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Show PAHLlCAWIlECnll IN COMMON with most worriers, Henry Heyl, 750 Olympia Street. S. W . Grand Rapids, Michigan, thought he had a priority on worrying. wor-rying. He worried about anything and everything and when he received re-ceived hii "Greetings" from Uncle Sam he really got under way. By the time he had reached the receiving center and had passed his physical examination he was almost a total wreck. After being assigned to his barracks, he started talking with the fellow who had the bunk next to I hl. Just to get his mind off himself. Among all the fellows in the barracks, whose average age LttAJ was twenty years, Imagine his pleasant surprise &a! ftf to And that his bunkmate was even older than he Xt," wai over 38. Right away they had something in VA common. This chap was the most cheerful fellow r"JV I he had ever met. He aaid they called him "Kain- f I? I tuck" because he hailed from Kentucky. He told LUUjJLJ Henry that he had seven children who had gotten CARNEGIE about every disease to which a child could be exposed. ex-posed. And he was very poor; just barely making ends meet. On top of ail that, he and his family were illiterate they could neither read nor write. Well maybe Henry Heyl didn't feel ashamed of himself and his Imaginary troubles He asked Kaintuck how he could be so cheerful with all his troubles, and Kulntuck handed hlrn a philosophy of life that he declares he will never forget. Here It is: "1 ain't had much book learnin', but I've found out when I got trouble 1 couldn't lick, I can take them to the Lord In prayer. Then I get up off my knees, forget all about it, and go on doln' the best I know how." |