Securing a friend in the Press.
Jonathan Wild.
APPROVED BY THE EDITOR
Wishing to get from Chicago to Memphis, a young newspaper man purchased a “mileage” book from a “ticket scalper”—or illegal dealer in unfinished mileage tickets. The book had been the property of a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal, and the description in the cover was alarmingly different from his own. The sharp-eyed conductor immediately noticed this.
“Are you on the Courier-Journal?” he asked suspiciously.
“Oh, yes. I’ve been a reporter there for several years.”
The conductor asked for some identification, which naturally the passenger was unable to give.