The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 12, 1964 Page: 2 of 16
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Grange Journal, Thursday> Nov. 12, 1964
#7 Promote Respect
For Authority
Our Education
And Its Value To Us
#8 Make the Most o*
Your Years in School
who must “go against the grain”
to practice obedience to parents,
to teachers ard to hw enforce-
ment officials, as well as to God
Himself.
Subocrifrtlon Price:
In Fayette County, per year ...................
Elsewhere, per year ..................................
(Foreign Portage Extra)
$2.50
$300
-Mrs. Dottie M. Roberts
Mrs. Florice N. Zapalac .
- Mrs. Cathy DeMarco
- -Miss Lestell Zapalnc
.....- James FalJw
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NATIONAL OUTLOOK
Consumer Spending Trends
by George Hagedorn
EDITOR.....
BUSINESS MANAGER
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— is helpful,
controlled studies, close contact
for several hours was necessary
before cross infection occurred.
Fresh colds appear to be more
contagious than older ones, and
children’s colds have been shown
to be more contagious than those
of adults. Even apparently well
persons may harbor cold viruses
and may Infect others.
Low temperatures and incle-
ment weather, in themselves,
probably have little to do with
precipitating colds. Dampness
and chill have been suspected of
causing colds, but experimental
NOTICE--Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing,
or reputs on of any person, firm, or corporation which may happen
to appear 1n rhe columns of The Journal will be corrected gladly if
brought to the attention of the management. >
“There’s a bit of the rebel In
us All” is an old saying that
applies to every age.
When rebellious Impulses are
held In check and the reasons for
legitimate authority are grasped,
valuable energies can be con-
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and much less on shoe clean-
ing and repair. Surprisingly, a
smaller part of after-tax in-
come now goes for foreign
travel than was the case In
1929.
Apparently over the past 35
years things have pretty well
balanced out and the two
broad categories—“goods” and
“services” — have taken un-
changed fractions of our fam-
ily incomes. There is no evi-
dence here that we are get-
ting fed up with either goods
or services or that consumers
are likely to change radically
the way they divide their
spending between the two.
Old King Cold Is
A King-Sized
Troublemaker
The American Medical Asso-
ciation’s new pamphlet oh the
common cold reports that Old
King Cold costs the United States
$5 billion annually in lost wages,
lost production and medical ex-
penses. More than 150 million
days per year are lost from our
workforce. More than 20 million
people suffer from colds on any
given wintry day. The common
cold is the most costly ailment
in our country, as well as In
most other countries.
The common cold is defined
as an acute upper respiratory
tract Inflammation that ordinari-
ly is communicable and is caused
by viruses. But this definition
has little meaning since the pop-
ular use of the word “cold”
includes everything from a minor
sniffle and a nasal obstruction
to a disabling illness similar to
influenza.
A number of viruses produce
the symptoms we call a cold,
possibly as many as a hundred.
The true cold is an infection with
one or more viruses.
Current research seems to in-
dicate that colds are ha’der to
catch than has been tho jght. In
evidence now Indicates that they
are probably only triggering fac-
tors. The relative humidity of
the air may be important, how-
ever.
There is a sharp rise in In-
cidence of colds at the time the
winter heating season begins.
The lowered humidity in heated
rooms causes the dry nose and
throat which contributes to sus-
ceptibility to infection. The
nose, throat and lungs work bet-
ter when the air that is breathed
has a relative humidity of about
45 per cent. Dry mucous mem-
branes cannot clean themselves
by action of their cilia, the hair-
like structures that move mucus
upward out of the respiratory
tract. As a result they become
more vulnerable to invasion-by
cold viruses.
No specific treatment, so far
available, is effective against the
cold virus. Any treatment must
be directed toward relief of the
symptoms and prevention of
complications. The wonder dru-
gs--antibiotics and sulfas--have
no effect onviruses. They should
be used only under medical supe-
rvision for the control of compli-
cating bacterial infections. Bed
rest, or at least inactivity in a
controlled environment, is help-
ful. Your doctor may suggest
mild medication to help allay the
discomfort.
Those who have repeated colds
should investigate the possibility
of allergies being mistaken for
colds. Current cold vaccines
are of little value, since so
many viruses cause colds and
effective vaccines have been de-
veloped for so few of the viruses
producing cold symptoms.
Solid evidence is lacking to
demonstrate that “natural”
foods, taking vitamin supple-
ments, special types of clothing,
or forced exposure to sunlight
and fresh air have any effect
on susceptibility to colds.
Colds are spread by intimate
personal contact. A person with
a cold should practice good con-
tagion preventing techniques.
Coughs and sneezes should be
covered. Frequent hand washing
The victim of a
cold should have his own drinking
glass, towels and other personal
items. Above all, he should
stay away from other people.
So far medical science has
not been able to break through
the guard of Old King Cold.
All that can be hoped for is
symptomatic treatment to make
one feel better until the cold
goes away and as much care
as possible to prevent spread
to others.
BY: CHARLES JUNGMICHEL
Education is a whole set of changes produced in a person by learn-
ii«. Education keeps our society moving toward progress. The
old frontier of free land is gone, but education develops new front-
iers of opportunity. It gives man the chance to Improve his way of
life and the way of life of others.
Education does not mean Just knowing facts. Being able to apply
the facts in daily living is equally Important. An educated person is
not necessarily one who has attended many years of school. Many
things are learned through experience of self-education, but most
learning comes from being taught. Education brings profit to us all.
We cannot all know enough about medicine to treat our own illness-
es. We cannot all know enough about building a house to plan our
homes. We cannot all know how to make telephones and automob-
iles there is too much knowledge in the world for any of us to hold
it all. Education gives everyone an equal chance--the poor child,
die child in the mountains, the child on the wrong side of die tracks,
the child born to foreign parents, etc.
Even though you don’t intend to go to college, you must further your
knowledge by taking advantage of the things that are available today
in helping us Improve what we are doing. Pardon the personal ref-
erence, but when I first went to work for my company the first
thing they did was send me off to school for training. In order for
me to keep up with the progress of the changing methods in insur-
ance, to best serve my clients, I have made a sincere effort to att-
end some type of school each year.
If a girl goes off to beautician’s school to learn a trade, she has
to keep up with the latest beauty styles to keep up with the latest
hair fashions. You know you girls wouldn’t want to be wearing al950
haid-do in 1964.
I know you boys don’t want to look like the Beatles. I was reading
in the paper the other day about a vocational school in England where
the boys had let their hair grow so long that the teachers were af-
It is a common observation,
and a correct one, that ever
since World War II American
consumers have been spending
an increasing proportion of
their incomes on services, and
a declining proportion on
goods. It is widely assumed
that this is an inbuilt trend
which is bound to continue in
the future.
Some economists have gone
further, and concluded that
consumers have no very great
desire for more goods and are
therefore increasingly turning
to services as a way of spend-
ing their rising incomes. This
raises the spectre of what will
happen when people also run
out of desires for more serv-
ices. Will economic growth
eventually slow down because
consumers don’t want more of
anything — either goods or
services?
Surprising Stability
In a recent speech Assistant
Secretary of Commerce Holton
calls into question the whole
basis for these assumptions
and fears.
It is true, he points out, .—.....
th at the fraction of total con- for interest on personal debt
sumption spending going for
services has risen since 1947—
from 31% in that year to 41%
in 1963.
However, the explanation
lies not in an unprecedentedly
high share spent on services
in 1963—but in an abnormally
low share going for that pur-
pose in 1947. If the compari-
son is carried back to 1929 the
fact emerges that the propor-
tions spent on goods and on
services have remained un-
changed. In both 1929 and
1963, 59% of consumer spend-
ing went for goods and 41%
for services. The stability of
the breakdown is surprising
since per capita incomes, even
after allowance is made for
the change in the purchasing
power of the dollar, doubled
over the interval.
As time goes on the price of
services tends to rise relative
to the price of goods. But this
cuts two ways. We have to pay
more for the services we do
t>uy. We are also given an in-
centive to buy goods which
serve as a substitute for the
services.
Cross Currents
The automatic washing
machine takes the place of
the laundress and frozen
foods take the place of the
kitchen maid. The television
set (a good) takes the place
of a trip to the movies (a
service).
All sorts of cross currents
have been at work affecting
the mix of consumer spend-
ing. Since 1929 an Increasing
proportion of after-tax in-
come has been spent for phy-
sician’s services, about the
same proportion for dentists,
and a smaller proportion for
burial and funeral expenses.
Much more, relatively, is spent
rnlng something every day whe-
th 'r you know it or not,” he said.
“The question is, whether you
are learning the right thing or
the wrong thing.”
Profit by the few years you
have in school. Develop your
curiosity and imagination outside
the classroom as well. This will
• deepen* «nd -broaden voor (Sod-
given Capacities in tht years
raid that they would get it caught in the machines. The principal
of rhe school offered the boys three choices--get their hair cut, wear
a hair net, or be expelled from schaol. Guess what? They chose to1
wear a hair net. I can’t believe it either 11
Now there are students today who don’t want, or will not accept
any kind of training. Apparently, they think they know everyting
they need to know. This type of attitude has led to a lot of drop-
• outs, which has caused a great deal of un-employment and juvenile
deliquency, and is one of the big problems in our nation today. Pr-
esident Johnson’s commission on juvenile deliquency and youth cr-
ime has found that untrained boys and girls out of work and not in
school have caused most of our juvenile crimes today. The Nat-
ional education association showed that one out of three of our
nation’s youth left school before completing high school.
Did you know that it is a cold fact that the college graduate earns
$100,000.00 more in his lifetime than the high school graduate?
Because of the huge supply of college graduates in the future, emp-
loyers will be able to demand a college degree as a requirement for
a job and the college degree will be taken Into consideration when
it comes rime for promotion. Today, the boy or girl without a higher
education will find themselves at an increasing disadvantage in their
efforts to make financial and job progress in the future, despite their
abilities.
Education has become so important that Governor John Connally
has appointed a 25-man committee of the top business and educat-
ional leaders ot the state to study this problem of education beyond
the high school. One of the reasons for this study is because in 1962
rhe personal income per person of Texans was 14.9 percent below
the national average.
We are proud of our schools in Texas, but in the overall picture
of education there Is much more we should be doing. For example,
in our own county, the average adult has attended school jusf past
the 7th grade, while the state average Is just past the 10th grade.
To show how much these people in our county realize rhe import-
ance of their children getting a better education, 84.5% of our 16
and 17 year olds were in schools in 1960, as compared to 76.3%
for the state.
Business schools, vocational schools, and college present quite
and expense for the average family. But you boys and girls can help
your parents and partially earn your own way. I don’t believe there
is a boy or girl who couldn’t get an education if he truly wanted one,
for there are scholarships in every field, and I have heard many
times that many scholarships go un-used because students do not
apply for them. Every school has a student employment agency to
help students find work. So I firmly believe that if you strive to ach-
ieve the goals you want you can do so by working hard and putting
your trust in God, then I know that the future of our country will
be in good hands!!!
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