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"IT'S BETTER THAN WORKING"
WHY WORRY
That’s my usual answer to the usual question, “How do you like running the Breakfast Club?” Not that there isn’t a great deal of elbow grease and mental anguish nec¬ essary to keep the show running smoothly, interestingly, and without getting in that well known rut; yet the actual performance on the air HAS to be fun — otherwise it wouldn’t be the Breakfast Club. We are not good enough actors to give the impression of a typical family enjoying themselves around the nation’s breakfast table. We have to BE that family. So we’ve gone along in our own slaphappy way enjoying ourselves without benefit of script hoping that our own obvious enjoyment of our job will be communicated to our Breakfast Club army at home, who need morale building, just like the members of their family who are in Uncle Sam’s armed forces. The Break¬ fast Club is a program of music and wit — half music and half wit. I have a wonderful cast to work with. I know I can always depend on them for inspiration on mornings when my mind has all the sparkle of a dull hoe. We’re mighty proud of the constant flow of fine letters from our Breakfast Clubbers who write over 40,000 unsolicited letters a year to us — friendly letters like you’d write to your own family. We’re proud of the kids who have grown up listening to us. We’re proud of the age of our gags — we feel if they weren’t good in the first place they wouldn’t have lasted this long. And we’re proud that everything we say is sincere and clean so that every family member can listen.
Don (to son Donmj): l understand one of the kids in your class at school said he hears me every morning. What did you say to him?
Donny: I said “Wanna make something out of it?”
After all, why worry. Either you’re successful or you’re not successful. If you are successful, there’s nothing to worry about. And if you’re not successful, there are only two things to worry about. Either your health is good, or you’re sick. If your health is good, there’s nothing to worry about. And if you’re sick, there are only two things to worry about. Either you’re going to get well, or you’re not. If you are going to get well, there’s nothing to worry about, and if you’re not, there are only two things to worry about. Either you’re going to heaven, or you’re going to the other place. If you’re going to heaven, you have nothing to worry about, and if you’re going to the other place, you’ll be so busy shaking hands with old friends, you won’t have time to worry — so why worry.
A SMILE
A SMILE costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it some¬ times lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the counter¬ sign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is nature’s best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
(Anonymous)
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