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Show H llllll !! H W TO NIIP PIIIIM M Willi. L s Y JOHN end JANE STRICKIANO B his school work. During the next four years, as the students grew older and more mature in their thinking, Percy made some friends. School days over, Percy had to work a couple of years before he could go on to college. Several others in his class were doing the same. Out to look for a good Job, who do you think got the best Job to be had? Percy, of course, the boy who had applied himself so arduously ar-duously to his school work. After one year of working, the President of the Company sent for him. The Company was looking ahead for future executives. They considered Percy in line. They would finance him for four years of college work, and he could pay back so much a month after he received his diploma. Now Percy was walking on air. Percy paid for his college expenses ex-penses in three years. He Is now the general manager of a subdivision. sub-division. The President of the Company Com-pany is one of his best friends! Nothing like making lemonade when handed a lemonl (Percy's last name, by the way, is not as given here. He is still conservative, and to advertise himself by this story would not be to his liking). TODAY'S PROBLEM: When Life Hands you a Lemon PERCY OAKSHOT1 came here from England as a very little boy. His parents settled in Utlca, New York, where Percy attended school. He was up against the usual problems of a stranger In a strange land: regarded more or less with suspicion by his classmates. class-mates. Wasn't he .different? His name didn't sound American . . . and that wasn't so good. Even his clothes were different. Percy was a conservative fellow, so he seemed, if not unfriendly, at least not friendly. He went through what many youths consider the proper way to break a fellow in. He was ridiculed, he was beat up a few times, and then he was left severely alone. Percy did what there was left for him to do; he withdrew into a shell, kept to himself. But he Studied hard. Naturally he made good grades. At the end of the year, however, he still was alone. Good grades in the elementary school do not tend to create popularity. popu-larity. There was another year, and then high school. The same conditions prevailed because high school students were those who had passed from the elementary school. Percy continued his solitary life and his strenuous application to |