DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 18, 12 April 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

• VALUABLE LEGS (Copyright, 192') TN the realm of finance, recognition must be given to the value of legs -*■ as well as heads. The minister from Finland is reported to have said that the legs of Nurmi, the famous Finnish runner, have been worth to his countrythrough advertising and stimulating trade—ten million dollars in cold cash. Someone of a statistical turn of mind has figured this out in terms of cubic inches and pounds. He announces that Nurmi’s legs are worth twenty thousand dollars a cubic inch and a quarter of a million dollars a pound. The four legs of Epinard, the French racehorse taken to America a few years ago, were valued at over three hundred thousand dollars. Other famous legs have brought fame and wealth to their possessors. A European dancer has insured her limbs for one hundred thousand dollars to protect them from any injury that would cut off the large revenue she obtains from their use on the stage. The sturdy underpinnings of “Red" Grange are carrying him toward the million-dollar mark. The reason some legs are gold mines and others just another pair is that the owner of the valuable shins is able to do something with them better than anyone else can do it. The reason the four legs of Epinard are worth three hundred thousand and those of the horse that pulls the junk waggon seventy-five, is that many horses can pull junk waggons, but only a few can run like the French racehorse. The value of legs, as well as heads and merchandise, is dependent upon their quality in relation to the general run. When they are infinitely superior they command their own price. For in every field the big incomes are commanded by the superlative performers.