The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1958 Page: 2 of 12
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Editorial Comment and Opinion
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THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1958
The Highball Vs. The Highway
Office parties may lose their punch this Christmas.
The National Safety Council is urging business and industry
to dry up office parties or cut them out. And a substantial number
of firms have indicated willingness to comply.
Some workers may mourn the passing of the office wassail
bowl. But its demise may prevent more serious mourning, the Coun-
cil believes.
Surveys made by the Council show that a sizeable percentage
of Christmas traffic accidents occur early in the holiday period
and that many of these can be traced to highball hilarity.
If history repeats, the approaching Christmas holidays might
well be the deadliest of 1958 on our streets and highways. The com-
bination of alcohol, poor weather, long hours of darkness and the
universal spirit of holiday celebration can pile up serious odds a-
gainst safe travel.
Too many people think alcohol is a problem only for those
obviously intoxicated. This is not the case. The majority ef holiday
celebrants—the social drinkers who have “only a couple"—hamper
their driving ability, and at a time when weather driving conditions
are bad.
Safe driving demands mental alertness and physical fitness.
And alcohol affects the body in much the same manner as chloro-
form, ether or other anesthetics. Alcohol Is not a stimulant, but a
narcotic that is medically classified as a depressant.
Drinking reduces the ability of any driver. And those who feel
they are better drivers after a couple of drinks are only feeling the
effect of the drinks.
Omitting liquor at office parties means that no drunken or
tlpsey .workers will leave parties to injure or kill themselves or
others on the highways. It can mean a really merry instead of a
tragic Christms for workers and their families. Highballs and high-
way safety are not compatible.
Don’t Increase Tax Burden
According to reports from Washington, public outcries are be-
ing heard against proposals to increase the Federal gasoline tax.
Reason for the proposals is a Treasury Department statement dis-
closing that the Highway Trust Fund, from which the Federal gov-
ernment reimburses the states for 90 per cent of the cost of the
huge new multi-billion dollar interstate System, is operating in the
red. •>
Speaking editorially, the Scrips-Howard newspapers, strong
advocates of the highway program, urge that spending be reduced
to the extent necessary to putting the Trust Fund on a pay-as-you-
go basis. An official of the American Automobile Association said
his organization would fight any further increase in taxes.
The automobile is cretainly not a luxury in this country. It’s
a necessity to millions of families and the cost of gasoline is an im-
portant factor in their daily lives. And the gas taxes, state and Fe-
deral together, are u real burden. Actually, the price of gasoline, be-
fore these taxes, is less than it was 25 years or so ago—something
that can be said of mighty few commodities. The higher price we
pay is due to the taxes which, of course, are totally beyond the oil
industry’s control.
It’s to be hoped that the reported public outcries reach a very
high decibel level. The gasoline taxes are plenty burdensome now.
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COMMENTS FROM
CONGRESSMAN
CLARK W. THOMPSON
9th TKXAS DISTRICT
Dear Neighbors:
Up and down the Coast, inter-
ested citizens are watching for
the development of a salt-water
conversion plant by the Federal
Government. Just this morning,
from the Department of the In-
terior, I have received word that
the principal problem of the mo-
ment is to decide on what process
to use. After making this deci-
sion, a site will be chosen.
Apparently, at this stage of the
game, about all any community
can do Is to notify the Depart-
ment of the Interior that it has
available sufficient land to ac-
commodate the proposed plant.
The Department indicates that
the location should be very close
to salt water. Apparently, how-
ever, the brackish water of the
bays might be satisfactory. The
Government would like to have,
c'ose at hand, an industrial user
or users which could take a
quantity of the desalted water.
From the foregoing, as you can
easily see, almost any point on
the Ninth District Gulf Coast has
possibilities.
Converting salt water into fresh
water is not a mysterious pro-
cess. Any chemistry student can
do it and has been able to for a
great many years. The trouble is
that the known processes are ex-
tremely expensive and the cost
of producing fesh water in com-
mercial quantities would be pro-
hibitive. If the Government has
an inexpensive process, it would
mean the solution of one of the
greet industrial problems of our
day.
In selecting the final location
for such a plant , if It is to be
within our District, I must re-
main entirely neutral. I shall
submit the merits of different
communities as they are present-
ed to me and as I know them.
There are several Postmaster
vacancies in prospect. In view of
the letters which I have been re-
ceiving, I believe it is timely to
call attention to the fact that
these appointments are not made
by the Congressman under the
Republican Administration. If a
Civil Service examination is held,
one of the three candidates who
stands highest may be selected
under certain restrictions. If a
veteran heads the list, he cannot
be passed over except in favor of
ODHS Elects
At Nov. Meeting
The La Grange Lodge No. 8,
ODHS, elected new officers
when they held their regular
meeting on Nov. 19th.
Elected were Elo Albers, pre-
sident; Vernon Wamken, vice
president; Milton Schmidt, sec-
retary-treasurer and Gilbert Eck,
trustee. All other officers were
re-elected.
District No. 30 will install offi-
cers for the ensuing year in La
Grange at tlfe>Dodge’Hall. The
December issue of Hermann Sons
News will give date of installa-
tion.
The building committee re-
ported the Job of painting of the
outside of the building had been
completed and that the painting
of the inside would be the next
job.
Christmas party plans were
discussed and the regular meet-
ing date was set for this occasion.
Charity auffereth long, and
is kind; charity envicth not;
charity vaunteth not Itself, is
not puffed up.—(I Corin-
thians IS, 4.)
i The real meaning of charity
la a deep and true love of one’s
ifellow men; this Includes an
abiding understanding of and
sympathy for their faults and
failings aa we realise our own
—and it means humility, and
gratitude to God for the power
and privilege of helping some-
one in spiritual, mental or phy-
sical need.
and is not subject to any whims
of anybody.
Under the Democratic Admin-
istration, the eligible list would
be submitted to the Congressman
for his recommendation. With
the Republicans in power, I
would suggest to candidates that
they consult with the local Re-
publican Committee.
Time in Texas is becoming li-
mited. I want to see everyone
who has a problem, and I am par-
ticularly anxious to discuss agri-
cultural legislation with men at
the grass roots who will have to
live with it.
On Dec. 9,1 will be in Fayette
County going over the Cummins
Creek Watershed Project with
the men who developed It. You
can contact me there if you wish.
Sinoerely yours,
Clark W. Thompson
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Editor’s note: The Cedar Creek
Philosopher on his Johnson grass
farm on Cedar Creek endorses a
new taxing theory, with coside-
rable reservations, his letter this
week reveals.
Dear editar:
The trouble with a goad idea
out of Washington is that it ne-
ver does get enough attention to
detail to make it fit into my farm
out here on Cedar Creek.
For example, the other day an
economic expert in Washington
said what this country needs is a
sliding tax rate to vary automa-
tically with the ups and downs of
the economy. When times are
good, raise the tax rate a little,
when they get bad, lower it, auto-
matically, without waiting for
Congress to argue over it a year
or two. By the time Congress got
through debating, we could be
out of one recession and into ano-
ther one.
Now this is a fine idea, it suits
me exactly, but here’s the trou-
ble: who’s going to decide when
times are good and bad,
The way It works is, a bunch of
experts would figure out what
the economic index is and set the
tax rate from that, but the econo-
mic index is sort of like a public
opinion poll—nobody has ever
consulted me on one of those
things.
The way I see it, it’s impossible
to fix one economic index for
everybody and say, well, the
country is 3 per cent better off
this year than last, or is 4 per
cent worse off.
Lots of times there is absolute-
ly no connection between my fi-
nancial situation and the national
economic index. That is, when
the index goes down, you can
pietty well figure my situation
has gone in that direction too,
but there’s something wrong
with the other end of my index,
and when the national trend goes
up, mine frequently stays where
it was, or drops.
Consequently, what the coun-
try needs is a personalized eco-
nomic index, with the tak rate
tied oir to that.
If the tax rate is going to be
based on your financial shape, I
don’t want any bunch of bureau-
crats in Washington sitting down
to figure up what shape Fm in.
If there’s anybody who ought to
know what shape I’m in, it’a me.
If this new taxing theory is
going to work, as far as I’m con-
cerned, it’ll have to be based! on
what took place on this farm in
the past twelve months, not on
what some electronic brain in
Washington estimates. You get
an economic expert punching
the buttons on an electronic ma-
chine in Washington, and no tell-
ing what tax rate will come out.
To tell you the truth, there never
was a tax rate set by anybody
else for me that I really liked.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
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Fuchs, Durwood L. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 4, 1958, newspaper, December 4, 1958; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998221/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.