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father's store; but his mother refused to let him enter the mines. A deeply religious Roman Catholic, Rose O'' Malley Reno prayed that her boys would acquire an education and find a better life than that of a mining community. Marion attended high school in Columbus — walking the eight miles there and back when he didn't have the lO-cent interurban fare. He was an "E" student, played first base on the baseball team, and on hot summer days enjoyed swimming in the strip pits with the neighbor' hood kids. This was in an era before the invention of swimming trunks.
At sixteen, Marion got a vacation job when the MKT Railroad was building its YMCA building at Parsons. His employer was a young engineer named H. H. Johntz, whom Reno says taught him how to use the "rule of thumb" instruments of practical engineering— and encouraged him at night to work on computations for the job. The next summer, Marion was able to work as a rodman and chainman with Johnt:. Then, instead of attending engineering school, as he would have preferred to do, Marion entered Pittsburg Teachers' College in the military training period following World War I, when college students received pay for military service in the R. O. T. C.
During vacations, he "grew up" in the MKT engineering department; and in January, 1919, left college to construct grade revisions and bridges in Oklahoma and Texas, working out of Parsons, Kansas, for five years.
His Texas travels led him to Denison, where he met, wooed and won the petite, beautiful and black-haired
February, 1932
Gladys, daughter of George McDonald, proprietor of the Hotel Ourand. He and Gladys were married in December, 1923; went to Detroit on their honeymoon; and there he took a job building streets and sewers for a new Detroit subdivision. A brief experience later as a real estate salesman proved disappointing; and the couple returned to Texas.
RENO ON "AMERICA"
ttJHAVE a sincere faith in the A future of Kansas City, and the resources of our great Mid-West ... in the people who live here ... in the courage and initiative which characterized the growth and expansion of this vast and rich agricultural territory.
"The American Customer today enjoys a freedom found nowhere else in the world — freedom to shop where he pleases — to spend his money how, when and where he alone decides. That is what has built our great American System of Free Enterprise. It is our American Way of Life. It gives to any merchant, large or small, the right to go into business for himself, to compete with other merchants for the customer's dollar, to prosper in the measure that he gives fair value in goods and services.
"It seems to me vitally important that we folks in America understand how valuable our American Way of Life is to us. We as individuals, as citizens, as employees, as employers, must realize that this American Way of Life is the way we live — that we are part of it, and it is a part of us. That America IS me, my family, my home, my job, my business, my government. If each of us shoulders our share of these responsibilities, we can continue to live and to work as we in America do."