Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1940 Page: 2 of 4
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THE BENAVIDES FACTS
Established in 1925 in Duval County
P. O. Box 842 Benavides, Texas
PUBLISHED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK
J. L. C. BEAMAN, Sole Owner and Editor
P. 0. Drawer 120 Alice, Texas
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Texas under the Act of March 6, 1879.
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FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940
GUILTY OR NOT?
Fire—the great destroyer—is
having a fine time this year.
During the first three months
of the year, it turned $100,459,-
700 worth of property into ash
and debris. It thus exceeded its
record for the same period in
1939, when property valued at
$87,000,000 went up in smoke
and flame.
No data is available on the
number of lives taken by fire in
the first quarter, but, going by
past precedents, it took more
than 2,000. That many people met
one of the most horrible of deaths.
It’s only human when we read
figures like this, to shrug, shake
our heads, say “Too bad!” and
promptly forget them. And that
human weakness is the main rea-
son why fire is such a “glowing
Contemporary
Poetry
MY MOTHER
God sent her down from heaven
above,
Filled with patience, unselfish-
ness, love,
Always giving, not seeking return,
Never asking rewards she has
earned.
My Mother.
She understands when I am feel-
ing sad;
She’s happy in my joy when I am
glad,
She will love me to the very end
Even when I have no other friend.
My Mother.
And what have I done to merit
this one?
What do I owe her for all she has
done?
Nothing but love and appreciation
For the greatest gift of God’s
creation,
My Mother..
—Mary A, Stringe.
success.” Fire waxes on human
lethargy and laziness—even as it
prospers on human forgetfulness
and ignorance. Few men ever
start a destructive fire deliberate-
ly—but it’s a rare man who has-
n’t carelessly taken a chance or
overlooked t' hazard that made
fire more probable.
And so it is up to you whether
fire continues its inexcusable rav-
ages. Don’t try to console your-
self with the thought that fires
are inevitable—less than two in
ten fall into that category. And
don’t argue that fire prevention
is the other fellow’s business—it’s
your own personal business, and
everybody else’s business too.
COTTON STAMPS
The food stamp plan—under
which persons on relief are given
allotments of foods of which a
surplus exists—continues to ex-
pand. It has apparently proven to
be a reasonable way of disposing
of some of the foods held by the
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A small upright piano for
only $135.
Good practice pianos $25
and up.-
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Company
336 W. Commerce St.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
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Humble's policy of continuous improvement
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THEM
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-GREATEST OOUAR VAUJEI
BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940
Federal Surplus Commodities Cor-
poration
Few, according to a recent an-
nouncement by Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace, stamps are to be
issued, under a similar plan, for
cotton. A tremendous cotton sur-
plus now exists, and its reduction
is essential to the welfare of the
millions of families which depend
for all or part of their livelihood
on income from raw cotton—and
that legion of workers which de-
pends on cotton processing and
manufacturing for their jobs.
One extremely significant
phase of the stamp plan is that it
has been entirely carried, out
through existing private merchan-
dising cnannels. The taxpayers
have not had to dig down to pay
for the creation of a costly gov-
ernment-owned distribution sys-
tem. Roth chain anti independent
stores have cooper* led tt, the lim-
it in furthering the plan, and
have apparently done a magnific- j spending! Nation
ent job. The unemployed have j billions!
benefited—-and so have the pro-
ducers. And the plan unquestion-
ably tends to keep the cost of
maintaining relief down.
The cotton plan is to start on
a small scale, and be extended,
as was the food stamp plan. And
America’s private merchants, b.ig
and little, may be relied upon to
see it through with maximum ef-
ficiency.
peace—19
BLITZKRIEG
The United States is at peace.
Great Britain is at war.
In the coming fiscal year,
Great Britain’s local and national
government will spur cl 10 billion
dollars. During the same period,
government—federal, state and
local—in the United States will
cost well over 19 billion dollars!
Nation at war for its life—10
billion dollars of government
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. LIKE CHAMPAGNE ] ..AS A FEATHER 1 f «
“They thought they had me
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Jl gone down, they say, ‘Why don’t our bills go down?’
“Now all those fellas pay money to bowl, yet they don’t
give it a second thought. I suppose because they see what
they get. It would be the same if they bought an extra pack of
cigarettes. But electric service, that’s different. When they
want to do somethin’ nice for their wives they buy some
- electric appliance to make the housework lighter. Or they
buy an electric razor for themselves. They get lots of com-
fort and pleasure out of those gadgets. But when the bills
come in they forget how much they got for that money.
The reason some bills don’t go down is that most people
use a lot more electricity than they used to. All the boys have
electric light, a radio, a washing machine and a toaster in
their homes, and most of ’em have electric refrigerators and
fans, too. Yet it doesn’t cost ’em much more, if any, to operate
..all those things than it used to cost for light alone, because
rates have been cut just about in half during the last dozen
years.
“If we could sell electric service by the pound, people
could see what they get. They’d realize how much they use
and how many jobs it does. And they’d appreciate how much
less it costs now.
“I’m glad to be in a job where I help people get more of
the good things of life. All of us at the
plant feel that way. We know people fiyfa
depend on us to give them better serv-
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we aim to do.”
# CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY
Of course our population is
three times as largo as that of
Great Britain. Allowance can be
made for that, and the figures
still remain startling in their im-
plications, for it is well to remem-
ber that the BricFli bill—still
much smaller than ours—is two
and a half times what it was in
pre-war daj^s.
Can it be that government in
this country has declared war,
too—war on economy and on the
poor, defenseless taxpayer?
There seems to be no explana-
tion for Germany’s rash drive on
Norway, though the sun spots may
have had some effect on the
i Fuehrer.
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WHEN
Your Boy Grouts Up!
/\LL mothers and fathers want their
children to have worthwhile employment
when they grow up.
The Texas oil business is manned by
Texans . . . the Texas boys and girls of
yesterday. 225,000 of them earn good
livings for themselves and their families
—a yearly payroll of $271,000,000.
Oil pays good wages . . . maintains
reasonable working hours . . . and offers
opportunity for promotion.
Old age retirement and unhampered de-
velopment of the oil business will pro-
vide many new jobs each year for our
young Texas workers.
But the growing tax burden is a serious
factor in wages and employment, since
the Texas oil industry now pays taxes
equal to 36 per cent of its labor payrolls.
Unwise laws and excessive taxes can
retard and stop the growth of this in-
dustry which means so much to the
future employment of our boys and girls
This Advertisement Paid for by Various Units of the Industry and Sponsored by
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Beaman, J. L. C. Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1940, newspaper, May 10, 1940; Alice, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884586/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Duval County Library.