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This is the story of the constant invader. The real hope for the future of any nation lies in the hands of its YOU are we giving our young people the kind of knowledge and education that will make it possible for them to shoulder the burden of our country's welfare here is a story that may answer the question for you a tale of today told you now by the celebrated star Mr RAY My land. Sometimes you've got to hand it to our kids we older folks often get so wrapped up in the business of living in the job of creating our own little world that our sense of social responsibility becomes no. But given a young man of high school age unfettered with some of the personal problems as parents face an idea and you know sometimes but as old as shame it happened that way at Park High School not so long ago and what it could have been any small American city and it all began one afternoon near the beginning of the school year when Mr full in their faculty advisor held a meeting with the staff of the high school paper the pock high God and tackle. That name was to become pretty significant to the citizens of Midland City later on but at that moment it was just another school paper put out by a bunch of high school kids. I think you members of the staff know the active part a good newspaper should play on the welfare of a community. This School Press project sponsored by the tuberculosis association in the Columbia scholastic process. Seems to me a good cause for the garden tackle tobacco. Larry Roberts is out of there would you outline the plan little further sure Mr fallen you see gang the general subject we have to work with is how we can best fight tuberculosis in our community now we all know something about tuberculosis from the talks we've had in assembly and we've reported on the movies and the exhibits that the TB Association has brought up to the school for us and don't forget the X. rays survey of the high school that the association made last year and may That's right but this project ought to be more than just reporting I'd like to devote a whole issue in November to the subject editorials feature stories articles the works the TB Association will give us facts I think we can put out a good enough paper to one of significant advantage for the school and we ought to show them that we can put out as good a school paper as any in the controversy over you know when do we start well we've got a month to do the legwork and I want to turn the whole assignment over to Jimmy Lyons he logon ice thanks OK Jimmy sure Larry it sounds like a lot of fun and I see that Mr Prindle He's executive secretary of the TB Association I think I'll interview him the first thing. Fifty thousand Americans died of tuberculosis last year and it's conservatively estimated that half a million are suffering from the disease right now half a million why Mr Pradelle that's terrible Yes it is general and you say that all of them got to break this from someone else someone who had the disease by contact over a period of time. Their resistance may take care of a certain number of the germs they take in but if you take in a lot of them Your resistance is likely to break down and you get TB That's exactly right to me and stress the fact that TB is not hereditary you're not born with it you catch it from someone else. I get it the disease can be discovered in your lungs with a chest X. ray discovered even before you know you're sick before you have any symptoms and that's the time to find a Jimmy when it's easily cured and before you've had a chance to spread your germs to others then it seems to me the way to stop tuberculosis is to see that everybody has a chest X. ray Yes everyone over fifteen Jimmy and not just one chest X. ray but regular chest X. rays at least once a year regular X. rays but there's a clinic here isn't there where anybody can come in have a chest X. ray whenever they wanted every year yes there is one if everybody knows how important it is it ought to be easy to get them in for a chest X. ray lots of them do have them to me but it's not as easy as you think we publicize it every way we know how what Jimmy we can't knock on every door in town and some people just won't come they forget or they just don't understand the importance how they missed a print everybody just got to see how important it is it boils down to the fact that every individual has a responsibility right there ought to be some way to reach him persuade him make them understand. Say I've got an idea how to revive idea how we can best fight tuberculosis in our community oh boy if this can be worked out boy oh boy I know. What's the matter Jimmy you've been poised over that typewriter for half an hour on nights and I thought I had a terrific idea for this T.V. thing that just won't work no human interest like Mr Prendergast says it's not as easy as it sounds if he has trouble convincing the grown ups with common sense how can I expect it. But Larry this TB thing is big we got to do something was. Told to me I just got a lead for your paycheck and is off the football team and he won't be playing for the rest of the season what he's artists have told you culture just told me Pete was in scrimmage yesterday but when he wasn't there today I asked him what happened Pete's the sparkplug of the team if he's out you know got a chance against Brookfield on try Mary didn't dress the coach why well he didn't seem in any mood to talk to me this is terrible I'm going to see Coach right now. To break your loss' that's what Doc Bender says Jimmy but how I mean he got X. rayed along with the rest of us in school last year I know I know but Doc says he must've caught it since then fortunately he's only got an early case but he's out of school and going to a sanatorium a coach without P. Jurgens we're in for a tough season Jim and Pete was such a swell guy I don't think there's a fellow in this town who didn't know Pete. How's the team taking it they've hit a new low of course where are all going to be X. rayed again now Jimmy I want you to talk to Mr Fall and before you do any story on this with a garden tech I'm sure Coach But would it be alright if I went to see Pete's family get their reactions find out how Pete is sure go ahead. Pete Jurgens get TB And that's what I want to find out how did he get to be. What Jimmy liars discovered during talk to Pete's mother astounded him and with Mrs Jurgens permission he headed back to the obvious of the garden tangle with a story and an idea both so big they frightened him a little. So you see Mr fallen My idea is to build the whole edition of the G. and T. around the P. Jurgen story and how we got to break your losses and you say Mrs Durgan permission to me she was awful upset but when I explained what I wanted to do and that it might help other kids and their parents and she signed this little statement here giving permission to use their names and watch the rest of the plan to me print enough copies of the garden tackle so that every kid in every grade school in the city can have a copy pass them out at assemblies where one of the members of the football team will talk telling what it means to the team not to have Pete playing every kid in town knows Pete Jurgens will pass out some of Mr printers to be literature to these kids find out what happened to Pete they'll do the rest we'll have to get permission from our principal and from the superintendent of schools and get Mr Clinton's cooperation when you can get it for us Mr fallen I know you can and you know what you've always said about the responsibility of a newspaper to its community I mean. If we're going to put this across we've got to get to work well get those permissions Jimi. Jimi this editorial is great job we each have to do Mary's got an article on the girls point of view great stuff all about the health of future Americans and Fred took that stuff you got from Mr Prindle and did an article on the facts about where you see the story DEBBIE DUNN did Jurgens how he'll never be able to play football again what it will mean in his life but Deb's no right he's a football player we'll take care of the grammar steps feeling that council is oh yes it's a four it's all been player Mr Harkness the superintendent of schools Mr Pringle one he's as excited about it as we are why Mr Fell and that's what Mary bird's got the schedule of the assemblies for all the schools in the football teams behind us now all we have to do is to get the paper out by Friday haul we'll get it out to me we're almost ready to go to press right now. So you see kids big Jurgens got to work a lot of us from his father. Always father didn't know we had tuberculosis in that he was giving it to Pete but he could have known and probably Pete would have gotten if his father had gone to the T.V. clinic and had a chest X. ray last year but we got to make our parents see that they got to have X. rays to protect us than themselves. Take the kids and get them to read and those for which you've got to we've got a model for every parent get an X. ray are you with us. Demi don't want him at the center he went over big Jefferson we've got only two more schools to go to me using two so bad out of every ten I've talked to has been working on his parents right now I think it's going over Mary to me it's Mr Schaefer the editor of The Daily Record he's been getting calls for the last two days and he was different the whole front page of the. Old boy will reach everybody in town. And we're going to have a tough time this year when any games without Pete jerked off because his parents didn't happen next some of you kids may be out for the team when you get to high school and you girls want to be rooting for the team we don't want this thing happen again get your parents to get an X. OK. Jimmy you've done it I don't know what the figures are yet but people are coming in by the hundreds for X. rays a lot of them are being brought in by the children themselves Gee Mr friend Mr following you can be proud of your host they've done something we've only been able to accomplish with tremendous campaign. I think it proves what I've always said that the youth of this country. Power for good in their communities all a need is the right. Several months later Mr Pringle the executive secretary of the association appeared at the office of the god in tact one afternoon with a little surprise for the staff she said to picket Obama from the National tuberculosis Association Oh look at me luck it's it's terrific and here are the comments by the judges. I think there are going to be a few swelled heads around here when your staff reads the most of all them. I'm proud of them all and so is Pete I saw him yesterday and he's doing fine Mr Jimmy I've told you before your editorial is one of the best I've ever read you put your finger right on the problem figuring out how we can best fight to break a loss' in our community was easy Mr President you told me that the first time I talked to you but what happened to Pete really brought it home to us and Mr Flynn is kind of drummed into us that it's not enough to know what's right you've got to do something about it and lots of grown ups know it's their own personal responsibility to find out if they have to be with a chest X. ray for everybody's sake but they forget when they're too busy or they think it couldn't happen to them we just had to remind them we kids can be awful purse wasted when we want to be awful perswade. Every year more and more young people take their places in positions of responsibility and trust in their communities is states and nation if they learn when they're young problems they have to face and the fight against tuberculosis is one of them they are better prepared to meet the future health education in our schools is one of the big jobs that's being done to give them that preparation. Today many of our children can put us to shame and their knowledge of the danger of tuberculosis we can and should learn from them that we each have a personal part to play in the battle against the constant invader. Narrated by Ray Milland written and directed by Hugh Jane with musical direction by Ben Ludlow the constant invader is brought to you by your tuberculosis association in your best interest remember you may have to face TB someday what you find out about tuberculosis now may save your life then.