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• % Adult' Calmness Important In ' " Treating Children's Injuries . Where there are children, there are occasional emergencies calling for calm and prompt treatment. Wise mothers find it's far easier id be calm when first-aid supplies are kept ready for use in a wellstocked medicine chest. I Bumped heads, scraped knees, skinned elbows call -- first off -- for a calm manner, a Soothing voice. The injured child-takes his cue from Mother. Then, simple first-aid treatment is in order. ^ Minor emergencies will be easier to handle if the medicine chest is kept supplied with a mild antisepitlc, sterile gauze pads, a box of !1Q0% sterile absorbent cotton- .balls, and sterile adhesive band- >Iob may be used to redtfee the (•welling of bruises or bumped knees. Warm water on a 100% sterile absorbent cotton ball will wash the area around a dirty scraped knee. Then, a sterile cotton ball should be used to apply antiseptic. Made of the finest sterilized surgical cotton, these readymade cotton balls are handy for a variety of first-aid uses. After swabbing with antiseptic, it's a good idea to cover the injury with a sterile adhesive bandage to protect it from further dirt. Final step is to check and see whether this particular emergency used up the last of any first-aid item. If so, it's time to jot down on a shopping list the notation to buy more on the next trip to the druggist. You'll be ready then for whatever minor mishaps befall your active youngsters., K. C. NOTES \ Last Call With winter's amateurish per- , ' * Jormance Bearing an end and , f. spring only a matter of a score of degrees away, the tree nurseries land seed companies have begun their campaigns with tempting ispecial offers (if you act quickly and at no added cost to you,) the > hardware stores are trimming their windows with displays of clean-up and paint-up materials. Along with all this propaganda, McHenry Council has its own harbingers of spring in Brothers Leroy Welter, George Larkin and Anton P. Freund, who are wind- *ing up their campaign for members to participate in a spiritual spring ^ .-cleaning at the Mayslake Retreat .House on March 17, 18 and 19. gf^i^Around thirty men have signed fgltyjjtheir reservation cards, promising f, _lto attend. If you are planning on • anakfng this retreat, this is the ', ' last call. Reservations must be in Iby March 12. Let's all get together I. A. A. LAUNCHES DRIVE TO GET OUT RURAL VOTE spend a week-end of peace • and contemplation. One weekend jat Mayslake will give you relax- «tion arid spiritual inspiration to % - Jive a more complete life through- ; ~ out the year. Meeting Tonight * Our last meeting was well attended-- the way it should be--and ' ; > we sincerely hope the regular . monthly meeting scheduled for toraight, March 9, will be as well \ attended. We will start promptly at 8:30, and after the business of the evening is disposed of, members will be entertained by„ the Canada Dry Gingerale Co., with the presentation of the film, "Making of a Yankee." We know you will enjoy the evening's proceedings, so wiiy r.ot lend the Council and its officers the moral support so necessary in'carrying on the functions of our order. Attend the meeting tonight, and bring that ^ i application for ^Membership with > .» • you. V Counrilgram \ A r e y o u o n e o f o u r b r o t h e r s who is visiting your men relatives, * Neighbors and frieifds and telling •*»•/ them about the glorious achievements of the K. Of C. We all like i t to celebrate birthdays, don't we? Well the birthday of our groat .'•J. . order ic on March 29 and it would ' '*• be grand if you had a personal fe>'-Interest in this observance, ftlc- Henry Council could have a very t:, nice party if you would tell the <JK ^ that you have listed a few fin<> Catholic gentlenien you know are ' not your brothers in our council. Don't be bashful. He will welcome i' 5* your' cooperation. If you wish to 1. 'tiro-over this list to Membership ; Chairman Clarence Martin, that . will be fine. Tell Clarence whether you will visit the men, or that you ^1" I would prefer to have one of the workers' committee go alone or f 'i with you. It may be that you are *1,fully aware of what our Council Ifv; means to you and your family, but u--ftre unable to put these facts into y ^ the right words in explaining fraternalism to your men friends. Well, call on your officers for help, v They,need your cooperation for a mi" t greater council, eo they will will- •/ ingly cooperate with you in any ^: - phase of our development. Why 4' not start that list right now? fll X By the way, our Uncle Mike says -jV" v by your attendance at the meetings. full co-operation with your I Officers and committee men, you yVi OWld help make opportunity come I-v ' knocking continuously at < our T#'.^ Council door. G'BYE. Use or itaelw tireitoek at Wattles Drag Store, M* Plans for a statewide campaign to get out the Illinois rural vote for the April 11 primary were announced this week by Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan, 111., president of the Illinois Agricultural Association. Shuman said the association is seeking the cooperation of its membership of 172,000 farm families and its ninety-nine county Farm Bureaus in the campaign. The IAA president said that Illinois poll records indicate that the percentage of eligible rural people voting is disturbingly now. "We are not interesied in telling rural people how to vote," Shuman said. "This is an educational campaign aimed at getting farm folks to exercise their right to vote." According to the plans announced, each county Farm Bureau fca the state will be asked to secure volunteer workers for each precinct, with not more than two per precinct from the two major political parties. These precinct workers will get in touch with every rural voter and urge voting in the April 11 primary. These precinct workers will not work^&t the polls or be permitted to drive cars in bringing voters to the polls. All contacts with voters must be made prior to April 11. The association is urging this precaution in order to make it clear that the campaign is non-political, Shuman said. , SPRING GROVE 1 (by Mr*. CliarUa Freuad) * « Thefcply season of Last was appropriately opened at St. Peter's church on Ash Wednesday with mass in the morning and services at night. Thefe was the blessing of ashes and distribution of ashes followed the services On Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock there was The Way of the Cross. There will be Lenten services at St. Peter's every Wednesday night. Mrs. Joseph Claim of Maywbbd spent the past week with her daughter, Shirley Dawson. A nice time was had by those who attended the public party held at St. Peter's parish hall on Tuesday night of last - week. The next event to take place at the parish hall will be a St. Patrick's card party. On Feb. 19 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker entertained at their home in honor of the christening of their infant daughter. The baby was christened "Theresa Ann" at Holy Name church in Wilmot. Miss Evelyn Busch and James * Busch were sponsors. Moving time is here again. The George W. May family is moving to a farm near Richmond. The Diedrichs will move on a farm north of Richmond near Twin Lakes. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Freund and Sharon will live on the Ken Winn farm after this week. A group of ladies gathered at the home of Mrs. Tillie May on Thursday afternoon in honor of her birthday. Cards were played and prizes were awarded the winners, A lovely lunch was served. Canned Cleaning Aids Simplify Home Care As much in evidence these days as seed catalogues are the displays of housecleaning aids in hardware stores and housewares departments. For upholstered furniture, there are cans of fabric cleaner with a carbon tetrachloride or naptha base to remove grease and soil stains. There are also cans of upholstery and rug cleaning powders and shampoos that remove spots and brighten and clean more soiled surfaces. Wallpaper cleaners in In, conjunction with the vote campaign, the association is offerfcngnnore than $1,000 in cash prizes for the best published statement or cartoon on wtiy citizens should vote in the primary. Statements must be published before April 11. Thette statements maT be letters to the editor written by individuals, or editorials and cartoons pub lished by any publication in the county. Articles will be judged by the public relations committees of j ounty Farm Bureaus and a $10~prize awarded to the best state ment or cartoon published in the county. County winners will " be submitted to the publicity depart ment of the IAA. A statewide win ner will be chosen and given a trip to the IAA convention, Nov. IS to 10, with all expenses paid. Of the thousands of domestic animals in the world, the Anieri cas have " contributed very few. The most important are the turkey and the llama." Order your rubber stamps at The Plnindealer. to Prtfdb Housing? Taxpayera art demanding an answer to* the prefab housing situanon while oe honing npHaie continues'acute everywhere and a 7%a decrease in baQdiiif is predicted for i960. In asking what happened to housing tike the out imtc, it's possible the answer may be contained in what happened to Imse Resolution 393, which calls for an Instigation of^ Lustroa Ostrtoiation of Ohio. HR 393 was introduced nr Albert M. Cole (Ben.) Tans--. Cole, inset above, a native of Topeka, •Mi, npNMnU the nrst Eaniaa district, and is a member of the important banking and currsya committee. Surveying the pwfcfc llitwy shows: Prior to the war--some talk. Phmyng daring the war. Promises after the war. bm private mannfMtUUMi are doing the job and are producing in the promised ptfM btaekets. Lustron became a congressional storm center last naMr whan its president, Carl G. Strandlund, Columbus, Ohio, tolIdd a Booss ccoommmmiitti tee he launched the corporation Note to author: We do appreciate the double spacing-, makes for much easier setting.--But threre are five of us here and I would feel awful guilty sampling that fftte apple pie all by myself. The Operator. P.S .We'll furnish the coffee. into the prefabricated Wmfag industry with $1,000 of his Own thoney and $37*4 mfllioii townl ftnm the RFC. An RFC official has anmeed that RFC lending tb iMstron has been halted. Lustron s program eeklr advertising and reams of publicity of a o-room hon it $7,000' raainted in a suggestion of scandal, a unit price at twiee that, amount in .Chicago, and since has abated into all quiet. Paranpa prompt action on the Cole resolution will give the much in demand a--wer to the tinkaflsii above. Squelcher A miserly man was approached by a friend who did his best to persuade him to dress more in accordance with his station of Mfe. "I'm surprised," said the friend, "that you should allow yourself to become shabby." "But I'm not shabby," laid the miser. "Oh, but you are," said his friend. "Remember year father. He was always nesrtly dressed. His clothes were always well tailored and of the best material." "Why!" shouted the other, triumphantly, "these clothe* I'm were father's!" cans also are available in paste or putty-like form. Window and mirror washing has been simplified by the introduction of special canned liquid cleaners that are applied inv a thin film and when dry, wiped off. For enamel and paint woodwork and walls and Venetian blinds there are liquid cleaners that remove dirt with little effqrt beyond application. Some of these cleaners also leave a light wax protective layer after they have been used. For the mending of water-split linoleum around sinks, for the replaciug^ of loose Ules and for mending small holes in plaster walls, there are cans of mending cement and adhesives. The cement preparation is a powder and only needs water added to be ready for use. Spring housecleaning displays also include many cans of waxes, polishes and creams for use on floors, woodwork and furniture. Furniture waxes, either UquiMfc or paste, must be buffed well but are important to protect the surface of wood and bring out fts beauty. There are also furniture polishes and creams to produce a lustre without too much rubbing and which leave no film to oollect dust. Self-polishing waxes are popular for use on linoleum bucause no polishing is necessary--the wax drying with a lustre. Among the new spray items in cans are waxes, enamels and alnminum paint, deodrrizers, insect icides and moth proofers The contents are released in a fine spray bv pressing a valve on the too cf the can. CANDIDATE LI^T Secretary of State Edward J Barrett has issued the official list of candidates which will appear on party ballots in the April 11 primary race. The names appearing in an official state pub lication, were released after all withdrawal petitions were receiv ed and after the state certifying board met and disqualified some petitions. Subscribe for The "Plaindealer. TOE SHOP 312 ELM STREET JMcHENRY 746 Ponchito Jeweled Jackets and Jeans For Boys and Girls Sizes 2 to 12 $2.95 each • Fair Assumption Two men, who were visiting a museum, were seen standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, over which hung a placard bearing the Inscription: "B. C. Both visitors w^ tied thereby. "What do yeu said one. '! "Well, I duri^o; was the number'of the motor-car that killed him." ... but maybe it Certainly =-~ Don't you think a real friend ought to feel sympathetic when.one needs money?" "I think a good mpny friends^in such cases are tyUdhed." CLEVER DEVlCE M' Employed Women Now Perform 36 Per Cent of Our Labor Are you having difficulty finding someone who will fake over out in the kitchen and produce chickenand- dumplings and apple pie? If so, this may be the reason: *- Domestic workers have become fewer in the United States. Before the war 18 per cent of all women who worked were in domestic service, and now the proportion has dropped to about 10 per cent. "The expanded opportunities for women in other fields have apparently made domestic work seem relatively less attractive than before," the statisticians comment. Professional and semi-professional work have also been attracting relatively fewer women, and there has been an increase in the' proportion who have become clerical workers, saleswomen, and operatives and kindred workers. "jThis is explained by the fact that, with jobs plentiful, women in their late teens and early 20's have gone -to work instead of undertaking long years of professional training. The total number of American , women who are employed or seeking employment has fallen off since the end of World War II, but stiU exceeds the 1940 figure by some 4.8 millions. The estimated total is 18.6 millions, or about 30 per cent of ihe country's entire labor force. Married women who work outnumber substantially the single ones, although in 1940 the reverse was !t!rue. 1 Lalder-Climbinc Accidents Traood to Poor Equipment :• You can't hang up a safety record with a shaky ladder. Climbing around the farm has enough hazards without using unsafe ladders and most climbing accidents can be traced to improper or defective equipment. Farmers should inspect ladders ' periodically of rusted or loose bolts and nails and for cracked, rotted or loose rungs or supports. If defective, repairs or replacements are in order. A ladder should not be left where it will fall, be tipped over or bumped into. Storing a ladder in a handy place where it can be reached in a hurry in case of fire or other emergency is a good idea.. Safe use of ladders is possible if the following suggestions of the National,. Safety Council are follpwed: Be sure the ladder is placed properly. Always face the ladder going'up or down and use both hands. Take one step at a time--don't hurry. f; • • ,x- v. Work facing the ladder and: hold on with one himd. Do not work in high wind. Avoid over-reaching or over-exertion in pushing or pulling while working on ladders because it is easy to lose balance and fall. Use a rope hoist to raise shgrp tools, heavy object^ bulky materials'. . . WATER--FOR (JOOI) AliD RAD February 1 recordings of snowfall in the mountains of the west indicate ample water for summer irrigation in most districts., At Togwotee Pass, a 10,000 ft. elevation near the head waters of the Wind River in Wyoming, there were. 88 inches of packed snow, containing 26.4 inches of water. This will be useful because as it melts slowly next summer it will help irrigate the fertile Iliverton Valley. On the other han|l, at se-verfid southern Illinois points, ^ IS inches of rain fell in January following a 7 inch fall in December. Result--bad flood conditions with no one benefitted but instead heijivy financial loss and a great deal of human misery. What a contrast! ^ Uncle Sam Says First wife: "How do you get money out of your husband?" Second wife: "Oh, I say I'm going back to. mother and he immediately hands me railroad fare," DRIVE AGAINST ^OCUJKNTS The 4R,405 accidents disabling workers more than a week :or causing permanent impairment reported by Illinois industries last year constitute the lowest total of such accidents in any year since 1941, according to Director Frank Annunzio of the state department of Labor. In 1948 there were 51,- 048 accidents. Governor- Adlai E. Stevenson's Conference on Indusrial Safety Ib preparing qn intensive, organized drive to reduce industrial accidents fifty per cent by 1952. !' Early Lens Grinding ' l^ie accounts of lens making which have come down to us from 'early times indicate that the basic process was somewhat similar to that in use today. A disc of glass was cut a^d ground with sand .or otheef abrasives in a hollow iron dish, from which it gradually took its shape. To aid the grinding, the bit of gla6s was glued to the end of a wooden rod, making it a kind of pestle. This, of course, produced only a convex lens. There are vague references to making the concave surface by means of a woolen cloth, also fixed to the end of a rod and sprinkled with "powder of Tripolis." Thus the history of lens grinding had its crude beginning, and people suffering from visual troubles could try on whatever spectacles were available and select those which,suited them best. On an average, one animal of every seven slaughtered in plants under federal inspect ion carries bruised meat that i ust be cut out as waste. Complete iine of Lee's poult?; remedies at Wattles Drug store. Me Henry. 8-tf Don't Settle for Less! II DEFENDS TITLE •VGLEN ELLYN, ILL. -- Training to defend her title as 1949 champion of the All-American Table Tennis tournament in Chicago May 6 is pretty Sharon Koehnke, a high school sophomore. District tournaments will be held all over the country under sponsorship x>f recreation departments, Y.M.C.A.'s and high schoojs. District winners will be chosen for the Chicago finals in the following age groups: Boys and girls under ll years; 12, 13 and 14 years; 15, 16, 17. years; and men and women 18 years and over. Sharon is a busy champion. Besides the tennis title she has won honors in tennis, speed skating and swimming. She's also a Patricia Stevens model. ^ FOUB-H WEB* Dating the first week In we celebrate National Four-H Clulr Week. - What a wonderful piece ot work has' been done during the past quarter of a century through; organising the youth of the farijfc " and rural communities and hel^T » ing them become interested in : and skilled along agricultural ' lines. Learning to work with each; other and developing ability ftf public speaking, organization work! etc., also cannot be overlooked. Alt hats off to the big Fouf-H move- r ment in which there are now enrolled some two million young-, sters. - -. • The sofcp industry annually use** nearly a billion and a half pounds; of fats and oils taken from cattle, swine and sheep. A BMJ BFSINESS Within a few weeks the National Resfhurant Association will hold its :? 1 st annual convention. FeW people realize that the restaurant business is the third largest retail industry in the United States. Sixty million meals per day are served in eating places all oyer the country and a vast amount of the food produced on the farms of America is cooked and served in restaurants. The National Restaurant Association is doing a splendid piece of work in encouragiing standardization of restaurants on a very high plane. MONEY TALKS When the first coins were struck for Hawaii about 1874, the natives took an, active dislike to them and Into sea. Men are rich only as they gltff "He who fives treat wrrleci get* returns". • TOTE FOR :: X ' 0 RAYMOND J. KELLY ; Democratic Primary April 11, 1N| i • * STATE • REPRESENTATIVE • j 8th Senatorial District ^ Lake, McHenry, Boone Coantles "SEND KELLY TO SPRINGFIELD" LAWYER -- TEACHER POSTMASTER ' -. -a A Faithful Public Serratrt The American People have bought 1,275,000,000 individual E Savings Bonds since they were first offered in May, 1941. Ever$ one of these Savings Bonds is guaranteed by your government and returns to you $4 for every $3 invested within ten years time. Have you ever stopped to consider where the help came from to assist the Treasury Department build this greatest sales record in history? It was done with the assistance of some 3,000,000 volunteer workers, all Americans ready to help their country. 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