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Show Page 8 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS Put Worry Work To All problems, except those of health, are composed of three basic ingredients;. time, individual will, and direction. Any two of these ingredients can satslfactorlly resolve most problems. To obtain almost Instant escape from a worrisome problem, focus your mind on an Important activity, preferably one you have never previously attempted. For example - a big home improvement job. If your house is too small for a growing family, if you need extra bedrooms and a bathroom, a modernized kitchen, attic or basement, learn how you can do it. Tackle a big project, but before starting, read Easy-Bil- d Simplified Directions 32 different titles over find Youll in lading lumber, home improvement and book stores, and in many libraries. Read the books that solve your problems and see how simplified directions can help you do something you have never done be- fore. Imagine installing an extra bath- room and only paying a plumber for one days work. Imagine building an addition with extra bedrooms or a complete apartment, with an outside entrance, for only the cost of materials. But even more im -portant, by refocusing your mind on an activity that requires mental and physical effort, you allow time to help solve other and larger problems. car why your insurance Doing something today you didn't think you could do yesterday provides some of life's happiest hours. To live more is to do more. To obtain directions that tell you how, order Easi-Bil- d Books. Send check or money order made payable to Directions Simplified, Inc., to Utah Farm Bureua News P. O. Box 215, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. 10510. Book $609 How to Build an Addition; $663 How to Build a Two 608 Modernize a Car Garage; Kitchen are available at $1.50 each. Book $605 How to Panel with Plywood; 606 Lay Ceramic Tile; 617 Concrete Work Simplified; 675 Plumbing Repairs Simplified; 665 Attic Modernization; 615 Modernize a Basement are $1.00 each. Book 682 How to Install an Extra Bathroom and 632 How to Build a Vacation or Retirement House are $2.50 each. A complete catalog illustrating over 300 Easi-Bil- d Patterns is available at 75?. Be sure to include your Zip Code for prompt delivery. Will History Repeat? One of the most widely read books of all time is The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Written in 1788 by Edward Gibbon it sets forth five basic reasons why the great civilization withered and died. These were: The undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis for human so- l. 3. Delicate condition of r todays automobiles In tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, four standard size, medium priced cars were crashed into a solid barrier at 5 mph, the speed of a fast Walk . . . and at 10 mph . . . jogging speed. The table below shows the average estimated damage caused at each speed. Increased cost of repairs Judgements for automobile accidents keep climbing. Juries are awarding larger and larger judgements which in turn, cost insurance companies more for settlements. Repair costs for automobiles have increased an average of 37 during the past ten years. The average cost to remove and install a rear fender on one of the low priced three in 1957 was $115.30. Today it costs $195.55. No one wants to increase rates, including your home-owne- d Utah Farm Bureau. But the . all fact is . . its costing insurance companies more to do business. plain Increased costs must be covered by increased rates. ciety. "- Higher and higher taxes; the spending of public money for free bread and circuses for the populace. The mad craze for pleasure; sports becoming every year more exciting, more brutal, more immoral. The building of great armaments when the real enemy was within the decay of individual responsibility. The decay of religion, faith fading into mere form, losing touch. with life, losing power to guide the people. The warning that hisiitseif has an omintory repeats ous meaning in the light of the oft-ha- above. Settlements are bigger rd . -x One way you can help i , keep the cost of insurance at a minimum is to reduce accidents f 'ptf djive, .safely. - Your Country Mutual Life and Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Companies remind you begins and ends . . . with you. ; Accidents are never planned . . . but they can be avoided. ' that safety - |