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Show An engineer in New Jersey risked aealdlng to death to Jump Into escapism escap-ism steam and shut off a valve that fourteen others might escape the same death. A boy of fifteen In New York dived repeatedly under broken Ice and came near drowning himself In saving two other lads who had broken through. These Instances are not uncommon in the news of the day, and they show that heroism of the highest kind is one of the plain, everyday every-day virtues which emergency devel-eps devel-eps to surprise and confound the cynical cyn-ical assertion of the degeneracy of the age. |