Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939
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NOBODY’S
BUSINESS
By JULIAN CAPERS, JR.
They took the $40,000,000 sales
v tax-constitutional amend ment
“progi'am” out and “laid it on the
table” last week — technically —
but actually, they laid it on a slab
in the morgue, from which it has
only the remotest chance of ever
being resurrected. Somebody mis-
informed Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel
about the strength of the “pro-
^kram,” and when he confidential-
predicted over the radio that it
would pass the House with a bang,
he didn’t know there were 60 votes
in the House that would withstand
all of the terrific pressure that
could be put upon them by those
members of the House who hon-
.* estly believe in writing a tax rate
and a sales tax into the organic
la.w, backed by all the strength of
an organized special interest lobby,
plus the personal pressure of the
*** governor himself. So the House
test sent the “program” which was
originated by a special interest
lobby, and for which that lobby
and the Governor have worked
day and night for four months, in-
to the boneyard for good.
Legislators Take the Ball
> As a result, the lobbyists who
with amazing audacity seized the
ball at the opening of the regular
session and have kept it through-
out the first 120 days of the ses-
sion, have at last relinquished it.
It is now an “every man for him-
self” scramble, with each indivi-
dual lobbyist struggling madly to
get the special interest he repre-
sents exempted, or kindly treated,
in the omnibus tax bill which now
appears to be the only measure
that can possibly be enacted —
and the devil take the “program”.
There is still no certainty that
any tax measure will be enacted,
although the legislators, serving
since May 9 at $5 a day, are earn-
estly striving to bring out a bill
increasing natural resource taxes,
and imposing a sales tax on cer-
lt makes us
* MIGHTY HAPPY
to hear from you
X HAT'S the reason why vae
put Service Check Cards in
every Humble Service Sta-
tien. Humble customers are
invited to use these cards to
tell us what they think of the
service rendered, whether it's
good, bad, or indiifereni,
which particular items please
or displease. You'd be sur-
prised at how many worth-
while suggestions come to us
from Customers who use
these cards . . . And they
make it possible for us to
give you, through Humble
Service Stations, the kind of
service you want ... In
other words, we carry on a
continuous study of what mo-
torists need and v/ant to
make driving an automobile
more pleasant, and then we
try to give it to them ... Do
we succeed? . . . The check
cards say we do, and their
opinion is verified by the in-
creasing number of Texas
motorists who make ii a reg-
ular practice to stop for serv-
ice where they see the Hum-
ble sign . . . Seeing is believ-
ing, so we suggesi that the
next time your car needs a
tankful of gasoline, you stop
at the nearest Humble Serv-
ice Station and check the
service for yourself.... Then,
if you dare to, fill out one of
the Service Check Cards you
find and send it to us (no
postage necessary). It will
make us mighty happy to
hear from you. vi
HUMBLE
OIL & REFINING COMPANY
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V A TEXAS INSTITUTION
WANNED BY TEXANS'
tain luxuries. Unless the lobbyists,
working individually, turn out to
be as strong as they were collec-
tively, some such bill will prob-
ably be enacted. But it will raise
nearer $20,000,000 a year than the
$40,000,000 proposed in the lobby
“program.” That will be ample to
finance a reasonable social securi-
ty program, including a somewhat
liberalized pension list, aid for
blind, dependent children, and
teachers’ pensions. But the plan of
taxing poverty for twice as much
as is needed for social security,
through a sales tax, and writing it
into the Constitution, and turning
the $20,000,000 surplus into the pot
for the relief of special interest
taxpayers, is definitely consigned
to the limbo of the fantastic
dreams of a lobbyists who, drunk
with a delusion of power, lost all
sense of balance. The regular ses-
sion will last at least another two
weeks, possibly longer. House
members are definitely desirous of
enacting tax legislation to finance
the social security program, and,
with the legislative power back in-
to the hands of the folks the peo-
ple elected to do the job, there is
a fair prospect they may succeed.
Brady Gentry Named
Last November, four East Texas
Senators, including Will Pace,
John Redditt, Joe Hill and Harold
Beck, visited the then Gov.-Elect
W. Lee O’Daniel at Fort Worth.
They discussed with him the ap-
pointment of a man to succeed
John Wood as Highway Commis-
sioner. They told him where East
Texas is located, and pointed out
the geographical allocation of the
Commissionerships which has al-
ways been observed. Though they
have never discussed this parti-,
cular angle, it is quite likely the
names of some likely men were
brought up, and if so, it is also
quite likely the name of Brady P.
Gentry, of Tyler, was mentioned.
At any rate, O’Daniel, the Sena-
tors reported, agreed heartily with
their views, and gave them assur-
ance these views would be respect-
ed.
Last January, O’Daniel nomi-
nated Carr P. Collins, Dallas in-
surance man, and his No. 1 cam-
paign director. Dallas is not in
East Texas, according to the view
of the Senators. So Collins was
rejected. Then O’Daniel, went far
afield and named J. C. Hunter of
Abilene, Hunter, facing rejection,
withdrew. Then O’Daniel sent up
Jim West, Houston oil mutimil-
lionaire, and West, too was re-
jected, but not on geographical
grounds.
Last week, O’Daniel nominated
Grady Gentry. Gentry, three times
Smith county judge, has had plen-
ty of political experience. He
knows a lot about highways, and
enjoys the confidence of those in-
terested in state highway develop-
ment. A quick canvass of the po-
tent East Texas senatorial group
indicated he will be promptly con-
firmed. So, in six months, the
Governor learned where East' Tex-
as is, and the kind of a man the
Senate wants for highway com-
missioner. If he had listened to
the four Senators, he might have
saved six months of embarassme-nt
and avoided learning at least one
lesson the hard way. That’s how
it is done in politics.
A Correction
This column last week careless-
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ly referred to Rep. G. C. Morris,
of Greenville, a probable oppon-
ent of Congressman Sam Ray-
burn of Bonham next year, as
“Joe” Morris, for which your re-
porter apologizes. G. C. Morris,
one of the leaders of the anti-
sales tax bloc in the House, is an
able legislator, an extraordinary
debater and orator, and is report-
ed to be an excellent campaigner.
Sam Rayburn’s record in Congress
as a majority leader is too well
known to need review here. If
Morris takes out after Sam, it
ought to be an interesting cam-
paign to keep an eye on.
Maverick In Saddle
Taking advantage of a San An-
tonio city political machine which
was on its last legs and divided
against itself, Maury Maverick,
the fiery ex-Congressman from the
Alamo City, led three of his tick-
et of four commissioners to a re-
sounding ^victory over Mayor
Quinn, the ultra-liberal mayor.
Notwithstanding loud shouts from
Washington columnists who don’t
know San Antonio politics, hailing
it as a “comeback” for the New
Deal, Maverick’s victory reflected
less strength for the New Deal
than did his close race for re-elec-
tion to Congress last year, when
he got almost half of 49,000 votes
and was beaten by Paul Kilday.
This time Maverick got 18,000
votes out of 45,000—which gave
him the election, under San An-
tonio’s “no-runoff” rule. Always
colorful, Maverick is sure to give
San Antonio plenty of fireworks,
and underground rumor has it
that a fight on the local power
company will be his opening ges-
ture when he takes office June 1.
Cotton Week
To Help Promote
Consumption
Cotton Belt states and commu-
nities are uniting this month in a
challenge campaign unprecedent-
ed in the annals of American cot-
ton growing history to promote
greater consumption of cotton
products through National Cotton
Week, May 22 to 27. Local merch-
ants are featuring cotton goods
and have arranged special window
displays of cotton articles.
Backed solidly by other national
organizations, the National Cotton
Council and the Cotton Textile In-
stitute are leading the drive as
official sponsors of the 1939 ob-
servance.
Throughout the Cotton Belt,
cotton carnivals will abound dur-
ing National Cotton Week, with
many kings and queens of the cot-
ton realm receiving homage in
beautifully cotton - decora ted
courts. The story of cotton from
its infancy to reigning supremacy
will be unfolded in pageants
through which particular stress
will be placed upon new cotton
styles and fabrics dictated by
fashion leaders for the coming
summer.
More than 75,000 retail merch-
ants throughout the nation will
feature and display cotton pro-
ducts, a new high for cooperation
in the annual- celebration.
Cooperating with the Cotton
Council and the Cotton Textile
Institute in the expanded Cotton
week are the national Retail Dry
Goods Association, the Wholesale
Dry Goods Institute and chains
affiliated with the Institute of
Distribution, the National Associa-
tion of Food Chains and the Na-
tional Association of Chain Drug
Stores.
Particular significance is being
attached to Cotton Week this year
by virtue of acute problems facing
the crop and the industry. In five
years the world price of American
Cotton, based on the gold dollar,
has dropped from approximately
18 cents a pound to an all-time low
of five cents, while 1939 exports
are setting a new low of 3,500,000
bales as compared with the nor-
mal annual export of 7,500,000
bales.
At the same time, figures reveal
that world consumption of foreign
cotton has increased in ten years
from 10,000,000 bales to 16,750,000.
The cotton industry likewise
faces an increasingly destructive
threat from synthetic fibers, pro-
duction of which has increased in
ten years from an equivalent of
738,000 bales to 4,500,000 bales per
year.
Paper, manufactured in 37
states, has replaced cotton in over
100 varied fields, while jute, wool,
Corpus Christi
Buccaneer Days
Set For June 2-5
There’ll be lots of fun in Corpus
Christi June 2, 3, and 4th, and
you can’t- beat fun.
Occasion for the merriment will
be the Corpus Christi Centennial
Buccaneer Days Celebration, com-
memorating this city’s 100th an-
niversary and officially opening
the summer tourist season.
The “Gay Lady Opry House”
will bring back memories of the
old Tony Pastor Music Hall in
New York and other famous night
spots of the gay nineties. A pony
chorus, a quartette of singing wai-
ters, the daring French can-can,
fresh from Paris, the amazing ad-
vance of the Amazons and other
famed gay ninety acts will provide
hilarious entertainment at the
honky-tonk show.
The lavish Beach Style Revue to
be staged on the shores of Corpus
Christi Bay Sunday afternoon,
June 4, will depart from the usual
routine of bathing revues to give
added merriment to the festival.
Special entertainment acts will be
interspersed with exhibitions of
the latest in beach apparel styles
in the revue.
Entertainment high spot of the i
entire festival will be the dramatic |
extravaganza “Anos Pasados,” a
mammoth spectacle to be present-
ed under the stars at Clark Field,
home of the fighting Corpus
Christi Buccaneers, The show will
have a cast of 1200 persons and
will be presented on a 1500-foot
stage. Myriads of multi-colored
lights will add much to the spec-
tacle, which will be illuminated by
the largest travelling lighting un-
it in existence.
Other entertainment features of
the celebration will be a unique
children’s Pet Parade, an opening-
day parade- of decorated floral
floats, antique carriages and
marching buccaneers, a two-day
sailboat racing meet, an old-fash-
ioned chuck wagon barbecue and
other outstanding events.
Smallpox Now
Forging To Front
Says Dr. G. Cox
Case reports reaching the state
department of health indicate that
smallpox is rapidly forging to the
front in the list of preventable
communicable diseases over Tex-
as at this time.
“Smallpox epidemics would nev-
er occur if everyone, especially
children ould be effectively vac-
cinated,” states Dr. Geo. W. Cox,
state health officer. “At the pres-
ent there is an increasing lack of
vaccination among school children
and this constitutes a menace.
“Modern safeguards have re-
moved every legitimate objection
to vaccination, the virus is made
from calves, and consequently, is
incapable of transmitting human
blood diseases. Among some ten
million vaccinations performed in
the Philippine Islands, there was
no loss of life or limb or demon-
strable injury to health.
“A primary vaccination with one
successful revaccination will, as a
rule, protect throughout life from
the milder forms of smallpox, but
this is not true in the severer
types of this disease. Therefore,
be vaccinated and revaccinated at
least every five years, so that you
will have the greatest protection
possible and the least chance of
being sick. Re-vaccination should
also be done after each time you
have been near a known case of
smallpox. Vaccination is not to be
feared but rather sought as the
only safe, positively harmless and
absolute!" certain safeguard a-
gainst smallpox. See your doctor
today and be sure that you are
protected.”
and flax have also gone flagrant-
ly into cotton’s original kingdom.
It is predicted that at the close
of the current crop year, the world
will have on hand more than 14
irmlion bales of American Cotton,
a million bales more than has ever
berore existed as carry-over.
It is toward this staggering sur-
plus and prevention of further in-
creases that the Cotton Council
is directing its efforts.
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