sure been a big job.

Never worked so hard in my life.

Didn't your father help you?

Oh sure, he helped me.

Oh well.

He bought two tickets from me.

How'd Rusty do?

R- R-R- Rusty did
p- p- pretty good.

I, uh, I better go up and
see what's keeping the boy.

Hi Daddy.

Hi.

Say, you know what?

Got so much money here we
should hire an armoured car.

-Yeah.
-Let's go.

Wait a minute, Russ.
Wait a minute.

What for?

Look, Tommy Greenson
is downstairs.

He's going to the
meeting with you.

He is?

Yeah.

Hey, did you find out
how many tickets he sold?

Yeah, yeah, I found out.

How many?

Well, he sold two
less than 30 books.

And I sold 31 books.

Yeah.

Oh boy, I've won the bike.

Daddy, I've won it.

Have you, Russ?

Sure, there are 10
tickets to a book.

So I've sold 12 more
tickets than he has.

Oh boy, I've won the bike.

Boy that was a
great idea you had,

taking me to the nightclub.

Yeah, yeah, it
was a great idea.

Let's go.

Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.

Why?

I, I thought maybe
you'd, uh, well, I

thought maybe you'd like to
hear how Tommy Greenson sold,

sold his tickets.

Well, what's the difference?

I beat him.

Yeah, yeah, I
know you beat him.

But I think you ought
to hear it anyhow.

Yeah, it's quite interesting.

You know, that silly
kid got up every morning

at 6:00 two weeks straight.

Stood out in front
of the subways

catching the people
on their way to work.

And he stopped
people in the street,

stood in front of
the movie houses,

and went into all the stores.

And selling tickets one
by one, hour after hour,

day after day for
two solid weeks.

He wound up selling only 12
tickets less than you did.

Can you imagine how many
tickets he would have sold

if his father had a nightclub
audience full of people

to buy books full?

Well, gee whiz, Daddy.

All I want to
know, sweetheart, is

do you honestly
believe you're winning

this bike fair and square?

But the last five books
I sold all by myself.

I know.
I know.

I'm not forgetting that.

You deserve credit for it too.

But I mean, do you
really think you sold

enough books all by yourself?

Could you give me an
advance on my allowance?

What for?

Well, I've been selling
tickets to everybody else.

And I don't have any for myself.

After all, I might win the
portable TV or something.

You mean everything
I've just said to you

has gone into one ear
and out the other?

Haven't you
clobbered him enough?

What do you want to do
rub his nose in it now?

Never mind.

You'll get your allowance
money when it's due

and not a minute before.

Then how am I going to buy
enough tickets from Tommy

so he'll win the bike?

Are you sure you're
only 10 years old?

Here, here's double
your allowance.

Buy a lot of tickets.

Gee thanks, Daddy.

Come on, let's go.

Hey, King Solomon.

Yeah?

Come here.

Ow.

What did I do now?

Nothing, I just
found out what you're

going to be when you grow up.

What that?

A man.

Naturally.

Look, Russ, I don't want to
make a big thing out of this.

I just want you to know
I'm, I'm very proud of you.

Thanks, Daddy.

And do you want me to
be proud of you too?

You know I do.

Then buy me a bicycle
for my birthday.

Oh come on.

Well everybody,
how do you like it.

It's mine.
-Well.

-Yours?
-Yeah.

Wait a minute.

I thought Tommy
Greenson won the bike.

He did.

Well where did you get it.

Well you know the tickets
I bought from Tommy?

Yeah.

One of them won
the portable TV.

So I traded Tommy for the bike.

You traded Tommy?

Sure, he's already got a bike.

The one he won last year
for selling the most

magazine subscriptions.

Well isn't that wonderful?

Hey, it's a beaut, too.

Look at that, hand
brakes and everything.

You know, this has been a
most profitable experience

for the Williams family.

Rusty got himself
a real good bike.

And I certainly learned
a real good lesson.

I learned a lesson too.

What's that?

Why kill yourself
selling raffle books.

All you gotta do is
buy the winning ticket.