The Goldbergs on the Radio: Ep. 1551

you is anybody there's Molly folks that means your friends The Goldbergs are here brought to you by doz the new kind of soap for everything in your wash first let's drop in on the doam family p just got home he looks upset ma doen what on Earth were you talking so long on the phone about well I was telling Miss Avery about D well I've been trying to get you for a half hour I'm sorry Paul I was just telling her what a wonderful new kind of soap does is and how it does everything in myage what a half hour ma well we were talking about how does does your overalls and work shirts and my towels you know and even Daisy's pretty rayon undies just everything why didn't you invite Miss Avery over to tell her instead of tying up the phone when I'm trying to get you honestly P didn't seem so long at all I got to telling her how easy do gets even your dirtiest work shirts clean I told her there's no hard scrubbing why you don't even need a bar soap anymore cuz doz gets rid of grimy dirt all by itself and here I am getting a busy signal all the time well she was fussing about her towels p and I had to explain no soap I ever used got towels and linens whiter and does and naturally I felt obliged to tell her that doz is actually safer for pretty rayon slips and the other nice colors I wash why I said does really gives longer life to colors you know know yet you can't beat it for getting out tough dirt oh but if I'd known you was trying to phone me P hung right up would you Ma certainly what' your phone about oh to tell you I was coming home uh well now that Pa's home I guess I could butt in to say compared to other leading granulated wash day soaps does gives longer life to Colors plus unsurpassed whiteness and real cleaning power for the tough dirt try does Duz It does everything in the wash and now the Goldbergs well Molly Goldberg respected and loved by all her friends and neighbors is suddenly an outcast in her own town a town in which she has lived for so many years the people of lenbury have called a meeting to make Molly account for her actions why she continued to trust George and Grace when she knew they were swindlers why she gave them the town funds and why she allowed the two to run off with this money Molly and her family are on the way to the meeting listen got a l and stand on and everybody knows now I don't think Mrs Goldberg is going to show up at all now just hold on I've known the Goldbergs for a good many years now conable Newton if you're going to hold any brief of what Mrs Goldberg did I'll just leave the room that's all just a minute please there's absolutely no excuse for what Mrs Goldberg did she fooled us she wanted to be torrent with two cheap thieves why didn't she allow us the same privilege didn't she think we could be as understanding as she was now if you'll just be quiet for a half a second I'll just review the whole thing as I heard it and knew it that girl Grace came up and posed as the wife of Mrs Gold's son she certain now Mrs Decker if you want the floor would just say so and I'll retire well at least I know the truth when I Mrs Goldberg Mrs Goldberg was fooled into believing that Grace was her son's wife Grace met Sammy at an army camp got to know him and all his folks she found out he was going overseas she just wrote to The Goldberg saying she and Sammy were married and she'd like to meet a the old Badger G brought up to date it was quite a while before Mrs Goldberg found out the truth she knew this George was coming over to the house frequently and if Mrs Goldberg was as smart as she thinks she is why was it she didn't see through it that's what I want to know it takes time my dear that's door passed and we had nothing to do what I'm saying is why when Mrs Goldberg knew who Grace and George were just two cheap things why didn't she tell us that's what I want to know now why didn't she introduce them to us as two respectable people why did she still have us believe that Grace was her daughter not that's all anybody just a moment please quiet quiet please hello long distance calling Mrs Goldberg well this isn't Mrs Goldberg's residence I know that but she's expected that this number isn't she yes will you have her call Operator 64 yes I'll do that here Mrs gold B now the car is coming Bruce is driving the car what the word you suppos Bruce is doing driving the car ladies ladies I'm cautioning you all here they come please please don't all speak at the same time give the woman a chance to defend herself she has no defense she has made fool D oh I'm sorry for that poor man having to live with a woman like that going around here all I clothed as a sheep and W come in I do oh come in Bruce come right in Mrs Goldberg Mr Goldberg Uncle David Rosie I I think you'll all find some seats thank you thank you sit here M well I don't know exactly what this meeting was called for but I guess I got a pretty good idea Mrs Goldberg is here with the $572 so that nobody is going to lose any money we don't want that money I don't think anybody present is concerned about the little contribution to the delinquent fund we have hold on well now all the folks feel that they've been made fools of by Mrs Goldberg well I don't know why you Mrs Goldberg should think you were the only one that would forgive a sinner we're all churchgoing folks Mrs Goldberg and we know how to turn and the other cheek as well as the next one well I should just a minute just a minute I suggest you all keep your tongues inside your head I'm not here to defend Mrs Goldberg I told her what I think I didn't me my words I I I think that's for you Mrs Goldberg for me hello hello Mrs Goldberg please uh just a minute please shall I take it Molly thank you I will hello Mrs Goldberg yes I have a longdistance call for you yes thank you I'm present just a minute thank you just excuse me a moment please call for me my call hello I'm sorry I'll have to call you back the party just left I'll call you back thank you who was it m who was it I don't know I don't know now Mrs Goldberg is there anything you can say in your defense everyone here knows all the outside facts the way I do we know know what happened we just don't know why it happened each of us kind of figure out an explanation for ourselves but maybe it ain't the right one or the real one there can't be any right explanation there can't be any explanation which would hold water in a fair and unprejudiced mind I'm glad you said that Carrie I'm now Ladi if you're just going to sit there and conable conable I want to say something I've got something to say and if it isn't understood that I want no part of this whole meeting Mrs Goldberg come here here to meet her friends and neighbors maybe she did something wrong and maybe she just did something that happened to turn out wrong that ain't the same but we're here to listen and judge after not before a few people made up your minds to condemn her without hearing and I want no part of it and I'll go a step further we no judges and no juries and we're going to be polite and understanding if not I'm calling this whole thing off Bruce is right so if you women got any complaints well then you listen first and find out just where you stand all right Mrs Goldberg we'd like to hear what you have to say m well friends and neighbors and dear neighbors if you think I did what I did to fool you I was also fooled and I turned not One Cheek but two the slaps were not light it's not easy for me to tell you why I did what I did maybe it was because I wanted to show George and Grace that that there were some good people in the world maybe not but when you're living in a house with a girl that's supposed to be your son's wife and all of a sudden you find out she's not your wife and then all of a sudden you have to hate her you begin to wonder why you begin to wonder what is it why did she do what she did and you try to find out it's not easy why did anybody ever lend a hand to somebody else it's a golden rule indeed it is indeed but rules aren't always obeyed and there was this girl Grace and George loved her and she was going to have a child and I said to myself maybe if she had a chance sure you gave her a chance but you didn't give us a chance no no maybe maybe because she needed the chance and you didn't I mean you people us we we had a chance to make a life for ourselves and we made it and it was good but there are people who never get a chance and when a time comes that one of us from our how shall I say it from our safety and our security can put out a hand and and give one of those from the outside a chance and maybe excuse me I'm only saying maybe and even if somebody is hurt we can afford to take some hurts because because the whole world is behind our backs to give us courage and to give us strength but the other ones I mean when they are hurt they they fall and behind them is nothing and and they fall like like like the bad Angels into into a hole without the bottom into nothing that still doesn't explain anything I know I know it doesn't explain but I'm trying believe me I'm trying and it's not easy maybe that's for me excuse me hello Mrs Goldberg I still haven't been able to reach your party who is the party please George Stevens calling Mrs Goldberg who George Stevens oh thank you thank you very much while all the neighbors sit about her demanding an explanation of why she hadn't taken them into her confidence Molly begins to hope once again that her experiment may still work and that it may end in success but meanwhile these people who were once her friends are angry and impatient you know many times people judge us not So Much by what we know as by what we don't know for instance take that young Dicky doam said the other day you know I started Ed teasing him about that cute little girl next door and Dicky said who her the big Freckle face gosh she's so dumb she doesn't even know what does is well now Dicky you certainly ought to tell her teller does is a new kind of soap for everything in the wash work shirts towels to pretty rayon slips yes friends compared to other leading granulated wash day soaps does gives longer life to the pretty colors you wash plus unsurpassed whiteness for towels and linens and real cleaning power for the dirtiest clothes so try does it does everything in the wash and Friends remember this is wartime don't waste does all soaps contain vitally needed War materials so save up your dirty clothes and wash several loads in the same doz Suds see to it that every bit of doz you use does more be sure to listen to the next episode of The Goldbergs written for you by Gertrude Berg Molly finds a new courage but the path is even harder to follow this is Clayton Kia speaking and reminding you to do as the Dooms do let doz the new kind of soap do everything in your wash