Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1940 Page: 3 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940
Tax Dividends
Paid By Breweries
Growing Figure
Beer taxes collected by Federal,
r state and local agencies in the
United States in 1939 amounted
to $411,596,780, on the basis of
reports from the U. S. Bureau of
Internal Revenue and state tax
department estimates, the United
^^Bi'ewers Industrial Foundation an-
^Pnounced today.
This revenue is ear-marked for
old age pensions, educational ins-
titutions, public health, aids to
,. agriculture and other special pur-
poses in many states and munici-
palities. The remainder, including
the Federal Government’s share
of $267,642,983, is allocated to
general expense funds.
The $411,596,780 total repre-
sents a country-wide average Fed-
eral, state and local tax of $7.80
a barrel on the 52,768,818 barrels
of beer withdrawn for sale from
626 breweries which operated
during the year.
Other highlights of the Founda-
tion’s annual survey of the brew-
ing industry soon to be published
are:
The year witnessed rapid ex-
pansion of the industry’s program
of active cooperation with local
law enforcement officials to eli-
minate anti-social conditions
wherever they may surround the
sale of beer. The number of states
in which industry committees ded-
„ icated to this purpose are in oper-
ation increased from one to nine.
Similar programs are to be ins-
talled in additional states during
the coming year.
For the first time in the history
of the industry, the yearly volume
of bottled and canned beer sold
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GRAPES OF WRATH
By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
In New York Herald-Tribune
LOS ANGELES—What is a
grape of wrath? I have, been won-
dering about that ever since I
came here.
It has occurred to me that my
father and mother, my grandfath-
er and all my uncles and aunts
and some sisters and brothers and
most of our neighbors once found
conditions in Poland unbearable.
So they took various and sundry
passages in steerage boats and
came to this country. They were
penniless when they arrived. They
knew nothing about the English
language. They possessed no skills
in any of the usual occupations
of the country. They had to start
way down at the bottom—far be-
low the first rung of the ladder.
I suppose that that is a grape of
wrath, several of them, in fact.
Out here in California the State
is full of similarly conditioned men
and women. And it is nothing new.
The alleged climate, gold, the fer-
tility of the soil, the cheapness of
life and the motion picture indus-
try have from time to time at-
tracted large numbers of people
to this region. Some were adven-
ture-some, constructive individuals
who hoped to build lives and car-
eers out of their minds and bodies
set to work under favorable, even
fortunate, conditions. Others were
failui’es, products of idleness, lack
of skill, laziness, unfortunate na-
tural disasters, unfortunate econo-
mic conditions. Some have found
California the promised land; oth-
ers, a pretty difficult terrain of
physical and spiritual deserts.
The motion picture industry, in
particular, attracts hordes of
young people to this region who
believe that they can write, that
they can act, that they are beau-
tiful. Some makes the grade; some
are “car-hoppers” who serve ham-
burgers and Coca-Colas; some be-
come National figures who earn
in 1939 approximately equaled
that of draught beer. Packaged
beer accounted for more than 49
per cent of the total, as against
25 percent in 1934 and previous
years. The steady growth in pack-
aged sales since 1934 is largely
attributed to the increasing use of
beer in the home.
Beer production for the year
required use of 3,994,264,509
pounds of barley, corn, rice and
hops, requiring the cultivation of
more than three million acres of
farm land. Since beer’s re-legali-
zation in 1933, the brewing indus-
try has used nearly 25 billion
pounds of domestic grain, purchas-
ed at an average annual cost of
$100,000,000.
Schvab’s Jewelry Store
WATCHES - DIAMONDS - JEWELRY
Sold On Easy Time Payments
EXPERT WATCH and JEWELRY REPAIRING
Phone 270
New Rialto Theatre Bldg.
Alice, Texas
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thousands of dollars a week; oth-
ers hang around, picking up a dol-
lar here and there.
Most of these people were never
invited to these parts. They came
on their own. They took a chance.
Nobody owes them anything. Some
of the girls might have made er-
cellent wives to Middle Western
farmers; some of the men would
have done well in shops and fac-
tories or behind the counters of
grocery stores. That they chose to
risk their lives on a romantic con-
ception of themselves and their
abilities is, after all, their own
concern. Had they succeeded they
would not have shared their fabu-
lous lives with anyone. Having
failed, they have no claims on
anyone. Is this a grape of wrath?
There’s another crowd out here,
the oldsters. It is said that most
of them originate in Iowa, but the
probability is that they come from
everywhere. They are usually well
past sixty. They sold their farms;
they gave up their dental parlors
and undertaking establishments
and came to California, with a few
dollars, to live long. They grew
flowers, raised chickens, opened
gift shoppes—but they did not die
before their money ran out.
Of course, it might be said that
nobody called them to California,
that nobody asked them to tear
themselves from their moorings.
The fact is that they wanted to
bask in the sun, to eat oranges
and avocados and to ride over
mountain and desert in jallopies.
.And under the Constitution an
American citizen has an inalien-
able right to go where he pleases,
a right which has been aggravat-
ed by the ease with which it is
possible to travel in automobiles
on good roads. x
So now many of the oldsters are
broke. As they live long in this
climate, they grow broker every
year. There is really nothing for
them to do but to listen to the
radio and to think out newer and
grandioser schemes for separating
those who earn a living from a
share of their income.. To this
amusement they devote them-
selves unmercifully. Is this a grape
of wrath?
Now come the Okies Of Course,
they don’t all come from Okla-
homa. Some come from Texas;
others from New Mexico; others
from Missouri. They are usually
poor folk who heard that there are
jobs in California. Some 400,000
have arrived in recent years, and
nobody knows what to do with
them.
It is true that some are victims
of the dust bowl, victims of an at-
tempt by themselves and others to
turn grassland into wheat fields—
an attempt which might have made
money for them, had it worked,
but which resulted instead in a
catastrophe. Others were unques-
tionably driven from their agri-
cultural jobs by the reduction of
crops by the A.A.A. They, of
course, are victims of planning by
economists who understand only
statistics and not human beings.
Others of them were attracted by
the higher wages of California’s
industrialized agriculture, but it
never occurred to them that scien-
tific agriculture calls for know-
Oil Reserves
Make Up Collateral
For Many Texans
Texas oil reserves are the main
collateral for living of more than
one million Texans who get their
livelihood from the State’s petrol-
eum industry, Captain J. E. Lucey,
Dallas Independent oil operator,
told the Texas Bankers’ Associa-
tion.
Each year the Texas oil and
gas industry spends more than
$750,000,000 in payrolls, lease
payments to Texas farmers, taxes
and other operating expenses and
plant investments, Captain Lucey
reported. Any industry which
spends three-fourths of a billion
dollars a year in Texas is bound
to bring profund economic bene-
fits to the entire state and its citi-
zens, he declared.
“As a matter of fact,” the
speaker said, “the Texas oil in-
dustry has spent altogether about
$600,000,000 more in Texas than
it has ever got back. Official facts
show that for every dollar’s worth
of crude oil produced in Texas in
the past fifty years, the oil indus-
try has spent $1.10 here.
“Yet the bankers who have sup-
plied the Texas industry with the
borrowed capital necessary to
carry on our great industrial dev-
elopment are not alarmed by this
excess. They know that they have
a margin of safety in the great
underground reserves of recover-
able oil which constitute a valua-
ble form of collatei’al.
“The men, women and children
of Texas making up more than
one-sixth of our population who
depend upon the petroleum in-
dustry for their immediate and
future livelihood, also have come
to look upon the oil reserves as
their margin of safety. Oil is the
bulwark of their present needs
and for their future existence.
With oil likely to be found and
produced in Texas for the next
100 years or more, certainly these
million Texans should be bale to
view their future with confid-
Washimgton Gave
America Priceless
Humamtariamsm
ence.
ledge and skills which they do not
possess but which a Mexican or a
Japanese may possess. ■ For in-
stance, irrigation, spraying, the
utilization of agricultural machin-
ery, a knowledge of the chemical
character of the soil seems to be
more important here than, for ex-
Two great men were born in
this month. In vain one scans the
lists of famous names to find a
patriot, statesman, humanitarian
with the vision and courage and
patience that Lincoln and Wash-
ington possessed, and whose fruits
gave us the nation we are so proud
to call ours.
There have been great soldiers,
great prime ministers, in other
countries. But few of them have
combined with their governing
qualities the finer qualities of
heart and soul. And few of them
have had to face the personal and
national perils that marked the
careers of both our great men.
They gave America the char-
acteristic that no other nations
claim. It is best called “humani-
tarianism.” It is unique in the
dealings of one nation with an-
other, and that particular element
is what makes us and our history
different. We are not an aggres- foreign-born men and women are
ica’s existence, that this ridiculous
experiment in democracy was
bound to ignominious failure.
Two generations later it was for
awkward, gentle big Lincoln to
hold the country together, to keep
us a nation still. The echoes of
that bitter struggle are still in
our ears; we are still a very baby
among the nations at the age of
164. But we are the greatest of
them all now, and hardly aware
yet of our own potentialities for
future greatness.
We have our weak spots. Our
neglect of the financial safety of
the old and helpless. Our strikes.
Our dust-bowl emigrants and il-
literate mountain folk. But the
hopeful thing is that we know it,
and in a fumbling fashion are be-
ginning to do something about it,
rather than accepting want, squal-
or, a fearful infant mortality, dis-
ease, crime as a part of the plan
of Divine Providence.
All Brothers
Our mixed blood is at once our
hope and our menace. Our men-
ace because when thousands of
sive nation. We are not seeking
to dominate other smaller nations
and enrich ourselves •with their
treasure.
After any unpleasantness
whether it be the great war of
1914-1918 or the Spanish war, or
the injuries that were done us im
China some 40 years ago, we don’t
claim indemnities. We pay for
what we take, and after awhile
gift. If nations borrow money
give it back to its own people as a
from us in extremities, we pres-
ently forgive them their default-
ing of the debt, and a brotherly
feeling of sympathy in their fresh
difficulties continues undisturbed.
We are slow to make enemies
among the nations because we are
a composite of them all, the living*
example of the truth that all men
are brothers, and can live together
in peace.
No other nation does this or
ever has done this. If one of them
conquers a smaller or weaker peo-
ple, that people lives under heavy
taxation. From that moment it
is a pepole ruled by its military
betters; it pays tribute; its wealth
and its treasure are poured into
the coffers of the victors.
Our history began, and a new
world era began, when a few men
opposed themselves to a supposed-
ly irresistible and inexhaustible
power, and risked their lives to
defend the principle that men are
transplanted to a new soil, it takes
them several generations to de-
velop a loyalty to the new flag,
and to learn to live in freedom
and comfort. They say fortunes
made by graft and theft, and they
are tempted beyond any strength
that the poveYty and restrictions
Women and Girls’
Clubs Beautifying
Rural Landscapes
More than 181,000 shrubs and
trees were planted by Texas home
demonstration club women and 4-
H. club girls during 1939 in an
effort to beautify rural land-
scapes. At least a third of the
shrubs are native to the Lone Star
State.
A report of Sadie Hatfield,
specialist in landscape gardening
for the A. and M. College Exten-
sion Service, reveals that 107,991
shi'ubs planted by these two
groups are still living. A total of
73,162 shrubs were planted and
cared for by the women and 34,-
829 by the girls.
Plantings during 1939 show a
delided increase over 1838 when
72,472 native and nursery shrubs
were planted, the specialist points
out. However, native and nursery
shrubs weren’t all Texas rural wo-
men and girls planted by any
means. There were more than
100,000 plants grown from seed
or rooted from cuttings and there
were more than 44,000 trees
planted to give shade, provide
background for the home, or to
serve as a windbreak.
Roses, too, came in for their
share of attention, for nearly 40,-
000 were planted in Texas and
ample, on my farm in S^ndisfield, . „„„„ -------------------- ,
Mass., I have been told that far- fit to rule themselves. Washing-, ege> Japanese, Philipino, Indian
mers from Missouri are better ton’s first coneress was so half- ----
men than farmers from Oklahoma.
I suppose that is a matter of opin
of their old lives had power to Iare reported to be living still,
give them. But year by year con- Sodding lawns and planning yards
ditions and environment are im-
proved, and in another few years
—say 150 or 200—this difficulty
that comes from pouring old wine
into new bottles will be eradicat-
ed, and we will become as law-
abiding as we are rich and power-
ful.
Every woman who teaches her
children the true history of Amer-
ica, gives them some idea of the
potentialities still ahead of us
under our own constitution does
her bit to hasten that happy day.
The foaming yeast of mixed
heritages, mixed blood, mixed
ideals and customs may be our
menace. But our hope springs
from this very condition, too. The
hope that we who arc- all neigh-
bors; whose forefathers came from
Germany, Italy, France, Spain, as
well as the two great streams
from England and Ireland, may
show the quarreling peoples of the
world that there is nothing irre-
concilable in a difference of blood.
The lists of pupils in our schools
show hundreds of names of Chin-
for members and non-club mem-
bers were also included in the
landscaping activities of people
cooperating with the Texas Ex-
tension Service.
The out-door living room is be-
coming a familiar term and a
familiar sight in Texas rural com-
munities, and nearly a thousand
of these living rooms or recrea-
tion areas made life more enjoy-
able for rural families in 1939.
Hundreds of pieces of recreation-
al equipment were made for use
in Texas homes.
Texas has 32,980 miles of crude
oil pipe lines, or nearly one-third
of the nation’s total of 110,580
miles.
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Can’t wait for the Spring buying
rush. We’ve got to get rid of
used cars now. Pre-Season Sale
bargains mean savings for
Bargains that will bowl you oVik
F. G. GARCIA & SON
FRANK CASSO, Manager
SAN DIEGO, TEXAS
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ion, but a Missourian has a better
chance of getting a job here than
an Okie.
Well, this mass of Okies are
here—they, their wives and chil-
dren. They live in automobiles,
tents and anything that is avail-
able. They have inadequate food,
clothing and medical attention. If
any kind of epidemic were ever to
break out among them, it would
be just too horrible. Yet they are
citizens, and they have the right
to vote after a while, and the pol-
iticians and liberals utilize them
politically and demand that they
be fed. So, while unemployment
is decreasing in most States, it is
increasing in California. And the
State is likely to go 'broke trying
to care for all the agricultural
unemployed of the Nation who
own automobiles and can get gas.
Is that a grape of wrath?
I am not antagonistic to the
Okies any more than I am to the
Miss Oskaloosah who believes that
she can push Norma Shearer into
oblivion if only she gets a chance.
Miss O. may end up as the car-
hopping wife of a filling station
attendant, and between them they
may earn $40 a week and write
home to the folks telling them all
about the Los Angeles climate and
how they talk personally to Clark
Gable when he eats a chickenbur-
ger. But I don’t see that Cali-
fornia owes them anything. They
chose to come this way, and they
aren’t wanted or needed. Maybe
if they stick around and live on
avocados and celery, the way. some
of us used to live on herring and
black bread, they will find work
and learn how to do it, the way
the rest of us did. But the theory
that anyone owes them a living is,
I am sure, untenable.
However, when a huge mass of
such migrants falls upon a small
agricultural area, upsetting esta-
blished social, economic and po-
litical conditions, what are the
rights of the community? Actual-
ly, the community has no rights
but to tax itself into poverty to
care for these migrants. The com-
munity cannot keep them out, be-
cause they are free-born, roving-
citizens. The community cannot
let them starve, because it is in-
human, and,..besides, the politici-
ans won’t let them. The communi-
ty must provide some kind of
housing, as otherwise the unsani-
tai-y condition of the migrants will
imperil the health of the natives.
There is nothing to do about this
business but to pay taxes, Iqwer
the standard of living of the na-
tives and bring California down
to the level of the Okies. Is that
a grape of wrath?
ton’s first congress was so nan- and negr0 children; everyone of
hearted after the peace that was j-bem a g0od American now. All
made at Yorktown, that it was are being blended and welded and
hai'd to get a quorum togethei. veconcjied under one flag, teach-
.aP .s^es. ^e. me^ scorn> doubt, -jig and helping one another by
criticicism, indifference. The in- ^eir' very differences as well as
fluential people were the Toiies ^ ^eir common education and
and they had every reason to feel, t ‘ wn and way of living.
for the first dozen years of Amer-
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