The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1959 Page: 2 of 12
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EDITORIALS
THE LA GRANGE JOURNAL THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1859
'Making Up Time’ Can Be Costly
We all wonder what contributes to the “speed mania’’ of the
person behind the wheel -on the open road. Yet it’s not so surprising
The vacation and holiday traveler wants to get to his destina-
tion in time for a last minute swim in the lake, or the baseball
game, or Just a few casts of the old Ashing rod before dark.
This seme traveler got a late afternoon start, he stopped «
route to visit friends or relatives and he must “make up that time,
by crowding it a little , . . Just a little you understand, he’s not
going to take any chances.
What our “hurry driving^’ motorist friend fails to realize is that
hundreds of thousands of other vacation and holiday travelers have
added their vehicles to the normal highway traffic load.
We wonder if this friend of ours is “making up time” on the
highway knows that . . . Safety is everybody’s Job. Traffic safety
is teamwork Each individual driver must ask himself, “Can You
Stop In Time?" He can if he will take time to Slow Down and Live.
“You can criticize a man about almost anything except his
driving,’' is a statement we all must admit to be true.
Calmly you can reason with most men that they have picked
the wrong profession, they have selected the wrong section of the
city in which to buy or build a home, they should save more of
their wages or they should wear Bermuda Shorts in summer.
But tell a man he operates an automobile carelessly . . . WOW
... he is ready to not only argue, but to fight if necessary
Without exception every motorist believes that an accident is
something that might happen to some other fellow but “not to me.”
When you ask the average motorits, “Can You Stop In Time?"
And, according to the Texas 8afety Association, he will reply,
“Certainly, and under any conditions." If you ask him to “Slow
Down and Live,” he’ll reply “That for the other fellow.”
Our Job is to show every motorist that highway safety is
EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS. . . Slow Down and Live.
# ■ ■
Don’t Tax Me!!
If ever there was a time for personal statesmanship that time
is now! Statesmanship on the part of all of us, not Just those men
and women who occupy seats in the Texas Senate and House of
Representatives, is called for by the situation in which we find our-
selves today.
Leadership has always been a prerequisite for the successful
operation of government at all levels, and it was never more neces-
sary than now.
In survey after survey the people have maintained that good
schools and highways are necessary and should be supported, with
ever-increasing efficiency as our ultimate goal.
Few people can be found who advocate doing away with what
we have come to look upon as “essential” services. And everyone
realizes that it all costs money. There is no such thing as a free
lunch!
Where than shall we go for the money?
Certainly the same old sources cannot stand additional taxes.
They have borne the burden in Texas for a long time.
Pile another tax on gasoline? That would be an obvious and
simple tax to apply, but it would hardly be a wise one, for the Fe-
deral Government still has the powej- to tax gasoline, and it is al-
most certain that they will one day add another tax to it.
While it is pretty well agreed that the oil and gas industry has
shouldered its portion of the state tax burden, and more, for a long
time, why single out gasoline merely because it is a simple tax to
collect and will not deter anyone from driving his car?
The real truth of the matter is also obvious. Elected officials
are not facing up to the facts of life because they are afraid to do
so, and they will tell you so in as many words.
What they are for is not always what the wfll vote for, and
right here la where personal statesmanship on the part of the aver-
age Texas citizen should be brought to bear.
We are convinced that we can do something about these things
if we will but give them the same attenion we give to our own fis-
cal policies. We do believe that Texas citizens, businessmen and all,
need to face up to the fact that taxes must, in the last analysis,
come from all the people and should come from all the people.
We do not have the moral right either to demand or accept
government services (calling for millions of dollars in tax money)
unless we are equally as willing to help solve the problem of the
raising of the necessary money.
Legislators have told us that there are probably two of three
million Texans who pay no state taxes to speak of. Here, it seems
to us, would be a rich source to tap by whatever means is open to
us.
They will opject, of course. And why shouldn’t they? Every-
one likes a free ride!
But a way should be found to insure equal taxation on all our
people, and that right soon, if we are to move forward progres-
sively in our state. — Fred Pool in East Texas Magazine,
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MONUMENT HILL PUBLICITY
Monument Hill State Park
near La Grange is receiving con-
siderable widespread publicity
currently. A large photograph of
the memorial shaft and the tomb splendid character.
grave and growing problem in
this country, and should never
be underestimated. At the same
time we shouldn’t lose sight of
the legions of young people of
holding the remains of the he-
roes of the Texas Revolution is
used on the front cover of the
June issue of Texas Co-Op Pow-
er.
Inside a story by Dick King
and pictures by Mr. King and
Norris G. Davis tell the story of
Monument Hill and of its genial
manager, John P. Vacula. Monu-
ment Hill became a state park
in 1933. Since then attendance
has grown until it now nears
100,000 a year. Picnic tables,
grills, and rest rooms, and play-
ground equipment for the child-
ren combine to make it a favor-
ed place for family reunions,”
the article summarizes.
Texas Co-Op Power is a mon-
thly newspaper published by
Texas Electric Cooperatives,
Inc., in the interest of rural elec-
trification in Texas of which
John F. Luecke of La Grange is
a member of the board of direc-
tors.
The paper is distributed to
some 145,000 readers, most of
them members of electric power
co-ops.
GEM OF WISDOM
“People, like pins, are useless—
when they lose their heads!”
TRIBUTE TO TEENAGERS
Juvenile delinquency is a
Something that happened off
San Francisco’s Golden Gate in
early May deserves national re-
cognition. An 18-year-old girl,
Shirley O’Neill, was swimming
with an 18-year-old boy when he
was attacked by a great white
shark which had strayed far
from its normal habitat. As the
water reddened with his blood
he called to her to “go back, go
back!” Instead, she swam to him
and seized an arm. Finding it had
been almost severed, she manag-
ed a hold about his body and
brought him ashore. Then, while
he lay dying on the beach, the
Catholic girl baptized him and
pronounced the "Act of Contri-
tion.
A soldier of long service who
witnessed the tragedy from a
bluff above the bay called it the
greatest exhibition of courage he
had ever seen. And the presi-
dent of San Francisco’s Board of
Supervisors said he will seek a
Carnegie Medal of Honor for
Shirley O’Neill.
• • *
SPRING CLEANING
“Spring cleaning” has been
carried on on a really big scale
this year. The particular “clean-
ing” involves the state taxpayer,
that the 45 state legislatures
The Tax Foundation reports
CEDAR CREEK PHILOSOPHER DOUBTS
WHITE-COLLAR FARMING WOULD BE
LESS TIRING THAN PRESENT KIND
Editor’s” note: The Cedar
Creek Philosopher on his
Johnson grass farm discus-
ses the fuiture of work this
week. We guess that’s what
he’s doing.
Dear editar:
When a man doesn’t know any
more about what’s happened in
the past than I do, he hasn’t got
much business predicting what’s
going to happen in the future
but I’m always interested in
what somebody else has to say
about it.
For example, I was reading an
article last night in a newspaper
neighbor handed me earlier in
the day because he said he did-
n’t have time to read it, too busy
working, that predicted that in
10 years “the ancient image of
work as something manual and
tedious will be fading rapidly and
most workers will be wearing
white-collars.”
This does not leave me alto-
gether satisfied. I mean, while
the ancient image of work as
something hard to fade in the
next ten years, I figure work it-
self will stay around quite a
while longer.
And as for wearing a white
collar, this doesn’t appeal to me
at all. That is, I guess I could
wear a white collar now with a
tie, but going up one row and
down another on a tractor
would still be the same. Even
changing collars at noon, be-
cause the one you started out
plowing in that morning is bound
to be dusty by mid-day, still
wouldn’t fade any images of
work, as far as I’m concerned.
You can get just as tired from
white-collar farming as you can
from the openneck kind.
I’ll admit the machine has eli-
minated a lot of work, but what
some people don’t seem to real-
ize is that it’s caused a lot of
other work, too. I long ago no-
ticed that a man who graduates
from a tractor with two-row
equipment to one with four-row
equipment doesn’t work half as
much as he did before, he just
takes on twice as much land and
still goes from sun-up to sun-
down. I’m not equipped to figure
it up myself but it would be in-
teresting to know how many
hours of work scientists and in-
ventors have put in perfecting
labor-saving devices, how many
hours workers have put in build-
ing them, and how many hours
consumers have put in working
to afford them.
The way I see it, some sort of
work is likely to occupy man for
some time to come. Putting on a
white collar doesn’t fool me. I’ve
seen bankers, druggists, doctors,
store keepers, school teachers
etc., come home just as tired
from -work as a farmer. I don’t
believe science can invent the
type of collar that’ll keep a per-
son from getting tired.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
LL Opened
Tuesday Night
Little League play opened
Tuesday night, May 26. The
Swiss Alp team and the La
Grange State Bank Giants tied
6-6, the Western Auto Indians
beat the First National Bank
Cardinals, 6-2 and the Eagles
outscored the Cats, 14-2.
Wednesday afternoon, the
Giants defeated the Plum Yan-
kees, 5-1.
The La Grange Journal
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billion in new or increased state
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DURWOOD L. FUCHS
Editor and Manager
Address all communications to:
The La Grange Journal, P. O.
Box 59, La Grange, Texas.
NOTICE—Any erroneous reflec-
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or reputation of any person, firm
or corporation which may hap-
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the Journal will be corrected
gladly if brought to the atten-
tion of the management.
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