Herex Courtesy

Londoners are induced to buy the Daily Mail by that newspaper's promise, to the heirs of any person killed in a railroad wreck to pay them -L-1,000 if the victim had a copy of the Mail in his possession. Lately Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner offered its readers smaller prizes under milder terms. Adult males detected by a roving reporter in acts of courtesy are awarded $2; boys, $1. If the man or boy is carrying a Herex when the Courtesy Reporter surprises him, the prize is doubled.

Fortnight ago the Herex Courtesy Reporter, in convivial mood, stepped to the microphone of Station KYW to report on Chicago manners. A legion of loudspeakers roared his words, which temporarily cost him his job: "I've been north and I've been south, an' east an' west, but I'll be damned if I can find a polite man with a Herald-Examiner! . . ."

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