I don't know if Harold/Greg ever necessarily bilked other salesmen out of funds or stole from them. It seems like what he did was give salesmen a bad name and made it tougher for them to sell whatever they were selling. So they were kind of run out of one state by the law. They can be mad at him, but it seems that Charlie Cowell represented them (as he says he would at the beginning of the show) when he tried to put the record straight to the folks in River City when he arrived there later on in the show.
If the folks of River City liked seeing and hearing their kids playing instruments, someone on the PTA might ask that funds be allocated to hire a band teacher. Music education at certain points in U.S. history was taught to some extent. We hear of music programs being cut, but to be cut, they've had to be there at some point for them to cut later on. Maybe Mayor Shinn's wife and those Pick-a-Little Ladies got on the mayor's case to hire a music teacher for the high school. They liked what they saw, and decided it was the beginning of something good for their town and that it needed to be built upon to make it even better. Harold can teach salesmanship, deportment, presentation, public speaking, etc. and be among the first professional motivational speakers. |
