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! People Who Profit From
Drunks Are Taxi Drive
CLEVELAND, Dec. 1.—</P)—‘The
people who profit when the elbow
bender has one too many are out
with a new one—the "blotto special.''
Jesse T. Smith, head of a local
taxicab concm, classified his noc
turnal cabbies' most pressing prob
lems as two-fold.
Celebrants.
Celebrants with automobiles.
"Under the first condition,” he
explained, “the driver’s duty is to
see that the customer arrives safely
at the front door—and pays his
fare.
“The second circumstance requires
two drivers. This adaptation is
krtown afivthe ‘blotto special.’
"One driver gets the celebrant
home. The second, who rides in the
cab of his companion, gets the
celebrant's car home. Their com
bined duty is, of course, to collect
double fare.”
Smith recalled a Pittsburgh c
palgn on tipsy motorists 'with
“A Pittsburgh cab company
ried an advertisement q,Jot,n
judge advising them to
cabs. They pressed the ram~M
vigorously. CiWlPl
“While we don't advertise
service, we always do it when vJ
one requests it. I recall one re?
just last week.” eq
Smith’s cabbies will do ml
things for the believer in Bacrt
alianism.
Find the keyhole.
Tell him what time it is
Help him up the front stair*
Loan him matches and cieare
“About the only thing we
arrange to do," he said, “is pi,
the little woman with the »
pin.”
Picks Flowers With Chisel |
From Floor Of The Ocecj
HONOLULU, Hawaii. — Picking
“flowers” with a cold chisel and a
small sledgehammer IS or 20 feet
beneath the surface of the sea
sounds almost too fantastic to be
true.
Of course, the "flowers” are not
the kind you find in the fields and
woods or in your own garden. These
"flowers” are really animals or co
ral, but so beautiful is their appear
ance that they are often called
“flowers of the sea-” Some bits of
coral have the appearance of a
glorious individual blossom while
others appear to be elaborate bou
quets.
Theodore (Ted) Dranga of Hono
lulu, Hawaii, has been picking these
sea flowers with a chisel and ham
mer for the past 15 years. During
that time he has become a recog
nized authority on corals and has
made coral collection a paying
business, perhaps one of the strang
est occupations in the United
States.
Began As A Boy
Dranga was born in Hawaii about
the time the islands became an in
tegral part of the United States
through annexation. As a youngster
he swam out to the coral reefs and
spent hours there in contemplation
of the beautiful coral gardens be
neath the surface.
As he grew older he began to
dive for odd bits of coral he saw.
Visitors to the islands often bought
some of these for souvenirs. Thus
was the beginning of his unusual
i career founded upon the interest of
visitors in the “flower of the sea.”
Today' Dranga operates a regular
curio shop filled with odds and
ends of things gathered, not only
from this American territory, but
from distant South Sea Islands.
There one finds seashell necklaces,
sprouting coconuts, shark teeth
necklaces, shark jaws, war clubs,
rare wooden bowls ... all the odd
and strange things of the Pacific
Islands.
Keeps Choice Bits Himself
But Dranga’s first and principal
interest is in coral. He’ll drop work
almost any time to talk about coral,
to show you special bits he keeps, or
even take you out with him to the
reefs to dive among his “flowers.”
As a one time member of the
Bishop Museum in Honolulu Dran
ga had excellent opportunities to
visit strange lands and reefs. But
today he finds that the 134 species
of coral found in Hawaii are suffi
cient to satisfy his desire for uni
que formations. While he hesitates
to state how much coral he has
picked from the sea bottom he
admits it runs into many tons.
To do his collecting Dranga has a
small glass bottom rowboat in which
he drifts over the coral beds. Ad
justing water tight goggles he
plunges overboard, swims down to
the reef and goes to work. And
work it really is. Try going down 20
or 30 feet below the surface and
chisel ofl a bit of rock. Mighty dif
ficult to hold the chisel in place and
even harder to strike a blow.
With his 15 years of experience,
however, Dranga rarely makes a
false move. Sometimes he comes tp
the surface carrying a piece two
feet in diameter and weighing from
20 to 30 pounds. . He doesn’t do this
often, only to fill some special or
der. The smaller, more daintily
formed, bits have more value.
Getting the coral from the sea
doesn’t mean it is ready for sale,
coral is out of the water to prevent
it being damaged until thoroughly
“seasoned.” When first taken from
the ocean coral is not the glisten
ing white customarily associated
with it. Much of it found in this
island section of America is olive
green or brown, although some is
mauve, pink, sulphur green and
even, in rare cases, almost scarlet.;
To bring out its beauty it must be
well washed in. fresh cold water
time after time and placed in the
sun to bleach. Twot ntonths of this
bleaching may be needed before it
can be sold.. . .
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Wicked Fairy
By BROOKE PETERS CHl'R
No matter how careful and
telligent a parent may be, no t
ter how hard fathers and mot
struggle to do what’s best lor t
children, in the end they are bo
to find that they have done or
undone something essential
should have been changed. It i
though a bad fairy were presen
the birth of every child.
The Smiths were determi
that their children should n
be jealous of one another. 1
read books on the subject,
never broke any of the rules
the books prescribed. When a 1
was expected they took every
portunity to interest the o
children in the new arrival. S
could not have felt left out w
Susan came. She looked tors
to the new baby, and helped
tend it when it arrived. In 1
years, looking back, Sally traced
very real dislike for Susan to e
jealousy of the baby.
Tommy was never to be af
Of anything, and his parents
everything in their power to
velop fearlessness in him. All
their well-meant efforts did wa
develop in Tommy the fear of
ing afraid. In later life he
haunted by the dread of cowai
to such an extent that when
was tired or under nervous st
he lay awake at night, won
lest in some crisis he had fa
to come up to his ideal of coui
Parents forget that they too
human. Regrets for the past
futile and inhibiting to the fut
Even the wisest make mistaki
If one consciously does c
best, seeks no reward and 1
one’s children with no thought
r, there can be no real cause
ret. All that the past and "
; can do Is to point out the
p. The lesson learned and
p once taken, the construi
ng to do is to forget the er
the past and look forward.
-RUSTEE’S RESALE OF EEAL K
Under and by order of a resale »"
rtue of the power and authority or
ntained tn that certain deed or
eeuted by Aubrey Mauney
itharlne Mauney, to the under!
ustee. tba aatd deed of trust bem*
nuary 34, 1834 and recorded in in
re of the register of deeds for Cle
unty. N. C.. In book No. 1M at w
curing an indebtedness ****** -
ribed, and default having
the payment of said indtbtwW*.
ing requested to aell said Prope
11 °n u sqm
Monday, December 14, w
U o'clock: noon, or within D
the court house door in ®h«n>..
II to the highest bidder for au
iblic auction the following deie
oparty: _ .. ,
Beginning at an iron *Mlt* -
rka Of the road in the line bet**™
on Mill company and J. L Smun .
id runs thence with said line
eea 30 minutes E. 315 feet to a X
ence a new line N. 10'. W. j?5 —
atone; thence 8. «o degrees » ■“
. 319 feet to a stone in the road
le of the land sold by 3 ^ Snu»
. Wellmon: thence with said road n
ist 109 feet to an Iron itake. t
an ing corner, containing *i 01
nre or leu. and being that “®e
ilch was conveyed to Aubrey
Jno. P. Mull, trustee by duo
nuary 34, 1*34 and recorded n »
:e of the register of deeds for
nd county. N. C. __
iddir'- K_gina at $735 00
L JNO. P. MU1.U frute
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