. The Saturday evening post. t; ioverdo the experimeni hIn fact, I was told recently by a noted ac tuary that in one foi <eign country—I thinl he said Scotland—thdinkus of his electri: rmeter is hermeticall> lfsealed from view. {There is something Babout that fateful in-evitableness of smmeters moving dinkus- iithat has a wonderfully!sobering influence onlithe easy-come-easy-gollsort of man. I knowjjthat personally I owejjmuch to the fact that1the one piece of abso-lutely one hundred percent perfect mecha-nism known to scienceor mechanics, the onlymechanical inventionthat never freezes i
. The Saturday evening post. t; ioverdo the experimeni hIn fact, I was told recently by a noted ac tuary that in one foi <eign country—I thinl he said Scotland—thdinkus of his electri: rmeter is hermeticall> lfsealed from view. {There is something Babout that fateful in-evitableness of smmeters moving dinkus- iithat has a wonderfully!sobering influence onlithe easy-come-easy-gollsort of man. I knowjjthat personally I owejjmuch to the fact that1the one piece of abso-lutely one hundred percent perfect mecha-nism known to scienceor mechanics, the onlymechanical inventionthat never freezes incold weather or jams inhot, that never rusts inwet weather or cracksin dry, never rips,1ravels or runs down atthe heel, is the revolv-ing dinkus of an electricmeter. The most ex-pensive Swiss watchlias to be cleaned andoiled now and then, butdid you ever see thedirt that could stop a <dinkus? Did you eversee one that had to. i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 9
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