| Show w wAN AN EDITORIAL BY I II IIAN FLORENCE DAVIES w wilL ilL AIL L RiGin U Tn Bill was always alt all right up ul Ia the 0 the time he got hurt lie He seemed to be bo a good lad and very et cry Ian lar popular until heas he was ens hurt placing b has has- ball bail After that he had a crip- crip crippled crippled pled leg and from then on bea lie he w la a changed boy He Ic became sul- sul suilen leo len sullen lost host his pOI popularity and I I think any trouble that he ho may y now b ba In Is ts 01 duo ue to that Injury r This kindly explanation was written by tho the 0 go governor of a state about a man whom ho lie had knowl n as a boy bol bO but who Is now a fugl fugl- fugi- fugi th the e from I wonder how many people there are In the bc world orld who would ou ha hao hae e been all right If 1 It hadn t been for fora fora a leg or some other awl sud- sudden su den disappointment or unhooked unhooked- for hurt The trouble with nub Ith Bill was as aa that lie he couldn't stand the gaff Spirit Spirit- speaking he couldn't stand punishment lIe He had one ono greit hurt and went down don do n under It DIll Bil s Il Ilan an athlete In his younger days tall straight upstanding But h lie he wasn warn t big enough to through life The thing that tha I crushed his log leg didn't stop slop there It crushed him too His Ills flight fligh I from justice today Is only the last las ast lap on or on hi his long effort at running away from life lite Ho lie sl to run away fron life 1110 the diy day he got hurt TurnIng his back on life hating bating It tt rebeil- rebeil I log at It and cheating at It It ho hoJ he hi J finally kept running awn away from It till he tie landed on the boat which 1 will II carry him over the seas seis an and I into an alien ahen country But Dut ho he cai can never run clear aV a from the tho th II boy th-it th once vaa as na Bill the floe chap I I chapI What do you OU do with sour lour our brok- brok broken broken en bones or it if you been I I hurt In body with your broken hopes and crippled opportunIties I Do ou let them down you like the hurt leg downed owned Bill who ho wai es once a friend ot of o a I governor SI Do D IOU OU I itt t them eat at Into OU and you and you an rebellious and an enemy to your your- yourself yourself self and ond to all society Or do you yo j and Et-and up tiP to them I know a man who hates his hi limping gait and his bungled bungle leg legas legas Ie as much is 1 Bill does oe But Dut when there a nothing else to do be he makes make I a joke about It and goes on Perhaps It Is 15 asking too much mue to 0 expect an any one to make a joke joko jok joko I II I ot of o crushed hopes But po no ono one on need let them be bo the master The man who let his hia crippled cripple I I than leg Ilg crush his log Ie him warn wasn t much It all depends on you as g o whether lifes life's hurts make you a e from life or put you In Inthe the vanguard ang of o the fighters How flow many 1 people do you yon know aho ho like Bill were all right untIl unlit i Illness made them peevish or povo pov erty erly made them rebellious or dis- dis disappointment disappointment appointment made them IrrItable 1 Being all right In spite of the crIppled leg is what counts |
