Showman (1937)

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SHOWMAN I hope that attitude gives me the right to answer the question we started with a while back— the question raised by the young folks who wrote in after one of my radio programs complaining that modern youngsters don't have those kinds of opportunities. I think IVe changed my mind since we began this yarn. As I've looked back over these antics of mine, I don't see what's to prevent a youngster from riding the bumps the same way and making just as much out of this new situation. If a young fellow wants to stick around big cities and compete with the rest of the sheep who don't know any better than to keep jumping fences where the pasture's all worn out by crowding, naturally he'll miss tricks. But it strikes me that, if he cuts loose and finds himself a spot that's not so crowded— if he's willing to take a chance, whether it's with a tent-show or a silver mine— luck and bull-headedness will probably see him through in the old style. It is Louis instead of Sullivan, the quintuplets instead of the Seven Sutherland Sisters and the Townsend Plan instead of the single tax— but for all that it looks very much like the same world to me. And maybe these yarns of what happened to one youngster in his first forty years alone will cheer up the new crop. 278