Men of Boys Town Page #2

- Or is that...

- You didn't get the money.

Eddie, look me in the eye.

Are those buildings paid for?

Now, Dave, don't make

a mountain out of a molehill.

After all, it's only $200,000.

We borrowed the other $300,000.

$300,000 you borrowed!

Well, with you, when it's borrowed,

it's nothing.

It's no worry. It's paid back already.

So there's $200,000 you

haven't even got a smell of borrowing.

Eddie, that's no mountain, that's the

whole Rockies and the Alleghenies...

thrown in.

Now, Dave, more boys need this place.

Boys need! Who doesn't need?

If there's any place in this world,

where people don't need...

tell me where it is, and I'll go there.

I can't turn them away, Dave. If you

could see their poor, pinched faces...

and their shivering bodies.

Every day they come, every night.

Well, I'm not in on this.

That's $200,000 somebody else

can start looking for.

Not me, not Dave Morris. So help me.

It isn't looking for the money

that bothers you.

It's the fact that you can't give it yourself,

that's what makes you angry.

I wouldn't give a penny, not a red cent.

Do you think money grows on trees?

Sometimes the way you manage to get it,

I think it does.

Now listen, Eddie.

Don't try any of your schmooze on me.

Hello? Where?

All right, put him on.

Yes, Judge?

Well, if it's about taking a boy in here,

I couldn't do that, Judge.

Not until the new buildings are opened.

I haven't got room for a canary right now.

Well, if I could be any help.

All right, I'll leave on the night train.

You're welcome. Bye.

That wouldn't be a couple of $100,000

somebody wants to give you, would it?

A poor boy accused of manslaughter

up in Marysport.

Manslaughter! I'm surprised

I'm not accused of murder.

$200,000.

Now, Dave, you'll have plenty of time

to think that over while I'm away.

Somebody else should think, Eddie,

not me. Include me out.

There aren't enough troubles

around here...

you've got to go a 1,000 miles

to find more.

The Judge thinks maybe I can help.

Hey, what are you doing? Get out of there.

- I ain't doing nothing.

- I know it. But you can't hang around here.

- I thought this place is for homeless kids.

- It is, but it's jam-pack full.

What about all them buildings?

As soon as they're open, there'll be room.

Look, there's kids come around here

all the time. Dozens every night.

But we just can't take care of them yet.

It's tough luck, that's all.

- What right you got to kick us out?

- I'm the mayor of Boys Town.

Mayor or no mayor,

we want to see Father Flanagan.

- You can't.

- Why not? He's the headman. Ain't he?

I'll get you some grub, that's all I can do.

But if you talk to him,

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