Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1942 Page: 4 of 8
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JOSE CADENA
MARY VAELLO
GASTON SOLIS
F. VAELLO PUIG, President
F. VAELLO, JR., Vice- President
J. M. CADENA, Cashier
Merchants Exchange Bank
(Un-Incorporated)
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY OVER $250,000
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1942
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The Tree of the Christ-Child
T would be fine if we personcdly could
meet and greet each one of you this
thought-provoking Christmas of 1942.
The fact that we cannot does not keep
us from saying to you here that we
wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Nine Ex-Students
Specialists Latin
American Field
Evidence of national recogni-
tion of the work done by the
Latin-American Institute of the
University of Texas came in the
form of appointment of nine
University of Texas ex-students
as specialists in the Latin-Amer-
ican field, Dr. C. W. Hackett, In-
stitute chairman, has announced.
All nine were students last
year, and three of them now hold
government posts in Washington.
Several other students have re-
ceived inter-American scholar-
ships. Joe Neal, former coordin-
ator of Inter-American students
activities at the University here,
has been appointed special in-
vestigator under a grant from
the Office of Coordinator of In-
ter-American Affairs to the In-
ternational Student Service of
New York.
Being the fine friends and
acquaintances you are we
would not want to miss
this 1942 holiday season
opportunity to send you
these greetings.
A Happy Christmas
to You and Yours
Vaello Lumber Company
“Oldest Lumber Yard in Duval County”
i Benavides, Texas
A Vote Against
Bureaucracy Cast
By Alabama Gov.
Bureaucracy in Washington is
challenging the American system
of government, which is demo-
cracy in the opinion of Gov.
Frank M. Dixon of Alabama.
Its aim is to obtain “final pol-
itical control of striking down
the local governments and of
bringing home to the people of
the States the fact that their al-
legiance must be to the Wash-
ington bureaucracy rather then to
their own elected officials,” Gov-
ernor Dixon declared in an ad-
dress radio-cast over the nation-
wide hook-up of the Columbia
Broadcasting System in New
York Friday night. His address
followed his attendance of the
annual dinner of the New York
Southern Society at Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel.
Governor Dixon stressed the
beginning of what he called
bureaucracy in Washington with
the setting up of the Works Pro-
gress Administration. He charg-
ed that the system was set up
with the view of “shortcircuiting
the State Governments-’ and “ad-
vancing Federal funds directly tc
cities and individuals through
Federal bureaus established with-
in the States, but under the con-
trol of Washington.”
“It is this policy which has been
followed since that date through
all the multitudinous Federal
bureaus,” he said. “It is that
policy which has made the Fed-
eral bureaus wax fat while the
Federal Treasury waxed lean.”
The Governor declared that
democracy was “not a thing of
The Christmas tree has many legendary origins. One of these legends
has it that when St. Boniface was converting the Germanic tribes from
their heathen worship of Thor to Christianity, he turned their attention
from the fallen Thunder Oak, under which the human sacrifices de-
manded by their barbarous religion had been made, and singled out a
young fir tree.
Here was a new symbol: a tree dedicated to love and good deeds,
With no stain of blood upon it, its tip pointing towards the undying stars,
it should be a sign of the new faith: the tree of the Christ-child. Nc
longer was the emblem of faith to be a thing of dread, but set up in the
halls of the chieftain and surrounding with friendship and feasting.
In the homes of the tribesmen, the new tree of the Christ-Child
honored the birthday of the Saviour and children played beneath it. II
became the symbol of love and simplicity: for
“Unless ye become as little children, ye cannot enter the Kingdom
of God,”
Christmas
Happicjst Holulag^e^on.
to SoergboJg
R. & S. Truck Company
E. (Speedy) Martinez, Mgr.
Benavides, Texas
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How Happy Pierre Paid
For His Special Yule Gift
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Many touching, and very human
tories about Christmas and the
ihrist Child are being told and read
t this time of the year.
One of them, related recently by
i movie producer in Hollywood who
itated he heard it at a little French
hurch in his West coast town, fits
n very well with the spirit of Christ-
nas.
According to the story repeated, a
nember of a sectarian order was
irecting a little vignette of the Na-
ivity scene. A short time after the
icene was erected, the tiny figure
>f the Christ Child was missing.
The loss was reported imrpediate-
y to the rector of the parish who
:ame hurrying to the scene of what
.ooked like a theft. On the way
jack, feeling very sad because of
he loss, he was almost struck by a
joy in a little red wagon, rushing
iown the street The rector knew
he happy little boy very welL He
vas Pierre, the local Baker’s son.
Just as he was about to speak to
lim he suddenly noticed the missing
Hgure in the boy’s wagon.
“It was you, Pierre,’’ he cried,
“who stole the Christ Child.”
Pierre, silent, said nothing and
flung his head.
After being scolded and asked
why he took the figure, the tot be-
gan to stammer: “I wanted a red
wagon, this wagon, for Christmas. I
prayed for it in His name, telling
THE REGIS DRUG STORE
DAVID HINOJOSA, Prop.
Benavides, Texas
BENAVIDES MILL & GIN CO.
CALVIN NORTH, Manager and Part Owner
Benavides, Texas
Him that if I did get it I would give
him a ride in it. For it is His birth-
day, you know.”
The kind rector, tears in his eyes,
had not words of reproof, but kind-
ness for thoughtful little Pierre.
“I’m sorry, son, that I didn’t un-
derstand. You are quite right. It
is His birthday. You have given
Him more than any Magi ever gave
to Him on the day of his birth,
many, many years ago.”
Washington,’, but “a things of the
crossroads.”
“It is at the crossroads that the
people of this nation live,” he
continued. “It is at the cross-
roads that their people are born:
that their schools are placed, that
the average American citizen
lives his life .... It is at the cross-
roads that the life of America
takes place—not in Washington.
The exercise of democracy is
there. Let his local officials be-
come overly ambitious and inter-
fere with his rights, he knows it
immediately, and acts. Let any lo-
cal director seek to establish
himself, he knows it immediately,
and the means to strike that man
down are in his hands.
“The typical bureaucrat and the
heads of the various Treasury
groups which have become so
powerful in our American life
know this. They know it and
they fear it.”
Governor Dixon saw the posi-
tion of the Democratic Party in
the south as “anomalous.-’
“It is their own party which is
dynamiting their social structure,
which is arousing bitterness and
recrimination, which is attempt-
ing to force crackpot reforms on
them in a time of national crisis,”
he declared.
“Suggestions are rife with re-
gard to the formation of a South-
ern Democratic Party and the
election of unpledged represent-
atives of the electoral college,”
Governor Dixon said.
Yes, 'we’re still sending scrap to
Japan, but in a slightly different
form.
War Stamps and Bonds make
ideal Christipas Gifts!
Naval Cadets To
Get Training At
Texas U. Jan. 7
A new type of naval prepara-
tory school is to be opened at
the University of Texas on Jan-
uary 7, with 600 navy aviation
cadets as students, Dr. J. Alton
Burdine, University vice presi-
dent, has announced.
The cadets will be assigned
there by the navy, and will live
in University dormitories. A
large staff of University faculty
members will be assigned to in-
struct the new students in such
subjects as mathematics, physics,
physical geography, navigation,
theory of flight, and aerology.
With Captain Jack London,
commandant of the University’s
Naval R. O. T. C. unit, in com-
mand of the new school, addition-
al navy officers and enlist men
will be sent there to administer
the school and to teach such navy
subjects as code and blinker, re-
cognition of aircraft, etc.
The cadets will receive 12
weeks’ basic training at the
University, and will then go into
ground school and flight in-
struction.
A lot of politicians with string
tied to them are defeated. They
have their drawbacks.
NNAR &0N0S
PEHC6 OH CfiBTH w
good ul)iu to Aunun
EL NUEVO MUNDO STORE
J. G. GARCIA, Prop. BENAVIDES, TEX.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.. PEACE ON EARTH
HOLIDAY GHEETIKBS TIimMI
CADENA & SALINAS STORE
J. M. SALINAS and R. CADENA
Benavides, Texas
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Beaman, J. L. C. Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1942, newspaper, December 25, 1942; Alice, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884573/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Duval County Library.