O.O. McIntyre
Dayton Daily News/June 13, 1914
Someone sent the Essanay company a moving picture scenario that centered about a wrestling match. It was up to Francis X. Bushman, the star, to take the role of the wrestler. Bushman as a precautionary measure took a few lessons from Charlie Postl and It seems he was used. Just a little rough. Just a little. After about three lessons, Bushman said: “For every black and blue spot on my frame I’m going to put one on the guy I wrestle with in the picture. But I have one cherished desire, wait, wait, wait till I get hold of the fellow that wrote the scenario.”
Charles Schwab, the steel millionaire, forged his way from slag-pile to philanthropy, as it were, by hard work. There are a lot of young men in the steel business today who have not reached the top by this process. One of Schwab’s friends tells of a day when Schwab was going through one of the shops with some friends. He pointed to an executive looking young man in the general offices. “There’s a young man who deserves credit,” he said.
“For why?” asked one.
“Notwithstanding that his father is a millionaire and one of the large stockholders, he entered these shops at the bottom and spent three weeks working his way to the top.”
Charles M. Higgins, treasurer of the Anti-Vaccination League of America, is stirring up a nice medical muss In New York. Arthur Brisbane in an editorial in the Evening Journal said: “Be vaccinated: Those who are vaccinated do not get smallpox and whoever dares to doubt this is an idiot and an ignoramus.” Owing to the fact that there are quite a number who have their own views on vaccination, it would seem that Mr. Brisbane’s advice is a trifle bigoted. In a series of paid advertisements, Mr. Higgins declares that he is going to prove that the majority of all smallpox cases are well vaccinated and the minority unvaccinated. He also declares that the very doctors who are urging vaccination through health boards and other organizations are stockholders in the nine big concerns which manufacture the vaccine. As he names the doctors personally. and there has been no reply as yet it would seem that Mr. Higgins has some inside information.” At any rate it is a merry battle and the vaccinated and unvaccinated are sitting on the sidelines watching every move.
You may not believe it at all, but George Randolph Chester, the writer, says it is positively true. Chester is something like Elbert Hubbard, who said he was a truthful man, but not an extremist. At any rate here Is the story. Chester dropped into a theater the other night and sat behind a large woman who wore a large hat.
Exasperated finally, he said: “Excuse me madam, but would you mind removing your hat?”
“Why should I?” she returned. “If you want to laugh with the rest watch my shoulders and when I laugh you laugh.”
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