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Many a willing youngster with more patriotism than schooling has lately wanted to know why the Navy (and the Army) take only collegians for air service. Stock answers are two: 1) the Army and Navy are picking prospective officers as well as fliers; 2) military fliers now must be engineers, meteorologists, navigators...
Tough, erect little Oscar Penttila (pronounced Pen'-te-la) was born in Finland 37 years ago. Like many another Finnish youngster, he went to Germany for military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week...
...many succeeded, and first arrivals saw few friends or relatives on later incoming boats. One youngster asked a photographer to take his picture, saying: "My mother and father might see it and know I got away...
Sometimes he grew out of it. Sometimes he became a famous columnist, a noted author, or even an Editor. But mostly he grew old at 45. And when he saw a new youngster in the City Room he figured the best thing he could do was to take him accoss the street and say to him: "Kid, what the hell are you doing around here? Get out of it. It's a lousy business...
...youngster never took his advice. Year after year thousands of new youngsters decided there was only one thing in the world they wanted to be--a newspaperman. And the American press grew...