WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.400 A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course, 00:12.400 --> 00:16.200 that is, of course, unless the horse is a famous Mr. A. 00:16.200 --> 00:20.880 Go right to the source and ask the horse, he'll give you the answer that you endorse. 00:20.880 --> 00:23.200 He's always on a steady course. 00:23.200 --> 00:30.200 Talk to Mr. A. 00:30.200 --> 00:34.200 Put flour, baking powder, and salt together. 00:34.200 --> 00:36.200 Carol. 00:36.200 --> 00:38.200 Carol, would you like to hear the speech I wrote? 00:38.200 --> 00:39.200 What speech? 00:39.200 --> 00:43.200 Well, you know, the one I'm giving to the canvassers at the Treadway Iron and Steel Company. 00:43.200 --> 00:44.200 Hmm? 00:44.200 --> 00:48.200 Mr. Treadway, he wants me to show them how to sell a payroll savings plan to their fellow employees. 00:48.200 --> 00:53.200 I'm supposed to talk on the subject of designing your future on account of my being an architect. 00:53.200 --> 00:55.200 You get it, designing? 00:55.200 --> 00:56.200 I get it. 00:56.200 --> 01:00.200 Pretty clever, too, but you're a little out of practice about payroll savings. 01:00.200 --> 01:03.200 We haven't bought a savings bond in a long time. 01:03.200 --> 01:07.200 Ever since I sold the board of directors on Mr. Treadway's pet plan for the new administration building, 01:07.200 --> 01:09.200 he thinks I'm a great orator. 01:09.200 --> 01:10.200 You must be. 01:10.200 --> 01:12.200 You sold me on marrying you. 01:12.200 --> 01:14.200 Go ahead and read me your speech. 01:14.200 --> 01:18.200 Ahem. 01:18.200 --> 01:25.200 Fellow Americans, the job you are about to undertake is one which will benefit both your coworkers and your country. 01:25.200 --> 01:28.200 It is a public service of the highest order. 01:28.200 --> 01:30.200 You're not listening, Carol. 01:30.200 --> 01:31.200 Yes, I am. Let me go on. 01:31.200 --> 01:32.200 No. 01:32.200 --> 01:37.200 It is a privilege to address you on the importance of the payroll savings plan for the purchase of savings bonds. 01:37.200 --> 01:41.200 This plan is a boon to all Americans because, let us be honest, 01:41.200 --> 01:46.200 when a man brings home his hard-earned money at the end of the week, what does he do with it? 01:46.200 --> 01:48.200 Pour into an ungreased pan. 01:48.200 --> 01:53.200 He pours it into an ungreased pan. 01:53.200 --> 01:55.200 Go ahead, honey. 01:55.200 --> 01:58.200 But, and I say this in all sincerity, 01:58.200 --> 02:04.200 if the worker will take time to beat his yolks well and add the necessary hot milk 02:04.200 --> 02:07.200 and bake in a moderate oven at 330 degrees Fahrenheit, 02:07.200 --> 02:14.200 then he will realize the goal of every loyal citizen the day when he can retire to his own little sponge cake 02:14.200 --> 02:16.200 and live happily between two layers. 02:16.200 --> 02:18.200 I thank you. 02:18.200 --> 02:19.200 What do you think? 02:19.200 --> 02:22.200 It sounds wonderful, honey, but don't you think you could cut it down a little? 02:22.200 --> 02:24.200 You mean make it one layer? 02:24.200 --> 02:25.200 Hmm. 02:25.200 --> 02:30.200 Well, I bet Lincoln's wife wasn't baking a sponge cake when he was trying out his Gettysburg address on her. 02:30.200 --> 02:31.200 Well. 02:31.200 --> 02:33.200 And if Mrs. Washington didn't help George out with his speech, 02:33.200 --> 02:38.200 that farewell address might never have gone beyond the two words, goodbye, fellas. 02:38.200 --> 02:42.200 Wilbur, what on earth are you talking about? 02:42.200 --> 02:44.200 Oh, never mind. 02:44.200 --> 02:47.200 I'll just go back to the barn and try my speech out on my horse. 02:47.200 --> 02:52.200 Oh, Wilbur, have you called the electrician to have him come fix that short nap bridge lamp? 02:52.200 --> 02:53.200 He'll be here right after lunch. 02:53.200 --> 02:58.200 Thank you. 02:58.200 --> 03:02.200 Carol, you, would you hear my speech after lunch? 03:02.200 --> 03:03.200 Carol? 03:03.200 --> 03:06.200 I heard you, darling, the electrician will be here after lunch. 03:06.200 --> 03:07.200 Yeah. 03:07.200 --> 03:10.200 I, uh, I hope your sponge cake drops, honey. 03:10.200 --> 03:11.200 Thank you, darling. 03:11.200 --> 03:19.200 You're welcome. 03:19.200 --> 03:25.200 The payroll savings plan offers the worker an opportunity to accumulate savings bonds on a regular basis. 03:25.200 --> 03:29.200 Savings are done for him by his company each payday. 03:29.200 --> 03:31.200 How's it sound so far, Ed? 03:31.200 --> 03:33.200 Pretty bad. 03:33.200 --> 03:35.200 Think you could do any better? 03:35.200 --> 03:39.200 If I couldn't, I'd give up talking. 03:39.200 --> 03:41.200 What don't you like about the speech, Ed? 03:41.200 --> 03:43.200 You don't sound sincere. 03:43.200 --> 03:45.200 I don't? 03:45.200 --> 03:48.200 Uh, how many bonds do you own, Wilbur? 03:48.200 --> 03:50.200 You mean, um, savings bonds? 03:50.200 --> 03:53.200 We're not talking about watermelons. 03:53.200 --> 03:56.200 Well, I, I don't own any at the present time, Ed. 03:56.200 --> 03:59.200 You see, uh, when I went in business for myself, 03:59.200 --> 04:02.200 I went off my company's, uh, payroll savings plan. 04:02.200 --> 04:04.200 And you cashed the bond you had, and... 04:04.200 --> 04:05.200 Yeah. 04:05.200 --> 04:08.200 Well, if Carol and I needed the cash for a town payment on this house, 04:08.200 --> 04:10.200 you would have done the same thing. 04:10.200 --> 04:11.200 I doubt it. 04:11.200 --> 04:12.200 I'm eccentric. 04:12.200 --> 04:14.200 I prefer living in a stable. 04:14.200 --> 04:18.200 Ed, I don't have to own savings bonds to be a bond salesman. 04:18.200 --> 04:21.200 Besides, I told you, I used to have a lot of savings bonds 04:21.200 --> 04:23.200 before I started my own business. 04:23.200 --> 04:27.200 And I used to have a lot of hay before I started lunch. 04:27.200 --> 04:30.200 Ha! What does a horse know about savings bonds? 04:30.200 --> 04:34.200 I just know your speech doesn't sound sincere. 04:34.200 --> 04:36.200 Well, what can I do about it? 04:36.200 --> 04:38.200 Buy bonds. 04:38.200 --> 04:40.200 Ed, will you stop nagging? 04:40.200 --> 04:43.200 Right now, I just don't have any real need for savings bonds. 04:43.200 --> 04:46.200 OK. But how about the future? 04:46.200 --> 04:49.200 You know, someday we'll both want to retire. 04:49.200 --> 04:50.200 So what? 04:50.200 --> 04:55.200 So, savings bonds are one of the surest, safest ways of saving. 04:55.200 --> 04:56.200 You know that? 04:56.200 --> 04:57.200 No. 04:57.200 --> 04:59.200 They're backed by the government. 04:59.200 --> 05:01.200 You'll always get what you put in. 05:01.200 --> 05:03.200 Plus interest. 05:03.200 --> 05:05.200 You can't lose. 05:05.200 --> 05:06.200 Right, but... 05:06.200 --> 05:08.200 No buts about it. 05:08.200 --> 05:10.200 And consider these points. 05:10.200 --> 05:13.200 Savings bonds are just like cash, 05:13.200 --> 05:18.200 meaning they can be redeemed quickly and easily at your bank. 05:18.200 --> 05:19.200 Are you finished? 05:19.200 --> 05:20.200 Not yet. 05:20.200 --> 05:23.200 Savings bonds are also loss-proof, 05:23.200 --> 05:26.200 meaning if stolen, lost, or destroyed, 05:26.200 --> 05:29.200 your bonds are replaced by the government. 05:29.200 --> 05:30.200 Are you finished? 05:30.200 --> 05:35.200 Finally, the payroll savings plan is the most painless way of saving ever invented. 05:35.200 --> 05:39.200 You'll never miss those few dollars out of each paycheck 05:39.200 --> 05:44.200 because the saving is done for you before you ever see it. 05:44.200 --> 05:46.200 Now I'm finished. 05:46.200 --> 05:49.200 Nice speech, Ed. Nice speech. 05:49.200 --> 05:51.200 Well, anyway, it's sincere. 05:51.200 --> 05:54.200 How could it be when you don't have any bonds, wise guy? 05:54.200 --> 05:57.200 You mean I don't sound sincere? 05:57.200 --> 05:59.200 Of course not. 05:59.200 --> 06:01.200 You made that point to me, remember? 06:01.200 --> 06:04.200 And what's good for the boss is good for the horse. 06:04.200 --> 06:05.200 Hey. 06:08.200 --> 06:09.200 Hmm. 06:09.200 --> 06:34.200 I wonder if they sell savings bonds to horses. 06:34.200 --> 06:40.200 Operator, get me Washington, D.C., Treasury Department. 06:40.200 --> 06:43.200 Yeah, I'll pay. 06:48.200 --> 06:51.200 Carol, can you spare a few minutes to hear my speech? 06:51.200 --> 06:53.200 As soon as I put the cake in the oven, honey. 06:53.200 --> 07:08.200 OK. 07:08.200 --> 07:10.200 Thank you. Thank you. 07:10.200 --> 07:14.200 Oh, please, not too much. You're spoiling me. 07:14.200 --> 07:16.200 No, there's too much. 07:16.200 --> 07:17.200 Thank you. Thank you. 07:17.200 --> 07:20.200 Thank you. Thank you. 07:20.200 --> 07:27.200 Mr. Chairman, fellow citizens, it is a privilege to address you on the subject of designing your future. 07:27.200 --> 07:36.200 Believe me, in building a family's financial plan, just as in building a skyscraper, the foundation is all important. 07:36.200 --> 07:46.200 So, when you advise your fellow workers to build that plan around United States savings bonds, you are giving them the best possible advice. 07:46.200 --> 07:58.200 Savings bonds are a solid rock of security, a launching pad for those dreams of the future. 07:58.200 --> 08:00.200 Oh, hey, that's pretty cute, Mr. Post. 08:00.200 --> 08:02.200 I like that launching pad angle. 08:02.200 --> 08:03.200 I wish I'd set it. 08:03.200 --> 08:04.200 Oh, hi, Mr. Davis. 08:04.200 --> 08:05.200 Did you fix the lamp? 08:05.200 --> 08:06.200 Oh, don't worry about that. 08:06.200 --> 08:07.200 It'll live. 08:07.200 --> 08:08.200 Hey, what's with the speech? 08:08.200 --> 08:09.200 You going on TV? 08:09.200 --> 08:13.200 Well, I'm giving a talk to the payroll savings canvassers at Treadway Iron and Steel. 08:13.200 --> 08:17.200 You know, pep them up, inspire them to be good bond salesmen. 08:17.200 --> 08:18.200 I got news for you, Mr. Post. 08:18.200 --> 08:20.200 Making a speech won't do the job. 08:20.200 --> 08:21.200 I know. 08:21.200 --> 08:23.200 I was a canvasser myself in the last drive at our shop. 08:23.200 --> 08:24.200 You know what you got to do? 08:24.200 --> 08:25.200 You got to give them the answers. 08:25.200 --> 08:27.200 You got to tell them how to meet objections. 08:27.200 --> 08:28.200 Objections? 08:28.200 --> 08:29.200 Sure. 08:29.200 --> 08:31.200 Savings don't come easy to most people. 08:31.200 --> 08:33.200 They'll give you 87 excuses for not signing up. 08:33.200 --> 08:36.200 So, the canvasser's got to have 88 answers. 08:36.200 --> 08:37.200 I'll show you what. 08:37.200 --> 08:38.200 Now, look. 08:38.200 --> 08:42.200 You'll be the canvasser, and I'll be the guy in the job, and you try and sign me up. 08:42.200 --> 08:44.200 Mr. Davis, I'm paying you by the hour. 08:44.200 --> 08:46.200 I can't afford the lecture. 08:46.200 --> 08:47.200 All right. 08:47.200 --> 08:48.200 Forget it. 08:48.200 --> 08:52.200 But when you fall flat on your face, remember you heard it here first. 08:52.200 --> 08:54.200 Well, maybe you could give me a short course. 08:54.200 --> 08:57.200 You know, just tell me the question. 08:57.200 --> 09:02.200 Al, like a guy, I'll say, I can't afford to say. 09:02.200 --> 09:03.200 That's a very good point. 09:03.200 --> 09:04.200 What do I tell him? 09:04.200 --> 09:08.200 Tell him, look, Charlie, you can't afford to be sick or off the job either. 09:08.200 --> 09:09.200 But it happens. 09:09.200 --> 09:14.200 And you better be ready for that kind of an emergency when it comes up with saving bonds in the sock. 09:14.200 --> 09:19.200 And then maybe he'll tell you they already got too many D-Ducks off their check. 09:19.200 --> 09:21.200 That's a tough one to answer. 09:21.200 --> 09:23.200 For you, but not for me. 09:23.200 --> 09:28.200 I say, this is a D-Duck you take right home with you, only it's in the shape of a bond. 09:28.200 --> 09:32.200 This is take-home pay, too, and the only kind that grows. 09:32.200 --> 09:33.200 That's what I tell him. 09:33.200 --> 09:36.200 When you're canvassing, you've got to be a real live wire. 09:36.200 --> 09:38.200 Well, that's easy for you. 09:38.200 --> 09:40.200 You're a real live person. 09:40.200 --> 09:42.200 Yeah. 09:42.200 --> 09:46.200 Then they'll tell you, I can save better some other ways. 09:46.200 --> 09:49.200 And I say, sure, sure, you can save any way you want. 09:49.200 --> 09:54.200 But you'll never find an easier way than this when the saving is done for you before you even get your hands on the money. 09:54.200 --> 09:57.200 Bonds are just like cash when you need it. 09:57.200 --> 10:01.200 But if you let them lay, they'll keep growing to buy the important things you'll need someday. 10:01.200 --> 10:04.200 And not only that, but you can save on your taxes. 10:04.200 --> 10:08.200 Because you don't have to pay income tax on the interest until you cash the bonds. 10:08.200 --> 10:12.200 You might even be retired by then, and you won't have much to pay. 10:12.200 --> 10:14.200 You know, that's something I didn't know. 10:14.200 --> 10:16.200 You mind if I take a few notes? 10:16.200 --> 10:18.200 I don't mind if you make a movie out of it. 10:18.200 --> 10:25.200 Mr. Post, I got a hunch that you don't know too much about payroll savings. 10:25.200 --> 10:28.200 I mean, being a big shot architect and all, you know. 10:28.200 --> 10:35.200 I want you to know, Mr. Davis, that I was in the payroll savings plan myself for many years before I went into business on my own. 10:35.200 --> 10:37.200 I know all about it. 10:37.200 --> 10:39.200 That's why they picked me to make the speech. 10:39.200 --> 10:44.200 Well, no offense, Mr. Post, but you sound like a guy just making a speech, you know? 10:44.200 --> 10:45.200 No oomph. 10:45.200 --> 10:46.200 Oomph? 10:46.200 --> 10:47.200 Right. 10:47.200 --> 10:48.200 No oomph. 10:48.200 --> 10:51.200 Like a guy that maybe isn't using the product himself. 10:51.200 --> 10:53.200 You got any bonds? 10:53.200 --> 10:56.200 Well, now, that's a rather personal question, Mr. Davis. 10:56.200 --> 10:58.200 When I discussed the matter with my horse... 10:58.200 --> 11:01.200 Any horse will tell you the same. 11:01.200 --> 11:02.200 Horse? 11:02.200 --> 11:06.200 Yeah, well, I was rehearsing my speech in front of him the way I was with you, 11:06.200 --> 11:10.200 and he doesn't know half as much as you do about payroll savings. 11:10.200 --> 11:12.200 Oh, well, he hasn't had a chance to study, has he? 11:12.200 --> 11:15.200 Oh, come on, you got me talking like you. 11:15.200 --> 11:17.200 Now, tell me some more of the questions you get, Mr. Davis. 11:17.200 --> 11:20.200 Well, there's the one where they say, 11:20.200 --> 11:24.200 I'd like to sign up, but I got a lot of bills to pay. 11:24.200 --> 11:27.200 I should think you'd tell them, sign up now, 11:27.200 --> 11:29.200 and we'll date the card ahead to whenever you say. 11:29.200 --> 11:30.200 How's that? 11:30.200 --> 11:32.200 As an electrician, I hate to say this, Mr. Post. 11:32.200 --> 11:34.200 But you are now cooking with gas. 11:34.200 --> 11:36.200 Thank you. 11:36.200 --> 11:39.200 I bet between us we'd have them eating out of our hands. 11:39.200 --> 11:42.200 I'd do okay, but I hate to say this, Mr. Post. 11:42.200 --> 11:46.200 You don't have it here, on account of you ain't a payroll saver. 11:46.200 --> 11:48.200 You know, folks can always tell. 11:48.200 --> 11:50.200 But I used to be on payroll savings. 11:50.200 --> 11:52.200 We bought a lot of bonds while we bought this house with them. 11:52.200 --> 11:55.200 Yeah, but what have you done about it lately? 11:55.200 --> 11:58.200 It's not my fault. I'm my own boss now. 11:58.200 --> 12:00.200 I can't get on payroll savings. 12:00.200 --> 12:02.200 Oh, I'm bleeding for you, Mr. Post. 12:02.200 --> 12:05.200 I'm bleeding for you. 12:05.200 --> 12:07.200 Tell you what, Mr. Post. 12:07.200 --> 12:10.200 You give me your house and your business, and I'll give you my job. 12:10.200 --> 12:12.200 Very funny. 12:12.200 --> 12:14.200 To hear you talk, you'd think that payroll savings 12:14.200 --> 12:16.200 was the only way you could buy bonds. 12:16.200 --> 12:18.200 Don't you ever go to the bank? 12:18.200 --> 12:19.200 Certainly. 12:19.200 --> 12:21.200 To pick up a free calendar, maybe? 12:21.200 --> 12:25.200 Don't you know your bank's got savings bonds on sale at all times? 12:25.200 --> 12:29.200 Why, they'd even let you sign up to buy a bond a month automatically 12:29.200 --> 12:30.200 out of your checking account. 12:30.200 --> 12:39.200 Well, excuse me, Mr. Post. 12:39.200 --> 12:50.200 Well, let there be light. 12:50.200 --> 12:51.200 You're not feeling too bad. 12:51.200 --> 12:54.200 Edison didn't hit it the first time either. 12:54.200 --> 12:56.200 Well, like the guys at the office always say, 12:56.200 --> 13:23.200 I'm a great bond salesman, but the world's worst electrician. 13:23.200 --> 13:24.200 Hi, honey. 13:24.200 --> 13:27.200 Why the sad look? 13:27.200 --> 13:29.200 I think I'm going to ask Mr. Treadway to get somebody else 13:29.200 --> 13:31.200 to make that bond speech. 13:31.200 --> 13:32.200 What? Why? 13:32.200 --> 13:35.200 Well, I thought I knew all about savings bonds, 13:35.200 --> 13:38.200 but it seems everybody else knows more about it than I do. 13:38.200 --> 13:40.200 Don't say that, honey. 13:40.200 --> 13:43.200 Would you like to try your speech out on me? 13:43.200 --> 13:44.200 Again? 13:44.200 --> 13:45.200 What do you mean? 13:45.200 --> 13:50.200 20 minutes ago, I lost a close decision to your sponge cake. 13:50.200 --> 13:53.200 Darling, I'm sorry. 13:53.200 --> 13:55.200 I should have paid more attention. 13:55.200 --> 13:56.200 You didn't miss a thing. 13:56.200 --> 13:57.200 I'm a pretty terrible salesman. 13:57.200 --> 13:59.200 Now, Wilbur, don't say that. 13:59.200 --> 14:01.200 I couldn't sell a rowboat to a drowning man. 14:01.200 --> 14:02.200 Now, stop that. 14:02.200 --> 14:04.200 I will not have you knocking my husband. 14:04.200 --> 14:06.200 Know what I think? 14:06.200 --> 14:07.200 What? 14:07.200 --> 14:08.200 You have a guilty conscience. 14:08.200 --> 14:12.200 Ever since we cashed our savings bonds to buy this house, 14:12.200 --> 14:16.200 we've been spending every last cent and never saving anything. 14:16.200 --> 14:18.200 That's what you get for marrying a sport. 14:18.200 --> 14:20.200 I wanted you to have things. 14:20.200 --> 14:25.200 Silly, you can have things and still save regularly. 14:25.200 --> 14:27.200 All a woman really wants is security, 14:27.200 --> 14:29.200 plus a loving husband, of course. 14:29.200 --> 14:31.200 Even if he can't make a decent speech? 14:31.200 --> 14:33.200 You can make a fine speech. 14:33.200 --> 14:36.200 All you need is to be sincere. 14:36.200 --> 14:42.200 Oh, you sound just like that electrician. 14:42.200 --> 14:44.200 He says if you're not buying bonds yourself, 14:44.200 --> 14:46.200 you can't convince other people they should buy them. 14:46.200 --> 14:48.200 He's right. 14:48.200 --> 14:50.200 I have to confess something to you, honey. 14:50.200 --> 14:54.200 I heard you and Mr. Davis talking about the payroll savings plan in there. 14:54.200 --> 14:57.200 You know, all the arguments people give for not being able to save 14:57.200 --> 15:00.200 and all those answers he had. 15:00.200 --> 15:04.200 Why, it's the first time I've ever been sold anything by remote control. 15:04.200 --> 15:08.200 You know, I think we should sign up for a regular bond every month. 15:08.200 --> 15:11.200 Well, there's one thing about my little wife. 15:11.200 --> 15:13.200 When she's right, she's right. 15:13.200 --> 15:15.200 And when she's wrong, she's right. 15:15.200 --> 15:18.200 And this time, I'm wrong and you're right. 15:18.200 --> 15:20.200 We'll start buying bonds again. 15:20.200 --> 15:23.200 Oh, honey, and then you can do your canvassing with sincerity. 15:23.200 --> 15:25.200 You know, give it a little oomph. 15:25.200 --> 15:28.200 Wait till I tell that electrician. 15:34.200 --> 15:37.200 Well, I fixed the light, Mr. Post. 15:37.200 --> 15:40.200 Well, now fix my nose. 15:40.200 --> 15:42.200 I'm sorry. 15:42.200 --> 15:44.200 I smell cake. 15:44.200 --> 15:46.200 My sponge cake! 15:53.200 --> 15:55.200 Oh! 15:55.200 --> 15:57.200 Look! 15:57.200 --> 15:59.200 My sponge cake. 15:59.200 --> 16:00.200 Look at it. 16:00.200 --> 16:02.200 It's flat. 16:02.200 --> 16:06.200 Well, honey, as long as we have savings bonds, we'll never be flat. 16:06.200 --> 16:10.200 What do you mean, horses can't own savings bonds? 16:10.200 --> 16:12.200 What are they, animals? 16:12.200 --> 16:14.200 You listen to me, fella. 16:14.200 --> 16:15.200 I... 16:15.200 --> 16:17.200 Take it easy, Ed. 16:17.200 --> 16:19.200 The nerve of that guy. 16:19.200 --> 16:23.200 Suppose we horses passed a law that people couldn't ride horses. 16:23.200 --> 16:24.200 Ed, listen. 16:24.200 --> 16:26.200 Horses can't own savings bonds. 16:26.200 --> 16:28.200 A cat, I could understand. 16:28.200 --> 16:29.200 Relax, Ed. 16:29.200 --> 16:31.200 Carol and I are going to be buying a horse. 16:31.200 --> 16:33.200 We're going to be buying a horse. 16:33.200 --> 16:38.200 Relax, Ed. Carol and I are going to be buying savings bonds regularly through our bank. 16:38.200 --> 16:42.200 And as a member of the family, you will be sharing in the pride of ownership. 16:43.200 --> 16:44.200 You feel better now? 16:44.200 --> 16:46.200 Yes, sir. 16:46.200 --> 16:48.200 But you can't blame me for feeling hurt, Wilbur. 16:48.200 --> 16:51.200 After all, horses are human too. 16:55.200 --> 17:01.200 Friends, I hope you enjoyed our special Mr. Ed story for United States savings bonds 17:01.200 --> 17:04.200 half as much as we enjoyed doing it for you. 17:04.200 --> 17:08.200 But now for a minute, I'd like to be myself, Alan Young, 17:08.200 --> 17:12.200 to thank you on behalf of the Treasury Department for the important work you are doing 17:12.200 --> 17:15.200 as canvassers for the payroll savings plan. 17:15.200 --> 17:21.200 And let me remind you that the service you are performing for your co-workers is one they will never forget. 17:21.200 --> 17:27.200 We all have a way of remembering the nice things in our lives and the people who are associated with them. 17:27.200 --> 17:33.200 Maybe signing somebody up for payroll savings is not quite the same as performing a marriage ceremony 17:33.200 --> 17:36.200 or delivering a young couple's first baby, but just the same. 17:36.200 --> 17:41.200 Learning to save is an important milestone in any family's life. 17:41.200 --> 17:44.200 And every payday as their bonds keep piling up, 17:44.200 --> 17:48.200 the people you signed up will feel grateful all over again. 17:48.200 --> 17:53.200 Your country is grateful too, because savings bonds are good for America, 17:53.200 --> 17:57.200 an investment in our free way of life. 17:57.200 --> 18:02.200 So for everyone in our cast, Connie Hines who plays the part of Carol, 18:02.200 --> 18:07.200 George O'Hanlon who as Mr. Davis was the electrician and super bond salesman, 18:07.200 --> 18:12.200 and of course, Mr. Ed, who has authorized me to speak for him. 18:12.200 --> 18:26.200 Thanks again and good luck.