Show ROMANCE of YOUTH THOMAS ARKLE CLARK emente dean of men nty of u thirteen when the narrow between west lebanon ind and havana HL was baul I 1 say havana though the construction st was never completed farther than leroy I 1 believe it was a project which was to revolutionize ag ri culture in that part of the state in which I 1 lived and it gave all us children a thrill we traveled very little in those days inbi did go it was afoot or horse la a farm wagon I 1 had nev air 1 inside a railway coach when but I 1 had ambitions to hi ed bailey and taylor curels caf isel to climb to the root of the te train a little more r creeping along the puffing up the grade ir the glacial moraln I 1 and out of sight 1 romance to us 1 we be farmers dragging a plow or a harrow re going to be engl racing our trains along at 15 or 20 miles an hour I 1 ran onto billy a few days ago as I 1 was coming home at noontime buly had been our neighbor a few years before and then had pissed out of our domestic life tor a time now here he was again healthy and rosy and thirteen where do you live now I 1 asked and he told me are you going to school he was in the seventh grade as a normal boy of his age should have been and his chances of flunking or passing his ex for promotion were about fifty fifty but fm not going to college he confided to me no I 1 said in an interrogatory tone of voice tm going to an aviation school it any more dangerous flying now than it Is running an automobile its awful good pay too 1 I 1 remembered that an engineer got one hundred dollars a month when I 1 contemplated taking up that profession it seemed a lot of money I 1 dlan t try to dissuade billy what Is education as compared with the romance and the thrill of sailing through the air at a hundred miles an hour or more the romance of youth I 1 western newspaper union |