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B H-Tk^efe^lnu-te^ <^^^<^^^<»f^}^^ \ ^shoht^k^ Best Insumnce By HENRY SUTER JONTHAN l.ANGDON wailed IMtictilly behind the diamond counter in McLauKhton's jewelry •tore. 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, I'hilip Smart, in charge of the watcli repair section, speedily ob- •ervcd it. "I'm wandering about the old â- lan," bef;an Langdon. "For the life •f 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 eourse. But why spend money to protect yourself against theft out of the itorc when he must realize what a smart bunch he has toiling for Wm? Why couldn't he put that money to better usage by slipping me the raise 1 asked for?" "1 guess it was that glib insurance talesman he fell for," replied Philip. "Sure enough, still I think the old man is wasting good money â€" " The interruption was caused by the en- trance of a customer. This was a portly, middle aged gentleni.cn, immaculately dressed, who woulil have made an impression anywhere. Langdon greeted him with his most gracious smile. "/ want something in a two carat solitaire, the very best you have in the plate It is for )«y daughter, and I â- want' it as a gradualion present!" l-ang(Ion hurried to the safe and brought out a tray of sparkling beauties. Mr. Blake gazed upon them carefully one by one and finally solecled one. Langdon went back and put the rest of the tray of rings in tlie safe. "Just let me run up to the hotel and get my check book. You keep this stone out till 1 get back." Ten, LS, then 20 minutes i lapsed and the customer had not iitnrned to complete the purchase. Just then the dour of McLaughlon's office opened. "Well, Jonathan," he began, "I presume you still think \, . do not need ajiy insurance and that 1 should use that part of our budget towards giving you a raise?" "Well, yes, 1 do think so really. You know my sales have almost doubled in the last year. "That it true, Jonathan, and ) appreciate it. Yet you must consider that in selling diamonds, the store is taking chances. 1 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." "Oh I but they couldn't do that with me," returned Langdon promptly. "I've been here 10 years and no crook has ever gotten away with it, yet." "Thai's what you tLink," smiled XCcLaugliton. "Now take that last customer. 1 watched everything from the start. You, of course, as- sume that everyone who comes 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 ! 1 don't understand ..." ^ "You can come in now, Blake I" called Mcl.aughton. "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 o£ his pocket and placed it upon the desk. "But 1 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. McLaughlon," said Langdon ralmly. • "Why. it's nothing but a phoney," he cried. "Sure," remarked Langdon quietly. "You don't suppo'se I'd leave dia- . monds around for strangers to pick up, do you ? I made the sv'^h be- fore I put the tray away in the safe. Now, Mr. McLaughton, do 1 get my raise or don't I?" The earliest balance machines date back to at least 5,000 years before the Christian era. VOICE OF THE PRESS Rats For Almost All There are almost as many rats in the Unitiil .Stales as there arc people â€" 130,0(XI.(H)(). as compared with a human iiopulation in tlic neighbor- hood of l-)(),()00,Oa). I'nited States Fish and Wild Life Director Albert M. Day 5a>s they cause $200,000,000 damage to food alone each year. â€" .Milwaukee Journal. And Often A val\( turned by error dumped KX) galldiis of whiskey into a Scot- tish cretk, and Sandy says he finds it a vurra invecgoratin' stream for takin' a wee bawth in. -Ottawa Citizen. I! Then Men are penalized by lime 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. â€"St. Thomas Times- Journal. We Almost Hope Still, it won't be long before the mosquitoes are taking screen tests again. â€"Quebec Chronicle- Telegraph. A Wise Move Mexico has taken a long step for- ward in the saving of dwindling forests by requiring lumlicrmcn to plant ten trees for every one cut and by limiting exports of hue woods. Some other countries already arc almost too late for sucli a move. Let us hope Canada is not in the latter category. â€"Niagara Falls Review. Best If Self-Taught The British Columbia Minister of Fducation is offering $10,000 a year to a doctor who will teach people how to drink in moderation. Some- one is overlooking the fact that the best moderate drnikcrs arc self- taught. â€" Eort William Times- Journal. FUNNY BUSINESS BY HERSHBERGER "Siiockâ€" lie figured his incoim Uxjcwrc$.t]|yir Changed Asked if a^ear of college hyd 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 conies to the end of a row, he says, 'Halt, Rebeccal Pivot and proceed!" French Mayor Sets Good Example â€" .'Xnswerin^' President Aiirio''.s iii^'dit aiipcal askiii}.; French fanners to deliver all surplus wheat without delay, the mayor of Yernunonville 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. Von Will Knjor t<(a)'lng At The St. Regis Hotel TOnONTO C Bverj lloont With Datk 8iiav)cr nod Tclepbon* a Kinsle, r-MM DPâ€" Doablr, e:iX>0 np A f.ooA KiKMl. nining aad Daar- tas NiKbtly BhcrboDrne at Carltoa Tel. KA. 4ISR ROU.US nEACTIFDLLI riRMSUED ji 50 up HOTEL METROPOLE NIAGARA FALLS OFF. â€" C.N.B. STATION Lindbergh's Flight Twenty Years Ago One night, approximately 20 years ago, it suddenly became quiet at the Sharkcy-Maloney fight in the Yan- kee Stadium. The crowd of 40,000 straw-hatted men and short-skirted women stood up anil prayed. The man they were praying for was the same man aCout 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 3i 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 Ly a single act the way the slim, tall "Lone Eagle" did it 20 years ago. Historians agree the sensation Lindbergh made resulted from a conibii\ation 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 bull market, jaz/, rac- coon coats, the Charleston and pro- hibition. There were llagpole sitters, mara- thon dancers, cross-eouniry w.dking races, channel swimmers, the Sacco- Vanzetti exertions and college bo- heniinus. It was the lime of the great cham- pions â€" Babe Kulh hit 60 home runs that year, Gene Tunney, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, and Tommy Hitchcoclt ruled their respective roosts. Took Ofl in Heavy Mist Charles A. Lindbergh was 25 then, a chief mail pilot and a Captain in the Air Corps Reserve. He entered the conipfttition for the $25,000 trans-.\tlanfic 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 trip was made in 21 hours and 20 minutes, a record for its day. At 7/62, F'riday morning. May 20, Lindbergh took off for I'aris in a heavy mist. His plane had a wing spread of 46 feet, a fuselage 28 feet lent;, and a maximum speed of 123 miles an hour. The lone flier had no radio and all he took with him were two sand- wiches, two canteens of water, two chocolate bars, 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, his ship was coated with sleet. By mid- day Saturday he was flying over Ire- land, and the bulletin'; were flashed on movie screens back home. Then came the Normandy coast and in the darkness he was guided by beacons along the London- Paris air route, the searchlight on the Mt. Valerian fortress and finally by the lights of the Eiffel Tower and tlie (lares at I^e Bourget airfield. Then came the receptions : decor.a- tions and kisses from tne President of F'rancc, the shouts of hundreds ot thousands in the streets of Paris, Brussels and London and formal welcomes by the kings of Belgium and England. s President Coolidgc sent the cruis- er Memphis to bring the hero and his plaru: home. Near the Virginia Capes, the Memphis was joined by four more cruisers, six destroyers and a flotilla of planes. The flier and his mother rode in triumph through Washington. Then came New York. Millions lined the streets and hung out windows, toss- ing down more than 1,800 tons of confetti. The city spent $71,000 on the reception. Twenty years after his famous fight to Paris, Charles A. Lingbcrgh is living quietly in Connecticut. 1 le serves occasionally as an en- fyuecring consultant to several air- craft and airline firms. The Lindberghs have five child- ren. Golfers to Compete at Toronto in July Highest award in Can-diaii golf, the .Seagram Gold Cup has yet to be won by a Canadian, bnt 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 atnuial journey south i>f the border. Whether or not the 1947 Cana- dian Open, over Toronto's Scarboro layout July 16- 19, will write a tana- dian-born champion into the record remains to be seen â€" but certainly Canadian pros have been coming closer each year in the face of keen competition from the top-ranking golfers of the I'nited States. .^ number of Canadians have won the Dominion's Open c'.an.piouship since its inauguration in 1904, but none since the Seagram Gold Cup became the official symbol of vic- tory in 19.%. In fact, no Canadian has won it for two decade:: prior to that â€" since the days before the Ca- nadian C^prn reached sufficient sta- ture in the golfing world to aUract top-notch Americans. Blueberries Newfoundland is known for its blueberries as well as its fish , nearly 2,8(X1,000 pounds were picked during 1S>4<), over 2,000,000 of which were sent to the I'nited States. Man Makes Heroic Effort To free Drowning Motorists WINS DOW AWARD ORVILLE SWEET OF LADNER, B.C. dives to save trapped men C/rville Sweet, asleep in his home near the river, was wakened by violent cries for help. In an instant he was up anci, 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 ha'd to give up. The gallant perseverance of this man warrants great praise. He saved one oerson , . . 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 citdtion for outstanding htro- urn and includes, as a l<ingible cK/irtjjioiy of appreciation, a Jioo Canada Sdiingj Bond. Winners arc itlecttd by the Doi* Award Committtf, a group of (ditori of leading Cumiduin doily newspaptrs. Out o] control, the ear with its three occupants â- 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 bis friends uere still trapped in their car. A -r ♦ -♦ â- A S â- s POPâ€" Traffic Note f pS'Nfr CVlMe TO THE Ltl^ OK RI&Mr. By J. MILLAR WATT THE SAFEST Pl-Ace IS IN THE WMDDUE OP THE ROAD :J â- 4 i I 1 X A > Tr -r 4