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Americana are a nation in love with analgesia. Aspirin could
be the national symbol. We swallow it by the barrehull. It lets us
keep doing things that cause headaches without worrying about the
headaches that follow.
This penchant for enjoying the cause and trying to dodge the
effects spreads over into the fine art of camouflage. Is there an ugly
fact you don’t want to face? Paint it pink. Do taxes bother you?
Accommodating congressmen have hidden hundreds, and Uncle Sam
will deduct the others before you get your pay check. Forget them—
and negotiate with the boss for more take-home pay.
Your area would like a new dam, sewage plant or hospital but
doesn’t have the ready cash? Ask Uncle Sam to finance it. He’s giv-
ing money away free.
Or is he?
There’s a similarity between communities rushinig to get
federal money to solve local problems and the Saturday
football hero who dopes himself with painkiller to keep running on
a broken ankle. He doesn’t feel much pain today. Tomorrow he
discovers the trick he played was on himself. And the Joke is pret-
ty grim.
Be Careful at Home, Too
Be is ever so humble, there’s no place like home—despite the
accident statistics.
The statistics might make you wonder about “home, sweet
home.”
1. Home accidents kill more children 1-4 years of age than any
disease.
2. Home falls take 12,000 lives a year.
3. Home fires and other bums take the lives of 5,500 persons
annually.
4. Accidental poisoning in the home claims 1,000 victims a
year.
Home accidents, reports the Texas Safety Association and Na-
tional Safety Council, kill 27,000 persons a year, and injure more
than four million, in the U. S. Home accidents in Texas alone claim-
ed the lives of 1,202 persons and injured more than 72,000.
“In view of these facts,” J. O. Mustek, general manager of the
Texas Safety Association, said, “you may well be concerned with
the safety of your home.
“But when you stop and consider the great number of hours
spent in the home, the statistics are more understandable even if
the danger is just as real.”
A hazard-free home, Musick said, results from practicing the
safe way of doing things. “You’ll soon do them automatically,” he
predicted, and suggested some danger signals to watch out fo~ in
the home:
1. Water or grease on the kitchen floor.
2. An unlighted stair, or toys and boxes piled on stair steps.
3. Oily rags or papers left in a corner or garage or basement.
4. Dull knives, which are dangerous because they force the
user to apply too much pressure, and because most people don’t
have the proper respect for them.
5. Pots on the stove, the handles turned out for little hands to
grab.
4. Rubbing alcohol, candy-coated laxatives and aspirin left for
small children to sample.
Cedar Creek Philosopher
Predicts Russia's Space Work to Fall Off
As Installment Buying Increases
Editor’s note: The Cedar
Creek Philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm on Ce-
dar Creek believes he has
discovered a fatal error by
the Russians, his letter this
week indicates.
Stye Ha (grange Konmal
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Address all communications to The La Grange Journal,
P. O. Box 59, La Grange, Texas
NOTICE—Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing,
or reputation of any person, firm, or corporation which may happen
to appear in the columns of Th€ Journal will be corrected gladly if
brought to the attention of the management.
men over the Russia right away
and get everybody over there
trying to out-buy and out-install
everybody else.
You let two-thirds of the Rus-
sians get saddled down with a
long series of installment pay-
ments, and we’ll be on even
terms with them when it comes
to conquering space.
It’s almost impossible to keep
your head in the clouds when
you’ve got your nose to the
grindstone.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Fayetteville F. H. A.
Plan Annual Dance
The Fayetteville F. H. A.
Chapter held its regular meeting
on Oct Utajr 7:30 p. m.
Candidates for membership
were formally initiated.
The annual dance will be held
on November 18 at the K. of C.
Dear editar:
I’ve got other things to worry
about which I haven’t gotten a-
round to worrying about yet,
without spending too much time
worrying about the Russians, but
since everybody else seems to be
concerned about them and what
they’re up to, I think it would be
a public service to point out any-
thing we can find that indicates
the Russians aren’t perfect and a
race of supermen.
Well, I have now found a
chink in the Russian armor, or a
break in their bobwire fence, if
you want to put it in modern
terms.
According to a small item on
an inside page of a newspaper I
f*®d Hfi,nlght’ S°rt 01 0i! Hall in Fayetteville. Ray Krenek
wZ ?■ Orchestra will furnish the mu-
thL * th» 8lc- and the traditional march
round the advertisements, the m t 8;30 m
Russians have now inaugurated theme i*-Masquerade Ball”. Do-
installment buying. They can
now go into a store and pay 10
per cent down and come out with
a refrigerator.
As far as I’m concerned, this is
one of the most satisfying news
items to come out of Russia in
years, and a smarter editar
would have put it on the front
page.
I figure installment buying
will slow down the Russian out-
erspace work and the Russian
war maneuvering by years, as
one of the hardest things on
earth to do is to get excited a-
bout what’s on the other side of
the moon when the finance com-
pany is hounding you for a pay-
ment on your washing machine.
If the United States is smart a-
bout this, it’ll rush a squadron of
credit managers and super-sales-
ELECTROMODE
WALL-TYPE DOWN-FLO HEATER
Above heater comes in hand-
some, silver grey finish. Can be
painted to match decor.
EhdJuL HEAT
Comfort fit for a king! It can be yours, right
In your own home, NOW. Modern Electromode
electric heaters let you select the temperature
you desire for each room. This clean, health-
ful heat, free from dust or fumes, is com-
pletely safe and carefree. Electromode can
give you any type of electric heating equip-
ment you desire, whether it's Baseboard, Ra-
diant or Fan Circulating. Choose Electromode
and you'll be safe and happy.
Completely SAFE! @
Much of the relaxing comfort you enjoy with
Electromode electric heaters is due to your
assurance of complete protection against fire,
shock or burn. The Safety Grid heating ele-
ment, an exclusive Electromode feature* is
the reason.
ELECTROMODE
BASEBOARD HEAT
ELECTROMODE
BATHROOM HEATER
*me. U. 9. FAT. OFF.
Visit The Duplay In Our Office
LA GRANGE UTILITIES
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nation for tickets is 50 cents.
“Everyone is invited to come
out and have an enjoyable time.”
After discussions on our chick-
en stew supper, which will be
held on November 18 at 6 p. m.
in connection with the dance,
the meeting was adjourned.
Fast Printing at the Journal
FOR A COMPLETE LINE OF
OFFICE SUPPLIES, TYPEWRI-
TERS, AND OFFICE FURNI-
TURE, SEE THE LA GRANGE
JOURNAL FIRSTI
What
is thxs
man
doing?
H« it delivering froth milk, fee creom, cool water, froth butter, frozen foods and Hw
weaMi of things denied thousands of Taxons until the Electric Cooperatives brought
refrigeration to rural areas.
Add the needy 400,000 Texas homos served by Cooperatives and you can roadily
understand haw $3,000,000 a day is spool by cooperative members of the nation to
use this electricity.
This business was created by the oooporudutt. The money goes to the merchants on
main street who sal refrigerator* and hundreds of other electrical appltoncot.
The electric Cooperatives of Texas have brought a now way of life to the rural com-
munfty and a massive contribution to Die rural economy.
TAX FAYINO —NOME OWNED —8USINESS MANAGED
Fayette Electric Cooperative, Inc.
RAILROAD FEATHERBEDDING:
*500,000,000 LOSS
TO THE NATION-INCLUDING Y0U-EVERY YEAR
Featherbedding on the railroads — pay for work
not done or not needed--is costing the Amer-
ican people the shocking total of more than
$500,000,000 a year.
You pay for it every time you shop, because
featherbedding costs are hidden in the price of
everything you buy.
Obsolete union work rules, involving the rail-
road operating employees, are responsible for this
gigantic burden. Right now, for instance, these
rules require every diesel locomotive to carry a
fireman —even though diesels have no fires to
stoke, no boilers to tend.
The forthcoming negotiations between the rail-
roads and the unions are urgently important to
the whole nation.
In asking the unions to drop these featherbedding
rules, all the railroads ask for is a fair day s
work for a fair day's pay.
AMERICAN RAILROADS
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Fuchs, Durwood L. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1959, newspaper, October 22, 1959; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998296/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.