The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GIDDINGS STAR
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Events in the Lives of Little Men
FARM
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SWINE DISEASE
SPREAD FEARED
THE AUTO HORN SOLUTION
Mayor LaGuardia of New York is
in another campaign against auto-
mobile horns, but hizzoner makes
the same mistake others make when
he thinks anything can be done
about auto horns except abolishing
the darned things. Campaigns to
•often the notes, decrease the vol-
ume and dilute the pitch are silly.
An auto horn is an auto horn any-
way you take it, the human thumb
being what it is today.
REC
STA
IF YOU LAPS
WILL COME
BACK IN A
COUPLE YEARS
Erysipelas Presents a New
Threat in U. S.
Hospitality for Our
Over-Night Guests
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
COME people have a talent for
0 making guests comfortable and
they are not always the people
with big houses and what used to
be called a "spare room” for
company. I thought of this one
morning as I sat propped up on a
perfectly comfortable folding cot
eating breakfast from a tray.
When not in use my cot was
stored in the hall under the in-
Caricature of Mayor LaGuardia
by Jack Rosen which won first prize
recently in Waldorf-Astoria employ-
ees exhibition in arts and crafts.
The mere presence of a horn on
an automobile transforms a driver
into a speed maniac, a pig, and a
fathead with the manners of a dic-
tator and the ethics of a gangster.
He can own a revolver without
the slightest yen to use it; he can
possess a shotgun without the least
impulse to use it, but put an auto-
mobile horn under his control and
he becomes a potential assassin with
all the instincts of a hungry hyena.
! DON’T
HAT
"It is the horn," said Elmer
Twitchell today, “that gives an auto
owner the Nero complex, shucks
him of all remnants of civilized im-
pulses and makes him a plain
damned fool, filled with the idea
that all he has to do is to press
the button to make the whole world
jump.
M
"I don't care whether it is a loud
born or a soft horn, a bass horn or a
canary, a blaster or • boop-a-doop-
er, nothing can prevent the owner
from making a nuisance out of it,
and Mayor LaGuardia is suffering
from drooping intelligence if he
thinks otherwise.
7 POP’. WHAT 4
KINDA NOISE
DOES A SOLDIER
MAKE! /
1SAW.W
“All the reckless driving, all the |
violations of automobile laws, all the
disrespect for the rights of other
highway users, and most of the auto
accidents are due to the horn, and
to nothing else. Take that horn off
the car and the driver would be
forced to depend on common sense.
ee e
“Back in the horse and buggy
days you didn't see teams crashing
into one another at every crossroad
or wobbling all over the road at
breakneck speed, did you! And why
not! Because they never had horns
on horses!
By
C.M. Payne
WNU
THERE! )
WHAT )
DID 1 5
TELL YA!
" LETS SEE ?
IMNOT SURE
BUT I DON’T 1
THINK THAT 15 ,
QUITE /
ACCURATE
sed by The Bell Syndicate. Ine.s
“Yes air, this world started go- |
ing savage the day the first horn
was clamped to a gasoline vehicle.
It started swelling up with inconsid-
erateness, self-importance and the
to-hell-with-everybody-else spirit the
first time an auto designer put a
button under a car owner's calloused
thumb. It converted a nation of tol- |
•rant, easy-going, kindly folks into
• country of bad-mannered, jittery,
wild-riding, mean and homicidal
dogs. It made bigger and better
hospitals the never-ceasing need of
America.
YOU’VE BEEN TO A
.YEDDING, HAVEN'T
,YOU
YESCH!
HOW MANY BRIDES
5. WERE
THERE
J SIXTEEN!
"And there will be no change un-
til the horn is removed, made un-
constitutional and plowed under for
all time. Man won't be so reckless,
so selfish and so pigheaded once he
has to depend on brakes instead of
breach of the peace!”
CHILBLAINS!
“Don’t rush the season!” says the
man
Who claims he likes winter sports;
But yesterday I caught him with
A folder on Southern resorts!
—Doris Irving.
SHORT STORY
A motor car,
A little horn,
A human thumb .. .
And peace is “gorn.”
• • •
Women's hats for spring and sum-
mer are being taken from the old
family album. Instead of out of old
numbers of “Puck” and “Judge.”
• • •
A New Jersey court holds thst
anybody walking on a moving esca-
lator does so at his or her own risk.
Not only that, but it looks so darned
FOUR BETTER- FOUR
WORSE - FOUR RICHER
AND FOUR POORER -
silly.
Elmer Twitchell, in our opinion,
always had the right idea on esca-
lators and energy conservation. He
always sits down on them.
ttenued
FOUR FOURS
- SIXTEEN 1
By
J. Millar Watt
WNU
Unimpressed
An English tourist was on his first
visit to Niagara Falls, and a guide
was trying to impress him with
their megnitude.
Guide—Grand.
The visitor was silent.
Guide—Millions of gallons in s
minute 1
Tourist—How many in s day!
Guide-Oh, billions and billions.
Tourist (looking at the falls care-
fully, and then in a very calm voice)
-Runs all night, too, 1 suppose!
NO HARM DONE
Philosopher's Wife—Why, profes
sor, did you fall down those steps?
Philosopher — Yes, Mirsndy, but
it’s all right. I was going down
anyway.
Throughout the ages, one of the
first and most certain results of war
has been a marked increase in the
contagious disease of live stock.
One serious animal disease, for
example gained entry here be-
fore the war, and has already
caused serious losses to live stock
producers in a number of states.
This plague is known as Swine
Erysipelas-a name which is prob-
ably more familiar to most Amer-
ican farmers than the disease itself.
Today, serious outbreaks of Ery-
sipelas are gaining in frequency in
many states. Naturally, the great-
est losses have occurred in the swine
raising sections of the Middle West,
but according to the American
Foundation for Animal Health, the
disease has now been recognized in
at least 39 states.
Swine Erysipelas is caused by a
specific bacterial organism. In
swine, this organism or germ may
cause several different types of the
disease varying from the very acute
blood-poisoning type, to the slowly
developing chronic type character-
ized by lameness, enlarged joints,
and sometimes by inflamed or dead
areas of the skin. In its more acute
forms, the symptoms may resemble
those of hog cholera and laboratory
examinations by a veterinarian are
frequently required in differentiating
the two diseases.
The fact that Erysipelas and
Cholera symptoms are often very
much alike is undoubtedly an im-
portant factor in the recent spread
of the former disease in this coun-
---try. If veterinary diagnosis is not
a made, and the disease is allowed to
run its course, many farmers con-
elude that their hogs have recov-
n ered from an attack of cholera,
when as a matter of fact the animals
1 have been suffering from Erysipe-
I las. This is a very serious error in
a view of the fact that it has been
A definitely proved that animals that
£ have recovered from an attack of
g the disease may carry the causative
germ in their body tissues for rela-
tively long periods.
The first point for every farmer
to remember is that Erysipelas often
resembles hog cholera. Guesswork
is a poor substitute for accurate
diagnosis when either of these dan-
gerous diseases is involved. And
finally, an effective treatment for
Erysipelas is now available and
should be used whenever the disease
is indicated, not only to help save
the infected hogs, but to help pre-
vent further spread of the disease in
this country.
No Detour
A Mississippi river steamboat was
stopped in the mouth of a tributary
stream, owing to the dense fog. An
inquisitive passenger inquired of the
captain the cause of the delay.
"Can’t see up the river," was his
Isconic reply.
"But 1 can see the stars over
head,” the passenger replied sharp
ly.
"Yes," came back the captain
"but unless the boilers bust, we ain't
going that way."
Jr
THEN
ADD2"
BAND
AND
KIRT
CABINET WITH MIRROR PiP
DOOR SITS ON TOP
FRAME WITH SHELF FOR
BEDDING FITS OYER COL.
genious frame sketched here. This
frame had a full skirted cover of
blue denim trimmed in red and
blue flowered chintz. The medi-
cine closet on top stood on feet
made of spools glued in place;
and was painted red inside and
out. On the cabinet shelves were
cleansing tissue and other useful
things and the mirror door was
well lighted with wall brackets
connected with a floor outlet.
• • •
NOTE: In Mrs. Spears’ Books S and 6
you will find directions for streamlining
old-fashioned couches and chairs, as well
as many other suggestions for bringing
your home up-to-date Also directions for: /
designing and making rugs; hooked,
braided and crocheted; each book has 33
pages of pictures and directions. Send
order to:
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford 11111a
New York
Enclose 20c for Books S and 6.
Name ...........................
Address .........................
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-
flamed bronchial mucous mem-
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you ’
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un- :
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Full Age
What has this unfeeling age of
ours left untried, what wickedness
has it shunned!—Horace.
Lights Necessitate
More Poultry Feed
Poultrymen should remember
that Artificial lights stimulate egg
production only because they en-
courage greater feed consump-
tion and that more grain should
be provided when lights are used,
advises J. C. Taylor, associate
extension poultryman at Rutgers
university.
If the amount of grain fed is
increased two to four pounds per
100 birds a day so that about 14
or 16 pounds are consumed daily,
it will be easier for laying birds
to maintain good body weight.
When the limit has been reached
in the amount of grain the birds
will eat, a flushing mash of
ground oats, ground yellow corn
and milk may be fed to further
aid in the maintenance of body
weight.
-Nervous Restless-i
I Cranky? Restless?
Iflllx I Can’t sleep? Tire
MUI 10 ■ easily? Because of
distress of monthly
functional disturbances? Then try
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound.
Pinkham’s Compound is famous
for relieving pain of irregular periods
and nervous, cranky spells due to
such disturbances. One of the most
effective medicines you can buy to-
day for this purpose — made espe-
cially lor women. WORTH TRYINGI
Man’s Error
In men this blunder still you
find, all think their little set man-
kind.—Hannah More.
Feeding Dry Cows
If in poor condition a dry cow may
need as much as 10 to 12 pounds
grain per day to put her in good
condition so that she will milk heavy
during her next lactation. A high
producing cow cannot maintain her
body weight with the feed she can
eat, so it is highly important that
we put her in good condition when
she freshens, says E. H. Hanson,
University of Minnesota. A grain
mixture made up of 200 pounds
ground corn, 400 pounds ground
oats, 200 pounds bran, 100 pounds
linseed meal, or some other high
protein feed and a little molasses is
suggested by many feeders. Good
hay should be provided for dry cows.
Farm Population
The farm population of the United
States on January 1, 1940, was 32,-
245,000, the largest in 24 years. It
was close to the 1916 all-time high
record of 32,530,000.
Phosphorus for Cattle
A large amount of phosphorus Is
used by every dairy animal in its
lifetime of usefulness. A 1,000-
pound cow has about 50 pounds of
bones, a large part of which is phos-
phorus. In milk, a food high in both
calcium and phosphorus is pro-
duced. Of the combined amount of
these minerals needed for milk pro-
duction, the phosphorus is about 45
per cent; in other words, the phos
phorus requirement is about four
fit’s of the calcium requirement.
FOR HEAD
COLDS
Just 2 drops Pen-
etro Nose Drops
will instantly start
you on the "open-
nose’’ way out
of cold-stuffed
... rush out
clogging miseries
-rush in vitalizing
healing air.
misery.
Remember, free
end easy breath-
ing takes the kick out of heed colds—
helps cut down the time these colds hang
on. So, for extra, added freedom from
colds this, winter—bend off head colds’
misery with genuine Penetro Nose Drops.
Exaggerated Delays
Every delay is too long to one
who is in a hurry.—Seneca.
“FAMILY OF ELEVEN
and all take ADLERIKA when
needed." (W. N.-Iowa) When partly
digested foods decay, forming gas.
bringing on sour stomach or bloating,
try ADLERIKA. Get it TODAY.
AT YOUR DRUG STORE
Lost Sense
They never taste who always
drink.—Prior.
SOUTHLAND
HOTEL
Air
Conditioned
•
Newly
Decorated
•
Rates
$1.50 and a*
Joe Halleman, Mgr. Dallas
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Preusser, Theodore A. The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1941, newspaper, February 7, 1941; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1633775/m1/2/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.