The Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1939 Page: 6 of 8
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THE TIMELY REMARKS
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939.
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Your Health
, APPENDICITIS
Austin, Texas.—“It has been
estimated that an operation for
acute appendicitis is performed
every minute in the United States;
moreover, that peritonitis, a result
of this disease, takes the life of
someone every 29 minutes. Against
this frightful toll may be placed
the significant fact that if perito-
nitis does not occur the appendi-
citis fatality rate is but one in two
hundred cases, emphasizes the
Texas state department of health.
“The perforated appendix, which
js the cause of peritonitis, is a
preventable condition. Prevention
lies in prompt recognition of
acute appendicitis and prompt
surgery. Though this fact is well
hno'wn to the medical profession
and has been definitely proved in
hospitals throughout the land for
years, the public as yet is not suf-
ficiently impressed with it.
“Thus it happens that the high
appendicitis mortality rate in this
country (incidentally, the highest
Sn all civilized nations) is not due
to a lack of skill in diagnosis and
surgery but to the American ten-
dency toward self treatment with
the accompanying factor of delay.
“Appendicitis is essentially a di-
sease of the young, 75 per cent of
the 20,000 persons who die an-
nually from this cause in the
United States being under the age
of 30, while only 10 per cent are
over 40.
“Hospital records disclose that
delay in seeking medical advice
was the outstanding reason for ap-
pendicitis deaths. An impartial
suivey of deaths from appendicitis
in an eastern state proved that ‘the
chances of dying are four times
greater on the second than on the
first, five times greater on the
third, six times greater on the
fourth day of the disease.’ The
tragedy of procrastination in the
presence of appendicitis is enacted
only too often.
“Personal intelligence, then, is
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NOBODY’S
BUSINESS |j As Place to Visit
Retired Railroader
Opens Offices as
BY JUMAN CAPERS JR.
Palmyra, Mo.—Thomas E. Pratt,
j 71-year-old retired railroader who
Austin, Texas.— European war opened an office just to be near his
news this week overshadowed poli- j pals and have some place to loaf,
tics and state news in Austin as!today leaned back in his creaky FULL STOP
well as elsewhere in the United swivel chair and said his idea had
States, as state officials and poli- j proved a success,
ticians eyed events across the At-! “i worked 40 years for the Bur-
lantic which may dwarf state poli- Ungton Railroad,’’ Pratt explained,
ticians and political questions into “And during that time I made up
visit, but he does it at his own
convenience arid on his own time.”
Pratt, who has been married
for more than 50 years, said his
wife likes the idea of the loafing
office.
‘Hell,” he said. “After putting
up with me for that long she’s
glad to get rid of me for at least
part of the day.”
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insifnificance within a few days.
Nevertheless, ‘complete victory
for the oil producing states over
my mind when I came back home
I’d have a place to loaf and visit
without taking my friends’ time
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By L. A. WEISS Jr., County Agent
Are you going to let the cotton
boll weevil run you off the farm
or will you follow the fall clean-
up to control the cotton boll
weevil ? Below are pointed facts
about the weevil:
1. Weevils that dfevelop late in
the fall are most likely to live until
spring. , ___w
2. Weevil becomes inactive' about \ the spreading infestation of pink
the time of the first killing frost, j boll weevil; however, to date none
12. Your clean-up will help your
neighbor just as his clean-up will
help you. You can’t succeed with-
out your neighbor. Profitable con-
trol demands community-wide co-
operation.
the major oil companies, led by; and a place where people would
Sinclair and Humble, who sought i listen to me ”
^teYTnUdeJtteeS'oiiaSow0™-l p™«. once served as sher-
sumed after the Uvo-week shut-!1® he‘.e before entering: the em-
down by six states, and crude priceI JYY of railroad, opened the
postings were restored to the pre-i?f^5®of Palmyras
cut level by all important purchas- j ,‘ar£eY; hotel after he v^s retired
ing companies. (less than a year ago. Equipment
° f . Jin the office consists of a desk,
Ernest Thompson, chairman of|papers> filing cases, pictures of
In^eJstate Compact Commis-1 ojd friends and a jug of drinking
and member of the Texas j water. The filing cases are for
non ptvorn_l . .. °
The genius of a local man had
carried him to a big success in
business without much aid of edu-
cation.
He was asked to distribute the
prizes at a school, and made the
usual speech of good counsel!
“Now boys,” he said, “always
remember that education is a grfeat
thing. There’s nothing like educa-
tion. Take arithmetic. We learn
that twice two makes four, that
twice six makes twelve, that seven
sevens make—and then there’s
geography.”
“What this country needs is dirt-
ier finger nails arid cleaner minds.” 1
—Will Rogers.
C. S. BOONE
AGENT
HUMBLE OIL &
REFINING CO.
REFUGIO, TEXAS
Phone 97
sion,
railroad commission, whose strate- j souvenirs letters and otber ner-
continued to press for a 5-cent I ‘ , ,, „ „
additional tax on pipeline run oil.!, You . ^now> an fellow has
He declared the victory of the oil! ^lve m past, ’ he said,
producing state regulatory authori- j Pradt staYs in the office about
ties proved conclusively that the!?,even hours each day, excluding
states can control their oil prob- j Sundays. He said a wide acquain-
lem, without federal government tance keeps the place filled with
13 Let vour thirteenth Boint intervention, and insisted that a bends and visitors Sometimes,
spell disaster^to “wS substantial additional tax on oiltofc^^J^ to take a walk
Refugio County lies in the path of
the key to the appendicitis mor- ter quarters.
3. While in the inactive winter
state the weevil can live for several
months without food.
4. Weevil infestation starts from
the few weevils that pass the win-
ter.
5. Boll weevils breed only in
green squares and bolls.
6. Boll weevils eat green cotton
only.
7. Killing cotton growth early
removes the food of the weevil. If
the growth of cotton is entirely
killed as early as two weeks be-
fore frosts, practically all weevils
will starve before going into win-
has been found in Refugio County.
By following the above mentioned
clean-up and have it completed by
October 1 we will avoid losses later
o u. Do Lcxil Llcxi ctULUllUIlctl IciX Oil Oil LO -----’ .
pay pensions to the old folks ought Just for diversion,
to be enacted. Thompson evidently i “Tlie ldea maY seem funny to
- •- some people,” he said. “But it
beats going into homes and busi-
iwas laying a predicate for another
'race for governor against W. Lee
O’Daniel next year. The oil com-
panies issued various explanations
as “face-savers,” in restoring the
price paid for crude oil, but these
ness places of friends and hearing
them say, ‘Here comes old man
Pratt.’ This way I’m always avail-
able if anybody wants to loaf or
jtality problem. The predilection
for laxatives upon any, every or no
occasion at all, is the great and
rip to the present time, insur-
mountable stumbling block. In
the presence of adominal pain,
never take laxatives and call your
family physician at once if the
pain continues.
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NOT THAT DUMB
Discovering yet another mistake
in his letters, the employer sum-
moned his new typist.
“You came here with good testi-
monials, Miss Brown,” he barked
“‘and do you mean to tell me you
don’t know the King’s English?”
“Of course I know it,” she re-
nted, indignantly. “D’you spose I
rht he was French?”
8. Killing cotton growth early
also prevents new weevils breeding,
thereby permitting only the older
ones to enter winter quarters. Very
few of these have enough strength
to live until spring. Hit the weevil
in his WEAK SPOT—his FOOD
SUPPLY.
9. Destroy all cotton growth just
as soon os picking is complete.
10. Kill the plant entirely by set-
ting a plow shallow and" turning
out the stalks, or by some equally
effective means. Merely chopping
or clipping the stalks will not
answer for the stumps will throw
out new growth ideal for weevil
food.
11. Do not burn crop refuse on
the fields. Texas farms need this
material returned to the soil in
the form of humus.
wee”*!016 effe°tS °f the P‘nk poP j fooled nobody. They simply found
The fields will become more In- Ung Jf''fS pU'centJ/the ration's fU Sl*emb?,r p (wh“
fested after the rnrinn Y ,5, +• £er c, t,0:t me nation s the new state welfare board takes
tested after the cotton is killed, , production by voluntary, co-opera-1 over. Third member of the board
2S tne tlV6 action of the nrnrhir.inp* stafps ____^______
Every day of delay increases the
danger.
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25c Peach Crop
Yields 20 Bushels
Climax Springs, Mo.—Henry T.
Evans, 84, walked into Rome
Welsh’s peach orchard and began
harvesting large Elbertas.
“Hey, what’s trie big idea?”
roared Mr. Welsh.
“Just gathering trie peaches I
bought from you last spring.”
Then Mr. Welsh remembered.
Discouraged after a late freeze, he
publicily proclaimed: “My peach
tive action of the producing states, is Tom DeBerry, veteran ex-sen-
was too tough a nut for them to1 ator from Bogata
crack. They regretfully relinquish-; Every official 'in Austin, from
ed for the time being, at least,— ex-Governor Dan Moody, who orig-
visions of another $100,000,000 of inally appointed him, to members
exvia profit at the expense of the of the legislature who worked with
people of Texas, and begged for him on budget appropriations, paid
mercy and crude oil. jhigh tribute to the efficiency and
integrity of the former Granger
New Order Coming legislator. Teer literally worked
T,Qjl_0, . . : himself to death with a zeal and
The railroad commission, mean- sincerity which many observers
while, announced resumption of here declared is unequalled by the
production under the proration j record of any other state official
oi der t h.cit wrs in effect when the i in recent yenrs
shutdown was ordered. This will
EVERY CAR suffers from S. W.
(*Summer weariness) about this time of
the year. Summer heat . . . blazing pave-
• ments ... overworked motors are begin-
ning to take their toll. No car can give
efficient, economical service when this
happens. Why not drive into Shelton-
Bailey’s and have your car checked thor-
oughly. It’s the best way to save money!
MOTOR TUNE
LUBRICATION
Shelton-Bailey Motor Go.
REFUGIO
TEXAS
continue until September 11, when
a statewide hearing will be held, j
At that time, a new proration i
rrnn niinori t’h coii i* 3™ 0 j order, hiking East Texas produc-
crop is min^a. Id sell it for &;tion to 488 000 harrpiQ Haiixr
quarter.” accordance with federal court'rui-
PHONE
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the 25 cents,
bushels.
Administering doses of castor oil r,I11M„,N
to boys charged with minor of-! September.
fenses is cutting down juvenile de-
linquency in Alamosa, Colo., ac-
cording to Police Chief Robert
Peel.
ill
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ings, will be issued, the same order
reducing the total state production
15 per cent under bureau of mines
estimates of market demand for
This will necessitate
deep production cuts in West Texas,
North Texas, and Gulf Coast areas,
and producers from these fields
are expected to raise a loud howl
at the hearing.
he has a bodyguard!
Bill Smith, a mechanic, doesn’t realize that there is an enemy
that stalks him day and night. . . nor that he is protected by
an ever-watchful "bodyguard.’! That enemy is fire . ... the
bodyguard is the constant fire-prevention work of 200 lead-
ing capital stock* fire insurance companies. Let’s follow
Bill through a day, and see the many ways this "bodyguard!!
works to protect him . . . and you, too.
The cooking appliances used in
preparing Bill’s breakfast, and the
train, trolley, bus or automobile
he takes to work, all have been
made safer because of scientific
tests and safety standards estab-
lished by these fire insurance
companies.
By sponsoring better building
laws, by obtaining the co-opera-
tion of architects and builders, by
systematic inspections, these fire
insurance companies help to make
and keep safer the factory where
Bill spends his working hours.
The same "bodyguard” works to
make Bill’s children safer at school.
(These fire insurance companies
created the Self-Inspection Blank
for Schools, encouraging fire drills
and inspection.)
Even when Bill and his family are
asleep, his "bodyguard” is on the
job. His town’s fire alarm system,
fire-fighting equipment, water sup-
plies, etc., are periodically checked
by fire-prevention engineers.
Let us protect your home,
business and other property
with dependable, economical
capital stock company fire
insurance.
Every man, woman and child benefits in some way every day from the
fire-prevention activities of The National Board of Fife Underwriters,
"America’s Unofficial Department of Public Safety,!! maintained by
200 capital stock fire insurance companies. This work has also saved
property owners much money on their insurance costs. As fire losses
have been reduced, fire insurance rates have been reduced, too . ; ; an
average of more than 40% in the last 30 years.
!C^P,TAL STOCK COMf,ANY FIRE INSURANCE p^csound
protection at a predetermined price, without risk of fhrther cost In addition to legal reserves, its policies
are backed by cash capital and surplus funds set aside to meet not merely normal claims but also the
sweeping losses due to conflagrations and other catastrophes. Its organized public services are national in
scope. Its system of operating through Agents everywhere gives prompt personal service to policyholders.
Refugio Insurance Agency
SERVICE AND PROTECTION
A Sordid Chapter
One of the most sordid chapters
in the history of politics was writ-
ten in Austin this week, as Claude
D. Teer, veteran chairman of the
state board of control ,was buried.
Teer, suffering a severe illness
brought on by overwork, ended
his life by throwing himself under
the wheels of a train in San An-
tonio, while walking on the grounds
of the state hospital there, where
he was a guest and patient in the
home of the superintendent.
Friends of Teer bitterly declared
that the able, affable official was
literally hounded to death by
g’reedy job-hunters who sought,
after Teer became ill several weeks
ago, to force his resignation, and
get his $6,000 a year job. Imme-
diately after his death, William J.
Lawson, secretary to Governor
O’Daniel, issued a defensive state-
ment, declaring he was sent to San
Antonio by O’Daniel, at the sug-
gestion of Representative Fred
Felty, of San Antonio, an O’Daniel
political satellite, to “ascertain the
condition of Mr. Teer.” Just what
Felty and O’Daniel intended to do
about Teer’s condition is not clear,
since Teer was not an O’Daniel ap-
pointee, and the governor had no
power to remove him, nor author-
ity to ask his resignation. Lawson
did not get to see Teer, because
Dr. W. J. Johnson, Teer’s physi-
cian, told him Teer was too ill to
receive visitors. Whether Teer
learned of Lawson’s visit ,and was
further upset, in his desperately ill
condition, by its implication, could
not be learned, but his desperate
act to end his life followed. Teer’s
illness was the result of overwork,
he having spent many hours in
recent months, outside regular of-
fice hours, in working out at-
tempted solution of the pension
problem, which the board of con-
trol has administered up to Sep-
tember 1.
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To Appoint Lawson
Speculation as to whom O’Daniel
will appoint to succeed Teer in-
cluded several names, among them
Lon Smith, chairman of the rail-
road commission, who is up for re-
election next year, and apparently
will have plenty of opposition;
Lawson, O’Daniel’s secretary who
made the visit to Teer; Secretary
of State Tom Beauchamp of Tyler;
O. P. Lockhart, Austin bakery
operator and original O’Daniel sup-
porter, and Comptroller George
Sheppard. O’Daniel will have
another appointment on the board
January 1, when the six-year term
of Henry C. Meyer expires. That
will give him control of the power-
ful board of control, which super-
vises making of departmental bud-
gets, purchases millions of dollars
of state supplies, and operates all
state charitable institutions. Until
this week, the board has also di-
rected operation of the old age
pension system, having been re-
lieved of this duty by the legisla-
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Jones, J. L. The Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1939, newspaper, September 8, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1098443/m1/6/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dennis M. O’Connor Public Library.