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Don't pop your eyes out if, any day now, you see a small boy meet a small girl, raise his right hand in the air and yell,
"Hi, Minnie!"
Still don't swoon if the small girl lifts her left fist and screams back,
"Hi, Mickey!"

They aren't juvenile candidates for the booby-hatch. Not at all! They are just a couple of members of the local Mickey Mouse Club giving each other the lodge's esoteric high-sign.

A million kids are doing it all over America today — brethren and sistren of the greatest kids' lodge ever known, and growing every day. They have as much fun — with their grips and badges and signs — as Pop does when he goes to lodge on Thursday' nights, and they never have thick heads after a meeting.

What's happened is that little Mickey Mouse, the most popular film star in the world, including Garbo, has become the founder of a child army.

Mickey Mouse, the star of stars, was born only three years ago, with sound.

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But Mickey's greatest achievement to date is the Mickey Mouse Club. The organization is sweeping the country. By 1933 it is expected there will be 2,000,000 members in several thousand towns, and plans are already on foot for a national convention, with delegates from all over the land.
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