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Show 'Way Back When o By JEANNE JOSEF STALIN STUDIED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD WITH what blindness do we attempt at-tempt to guide our children'! footsteps in life, so often forcing on them an ambition of our own! It might be laughable were it not so seriously in opposition to the man's own desires, but Josef Stalin was forced to attend the Tiflis Greek Orthodox seminary, because his mother wanted him to be a priest Young Stalin, legally named Josel Vissarionovitch Djygashvili, did not want to be a priest Born in 1879, Josef was educated in the village school of Gori, Russia. Rus-sia. In his young days he was a fighter who bore many a black eye, and he was somewhat of a bully, although he always displayed intelligence intel-ligence and character. At the sem- inary, he led the other students in plotting against the authorities, and local railway workers met in his room. Eventually, he was dismissed dis-missed in disgrace. At the age of seventeen, he joined the underground under-ground dock workers of Batum in a riot and when the terrorist Bolsheviks Bol-sheviks were formed became active in their movement. While attending attend-ing a Bolshevik party conference in Stockholm, in 1905, he met Lenin for the first time. Josef Stalin was arrested a half a dozen times, and exiled from Russia Rus-sia the last time. He changed his name regularly and returned again and again. With Lenin and Trotsky, he took over the government of Russia Rus-sia in October, 1917. After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin supporters exiled ex-iled Trotsky and through' ruthless executions made Stalin dictator. Josef Stalin's life is hardly the kind of biography you would expect ex-pect from a boy who studied for the priesthood. JOAN CRAWFORD WAS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR JOAN CRAWFORD'S life is an example of a girl who had talent, tal-ent, ambition and enthusiasm, but who might never have risen beyond an ordinary occupation without the necessary confidence to keep trying. try-ing. Joan Crawford was born about 1907 in San Antonio, Texas, daughter daugh-ter of a theater manager. Most of her play hours were spent playing "show," and she danced her way through many struggling years before be-fore a real opportunity came her way. At fourteen, Joan went to work as a telephone operator In Lawton, Okla. Then, she was sent to a convent in Kansas City, where she had to earn her way by acting as a kitchen maid and waiting on tables. After leaving college, Joan 1, v NT AP Mi- si tela Crawford found a job in a Kansas City department store as a stock girl at $10 per week, working during dur-ing the day and practicing dancing at night. Finally a theatrical agent found a job for Joan in a show which failed a month later, leaving her stranded 300 miles from home. Courageously, Courageous-ly, she found job after job in cabarets cab-arets and night clubs in Chicago, Detroit, and New York. She was working in a Shubert show, "Innocent "In-nocent Eyes," when a Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer executive saw her and signed her for pictures. Think of the troubles this girl had, the disappointments and struggles. Born in the atmosphere of show business, she was inspired from the time she could first toddle to find a place for herself in that glamorous life. Then, circumstances took a hand and forced her into occupations occupa-tions that were far more on the side of drudgery than glamour. She plugged lines into a switch-board, washed dishes, swept floors, carried car-ried heavy trays, wrapped packages. pack-ages. But through it all, she kept her confidence in herself. WNU Service. |