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Zurich Herald, 1947-06-12, Page 6r, Sara Best InstilFe race By HENRY SUTER JONTHAN LANGDON waited patiently behind the diamond counter in McLaughton's jewelry store. He was one of the store's oldest clerks, quiet, dependable, effi- cient. He was pondering over some- thing this morning and his fellow clerk, Philip Smart, in charge of the watch repair section, speedily ob- served it. "I'm wondering about the old man," began Langdon. "For the life off me I don't see why we had to take out theft insurance. We've managed without it all the years I've been here and nothing has been taken yet. Burglar insurance, of course. But why spend money to protect yourself against theft out of the store when he must realize what a smart bunch he has toiling for him? Why couldn't he put that money to better usage by slipping me the raise I asked tor?" "I guess it was that glib insurance salesman he fell for," replied Philip. "Sure enough, still I think the old man is wasting good money—" The interruption was caused by the en- trance of a customer. This was a portly, middle aged gentleman, immaculately dressed, who would have made an impression anywhere. Langdon greeted him with hie most gracious smile. "I want something in a two carat solitaire, the very best you have in the place. It is for my daughter, and I want it as a graduation present!" Langdon hurried to the safe and brought out a tray of sparkling beauties. Mr. Blake gazed upon them carefully one by one and finally selected one. Langdon went back and put the rest of the tray of rings in the safe. "just let me run up• to the hotel and get any cheek book. You keep this stone oat till I get back." Ten, 15, then 20 minutes elapsed and the customer had not returned to complete the purchase. Just then the door of 1lcLaugliton's office opened. "Well, Jonathan," be began, "I presume you still think i, - do not need any insurance and that I should use that part of our budget towards giving you a raise?" "Well, yes, I do think so really. 'You know my sales have almost doubled in the last year. "That it true, Jonathan, and 1 appreciate it. Yet you must consider that in selling diamonds, the store is . taking chances. I don't mean in a hold-up or a burglary. But, just suppose some smooth . artist came in here and got away with a valuable diamond." "Ohl but they couldn't do that with me," returned Lang d o n promptly. "I've been •here 10 years and no crook has ever gotten away with it, yet." "That's what you think," smiled McLaughton. "Now take that last customer. I watched everything from the start, You, of course, as- sume that everyone who conies in here is just as honest as you. That is why you left him standing there with a valuable diamond in his pos- session while you turned your back and put the rest of the tray in the safe. In the minute you were gone, he substituted a phoney diamond and walked right out with the genu- ine diamond." 'So you saw the whole thing, and let him get away with it! I don't understand ..." "You can come in now, Blake 1" called McLaughton. "Meet Mr. Blake, of the Depend- able Insurance system," said the smiling McLaughton. "Sorry we had to make you the guinea pig, Buddy," Blake began, as he took a sparkling solitaire out of his pocket and placed it upon the desk`. "But I just had to convince your boss here how essential it is to have the insurance," "Take a look at that diamond on your desk, Mr. McLaughton," said Langdon calmly, "Why, it's nothing but a phoney," he cried. "Sure," remarked Langdon quietly. "You don't suppose I'd leave dia- monds around for strangers to pick up, do you? I made the switch be- fore 1 put the tray away in the safe. Now, Mr. McLaughton, db .I get my raise or don't I?" The earliest balance machines date back to at least 5,000 years before the Christian era. E :. TH Alla Rats For Almost All There are almost as many rats in the United States as there are people —130,000,000, as compared with a human population in the neighbor- hood of 140,000,000. United States Fish and Wild Life Director Albert M. Day says they cause $200,000,000 damage to food alone each :year. —Milwaukee Journal. And Often A valve turned by error dumped 800 gallons of whiskey into a Scot- tish creek, and Sandy says he finds it a vurra inveegoratin' stream for takin' a wee bawth in. —Ottawa Citizen. If Then Men are penalized by time in many way, says a contemporary. As an example, it takes a human being six years to learn how to talk and sixty years to learn how to keep his big mouth shut. —St. Thomas Times -Journal. We Almost Hope Still, it won't be long before the mosquitoes are taking screen tests again. —Quebec Chronicle -Telegraph. A Wise Move Mexico has taken a Iong step for- ward in the saving of dwindling forests by requiring lumbermen to plant ten trees for every one cut and by limiting exports of fine woods. Some other countries already are almost too late for such a move. Let us hope Canada is not in the latter category. • —Niagara Falls Review. Best If Self -Taught The British Columbia Minister of Education is offering $10,000 a year to a doctor who will teach people how to drink in moderation. Some- one is overlooking the fact that the best moderate drinkers are self- taught. -Fort William Times -Journal. FUNNY BUSINESS BY HERSHBE] GER v,7, 4f1P it i/ �r / fir.Ca�i i.,..li',,.., 6Aly A.4 loc k---hc 1 gurcet alis incolx c tax correcflyi't x,4 Arakt. French Mayor Sets Good Example—Answering President Auriol's urgent appeal asking .French farmers to deliver all surplus wheat without delay, the mayor of Irermenonville sets a good example to his townspeople as his wheat is loaded on a "wheat collection" cart. Rural police, like the one at left, beat drums to call farmers' attention to current grain drive to thwart a serious bread•shortage during the. next two months. Lindbergh's Flight Twenty Years -Ago One night, approximately 20 years ago, it suddenly became quiet at the Sharkey -Maloney fight in the Yan- kee Stadium. The crowd of 40,000 straw -hatted men and short -skirted women stood • up and prayed. The man they were praying for was the same man about whom the, New York Times had 10,000 anxious telephone calls in 11 hours. He was the same man 30,000 Frenchmen stood waiting for the next night near Paris. Finally, among the Frenchmen studying the sky, someone heard a motor. Someone fired rocket flares. And 500 feet up, the glare revealed the frail fuselage of the "Spirit 'of St. Louis," Very soon, millions of thrilled people were repeating the salient • facts of Charles Augustus Lind- bergh's solo flight across the Atlan- tic. He was the first to make it alone and did it in 33 hours, 29 minutes. He won a $25,000 prize while his rivals waited in New York for better weather. - Holds Fame as Pioneer Much has happened in the' air since then to obscure the importance of Lindbergh's flight. Today com- mercial airliners regularly make the same trip in 12 hours, But it is doubtful whether any hero since then has captured the imagination of the world by a single act the way the slim, tall "Lone Eagle" did it 20 years ago. Historians agree the sensation Lindbergh made resulted from 'a combination of the darin gact itself and the mood of the twenties, a time of many heroes of varying talents and virtues. It was a time in the country of a soaring big hull market, jazz, rac- coon coats, the Charleston and pro- hibition. - There were flagpole sitters, mara- thon dancers, cross-country walking races, channel swimmers, the Sacco - Vanzetti executions and college bo- hemians. It was the time of the great chain- pions—Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs. that year, Gene Tuuney, Red Grange,. Bobby Jones, and Tommy Hitchcock ruled their respective roosts. Took Oft in Heavy Mist - Charles A. Lindbergh was 25 'then, a chief mail pilot and a C'aptaiin in. the Air Corps Reserve. He entered the competition for the ' $25,000 trans-Atlantic prize and went out to a San Diego factory to get his plane. He flew it to St Louis and then to Roosevelt Field, Long Island, on May 12, The cross-country trim, ryas made in 21 hours and 20 minutes, a record for its day. At 7,52, Friday morning, May 20, Lindbergh took off for Paris in a heavy mist. His plane had, a Wing spread of 46 feet, a fuselage 28 feet long, and a maximum speed of 123 miles an hour. The IfSne flier had no radio and all he took with hitn were two sand- wiches, two canteens of water, two chocolate Mars, two flashlights, four - red flares, one air raft with pump, five cans of army emergency rati- ons, two air cushions and one hack saw blade. Bulletins Along Route Up along the Atlantic Coast, he flew in fog and rain• and before morning, -out over the Atlantic, hiss ship was coated with sleet. By mid- day Saturday he was flying over Ire- land, and the bulletins were flashed on movie screens back home. Then came the Normandy coast and in the darkiness he was guided by beacons along the London -Paris air route, 'the searchlight op the .Mt. Valerian 'fortress and finally by the. lights- of the Eiffel Tower and tine flares at Le Bourget airfield. Then came the receptions: decora- tions and kisses from tree President 'of France, the shouts of hundreds of thousands in the streets of Paris, Brussels .and London and forint' welcomes by the kings of Belgium and England. ' President Coolidge sent the cruis- er Memphis to bring -tune hero and his plane home. Near the Virginia Capes, the Memphis Was joined by ' four more cruisers, size destroyers and a flotilla of planes.- The flier and his mother rode in triumph through • Washington. Theii came New York. Millions lined the streets and hung out windows, toss- ing down more than 1,800 tons of confetti. The city spent $11,000 on the reception. Twenty years after his famous 'fight to Paris, Charles A. Lingbergh is living quietly in Connecticut. • He serves occasionally as an en- gineering consultant to several air- craft and airline firms. The Lindberghs have five child- ren. Golfers to -Compete at Toronto in July IIigliest award in Can•.clian golf, the Seagram Gold Cup has yet to be won by a Canadian. but there is a growing feeling in golfing circles that. the symbol of Canadian golf- ing supremacy is just about due to • remain in Canada instead of tak_ ing its annual journey south of the border. Whether or- not. the. 1947 Cana- dian Open, over Toronto's Scailnoro layout July 16-19, will write a Cana- dian -born. champion. into the record • •,;remains to be seen' -- but certainly Canadian pros "have been • ,coming closer each year in the face of keen competition from the top-ranking ..:golfersof the United States. A number of Canadians hays won the Dominion's Open' c';an.pionship since its inauguration in 1204, butt a none since the Seagram Gold .Cup became 'the; 'official symbol .of sic tory in 1936. In; fact, no Canadian ,leas won it for two decades. prior to that—since the days before the Ca- nadian Open reached sufficient. sta- tare in the golfing world to :.:tract top-notch. Aram -kilns. Blueberries Newfoundland is known for its blueberries as well as its fish , nearly 2,800,000 pounds were picked during' 1946, .over 2,00.0,000 of which were sent to the United States, POP --Traffic Note Changed Asked if a year of college ha¢;.. made any difference In is eldest son, a deep -South farmer reflected: "Well, he's still a good hand with the plow, but I notice his language has changed some. It used to be, 'Whoa, Becky! Haw! and Git up!' Now, when- he comes to the ad of a row, he , says, 'H'alt, Rebecca! Pivot and proceed!" Von Will l,alloy Staying Al 'rt3ltonlTo The St. Kepis Hotel c Every noon With Oath sho'ites anti Telephone q Single, 52,50 nn--• nonhte, tam) lie * Coo 1 papal. Dining end Danc- ing Nightly Sberbonrne at Canton Tel. RA. 4131S ROOMS IiEAUTIii'VLL>t FORNrsllt.11 $1.50 up • HOTEL METROPOLE NIAGARA PALLS OPP. — l3. N.it, STATION PIN an To Fr alas rum 0 ric Effort lists iSeisaan ORVILLE SWEET OF LADN E R, B.C. dives to save trapped men Orville Sweet, asleep in his home near the river, was wakened by violent cries for. help. In an Instant he was up and, clad only in pants and slippers, rushed to the wharf. A man was clinging desper- ately to the anchor chain of a boat some distance out. With- out hesitation, Sweet dove into the freezing water and pulled the weakened man to safety. It was then that Sweet learn- ed that the man had escaped - from a submerged car and that two others were still trap- ped in it. Down into the inky water he dove ... searching for the car. At last he found it and began a frantic struggle with the doors ... trying to release the two men, Several times he came up for air .. . and dove to try again. But the strain on his lungs and the icy water were too much. He had to give up. The gallant perseverance of' this man warrants great praise. He saved one person , .. and made an almost superhuman effort to rescue the other two. We are proud to pay tribute to Orville Sweet of Ladner, B.C., through the presentation of The Dow Award. THE DOW AWARD is a citation for outstanding hero, tsn, and includes, as a tangible expression of appreciation, a $too Canada Savings Bond. Winners are selected by the Dow Award Committee, a grout) of editors of leading Canadian daily newspapers. ettelAtier Out of control, the car with its three occupants skidded off the Elliot Street wharf into the Fraser River and disap- peared below the surface. One man somehow escaped and, after being rescued by Orville Sweet, pointed hysterically to the"spot where his friends were still trapped in their car. 17014t1' SWING. TO T1-15 LEIaT oa Ruin's. coaorier,. ! ' •1'rt S,Cti rr ' G T•` <' i P off Ibi tN '"i 11-15 M! 'PLC or 11--M ROAD . By J. MILLAR WATT