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Youth Yesterday And Today

Rotary Golden Theater · March 15, 1955 · 14 min · 2,472 words

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Rotary International, a world fellowship for business and professional executives with a common ideal of service, presents Rotary Golden Theatre. More than 8,000 Rotary Clubs in 88 countries throughout the world are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Rotary International, an organization fostering the ideal of service in personal business and community life, and working for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill and

peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men. In observance of its golden anniversary and as a public service, Rotary International brings you Rotary Golden Theatre. As we enter the Rotary Golden Theatre, the marquee blazes forth the title of the drama were about to witness youth yesterday and today. We take our seats as the curtain rises to reveal

a shabbily dressed middle-aged man in a drab dingy room of a working man's hotel. He's seated at a desk. I'm Harry Danvers and you're probably wondering what I'm doing in a story about youth because, well, I'm no longer a young. As a matter of fact, I've never had any youth. They put a bad boy label

on me and they didn't waste much time in such problems in those days. The first time I stood before a judge, my mother was the only person who was interested. She tried to help me, but there wasn't much she could do.

Please, your honor, Harry is not really a bad boy. Since his father's death, I've had to work to support Harry and his younger sister. Well, I guess I just haven't had the time to look out for him.

Mrs. Danvers, I sympathize with you, but your son was caught in the act of pilfering the cash drawer at the library stable he was a new pair of shoes judging and he didn't want to ask me for the money why I'd have found it some way but he wouldn't ask me and he didn't really understand a boy is eight years old enough to understand

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