Show I I BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Another Kind of Courage Has HasIt It AllOver Over Standard Heroics By BILLY ROSE ROSE- Recently a doctor in Maine sent me a story about a courageous courageous courageous coura coura- kid and unless Im I'm getting soft in the heart its it's the most touching tale of heroism Ive I've come across in a long time Some time ago the medico got a 1 hurry up telephone call to come out to a small summer camp 20 miles west of Bangor There half hall an hour later he examined a year six-year-old girl irl and found that one of her legs was broken and that she had lost a lot of blood from a gash in her thigh 6 h h If t iff f. f f th T Lut he st ory do as U a go bU 6 real UI e mother was that the girl and her brother aged 7 7 had gotten into the loft of an abandoned 4 aen barn and when a rotted plank gave way she had fallen fall faU en b broken ok n her le leand leg legand legand and ripped her thigh on a piece of rusty farm ma ma- chinery As the doctor was e. e Billy Rose cauterizing the cut and setting the leg the boy his boy his name was Pete Pete kept kept watching from the doorway with worried interest in in- terest Is Molly going to be all right he asked when the splints were in place lost a lot of blood said the doctor but if she gets past the crisis tonight everything willbe will willbe willbe be okay a crisis Its well Its well I 1 guess its it's the time when a person is sickest When people lose a lot of blood do they die Sometimes You see the heart needs a certain amount to keep going In a way its it's like the motor of a car car it it stops running if it it doesn't get gasoline I see said Pete LATER THAT NIGHT the little girls girl's pulse began to slow up Im afraid your daughter needs an immediate transfusion the doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor told the father but ther theres there's s 's a complication She has an unusual type of blood and I doubt whether the blood bank in Bangor has hns it in stock Her brother has the same type said fur tho lather I know because the pediatrician who examined the kids last year told me so Pete looked startled a minute later when hit his dad asked him bim if iJ be he would g give te up tip a cup clip of oj blood to help belp bis his sister get well How flow can I 1 Ir the boy asked The doctor does it with a little rubber tube Can I think about it Sure said the father but dont don't take too long Pete went to his room and his parents heard him close the door Five minutes later he was back looking very earnest All right he said WHEN WIZEN IT WAS over the doctor bandaged the boys boy's arm and told him to lie down and take it easy easy But instead the kid went out on the porch and when his father found him there at midnight his face was white and his fingers were clenched the matter Pete Oh nothing said the boy Look here said his father Theres something going on in that head of yours What is it I 1 was wondering bow how long it will take R How ow long will what take How long it will take me to die To do what To die repeated the boy Ifs Is like the doctor said said when when there isn't enough blood the m motor stops slops running I see said the father When you gave your sister a cup of blood you figured you were going to die yourself Sure said Pete why I wanted to think it over |