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-Good Morning Children -Good Morning Mrs Hull

-How is that Meeching -Fine,thank you

-Good Morning,Master -Good Morning,Mrs Hull

Good Morning,Carl,did you get around cleaning up those bins?

Miss Hull,a man has only got one pair of hands

Of course,Carl,and when we require more I'll hire an octopus

Dr Corby called about the Norwood Book and I haven't been able to find it

Look in the Architecture Modern 7 2 4.9 I believe

Robert!

-Hello Alicia -How nice to see you..

And so early in the morning,you've not been in much lately

To tell the truth I don't have much time for reading these days

They are keeping you pretty busy down at City Hall I think

I was certainly pleased to see that you were elected to the Council,Robert

Thanks

Particularly since I count on you to get me my children's wing

-Oh -Things are pretty slow at this hour

But drop around in the afternoon when the children are here

The plans are mouldering in my desk

Don't worry,you'll get it built, just as you got the library done

That was over 25 years ago, I just hope I won't wait..

Here is the one I want

Another 25 years

Do you realize

that it's been almost 35 years since you first starting picking lint off my suit

Have you worn it that long?

-I'll check this out for you -Thank you

I must say you run a very nice little establishment here

-Then don't be such a stranger -I'll try not to be

Good,I expect you to become a steady customer

All right,I'll go in for that

Not exactly light summer reading

We'd had some comments about it

Robert

Tend to your counseling and let me tend to mine

-All right Alicia -There you are..

I hope you enjoy it more than I did

Good Bye

My goodness,Tom,is quite a selection you have there

Yes,Mom

When do you intend to read them?

Tonight

Mrs Hull,he knows he can't take all these on a junior card

Here is my mother's,my father's,my sister's

May I have it now?

Yes,Tom

About a terrible monster it's got three heads

A lion, a goat and a snake and they are all breathing fire

The Chimera

Yes,and it's destroying the country side,scaring people to death

If I ever see them I kill them,I kill them

No,that won't be necessary we won't see him flying around here in Kenport

Don't you think you had enough of monsters for a while

There are so many other things to read about

My Freddie,the secrets of the world,around these shelves

And there are all yours to discover

Let me see

Here we are Stories from the Bible

But I got to read this one again,Mrs Hull

I went too fast,I got to read it lots of times

You certainly you do,but it isn't it wise to leave something for tomorrow?

It's so long until tomorrow

Yes,certainly,I envy you Freddie,I'll tell you what

This is a valuable edition but you if you'd be very careful you may take it home

Thanks,I promise,thanks

Here comes the pride and joy now

Try not to tease him tight,George

Let's put away the chopsticks and get out the forks because I'm starving

It's not chopsticks it's Chopin

Chopin or chopsticks I still like a hot crumpet

-Freddie hi -Hello Mum,hi dad

Hi Fred,what you got there

It's a "Wonder Book" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

OK,put it away,hurry up, Mom has got supper for you

Did you get the time table?

Ya,picked it up,they are still running trains to St Louis

You still set on going?

I think I should,I haven't seen Mother in about a year

Said supposed to be back?

Look,what I married,a man who makes jokes about his mother in law

It's only going to be for a couple of weeks

You think you two can make that out?

As long as there is "Burn" in the ice box,and books in the library

What is it a new routine reading at the table? Put it away will you,Freddie

"There has one victory he said he running dry his knees of Delaropes

What was that,De La ro who?

There is a limit,Laura,no wonder he is not eating any thing

there is no room,he stuffs himself with words

-Freddie -Look at him

Give it up now,Freddie,come on now and eat your supper

Come on now,there is a time for that kind of things

-Why Dad -Give it back

-As soon as you finish -George,leave him alone

Did you see the look he gave me

It's right you know

He can always get another father, but a good book is hard to find

Why can't he be like other kids

why does he have to spend all his free time here

Why is his nose always in a book?

But a man comes home from work he wants his son

I bought him a gadget must be a year ago,those with toss a ball around and back

It's upstairs on his desk just as new as the day he got it

All I played short back three years on my high school team

Do you ever try to reach him on his own level?

When was the last time you took him for a walk?

Just the two of you,bought him a soda

You know something,I don't even know if he likes sodas

Mr Slater stop wishing Freddie was somebody else

Your boy is not just an average boy,he is different

Value that difference

We put far too much stress on conformity in this country

The ballpark isn't the only place a person can be a hero

Some people lead very exciting lives locked in a laboratory

Or even a library

Any way will be glad to pay for the book

No,that won't be necessary I'd like to replace it myself

Excuse me a minute

Yes

Hello,Alicia,this is Robert.

The Council is having its monthly luncheon today at Morrisey

how would you like to join us?

It wouldn't be about.. Excuse me Robert

-I'm sorry I'll just be a moment -I got to shag off I got to get to work

Thank you for coming in

Good Bye

Good Bye Miss Lockridge

Robert,it wouldn't be about my children wing,would it?

Yes,we want to talk about your children's wing

Now hold it Alicia,you'll have your chance at lunch

What are you beating around the bush for?

Why won't you tell her what we want to talk about

I've known her for a long time, Alicia has got a mind of her own

Ellerbee is right let's handle it this way

What? Oh,no,nothing,fine then we'll see you at Morrisey

Good,Good Bye Alicia

Mrs Hull,Mrs Hull,I've been chasing you as far a the park

My Goodness,that was very flattering

been a long time since I was chased by a young man

How about buying some raffle tickets?

Certainly,what will I win?

A Shetland Pony

Just what I need

A genuine leather and sooner hat too

Isn't that ridiculous I'm so jumpy that I forgotten my purse

chase me again some other time, boys,I'll buy two tickets

Good Afternoon,Good Afternoon Morrisey

Those five foghorns from City Hall are back there trying to out toot each other

-Good Afternoon,Miss Hull -Good Afternoon,Frank

Nice of you to come

Your sense of timing is impeccable,Alicia

Have a beer

Very well but I want to keep a clear head

Sit down,gentlemen

At least I can save you all a good little time

by acquainting you for the few pertinent facts

I know your problems,I realize we must go into the matter thoroughly

Mrs Hull,perhaps you don't know all our problems

But I do will elaborate

Doesn't need to cost as much as you think I have here the price of square foot

the comparisons of the materials

the advantages of utilizing our present heating system

-You see if we.. -Alicia,Alicia

Before you go any further

Voting over beer is little irregular but I entertain the motion

Move the appropriate and a reasonable sum

to construct a children's wing addition to the library

these plans turned over to the building department

the recommendations to supersede as soon as reasonable Second

In favour,aye aye aye

Carried

There Mrs Hull you got your children's wing

I hardly know what to say

What we will do about financing is another matter

I haven't any worries about that,I know you find a way

I'm reminded the time when I first talked to Judge Ellerbee about our library

Of course you were not a judge then,Robert

You may remember our library was the height of cigar store

We rented it with the profit of the team bazaar

given by..,it's delicious,

Mrs Carabert,literature society I said,Robert

Mrs Hull may we put that aside for a moment

What we like to know,Mrs Hull

How in the world did this book end up in our library

I purchased it

Do you know what it is about,Mrs Hull?

Yes,it is about the Communist dream,it's the one Robert took out the other day

It's causing trouble,we had a number letters and phone calls about it

I am sorry it's creating a commotion

I have gone through it,Alicia

I must say the commotion seems justified,that's pretty hard stuff to take

It's pure red propaganda

Yes,it is not even subtle about it

Then we certainly should remove it,shouldn't we?

-Remove it? -That's right,remove it

You don't propose to defend it?

On the contrary I think it is a preposterous book

But don't you want people to know how preposterous it is?

That's why I ordered it

Goodness if I took every book of the shelf that I thought preposterous

Look,Mrs Hull

Why don't you leave all the other preposterous books in

and take this one out

I think it is a matter of principle,Mr Greenbaum

Why do we have principles and the communist..

Just a minute I just say this argument on both sides but we could sit here all day

Exactly,but a thing like this can stir up a hornets nest and the fact is

Mrs Hull, we want it out of the library

I am a politician,Mrs Hull,now you got your children's wing,you do this for us

I often said

a librarian is a peninsula surrounded on three sides by city councilors

Very well gentlemen

Frank

Mrs Hull I'm your devoted admirer

Paul you say that to all librarians

More beer,Frank,and send this out with the rest of the garbage,will you

No,I don't like to see a book destroyed

I dispose of it some way, I do not quite know how

You see I've never been forced to remove a book from the library before

It's after closing,Mr Belder

Would you mind closing up tonight?

Of course not Marta

How do you get rid of a book

One that is worn out?

No it is not worn out, not pornographic,not old edition

That's my problem,Good Night,Martha

Good Night

Hello

Well,Hello

I admire the line of your jaw,Mr Duncan

Thank you,I admire all of your lines

My tongue get loose when I have more than two

One should be loose enough to say I love you

You can never tell

In that case

Here

Maybe I should tell you something

-What? -I love you

See,it does wonders for you

Talk on

I didn't just love you,it's all I guess

It's not all

So merry we are getting married

I had one ,thanks

I just don't want it to happen again,Paul

You just made a mistake,what other, making mistakes is part of living

My doctor cliché

Do you know what that impossible woman has done?

Stuck the book back in the library

What?

She phoned Levering ,and he just called me

-She can't do that -I know,but she did

What's this all about?

Let him tell you,I need a drink

What's been happening?

At lunch today

she worked away through half a ball of gumble and agreed to take the book out

You heard the rest?

What book?

You remember called the Communist Dream

Oh,that's what she meant

What?

I'm just surprised you agreed to take it out in the first place

Why?

She is a woman who is very set in some of her ideas

What ideas?

Civil liberties,censorship, intellectual freedom

Mr Duncan?

Hello

Sorry

You gave me a thought

Will you please tell us why you changed your mind?

Well,I'm afraid I succumbed to a little gentle bribery

as I say,the children's wing,you know

Then I thought it over very carefully

I simply couldn't do what you act

Just,what do you mean you couldn't?

I mean I couldn't remove a book because it has ideas we don't like

But we are faced with a real problem,Mrs Hull

Here are a dozen more letters we received

Letters from people who helped to elect this council

And here is a petition from some group calling itself

the Kemford Women's Committee against subversion

Unless there is immediate action we intend to take this matter up with the newspapers

Now,is that shabby little..potboiler worth this kind of disturbance?

I'm afraid it is

You can't run a library or a City Council to please everybody

-Do you mind if I smoke? -Not at all

Mrs Hull,can't we look at this from a practical point of view?

Take my word for it,it is not unreasonable to ask you to take out just this one book?

Is it one book? We have a entire stack of books on political theory,of all shape

What will happen if you start getting letters about them?

We have to worry about that,when and if

Alicia,we've been friends for a good many years

I'll stay with you are right,when you are wrong you are wrong

What do you want to do? Turn the library into a propaganda agency for the Kremlin?

Really,Mr Martin

what do you think Thomas Jefferson would say to this?

No,Alicia,let's not drag in the Founding Fathers

Please, do not interrupt,Robert, I feel this most deeply

There was a book in our library for many years,and is still there

It made me stick to my stomach everytime I checked it out,Mein Kamp

Maybe we run the risk of spreading hitlerism but it didn't work that way

it worked the other way

People read it,it made them indignant

Maybe it helped defeat him

Don't you see by keeping this book in the library

we attack the communist dream, we say to the communists

we do not fear you,we are not afraid what you have to say

but you fear us,you fear the truth

Tell me,would they dare keep a book praising democracy in the Russian library?

Gentlemen,you want me to take this book out of the library

You ought to fight to keep it on the shelf

In the light what Mrs Hull just said I wonder she mind me asking a few questions?

No,I don't mind

One thing

I just want to inquire

If you are familiar with

"The Council for the better relations with the Soviet Union"?

Yes,I believe I was a member at one time

The American Peace Mobilization?

Yes,I belonged to that too

Then there is the Voice of Freedom Committee?

Paul,what's the point of this?

A lot of people joined a lot of these organizations

especially while the war was going

That's right I think this last one got me for five bucks

Did you know that these organizations

half a dozen here,turned out to be communist fronts?

Yes,I was distressed to find out they were

that's why I resigned and stopped paying attention to them

Mr Duncan,just what is the purpose of this? What are you driving at?

What is that infernal remedy

They are still remodeling across the street

Can't they work on days we don't have Council Meetings

Mrs Hull

I note on this one,your name appears on the letterhead on as one of the sponsors

May I see that?

Yes,I seem to be included in a quite long list

I wonder if the other names were also used without consent

This was done without your knowledge then?

Most certainly

Still this was a communist outlet

You were a member,you must have believed in some of their ideas?

No,they believed in some of mine

Mr Duncan,I resent your questions and your implications

It is obvious we do not agree on many things,including censorship

But in case you are in any doubt I am not a communist,I never was a communist

I detest communism

I didn't say you were a communist,Mrs Hull

All I'm trying to show that you were careless

You were easy prey for a lot of high sounding slogans

If you talk about contesting communism

But you seem to blind to the fact that these people will use our laws

They hide behind our laws for one purpose to destroy our laws

Forgive me,but you were duped once you could very well be again

I wished you hadn't gone in to this all,Paul,I hardly think it was necessary

Well,I do

You realize what would happen if this got out?

What do you mean? If this got out

Not only we would remove this piece of trash called Communist Dream

but coupled with this other stuff

I thought when I walked in here, you wanted to talk about banning a book

We are talking about something quite different now,aren't we?

Paul,if Mrs Hull gets rid of the book,can we forget all this?

Of course

As long as it is understood that in the future

any questionable material would be screened by the Council

Remember when you said, just this one book,Mr Greenbaum

Don't you see the position you are putting us in?

Yes,I see the position you are in and I see the position I am in

You have the power to remove the book from the library

and you have the power to remove me

and if you do one

you have to do the other

Good Afternoon,Gentlemen

Alicia

Alicia,please don't walk out like this, you are making it impossible for us

I've plead with you,think it over

I'm sorry I can't plight you,Robert

Budging her? I'm for firing her right away

We can't do that

She's been in the job for over 25 years

Well,what are we supposed to tell people

That we met Alicia Hull in a glorious battle and went down for the count?

I always say,she's got a point

Don't start that

I just meant that we should think this over

Think what over?

Look,the fact is that either the Council runs Mrs Hull

or Mrs Hull runs the Council,don't underestimate the feeling behind this

We intend to take these matter up with the newspapers

that's the next step but one after that

the next election this Council get slapped out of office

We deserve it unless we've got the guts to take a stand

Must be some other way

There is no other way,she made that clear

Move we discharge Alicia Hull's from the public library

Second

-In favour -Aye several

How about you?

Aye

Aye

On a thing like this we ought to be unanimous,Bob

Aye

I think that's about all

-Can you think of anything more? -No

If something should come up you can reach me at Sycamore Arms

Mrs Hull

I,I feel you should know that,that it was something I said to Mr Duncan that

I mean

I don't think it was wrong but

Then you've nothing to concern yourself over

Good Bye,Martha

Good Bye,Mrs Hull

-Good Bye Carl -Good Bye,Mrs Hull

Good Bye,Suzy

Do you know Mrs Hull?

I know,Suzy

Freddie

Not another contest

I'm gonna win this one,Mom

All I got to do solve the thirty three of those puzzles

And I have fifty words on how Bristol Soup weight cuts down my working day

I know

You go hop into bed

If it's Chinese that's counts

It was certainly nice of Mrs Hull to give you this

"Freddie Slater with great expectation from his friend Alicia Hull"

Yep,they fired her

Mrs Hull

-Freddie! -I have to see you

You ought to be wearing a rain coat on a day like this

Something terrible is happening

You come upstairs with me, we better dry you off

They are taking your name off from the library

I know,I know

I want to tell you,Mrs Hull

No matter what anybody else is saying,you are still the same with me

Thank you,Bill

Don't you want to be at the library?

I do,very very much

Then why aren't you there?

It's not just me

The City Council is above me

and they are fine men but I disagreed with them about something

What was it Mrs Hull?

I'll go to them,I'll talk to the Mayor

Freddie

That's very sweet of you but I'm afraid it wouldn't do much good

You see there is a book they don't think should not be in the library

And

I couldn't take it out

What was the matter with the book?

There are people who don't like it,nor for that matter,do I

Couldn't you pretend,couldn't you maybe hide the book somewhere?

You could tell them you're sorry

if you really wanted to,you could come back

I know it's hard to understand but some day you will

And Miss Lockridge will be at the library to help you

I don't want Miss Lockridge I want you

I'll be right here in town

Please,Mrs Hull,please

Freddie,try to understand

There must be some reason why only twenty people showed up

I'll tell you why only twenty people showed up,here's why,tonight's paper

I don't mind telling you the Reverend Wilson

I had an awful fight with my husband, he didn't want me to come when he read that

Why? What does it say?

Alicia Hull admits red affiliation

Additional facts were presented today

on the dismissal of Alicia Hull from her post as librarian

It was authoritatively stated by a member of the City Council

that Mrs Hull admitted membership of numerous communist front organisations

It was also learnt the City Council felt that

under the circumstances, it had no alternative and so forth

Is that true,Mrs Hull?

Yes,it's true,Mr Jones

It's about half true

What isn't there is when and why she joined and resigned from them

She may as well face one thing

If we go into this,we are going to be called reds

Please,even if what Mr Jones says is so I don't think it should stop us

Reverend

It's all very well for you, you are a man of the cloth

but the rest of us is not exactly in that spot

I'm disgusted,look at it

an item appears in the papers and we are fighting down our wits

It's time we got on with what we came here for

In a case like this it might be a good idea to circulate a petition

if it's money you want

I'll be glad to help but I can't take much time out,petitions and..

One minute,please,everybody

I've been thinking while you've been talking I left the library

and I believe we should let it rest at that,you all have your own life

Mr Meacab is a really busy man

Mr Corbett has his clients,and Miss Layton is in the high school

Alicia,you could just forget that

No,Eleanor, if the day ever came,you should loose your job because of me,any of you

Mrs Hull that doesn't mean that we..

I want you to drop this,I really

Alicia Hull,when you came in here you were ready to fight

I've changed my mind, Morrisey

I want you to thank you all for coming I am sorry

Everything considered,I think you made a wise decision Mrs Hull

What is a communist,Mom

That's a hard question to answer,Fred

Train leaving on track number

-Hi,Freddie -Hi,Dad

What's the idea,baby,I thought you were packing

I postponed the trip,I decided my place is with you

What is it? Another air mail special delivery argument with your mother?

No,I

Changed my mind I that's all

-Where are you heading to,Buster? -I need to wash up the supper

I'm not going because I don't feel I should leave Freddie right now

Why not? What's this all about

It's because of Mrs Hull,so confused

What does it take to unconfuse him?

I don't know

When they find somebody is red, everybody goes about its business

In my house the walls come tumbling down

He thinks that Mrs Hull were trading with someone

That's right,she did,she betrayed everybody

Maybe it's a good thing all around

maybe Freddie will spend some time with the kids now instead of that library

It's not that simple

Look,Mrs Hull played a big part in his life

Too big if you asked me

As a matter of fact I'm confused

Listen,she belonged to a dozen commie outlets,it says so right in the paper

They hold a meeting down in the Ellstree Church, and they wanted to back her up

But she told them to forget,she didn't want any trouble,what does that prove?

I just can't believe about her that's all

Oh man,she even gave me some of that pinko talk

locked in a laboratory

too much conformity in this country

And devil knows what crummy notions she put into Freddie's head

Say Hello to her

I said say Hello to her

-Hello Mrs Hull -Hello Frank

Well,it's about time

I was going to stand up for St Bernard

I see you belong to the school of thought, the things I ought to be seen around more

How have you been Morrisey?

Not so good my heart is killing me

A massive calcium deposits

William,bring me Pale of Gumbo,double strength

Old customers falling off don't come in much any more,new faces all around

younger crowd now

Bee girls

You know there is actully nothing wrong with the people in this town

Their hearts are in cold storage,that's all

Got snails in today

Burt

Go on ,Burt,she calls you

I run over before

You go,used to be your friend

She is not any more

Go on,Burt,see what she wants

Do you want me,Mrs Hull

Are you still selling the raffles tickets?

How much are they?

Raffles tickets?

We had that raffle already,gosh, that was way back in April

Was is that long ago? I must be losing track

Wait,Burt

It is Saturday afternoon

Yeah,Shrub Saturday

How would you like to take me to the movies?

It'll be my treat

Now? Well,what you see. I'm with some of the fellows

I know them all,why don't you ask them to come along too?

They can't go,Mrs Hull,

Some of them has already seen the picture,some of them got to be home early

-All right,another time -Good Bye,Mrs Hull

Burt

Ask Freddie to come and visit me,tell him I miss him

I will

My folks say they can't arrest them until you get the goods on them

That's right,they go underground

My Uncle Milton met one once underground

-Hie -Hey

Mrs Hull,she looks funny in the underground

I dare you to go and see her

Double dare

You are double dared now

You got to go

I don't have to see her, I know enough of her already

Yeah,what?

Like for instance

What do you know,Fred?

Things,from her and other things I heard

What other things?

You heard from whom?

From my father,my father he told me

He says she has got a brother

In Peru,that's the one she is sending the secret code to

In one of those books in the library

I just got to bet you don't know no more than we do

I do,I do

Do you know where she keep that secret book?

All kinds of secret books

Secrets of the world is in there,she told me,so herself

Prove it

If you know one of these books are,show us

How about copying some?

Can't you see he is lying,he doesn't know anything about these kind of books

I do,I do and I'm right where they are

Hundreds of them I can get everyone if I want to

Go home,it's past your bedtime

Go on home,tell your mother to read your bedtime stories

Go on home,we got something to talk about,something secret

I'll show you,I will so,I'll show you

Tom

Tom

I'd like you to put these new titles up first thing tomorrow

Can't do it until I get here Miss Lockridge

Who is there?

Freddie,Freddie Slater what are you doing here?

Carl

Carl

Carl

Carl,that boy where did he go?

How did he get in after hours?

I didn't let him in,Miss

I just got one pair of legs, I can't be everywhere

Find him,and put him out

Come in

I hope you forgive me

It's late I know

You seemed upset on the phone

Yes,it's about Freddie Slater

Sit down Martha

The boy is becoming impossible lately

He doesn't come to the library much but when he does

He is so so strange and hostile

He used to be so careful about books I find him flinging them about

I come across him in the stacks

Places where he shouldn’t be

Why did you come to see me?

You had such an influence on him, you always know how to manage

Well,I don't any more, I don't see him anymore

You don't see him?

I don't do a lot of things I used to do enough by choice

I should think you and Mr Duncan would have suspected that

I'm sorry

Sorry to have troubled you

You blame Mr Duncan and me,don't you?

Blame you for what?

Because I have no life here any more

I didn't realize

Please don't say you are sorry Martha

Mrs Hull,Paul was just one member of that Council

besides what he did,he never meant to harm you

I feel better if you believed that

Martha,I tried to keep my perspective these past months

I tried to understand people and to forgive people but really

do you mind if I am not concerned in making you or Mr Duncan feel better?

I shouldn't have come

Perhaps

Perhaps you believe at least

that I really wish I knew what was happening to Freddie Slater

I think I know

He used to love books and he used to love me

And now his love is turning to hate

Yes it is frightening isn't it?

Good Night Mrs Hull

Dad,you're dancing style

Certainly your vocabulary

Gold in it?

With his name in

You weren't around

Fancy guy,what are trying to do with him?

Keep him busy when you are around

-It's might that -It's been tried before

As a matter of fact here is my campaign manger

Campaign manager,for what?

This Johnny come lately of yours

thinks he can lick me for the legislature this fall

He is not the only one who thinks so Bascomb

We need some younger men down there

You are welcome to try

But don't holler when you get steamrolled

Don't make any bet,remember I got an issue,you haven't

You mean you once got a librarian fired?

I wouldn't put it just that way

I know,you are going to play the young hero who saved us from the red menace

Well,that issue may backfire

I'll take my chances

Whatever became of her anyway?

She is still around,I saw her the other day

It is a pity though how she let herself be taken in by those people

I'm glad that you fellows didn't let her buffalo you

Why don't we drop it folks, it's all long ago and far away

Still it's a comfort to know

that my children aren't subjected to her influence any longer

I think she was a danger to the community

Are you talking about Mrs Hull?

I certainly am

I think that's ridiculous

Some of my loveliest times in my life was set under Mrs Hull's influence

And if she is a danger to the community then so am I

And so is every kid who grow up with me

-Hazel -No,Dad,I mean it

How about it,Sandy

do you see Mrs Hull working like a little beaver for the Kremlin?

Golly,I don't know,I never gave it much thought

Maybe it's time you started

Is that going to be your slogan?

Young America,awake,your comic books are in danger

I guess the only thing worse than a young politician with an issue

is and old politician without one

Paul,you are not really serious about any of this?

Of course he is serious,he is right to

But he can't be

It just can't be

Look this is no place to discuss it

After all,Miss Lockridge, we can't be blind what's going on

H bombs,brain washing

boys like Sandy here still being drafted,their careers interrupted

Alicia Hull know something about that

In case you've forgotten,Dorothy, her husband's career was interrupted

At Chateau Thiery

Where is Chateau Thiery?

In France,that was the first world war

Steven Hull was a member of this club

In fact he was one of the founding members along with me and few others

Was he a radical to?

Very radical

He had one of the most radical drives of the thirty you ever saw

never played it safe,always tried to clear the brook

Very radical

Handsome man too,Dorothy if you remember

And Alicia was a pretty little thing in those days

Full of ginger,this club has not seen that kind of pep since

Not even from you Hazel

They made quite a pair

They were married less than a year when Steve was drafted

Pity

Alicia was the kind of girl

She should have twenty kids

Fill up the same,Sandy

You weer saying you had an issue?

Yes

In spite of the hearts and flowers I still have

Freddie what are you saying

Scared

You are just dreaming again,darling,it's all right

It was there the dark like snake

-What's it - A bug

And then there were little footsteps, it was Mrs Hull she was yelling

And I saw them in the book I mean the snake

It's all right,Freddie,I'm near you

That's funny

There must be something in the air tonight because

All having bad dreams too

I don't feel much like sleeping

How about you and me taking a walk,Freddie?

-Walk -Sure

Little air and clear the cobwebs

Maybe we can get some soda

Is it all right,Mom?

I guess so

-Throw some clothes on -Sure,Dad

Of course screams come from somewhere

I know when I have a bad dream,I usually can feel that way

Snakes are coming out of books

Pretty scary really

Some of them were huge flames shooting out of them

Like the Chimaera

What?

The monster in the Wonder book

Sure,that's it,that book

That's were your dream came from

Books disturb people and give them nightmares

They are pretty bad stuff

For sure I don't like that

Of course there are good books and bad books

you know,good people and bad people

And it seems Mrs Hull was in your dream too

I know you used to like her a lot,Freddie

That's the trouble you can't always put your finger on them

Could have been that fellow behind the soda fountain

They can pop up anywhere

Yeah

We've got one of those down at the plants,son

It builds up a temperature of 7000 degrees, cut through solid steel like cheese

Sure she talks sweetest honey

all the time you can bet she is working away back there

she had 25 years to fill those shelves with poison

She knows books of hers

All they want is one thing, smash and destroy

Smash everything we ever built up in this country

I'm going to address you today not as your Mayor but as a father

All of us are troubled about what the future holds for our children

This new children's wing is a kind of thing that reassures us

it's no accident that our library stands in the center of town

it was planned that way, a library is the center of a town

we dedicate this addition

to our town and to our children

And now we will hear from our high school band

Alicia,I can't take the stairs anymore

Robert

I've been trying to get you on the phone for hours

I've been up in town,all day

But I left at least half a dozen messages

They haven't delivered the message here at Sycamore Arms for fifteen years

What is it?Is anything wrong?

Dedication exercises,the children's wing

I've come to fetch you

You mean I've been invited?

I am inviting you

Just look,have you ever seen anything like it

I don't know what to put where

So you're letting us bully you and getting out

I am visiting my sister in California

I want to taste a nut burger before I die

Alicia,you have every reason to despise me,all of us

Don't be foolish

I run across a photograph of you and Steven and me

Can you realize how long ago it was?

I was talking about him only the other night

Would you please put on your coat and come with me?

A few months ago,yes

I'd been glad to go

and hold up my head and stare right back

This is the present I bought for Agnes Evans

remember I told you I was looking for one?

I always drop by in these days and leave some gifts

I found a little appointment tab

for the class and the gold pencil

for her date

It's really quite a charming thing

Her mother said she wasn't home and I better just leave it

She was home,Robert

I'm tired

I'm tired and beaten

There is no use pretending

There were a few moments of joy with Stephen

And afterward there was the library and the children

I filled my life with them

And it was a good life in many ways

It wasn't the Council

or the whispers

or any of the people

It was the children

I think I could have stood anything but losing the children

Having them turned on me

Alicia

They are not going to dedicate that children's wing without you

We come now to a very important moment

Some months ago in connection with library activities

a children's contest was held to name a list of the ten best books

When the cornerstone is put down these books will be sealed in it

Now I'm going to call on the boy

who won the contest to come forward and read off the titles

Fredrick Slater

Go ahead ,Fred

The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Stories from the Bible

I don't know what's happened to Ellerbee,he is supposed to be next

You want to take his place?

Treasure Island

A wonder book

David Copperfield

What is she doing here?

Robinson Crusoe

Go on boy

Finish it up

The Three Musketeers

And a Dictionary

I suspect young Mr Slater won because of the dictionary

Go on boy,go back there and sit down

Now we come to the ground breaking

I am glad Judge Ellerbee arrived in time

to handle the shovel or shall I call a spade a spade

There is only one person who should have this honor

Alicia Hull

Freddie,how about helping an old friend?

You are not my friend

Freddie

You are not anybody's friend

Freddie

They kicked you out,you don't belong here

They found out about you

You are right son,tell her,tell her again

You want to destroy us,you are like all the rest of them

They found out what you were doing

Freddie

You don't belong here,you are not a librarian any more

Communist,that communist

Stop it,stop it stop it

He is all right,he is upstairs in bed

He is sleeping it off

He is OK

We sure appreciate your interest,Miss Lockridge

Good Bye

I don't see the point in lying

What do you want to do?

Tell her he wouldn't eat? That he bites like a wild man

Didn't he disgrace us enough

What did we do?

We bring him up wrong?

He's never had a whipping in his life, I never laid a hand on that boy

Are you going to start banging that piano?

I don't bang it I play it,or would you know the difference?

Of course not,I'm not coached

Now that's one thing you'll never be accused of

Your son won a contest,you couldn't even be there

It would have been a wrestling match would been right in front row

Been spending my time better

Contest?

You want to know I am stuffed to my gizzards with his library

and your piano stuff

Or maybe that's why he is the way he is,because his own father resent him

And resent his mother too, this little bit of culture

I give up,why he is he,and I give up your culture too

I give up your happy wit,all those great big stupid wise cracks

Why don't you go out and look for him,don't just stand there

-Did the parents say anything else? -No

Only said everything was all right

Everything is fine

Look around you

All the nice normal people going about nice normal business

You'd better hurry,you'll be late for your council meeting

Look,I don't blame you for being upset

I'll admit that it was pretty ugly this afternoon,let's not confuse the issue

That's become your favorite word

Whatever was the issue? Do you remember?

A stubborn woman was fired,your Council blew it up with civic virtue

The city got something to buzz about

I got a better job

You got a platform

You make it sound like a grab day

What do you think it was?

Patriotism?

See you later

I don't know why you had to bring her here today

I thought we'd agree to act as a body

Yes,and a body is supposed to have a heart

What are we getting so steamed up about?

Just because some problem child decides to throw a fit

Did you really believe that,do you, Edgar?

He wouldn't have thrown a fit six months ago

This couldn't have happened six months ago

All right,what do you want us to do?

Get her back her job, that's what I want you to do

make a public apology

Wait a minute

Everybody I have listened to lately seems to be lost in a fog or something

look we happen to be in a war,cold,hot or lukewarm

that's what it is,war,and we better win it

We can't take time out to investigate every little wrinkle

on every little problem and be kind to stubborn old lady's taboo

Sure some innocent people are going to get hurt

but that's too bad

right now that's the way it's got to be unless we all wind up in a soup

That's exactly right

That's exactly wrong

That's communist talk

That's just the way they do things

let the innocent cook with the guilty

to hell with whom we heard on the wire as long as we get where we are going

Let me tell you something

I'm not afraid of communism

or of a communist book in the library

but I am afraid that kind of talk, it scares the living life out of me

It's one thing I forgot,Duncan

For a while

I forgot what country we are living

Where I live the safety of anyone person

any stubborn old lady

is the sacred concern of every decent citizen

and I hope to God I'll never forget that again

Never again

There is a kid here

Please

I shall be free Mom

Go on tell me again,Paul

Nothing so terrible has happened

Only a little boy was turned into a lunatic

It's not the nice normal people who set fires

The lunatics

Martha,you'd better have a drink

I could use one too,let's go up to my place

Just don't get it,do you?

I don't want any more of it, don't you understand ?

I don't want to be engaged to a rising young politician

I'd rather crawl into a hole somewhere

Mrs Hull you know about the boy

It isn't just the boy,we are all to blame

I'm to blame too,I didn't fight back

I hear you are going away, I hope you change your mind

You got to help us rebuild this library,don't leave

I have no intention of leaving

I am going to stay here and I am going to help rebuild this library

and if anybody ever again tries to remove a book from it

he has to do it over my dead body

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