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Inside Voice. The program has much of the iron charm of the schoolmarm: "Tony, you want to remember your Romper Room manners, honey." It also has a celebrated prop, the Do Bee and Don't Bee blackboard, with two big wooden bees on the top and a fresh message each day on the slate, for example, Don't Bee a Street Player, Do Bee a Walk Player. ("Don't be a street walker," said one teacher, fluffing that one.) "Remember your Do Bee manners," says teacher to a Lilliputian loudmouth. "Use your inside voice." When the little Romper roommates sit down for their cookies and milk, they say, "God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food." As for integration, it's a local matter, according to Claster, but he says that in Baltimore, at least, the Rompers have been integrated from the outset.