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Labor ay festivities fa ta
if prudence not exercised
Probably few things in this life are as distasteful as the
thought of pain. Much has been written about the ability
of the fairer sex to withstand pain and a lot of new
mothers are submitting to natural childbirth as
testimony to this fact.
Without getting into a controversy as to whether
ladies can bear pain better than men it is sufficient to
say that none of us wants to endure the agony of a broken
bone or surgery. Therefore let each of us be careful at all
times to avoid this happening and especially this forth-
coming Labor Day weekend to escape any type of ac-
cident that will cause pain to ourselves or others.
The Labor Day weekend is the last major holiday of the
summer season and it signals a prelude to a lot of ex-
citing things. Fall and winter bring on football and Great
Pumpkin Thanksgiving Christmas and the New Year.
By observing recognized standards of safety we can all
live to enjoy these benefits of the good life. One moment
of carelessness can change this beautiful picture en-
tirely.
There will be a great deal of traffic on the highways of
our nation this Labor Day. Not everyone will observe the
55 mile per hour speed limit. Because of speeding and in-
creased traffic accident and fatality rates are almost
sure to be high.
Additional factors contributing to this fact are fatigue
alcohol and failure to observe current driving conditions.
These hazards can be properly coped with by the use of
restraint good judgment and self control.
It is estimated by the National Safety Council that from
450 to 500 persons in the U.S. will die as a result of motor
vehicle accidents during the holiday. Precautions must
be taken by every individual to insure that this figure is
never reached.
Remember that you could become one of these
statistics.
Strong silent safeguards in your automobile are ready
to help you and your passengers during holiday travel.
They are called seat belts and they have been installed in
90 per cent of the cars on the road. Newer car models
have shoulder harnesses for even greater protection.
These safety belts can be the difference between life and
death should an accident occur but they are worthless if
I not used. In a study of 28 thousand auto crashes chances
of surviving an accident are 10 times greater if seat belts
are buckled up. The U.S. Dep’t. of Transportation
estimates that between 10 thousand and 15 thousand lives
can be saved annually if we all use our safety belts.
Drinking while driving is especially hazardous. Alcohol
is a factor in 50 per cent of all traffic fatalities. At the 10
per cent blood alcohol level which is considered legal
evidence of intoxication in Texas the possibility of being
involved in an accident is six times greater than for the
sober driver. The best practice is to never mix drinking
while driving.
Driving while fatigued can be just as dangerous as
driving while intoxicated. Fatigue is caused by lack of
sleep over-exertion or long hours of steady driving. It is
important to be well rested before taking along trip. If a
person becomes fatigued while driving he should stop at
a roadside rest station and relax or sleep for a while.
Another major factor in traffic accidents is the urge to
reach one’s destination in order to have extra vacation
time to spare. By planning a trip well in advance there
should be no reason to travel faster than the legal speed
limits.
Labor Day is meant to be a time of pleasure and fun.
Don’t spoil it for yourself or your family this year by let-
ting an accident occur.
Don’t take a chance this holiday leave that to Evel
Knievel. He gets paid well for it.
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Labor ay message
The Labor Day weekend is the last major holiday
period of the summer season. Many of us plan to spend
this weekend enjoying the recreational activities
available at the nearby lakes or traveling to visit
friends and relatives. We must be especially conscious
of the hazards that are present and insure that they do
not cause us to be involved in an accident.
Your safety is of great concern to me. I urge each of
you to exercise caution and good judgement in all of
your holiday activities. Many accidents will occur
throughout the Nation during this holiday period and in
most cases they will be caused by carelessness or
negligence. Remember that most tragic holiday deaths
area result of traffic accidents and drowning.
As you prepare for this Labor Day consider the fact
that your actions will affect your family and friends as
well as yourself.
I wish each of you a safe and enjoyable holiday.
ALLEN M. BURDETT JR.
Lieutenant General USA
Commanding
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CHARLES
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By LINDA PRELLWITZ
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Angelina Grimke? Not many
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton or
Susan B. Anthony have you
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19th A endm ent W omen’s Equality Day
women’s suffrage movement
in the 1800’s and early 1900’s.
Well believe it or not the
Grimke Sisters also campaig-
ned for suffrage for the women
of the United States. Little is
heard of many of the women
who dedicated a large part of
Women’s Week
Message
On August 261920 the Nineteenth Amendment giving
women the right to vote was certified as part of our Con-
stitution Women across the Nation will celebrate the'
momentous event during the week of August 26 which
has been designated as Women’s Week.
It is fitting at this time that we give recognition to the
contributions women have made to the quality of
American life and to the progress of our great Nation. We
must further be mindful of the need to eliminate
remaining vestiges of discrimination which stand in the
way of complete equality for women.
All Ft. Hood personnel are urged to observe the week
of 26 of the Nation’s women as workers as homemakers
as public servants and as concerned citizens. All Ft.
Hood personnel should lend their support to those ac-
tivities and programs that will advance the economic
dvil and political status of women.
For the Commander
Joseph N. Jaggers Jr.
Colonel GS
Chief of Staff
A.
’LUCKY L/N PY
THE LON6 EAGLE
LINDBERGH
By JOHN GRABOWSKI
He was a contemporary of the fictional Gatsby but he
hardly fit the time and place that was 1920’s America the
decadent decade framed by the Prohibition of 1920 and
the great stock market crash of 1929.
It was a day of euphoria the frollickingRoaring Twen-
ties the Age of Ballyhoo the Jazz Age. A day of speak-
easies easy money and idols and heroes like Ruth and
Gehrig Valentino and Barrymore. It was a day of rac-
coon coats bathtub gin and fast expensive cars. “For
better or for orse” wrote one com entator
“Americans threw off the shackles and in one brief
decade attempted to rewrite the rules.”
For many it was an unending series of parties and
dance arathons strung together with unbridled
hedonism and punctuated by flappers flapping their way
through the Charleston “Black Bottom” and “The Var-
sity Drag.”
But for one brief history-filled moment in the spring of
1927 the party stopped and the same kind of national
breathlessness that accompanied man’s first landing on
the moon paid tribute to a 25-year-old Minnesotan.
On May 20 1927 Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off
from Roosevelt Field on Long Island for Paris. He landed
33 hours 30 minutes and 29.8 seconds later and his lan-
ding made him and his plane the “Spirit of St. Louis”
jointly immortal. His was the first solo crossing of the
Atlantic Ocean.
Overnight Lindbergh found himself the newest
demigod of the decade and one of the greatest heroes of
the century.
American’s most popular aviation hero was born on
February 4 1902 in Detroit Michigan the son of Charles
A. Lindbergh member of the US House of Represen-
tatives from Minnesota from 1907-1917. Young Lindbergh
entered the University of Wisconsin in 1920 but left two
years later to learn to fly.
In 1924 he entered the Army Flying School at Brooks
Field Texas and was commissioned a captain in the US
Air Service at graduation a year later. In 1926 he was
flying airmail routes between Chicago and St. Louis.
Attracted to tj^e challenge of a non-stop transatlantic
flight by the $25000 prize awaiting the first to succeed in
such a venture Lindbergh found support for his plans and
purchased a plane. Built by Rayn Airlines the single-
engine craft was delivered to Lindbergh at its factory in
San Diego on May 101927.
Things bode well for the young aviator and his new
plane for they set a transcontinental record in the flight
from San Diego to New York with a total flying time of 21
hours 45 minutes. Once in New York he was delayed by
bad weather until May. 20.
Reaction worldwide and in the United States was sen-
sational. A crowd of more than 100000 awaited him at his
landing in Paris and police were forced to hold them
Women’s suffrage observes anniversary
their lives to the cause that
finally culminated with the
passing of the 19th Amend-
ment to the Constitution.
Monday August 26 the 54th
a a of
roclaim ation of the 19th
Amendment as Woman’s
E quality a resid en
Gerald R. Ford signed the
la a tio the 19th
day “Woman’s Equality Day”
ith 13
looking on. After signing the
document Ford said It’s
been serv a tio that
en th a
especially in politics have to
do things twice as well in order
to get credit. W e’ve got to
change that.”
The struggle for suffrage
began in th a ly 1800’s
in th a is a
agitation. Under the auspices
of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady S tan ton a group of
women met on July 19 and 20
1848 in Seneca Falls N.Y. to
draft a declaration stating the
rights belonging to women.
The declaration was signed by
68 women and 32 men. Other
conventions ere held in the
next few a under the
guidance of other women but
the rea force behind the
movement didn’t join the for-
ces until 1850. Susan B. An-
thony a name ost remem-
ered en it to
women’s rights joined with
Elizabeth Cady Stanton to
push for an am endm ent to the
Constitution giving the fran
chise to vote to both women
and Blacks. owever when
the 14th Amendm ent was pas-
sed omen ere excluded
from it. They ere also ex-
cluded from the 15th Amend-
ment which as passed to en-
force the 14th Amendment.
The convention which was
held in Syracuse N.Y. in 1852
was significant because it was
the first joint venture of Susan
B. Anthony and Mrs. Stanton.
The women moved from the
convention to organizing the
National Woman Suffrage As-
sociation in 1869. The As-
sociation had the declared ob-
ject of securing the ballot for
women by a 16th Amendment.
For the next 50 years it held
national conventions and went
before com ittees of every
ongress to lead for the
amendment.
It soon learned that pressure
from the states on Congres-
sional rep resen ta tiv es was
a a ega to
organize women in each state
in late 1869 the Am erican
Woman Suffrage Association
was formed under the leader-
ship of Lucy Stone and Julia
Ward Howe solely for this pur-
pose.
The National Woman Suf-
frage A sso cia tio and the
Wwierican W om an Suffrage
Association united in 1890 and
worked under the name of the
National A erican Woman
Suffrage A ssociation for 30
years. The years between the
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The Lone Eagle
back to keep them from being hurt by the propeller
blade and to prevent their dismantling the plane for
souvenir pieces.
Back in New York Lindbergh was treated to what
might still stand as the wildest ticker tape parade in
history. More than 1800 tons of paper showered the
procession given the country’s newest hero. Mayor
Jimmy Walker told Lindbergh “New York is yours
You have won it” then joked that Lindbergh couldn’t
leave until he got another street-cleaning department to
clean up the mess.
Congress passed special legislation to award Lind-
bergh the Medal of Honor and the rest of the country
simply turned its hysteria on the “Lone Eagle.”
The young hero toured the United States and abroad for
a few years as a goodwill ambassador and consultant on
aviation atters. He married Anne Morrow the
daughter of a US ambassador in 1929.
When their two-year-old son was first kidnapped then
murdered in 1932 and attendant publicity made it the
crime of the century the couple moved to England. They
returned to the United States before World War Two
broke out.
Headlined periodically as he passed warnings of Ger-
many’s growing air power in the 1930’s as he argued
first for America to stay out of World War Two and later
as he flew more than 50 combat missions as a consultant
1 the immortal “Lindy” will be best remembered for that
first-ever flight across the Atlantic alone.
Set against the heyday madness of the Twenties Lindy
was indeed alone eagle. Throughout all the hooplah
which followed his flight to Paris and the success which
became nearly a plague he somehow managed to main-
tain “an uncorrupted modesty and quiet dignity uncom-
mon in the Age of Ballyhoo.” He stood out as he had
flown a man alone.
But perhaps the most eloquent tribute of all was paid
Lindy by the great F. Scott Fitzgerald creator of The
Great Gatsby. Of Lindy’s achievement Fitzgerald
wrote:
“In the spring of ’27 something bright and alien
flashed across the sky. A young Minnesotan who
seemed to have had nothing to do with his
generation did a heroic thing and for a moment
people set down their glasses in country clubs
and speakeasies and thought of their old. best
dreams.”
Charles Augustus Lindbergh died August 26 1974 of
cancer. His 72 years spanned the entire gamut of manned
flight in the United States from the Wright brothers’
flight at Kittyhawk to the succession of landings on the
moon.
With his death America has lost one of the greatest of
its heroes and pioneers of the air. It will be poorer for the
loss of the living legend that was Lindy.
organizations and their union
did not go by without any
progress. The territory of
Wyoming had given women
the right to vote in 1869. When
it entered the Union in 1890 it
becam the first state to
provide for women suffrage in
its constitution.
E en tu ally th er states
yielded and fra ch wised
women which increased the
members of Congress elected
partly by om en. Pressure
a a
legislatures to pass amend-
en ts to th a
stitutions to give women the
right to vote. By 191815 states
had a a ts
giving women equal suffrage.
The suffrage amendment
known as the ‘Anthony Amen-
dment” suffered early defeat
at the hands of Congress. First
introduced in the Senate by
Senator Aaron A. Sargent of
California the am endm ent
was defeated in the Senate on
January 251887 by a vote of 34
to 16. It was reintroduced in
each succeeding Congress but
actually lay dormant until
1914.
Spurred by a petition of
almost 500000 names presen-
ted to by th
National A erican Woman
Suffrage Association and by
agitation of National Woman’s
Party led by A lice Paul and
Lucy Burns Congress recon-
sidered the am endm ent in
1914. However it was to face
defeat once ore. On March
191914 by a vote of 35 to 34 the
Senate defeated the amend-
ment. The House of Represen-
ta iv llo suit on
January 12 1915 defeating the
amendment by a vote of 204 to
174.
The part taken by women in
World War I broke down the
final barriers of opposition.
But still there as enough op-
position in Congress to delay
the final vote to submit the
a en en to th state
legislatures until June 1919.
The House was the first branch
of Congress to pass the amend-
ment by a vote of 274 to 136 on
January 10 1918 and the
Senate followed with a vote of
66 to 20 on June 4 1919. It was
left up to the states to ratify*
the amendment.
Tennessee becam the 36th
state to ratify the amendment
a
requirement needed to ratify
an amendment on August 18
1920. Eight days later it was
proclaimed apart of the Con-
stitution by the secretary of
state. The wording of the 19th
A endm ent is a follow s:
“The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state
on account of sex.
There is still uch to be ac-
com plished in the field of
women’s rights and the suf-
frage movement as just the
beginning. So to the women of
the United States “You’ve
come a long long ay.”
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