The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-08-28
SYOU CAN'T TELL WHERE
j YOU'RE GOING" LIFE STORY
OF LOCAL BANK PRESIDENT
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After a moment he added, Il think
you've done that, but 1 can help you
to chance to sell it. Now, let me
see that list you have"
The banker introduced Klingman in
Lincoln. Later, he, himself, was to
enter the insurance field as a COM
pany president and to help clear it of
crooked agents. Klingman, too, was
TO play a part in the fight toward
modern regulation.
81 spent about a year in Lincoln"
my companion continued. at was a
successful year thanks to this bank
er, who became nv friend. But I
found the city demanded of me things
that l didn't have. NY education
was poor; my experience was too
limited; l was still 'hick' in need
of training and polish. l decided to
go back to the small town and coun-
try"
"But you were doing WE'LL" 1 OBJ
Jected. Eyes, but not well enough"
said Klingman. "You see. l had set
a standard for myself, marked the
place to which l wanted to go. But
when l asked myself. "What do 1
need to go that far?" and checked
the need against what had, lacked
the requirements. | was like work
man without certain necessary tools"
So back he went to get the miss
ing tools. This time he located in
eCozad, Nebraska. A part of each
evening he set aside for serious
study, practice that he continues
even now. He lost no opportunity
to meet successful men, asking him
self. What does this man have that
/ lack? How can l get ?" At the
end of each days work he made a
confidential, frank rennrt to himself.
He makes these reports today and
they are unsparingly keen analyses.
He told me, and meant it, 81 am still
below the standard still have much
TO learn"
The STANDARD" he set was that of
men he saw at the top of his calling.
There was the place he had resolved
80 go.
Still, he was not above short cuts.
A friend whispered of a chance to
clean up fortune in Texas land.
iKlingman plunged. Within a few
months he made $4,000. Seeming
the promised fortune, he plunged
again, when, poof! the bubble burst.
Every dollar he had made was wiped
out and most of his savings with it.
His money gone, a growing family
in his hands, his health suddenly
failed. He was seized with an attack
which left him entirely paralyzed on
his left side. Out of the wreck of his
fortune he managed to salvage
enough enough to buy home for his
family in Cozad, and then began a
long, grim search for relief from his
physical condition.
He went to Omaha, to an old ply
stefan friend of his father. There's
no hope for you in medicine he was
told. "Go home. You are only vast
ang your money"
klingman went home, but only to
borrow every dollar he could without
disturbing his life insurance and
home. Crippled almost to helpless
ness, he set out to visit the country's
great surgeons, while at Cozad his
wife did everything that she could
to help him.
In few months h, was back in
Omaha. How long have l got to
live?" he asked his fathers old
friend.
you've year at most" said the
physician.
doc, that's too long," said King
man. "My life insurance will lapse,
For l haven't money to meet the pre-
miums."
Cant you borr"- it?"
<.No."
al went back to the old Merchants
Hotel" Klingman went on, land sat
down in company with some wild
thoughts. That insurance was all l
had to leave to my family, with the
exception of the little home. If 1
lived year, they would be penniless.
If L died at once, they would have
$4,000. AS l sat there, picture of
the Missouri River, as it flowed few
blocks away. filled my fancy.
Toward evening, a man whom |
recognized stepped into the lobby of
che hotel. He passed me like stran-
ger and went on to the desk. He
knows me-" l thought in bitterness,
but I'm down and out now; he does
MT want to recognize me-
But moment later the man turn
ed, came swinging across the lobby
without stretched hand. He saw my
face, my limp left side. Old man
what's wrong?' he asked.
Il told him, though | said nothing
OF what Id been thinking. Without
a word he walked back to the desk,
cashed check, and returned to me
with five hundred dollars.
Buck up. old boy he said
There's a doctor in Hastings who
has just got back from Austria. I
believe he can cure you. Take this
money and give it shot
THAT night he nut me on a sleeper
TO Hastings. In month l could
walk without aid, and a week later
was on my way home to Cozad, afoot,
writing insurance as | walked. The
distance from Hastings to Cozad is
one hundred and fifty miles. When
L got home l had money enough ow-
ing me TO pay by debt to my friend
and sufficient left over to buv horse
and buggy. One year from that
time / was the biggest personal pro-
Queer for the company l was then
with"
If Klingman had believed in his
Job before he believed in it doubly
now. And he believed trebly in the
goodne of humanity. Red Oak,
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