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lost soldier. These college boys are up on their history, and now it is
the woo=woo boys instead of timdlers, spooners and neckers who would rather
have a good time at parties and dates and automobile joyrides, even in gas
rationing days, than the boy who, saying no a thousand tines to the easy
life, will pass up indigestible yet tasty foods, will go to bed each night
long before the good-timers are in bed ~~ all for the sake of being a first
rate fighting man in high school and college athletics.

Someone has said that when two country boys meat they say, "Let's

wrestle." When two city slickers moct they say, "Let's throw a party."

Contact and combat have always appealed to strong men. The

sacrificial spirit that resides in every young chap is ready for expression

if you can grip and hold the aims and the ideals of the teen-age boy. The
hundreds and thousands of young boys all over America and all over the world
have viewed Glenn Cumvingham as a super-man. Glenn Cunningham was a supere
mane You will recall the story of how his brother was burned to death in a
school~-house fire, how Glemm was so dangerously injured in that fire that the
physicians gave up all hope of his ever walking again. lie could not go to
school. Those great scars that show welts on his legs as large as your
little finger were the result of that terrible fire. But Glem Cuminghan
had a longing to go to school. we thirsteth for knowledge, and the first
time he ren away from home, Glenn told me, he ran awey to school. He always
dreamed of being a college professor, muixkmiay After his graduation from the

_ University of Sansas where he obtained his baccalaureate degree and set the

world's records in the mile, he entered the University of Iowg where he
obtained his master's degree, ot tm oe New York University where he
obtained his dootor of philosophy degree and continued to dazzle the world
with -his phenomenal bursts of speed. At the present time he is head of the