Show VY l WE SHALL BE by victor croley fim MER a 4 wistful and still on an porches row on row we wait and hope and watch life hurry past and it is one with us when shadows fall and all the same when morning comes at lair hit we know the prize of patience and of rest we know that only thus is victory won but we are young and driven by the fire of work to do before our webs are spun we calm our hearts we know ilis his I lis way is best and faith becomes an all protecting shield for each of us another dawn will break someday we wc shall be will be heated healed EDITORS NOTE this poem was wa written expressly for the christinas seal salo sale by victor croley who was f on nned to bed bad with tuberculosis tor for alx years after a half starved and ne elected childhood I 1 went to work at tho the ripe age 0 of twelve he ha writes 1 I 1 waa tortured by by envy of others happiness and the ambition to become rich enough to have a vacation to so that after working beyond my strength ull all day 1 I spent ke n t halt half the night in public libraries and at night schools I 1 wis was k kicked ad out because I 1 stay awake at one time he be got cot a job in a cheap movie show so he ha could so go to high school during the day whom when he ba was elch alch tean years old lie he under pounds and had already entered a promising carcer an a an advertising writer in new york city two years later no ha was discovered to have hava a far advanced case of tuberculosis today thanks thank to modern sanatorium technique h he weighs 10 pounds feels better than vr eyer before and Is in looking forward to a second and happier start in life ably my case should be a warning to everyone who does not know enough to uke take care car of himself says mr crotty why cannot young people t taught the need of good health habits as a protection culo slat I 1 hate to think that anyone els should hay bay to so iro through what 1 have hav suffered because he did not know for avo years seals have bay been trying to ay 0 just jt such cases as an mr coolers Cro leys lers by aching the facts he ha learned through u h bitter experience and ha has outlined so concisely conci iely in his icat two sentences |