Zurich Herald, 1947-06-12, Page 6r, Sara
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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.
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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
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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,
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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!
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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.
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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.
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