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Show Wiiigoveig All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Don and Dorothy Bothwell returned re-turned to Delta Saturday, after a month-long vacation in Minnesota. Nate Ward is slated to go on vacation this week. With no first hand information as to how he intends to spend it, but recalling that he built a garage an vacation last, year, I arh guessing that he will make this a Dractical vara- What Adam Smith, the 1'oUnder of modern political economy, had to say about lotteries. I do this, furthermore, fur-thermore, knowing that since Hild-ing Hild-ing Sjostrom won the boat and I didn't, it leavesrrrewide open to a charge of sour graphs. Here's what Father Adam had to say: "The chance of gain is by every man more or less overvalued, and the chance of loss is by most men undervalued . . .. "In order to have a better chance for some of the great prizes, some people purchase several tickets . . "There is not, however, a more certain proposition in mathematics than that the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you are to be a loser. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery and you will lose for certain, and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer you approach this certainty." In other words, the best chance you have in participating is to buy only one ticket, and the only certainty cer-tainty against loss is to not buy any. The quotation is from page 98 of The Wealth of Nations. - HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL . . . One can hardly ever open one of the great books without stumbling upon a provocative thought. In checking up Adam Smith's comment com-ment on lotteries, I chanced upon this observation under Hazards and Chances of Military and Naval Life, page 99 of Wealth of Nations. "Young volunteers never enlist so readily as at the beginning of a new war; and though they have scarce any chance of preferment, they figure to themselves, in their youthful fancies, a thousand occasions oc-casions of acquiring honor and distinction dis-tinction which never occur. These romatic hopes make the whole price of their blood. Their pay is less than that of common labourers, labour-ers, and in actual services their fatigue is much greater". Is there any GI who, on severance sever-ance would not say Amen to that? tion, harvesting alfalfa seed, perhaps. per-haps. Harold Rutherford flew his Er-coupe Er-coupe down from Provo Sunday, to see the boat races. The private plane is by far the fastest means of personal transportation, trans-portation, and no form of mass transportation can beat it except the commercial airline. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Workman, of Long Beach, made a flight Sunday which wh-ich bears witness to this. In flight from Santa Ana' to Butte in their T-craft, they landed here for gas early Sunday afternoon, some seven sev-en hours out of Santa Ana. Ray Steele, than whom no man ever had a wider variety of adventures adven-tures ani misadventures, narrowly narrow-ly missed death or at least being treated for snake-bite the other day.. A rattler snagged the cuff of his trousers. Ray says the force of the- snake's strike was start-ling. The first was the electrical storm out west late Saturday. It was a play of awesome color and vicious forces; of a cloudburst that swept across Whirlwind Valley; of torrential rain that fell from sunset clouds which ranged from blood-red to indigo and black; of nearly continuous forked lightning in persistent, repeated flashes from mile-high clouds to earth and from cloud to cloud. Had this storm hit a populous section , the papers would have been full of stories of damage. Political office holders would have been blamed for not having done anything in advance to guard against ag-ainst it. But in our west desert it passed all but unnoticed. The second was the view of our fruitful land, from the air, Sunday. A little flight from Fred Hauman's on the south to Clifford Ashby's on the north revealed a picture of ripening crops in mid-summer; pur pie fields of alfalfa 'blossoms; green fields of second crop hay; golden fields of grain. All was serenely ser-enely beautiful Sunday, after nature's na-ture's violent Saturday night blow-off. fledglings' . . . Bert and Nina Johnson, and their son and daughter, Gordon, 13, and Eloise, 6, had the thrill of taking their first airplane ride last Wednesday, Wed-nesday, July 30. They flew out over the farming district in the Aeronca Sedan. ' ' THE REGATTA . . . The JC's Regatta was duly staged sta-ged last Sunday, and it was quite an affair. Speed boats are as efficiently ef-ficiently designed in their way -as airplanes are in theirs. They are built to skim over the water fast, and to do nothing else. The races were thrilling to see. Aside from the fun of watching the races however , the two impressions which fixed themselves most firmly firm-ly in my mind were these: 1 First, speed boat motors make JALOPY ... The question of what constitutes the ideal sportsman's car may nev er be finally answered. The latest entrant for that title is a Ford Fordor sedan, just acquired by Tex and Archie Searle. It is a well preserved 1926 model T. The later Henry Ford Sr., who in his day was widely respected as America's most distinguished manufacturer, man-ufacturer, and at the same time widely despised in some circles for his cantankerous intellectual integrity in-tegrity and stubborn individualism, used to say of his cars and customers: cus-tomers: "They can have any color they want just so it's black". "Never mind what they want. I'll give them what they ought to have". "The things the designers leave off of them never cause anybody any trouble". It is perhaps sufficient to say of the Searle's Ford that it is the living embodiment of these pronouncements, pro-nouncements, and more. DESERT IDYLS . . . Nature displayed two of her many moods in memorable scenes of striking contrast last week. an inordinate amount of noise for their size and, j Second, if the reservoir had been I filled with sour cream instead of I water it would have got thorough-I thorough-I ly churned Sunday afternoon. J ADAM SMITH ON LOTTERIES . . . With the JC's sponsoring the sale of lottery tickets on an outboard out-board motor boat last week, he j was a rare Delta citizen who was not. accosted at least once by Ward Killpack, Howard Witney, , Jim Kelly, or any of the host of ' others, to buy chances. In view of this situation, and after having been practically forced for-ced to part with a dollar by Len Vodak and N. S. 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