:23:01
Mortgages, and bills, and debts!
Be reasonable.
:23:04
First you started with five boys,
then it was 20, then it was 50.
:23:07
With this place,
you'd be looking for 100 boys.
:23:09
- 500.
- All right, 500. What?
:23:12
How you going to get the money?
How you going to do it? It's crazy.
:23:15
Well, maybe you're right.
:23:20
- What did you say?
- Maybe you're right.
:23:22
Eddie, don't you feel well?
:23:25
Maybe it's just a dream
that I'll never see fulfilled.
:23:29
It seems a shame though,
a lot of boys cheated out of the chance...
:23:32
to live a nice, decent life out in the open,
where they belong.
:23:35
Stop it.
:23:37
- How many acres?
- Over 200.
:23:39
But you can't handle
as big a thing as this...
:23:40
without a lot of public support,
contributions.
:23:42
I haven't been a bad risk so far, have I?
:23:44
No, you've paid back everything.
How, I don't know. It isn't that.
:23:47
But this time you're biting off
more than you can chew.
:23:49
The newspapers aren't friendly to you,
as it is.
:23:51
- What do you think they'll say about this?
- I know.
:23:53
- What do you suggest?
- Hargraves.
:23:55
He owns the most powerful string
of newspapers in the Middle West.
:23:58
And he's a tough nut to crack.
:24:00
You get Hargraves behind you,
and maybe I can handle it.
:24:04
That's fair, Dave.
:24:06
All right, here you are. It's a bargain.
:24:08
Nothing doing. Not till you get Hargraves.
:24:14
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
:24:15
- How do you do, Father?
- Good morning, Mr. Hargraves.
:24:17
We haven't met before, but I know of you.
:24:21
Well, that shortens preliminaries.
:24:23
- Can I help you?
- Do you want to?
:24:26
If you mean, do I indorse your work,
I don't, I'm sorry to say.
:24:30
Well, that's all right.
:24:31
But why do you go out of your way
to hurt me?
:24:33
There's a feeling in official circles
that you're setting up a tacit criticism...
:24:36
of things as they are.
:24:37
There was the same feeling when Newton
suspected the law of gravitation.
:24:41
There's also a feeling that the sooner
you're discouraged, the better.
:24:44
For yourself, too.
:24:45
- No one questions your intentions.
- But I'm paving the lower regions, huh?
:24:50
Mr. Hargraves, I have 50 boys I've taken
from the slums and the streets.
:24:54
Right now they're on their way
to becoming confident human beings.
:24:56
I can do the same with 500.
:24:58
Boys like that get their chances
in institutions.