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"Mickeee..." "Yes, Mineee..." This is Mickey Mouse’s familiar answer to Minnie Mouse's call, which you’ve probably seen and heard many times on the theatre screen. But, here's one you've never heard: "Wa-a-alter. Wa-a-alter, come here this minute!" It was just such a call that once sent little Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, scampering to his mother's side, as she stood surveying, indignantly, the outside of their modest white frame house on a farm near Marceline, Missouri. She and Mr. Disney had just returned from town. "Who did this?" she demanded, pointing to the once-white walls of the house. What she pointed to were zig-zagging marks of black tar, some shaped like houses, others like people. Five-year-old Walter didn't hesitate long to claim ownership. He thought they were good drawings, even if his parents didn’t. But, after seeing the drawings on the house, they first realized that one of their four sons liked to draw, and fairly well, too. "He was old enough to know better, "Mrs. Disney exclaimed, as she sat in the living room of their comfortable home in Portland, Oregon, reminiscing of the days when Mickey Mouse‘s father used to keep her and Mr. Disney on the jump. "But that was just like Walter," her husband, Elias, interrupted proudly. "Whatever he wanted to do he did without ever thinking of the harm. He would always go ahead with any of his ideas wether he had the means or not. He never asked questions. I think that is the basis of his success. He has the courage of his convictions." […]