Show N PET PEEVE DACK BACK in my romping days In to i U the Piney Hills of Mississippi I it was fash fashionable for the sho short short- britches crowd to dream of the j great things they were going to do and do-and and going to be when be-when when the magic age of 21 came along Warm I summer days in the shade of the theOle theOle theOle Ole fishing Hole and cool autumn nights by the light of a Boy S Scout out were the time and the place for airing noble ambitions The lads of my day were made I of 01 sterner stuff than their counterParts counterparts counter counter- 1 Parts today where great aspirations aspirations are concerned Most of us us I fis as I recall planned to join the French Foreign Legion Responsible ble in the most part was Freddie I Ithe the Eagle Scout who had earne earned l nearly every medal in the ScoutIng Scouting Scouting Scout Scout- I ing repertory and felt the Legion the thel only place where he would I II Istad I stand island a good chance of adding to his collection But we had a goodly good good- I ly number of would would-be cowboys I Indians sea captains and pirates The thing that got me to thinking I I in such a vein was a conversation I with a few members of the new generation Do they want to trek the hot sands of the Sahara sail saila a schooner around the world or even ride ride a horse Dont Don't be silly Respectively they aspire to be a Jet jockey captain of a space spaceshIp spaceship spaceship ship to the moon and a manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer of atom bombs Streaking through the sonic barker barrier barrier bar bar- rier ker cruising merrily among the Outer uter planets and manufacturing atom bombs how bombs how can you compare these with the dangers of battling desert esert nomads braving th the onslaught on on- slaught of fierce and determined d IndIans We have modernized ourselves into nt a race of ot weaklings gs |