Often men receive credit for showing coolness and courage in times of danger when, in reality, they are not properly aware of the danger and through habit are acting automatically.

The girl in Chicago who went back into the Iroquois Theatre fire to rescue her rubber overshoes was not a heroine.

She merely lacked imagination.

Her mind was capable of appreciating how serious for her would be the loss of her overshoes but not being burned alive.

At the battle of Velestinos, in the Greek-Turkish War, John F.Bass, of The Chicago Daily News, and myself got into a trench at the foot of a hill on which later the Greeks placed a battery.