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Ralph Locke plays Papa David in Life Can Be Beautiful, written by Carl Bixby and Don Becker.
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Have you sent in your Life Can Be Beautiful letter yet? For the letter Papa David considers best each month, RADIO MIRROR will pay one hundred dollars. For each of the other letters received during the month which we have space enough to print, RADIO MIRROR Magazine will pay fifteen dollars. Address your letters to Papa David, care of RADIO MIRROR Magazine, 205 East 42nd Street^ New York 17, New York.
IF you have faith that a good life is within the grasp of anyone who wants it, then your Life Can Be Beautiful. This does not mean that an existence free of any hardships or unhappiness can be had at wUI, only that beauty dwells in unexpected places — unexpected situations, and it is up to each one of us to seek it out. As a wise poet once said, "Beauty and truth are worthy to be sought."
And when troubles come, as come they do to all of us, don't give way to despair. More often than most people realize, the compensation of suffering is that it brings us to a greater appreciation of our blessings.
O beautiful in this living that passes like
the foam, It is to go with sorrow, yet come with
beauty home.
Hardly a day passes that I don't find proof of this in my own life or the lives of my friends and neighbors. I was discussing it with the tobacconist from around the corner quite recently. He is a widower, whose daughter Harriet, an unusually gifted girl who had been given every possible advantage of education, became blind about a year ago. After much suffering and illness, a series of successful operations restored ber sight. And now Harriet is glad of the experience!
"All my life I will be more thankful, more grateful for the precious gift of sight because I was once without it," she told her father. "All my life I will have more sympathy and more understanding for the blind because I know what it is like to be blind."
I was filled with thankfulness when the tohacconist repeated these words — ^the thankfulness I always experience when hearing that one more person has learned the joyous secret — Life Can Be Beautiful. It is the same thankfulness I feel at the deluge of inspiring letters which you have sent to me — letters that are a tribute to the philosophy of life which is the moving spirit of our radio program. I only wish We could print them all, but, since that is impossible, here are the ones selected as the most fitting testimonials that Life Can Be Beautiful.
This first one, from a young woman, I have chosen as the best letter sent by a reader this month, and to the writer of it goes Radio Mirror's check for $100.00 — and gratitude from all of us for sharing her experience with us.