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Nellie Revell Says:
The papers recently gave much space to the story of a little boy who sacrificed his life for ten cents. This unfortunate youngster was reaching for two nickels just beyond his grasp on the other side of the grating when he fell to his death under the wheels of a subway train.
The whole town was stirred with pity for the child. Customers quoted the story with a warning to the little bootblacks of Union Square who shined their shoes. Governesses, playing ball with their little charges in Riverside Drive, cautioned the children about the dangers of the subway, using the little boy's fate as a lesson.
Everyone was moved with compassion for this one little boy's martyrdom. Yet each day sees hundreds of people surrendering a precious heritage for things as trifling as the two nickels. This precious heritage is health. Every day people burn themselves out using their utmost energy for the present round of business and pleasure instead of husbanding it jealously for the future. I, myself, am as classic a moral for this story as the fox who dropped the bone he had in his mouth to plunge after the reflected one he saw in the water. I was straining so hard after every bit of life, that I never gave a thought to rest. Consequently I rested flat on my back for four weary years and still spend most of my time resting. Better to rest for a little while than to rest always.
Page Irv Cobb, who said in his speech at the Friars' dinner that there are only three regular reporters left and he was one of them and I was the other t—well, I was included. He went on to speak of the difference between reporter and the special writers and journalists and I guess he was right for here is what the Associated Press dispatch carried on a murder mystery in Chicago:
"Are these two the forerunners of a new type of scientific killer, who will deal death remorselessly in order to test their reactions in the laboratory of MODERN BEHAVIORISTIC PSYCHOLOGY?"
Anyone who could write like that even at night press rates is just bound to be a journalist. Whatever it is he means, I'll bet it's a dirty dig at the murderers. Maybe if that's what they did, they deserve to be convicted, that is if the jury can understand what it's all about.
(Copyright, 1924.)
Wewoka Valuations Doubled.
Special to The World.
WEWOKA, Aug. 1.—County Assessor Charley Vance states that the assessed valuation of the town of Wewoka has doubled over any former assessments. Heretofore the highest assessed valuation was around $750,000; at this time the valuation stands far above the million and a half mark. And no hardship has been worked up on any of the new business houses either, their values as listed have been allowed to stand.
Gasoline Tax 2 Millions.
By the Associated Press State Wire.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 1.—Gasoline tax collections for the 12-month period ended Thursday totaled $2,002,567.41, according to announcement Friday by C. C. Childers, state auditor. Of this sum $1,319,500.85 has been distributed to counties. The state highway construction fund received $634,200. The auditor said $43,350.10 was paid under protest.
Two State Banks Close.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Aug. 1.—Two more state banks closed their doors in Missouri Friday, bringing the total of state bank suspensions since January 1, 1924, to 31. The banks closed Friday were the Farmers bank of Callao, Macon county, Missouri, with total deposits of $104,000, and the Hickory County bank of Wheatland, with deposits of $50,000.
One bus station at the Wembly exposition near London has a capacity of 225,000 people a day.
