Two Cheers For Charlie (1966?)

[Music] oh sure oh I'm sorry Sam but this is one date I can't break would you have 5 minutes right now fine I'll be right over Edith can you dig up Sam file I had it out a couple of nights ago maybe it's in my basket Sam and George cave partnership life and disability put your hat down on your farad you know where you're going ah it's hot I'll pull it down when I get there did Ralph deliver the presents uh-huh they're nice but there ought to be three that's right they always were the three cheers phone Ralph Miller have another one ready when I go by in grave edth uh sign me out I'll be back in a half an hour and I'll be back about 5: flowers for Mrs Bryce and Mrs Young uh-uh hello Jan got my cages hi Charlie we're just finishing up you know how it is at graduation time we loaded why don't you go over and get yourself decorated while you wait good idea hello chick how's your dad today well you know smells almost as nice as you look tell them I'll drop by the house Sunday huh here you are Charlie you know come to think about it isn't Conor thanks to you that Marian Bryce is graduating today Mrs Bryce ought to be giving you a cage it'll look much better on her thanks John goodbye [Music] chick ly Martin venson congratulations theoy [Applause] Maran Louise Bryce congratulations Marian yes congratulations Marian you've done well you'll do well in college you're a lucky girl I wonder if you know just how lucky that this proud moment is the outcome of a different kind of moment a moment when your father could have said well I don't know but he said something else it was as close as that funny how fast four years go by your father was starting to build a house you live in now the cost had piled up a little worse than he expected and he was carrying the job Along by borrowing on his life insurance he was glad to get the check of course and he told me that he ought to be all right now if nothing happened well you know me a business those words if nothing happens are like a red flag so I said maybe I to cover that possibility with a health and accident policy he said the light company had a group plan and I felt better that is I felt better right then but your father kept popping back into my mind and the gamble he was taking so one Saturday I told my golf gang to get somebody to fill in for me and I drove out to purging Manor to get it off my [Music] chest here you are Helen thanks charie here have a Coke Harry well thanks Charlie appreciate you driving all the way out here Charlie but doc G it we're just up to our necks in this place I honestly haven't got a spare dollar for more Insurance you've got the place insured against fire haven't you oh good lord yes got it insured against uh your income stopping huh Harry you're 36 years old in the rest of your life if you keep healthy you'll probably earn oh almost $200,000 that's about 15 times the value of the house Harry your health is your wealth didn't Harry tell you Charlie the light company has a plan that covers him why I'm out here on a Saturday it's a good plan as far as it goes It goes about 26 weeks what I'm worried about is what happens if you get really sick sick or hurts so bad that it runs into a year or two years or maybe more never have yet Charlie uh-huh but uh nobody's vaccinated against it these people weren't they were just as surprised as you and I would be to find they were laid up for months and years and these are only one page full my company sends a regular check every month to nearly 7,000 people who are totally and permanently disabled and those checks will come in every month for Life how lucky they could afford it I got them insurances out of my class don't squeal before you're hurt you don't even know what it costs and maybe you're in for a surprise we write the family secur plan I guess we're about the only company that does it it's sort of uh tailor made we put in only the items that you really need Harry disability always Stacks a lot of extra expenses on top of your regular household obligations particularly in those first few weeks and remember this it's tough enough to be tied to a bed even if you're rich but it's a lot tougher if you have to lie there month after month thinking about how the expenses are eating up everything you own worry is about the worst medicine there is and peace of mind is one of the best what I want you to think about is a plan that will pay you income benefits up to $300 a month money to live on while you're unable to work because of an accident or you're laid up at home or in a hospital with a sickness even for life besides that we can pay you additional benefits of $15 a day for your hospital room and board plus allowances for Hospital fees surgery and so on Harry look around you what would happen to this house and young Marian's education and everything else you value in life if you had to meet those expenses without any money coming in and it can happen Harry every year my company sends checks to over half a million people who get sick or hurt we pay out more than a million dollars every week well Harry's really very healthy for a man who works indoors Charlie he's hardly sick a day it's a fact Charlie I don't think I've drawn more than two weeks benefits all the time I've been with the light company that's why I drove all the way out here now now you can't get this protection when you're laid up you can only apply for it when you're in good health say by the way where's your uh bedroom going to be uh here through this doorway look Harry suppose you were lying in bed in there the door was open just a crack after the doctor left and through the crack you heard him telling Helen that you wouldn't ever work again I want you folks to have protection and peace of mind against disaster you know it's funny how something so valuable should be so easy to get all you have to do is twist my arm what do you think Ellen well say how's the saw cut doing no chance of tness is there I have enough Coke nothing like it for lock jaw say the blanket really keeps him cold well Marian it's no news to you that he finished the house and like your mother said he stayed very healthy for an indoor man and then one night one of the tubes in the kitchen light went dim nothing particularly big about that nothing really dangerous you'd think [Music] there we are here I think I better go right on home because those 26 weeks of his group plan went by like so many hours another 26 weeks another and within a couple of weeks of a fourth stretch with the money still pouring out in a steady stream but some other money was coming in so the house was still there and it was still theirs you were still in school and your father could still give you a Carefree grin and an unworried hug when you came in his room and all because of that so fleeting moment when he could have said well but he didn't and so somebody else is able to say I think we're going to be proud of you in [Applause] college gosh and still they come I guess every girl in Town's going to be at that graduation dance tonight Joan Melinda young she looks pretty as a picture congratulations Joan you're another lucky girl but then you always have been I guess you get it from your father Howard was a great one for long chances but he usually was lucky [Music] take that outdoor furniture ID started when he got back from the war sunk every dime of his terminal pay in it and it looked for the first year like he was ahead of his time for our town but he soon had it huming along and it was well established even four years ago when you started High School like I say he was lucky of course it helped to be a good salesman and be willing to work like three men that needed a meal he'd always had one little fault but I guess you knew about that thank you I'll call you when it gets here bye well that'll take care of the installment on the freezer you're quite a Salesman AR anybody can look like a good salesman if he has a strong product sit down and relax Charlie hey that was a nice talk you gave at The Men's Club Sunday well thanks hard yeah but I know you want to talk about insurance today well well now that you mention it I did kind of have it way in the back of my mind mhm let's see you uh converted your GI Insurance to uh 5,000 wasn't it m you know I've been wondering if it's enough now Charlie you're wasting your time I'm in Hawk up to my eyes every month it's the same old scramble payments on the house payments on the car installments on the new furniture the the freezer the range and that fancy new clothes dryer that Lori had have Howard all those gadgets do they keep increasing in value the longer you own them of course not you dope they're depreciating mhm and if you should die suddenly wouldn't all those unpaid gadgets turn into liabilities right around Lor's neck Howard there's just one more thing you ought to buy on the installment plan Joan's starting high school next week you ought to make the down payment that'll protect her education how by assuring Lori and Joan an income every month until Joan at least finishes High School Lori could probably keep the business running well enough anyway yeah by working the same kind of hours you do or Worse Howard the most valuable thing a man can leave his children is their mother's time how much money have you got in the bank well that's a nervy question you would my mind I asking it if you had a good answer and I'm asking it how much have you got saved to pay off all those debts and assure an income for Lori and Joan you know me Charlie Easy Come Easy Go heck it would take me years to save enough of a chunk to make it worthwhile you can create a 10 15 $22,000 estate in 5 minutes Howard yeah and it'll be ready when it's most needed as income for Lori and Jun if you should die suddenly and if I have bad luck and keep on living then the deposits will be waiting to provide an income for you and Lori when you retire I thought you were selling life insurance now you sound like a Savings Bank life insurance savings a lot the same thing but with one great big difference ordinary savings you put away a few dollars at a time and if you live long enough you hope to finally save a fair Chunk we reverse the process we create the chunk first we set up your whole estate for one down payment and let you buy it on the install plan you know my company Howard one of the strongest here I'll let the figures tell you how we'll provide security whether you die too soon or live too long let's take this m okay you sign right there well well Charlie you're quite a Salesman anybody can look like a Salesman if he has a strong product you know it's funny one drop of ink a doctor's okay and all of a sudden Joan's a rich man's daughter yeah if I walk in front of a truck or something yeah if you live to be an old man she won't have to support you ah that'll be a long time away well Charlie I to congratulate you you know it isn't every day that you get a chance to sign up a guy that's both healthy and lucky you'll be glad someday you want a bet [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's in Here Charlie give me a hand put out those cigarettes you fools put out those [Music] [Applause] cigarettes stay down Howard stay down get down Howard [Music] theor of you remembering the same thing I am [Music] [Applause] Charlie while you lived through it you're thinking maybe you wasted your premiums Howard you know the last thing I thought of before the smoke got me I thought maybe my lucks run out then I thought maybe I'm still lucky because no matter what happens to to me in the next 2 minutes Joanie and her mother will be taken care of wouldn't be like Paul Rush well Howard Lori you certainly have a right to be proud of Joanie today wonder what happened to Marion I told her to be here in a few minutes day for them they'll be here they come now I thought I C they are darling Oh you look so hello Mr Ellen mother says I can wear her cassage tonight do you mind well I certainly don't and I've got something else for you and for Jones are they beautiful gosh thank you hey I'm certainly getting my money's worth in a hurry here say folks let's get a picture Charlie I'd like to get one of you with one of the girls on each side of you how about it huh Joie honey turn around now come on Marion squeeze in a little bit and show off your new watches we'll call the picture three cheers for Charlie Oh Daddy why did you have to say that is this what you're thinking about to Carol with love oh that's wonderful what are we waiting for come on Mr Alan let's give it to her now what about the picture come on with us Carol ought to be in the picture anyway Carol ought to be in the picture anyway she always was in the picture right in the middle of it always the prettiest and the smartest and the one you knew you could count on Paul Rush was proud of hers all get out and proud of the nice friend she brought to the house Paul was a painter and a darn good one he'd made up his mind when he was 6 years old that's what he wanted to be and that's what he was he traveled around a lot wherever the work was but no matter where he happened to be he draw his time and light out for home whenever there was a job within kissing distance of Mrs rush and little Carol and the boys way I met him I thought I was answering his inquiry about a health and accident policy but it was his wife had sent in the coupon seemed the magazine also had an article about the increase in disabilities from heart disease and cancer in men around Paul's age to Paul those were far off things that happened to other people not to him but he was willing to talk and after a while I think he realized that his home and wife and kids the rent and the clothes and food for the table all were at the mercy of that good health he was so proud of if his body stopped working everything stopped finally he wanted to know how much protection he could get and what would cost them lifetime income hospitalization doctor's bills the works [Music] well as fate would have it about 2 minutes before we'd have finished up his boss drove in with the week's time cards and invoices to check Paul folded up the application said he'd mail it in but as it turned out he well you know how it is I tried to see him several times after that but he was always working out of town or at LGE or aunion meeting or something two years went by the three cheers were juniors in high school now in fact that's where they got their name from their fancy cheerleading they were really darn good Paul had been down south somewhere for a couple of months on a job and then one day he came home fate plays strange tricks Paul had always known that strong body of his might be crippled in an accident he' never expected to be crippled by sickness he'd heard of arthritis of course but he thought it meant old people with stiff joints I had no trouble calling on him anymore he was always in [Music] now that fall they moved I kept dropping around the house whenever I could because I liked him and that nice little family but there was nothing much I could do I'd missed my chance when I got careless and let Paul put off until tomorrow what he should have done that day I felt as helpless as he was one thing about Paul he had courage the night they first took him away he said I'll beat this I'll be home everything will be the same again now he'd come home but it wasn't the same and it never would be as long as he lived but typical of Paul the first thing he thought wasn't about himself he said where can Carol do her homework and see her friends well Mrs Rush finally had had to tell him Carol didn't have to do homework anymore and she had no time for friends because there finally had been something I could do I'd gone down to City Hall and gotten Carol a work permit [Music] [Music] surprise surprise oh Carol it's a real surprise party with presents even hey Mr Allan oh for me but well if it isn't for you Millers and gravers made a terrible mistake see it's just like ours well looks like my wrist graduated even if my head didn't hey let's get that picture huh so this is where you've been hiding out all year come on now folks get lined up for the picture please hey Carol why don't you come with us to the graduation ball Duce girl got the measles in these stag I've got 20 croes to make between now and 8:00 or else 20 girls like you are going to be awful mad at 20 boys like you well please your boss can get somebody for tonight that's what I'm afraid of besides I can use the over time will you but please come on be and Zachariah get lined up okay kids Pop's had it all right now hold it that's good gosh I've left this double parked come on kid are you sure you won't come along you go along I'll catch up with you sometime come on Joe bye thanks again Mr Allan you've always it's so wonderful to I know Carol I know hey Charlie what's keeping you you're a wonderful girl Carol and everybody's so proud of you and you will catch up with him sometime good [Music] night hey come out fine got a pencil Charlie it's pretty good of you it's great of the three cheers sure good to see him back together again well that'll be your receipt for the watches three cheers for Charlie that's one cheer too many how's that oh I see what you mean but that's not all I'm seeing I'm seeing my Jonny in there tired scared and lonely and carrying too much on her young shoulders but it isn't Joan and it never will be now no no matter what happens that's right Johnny will be all right I just want you to know that well I'm grateful good night [Music] Charlie they say you can't win them all but I'm sorry it had to be you and maybe you will catch up with them sometime Lord knows you've got the spirit and the strength and the courage and in the meantime your father has that lifetime income protection I promised them only I'm not giving it to him you are and it's costing too much too much I'm sorry Carol but next time I'll try a little harder and maybe some other Carol will have a better chance good night youngster [Music]