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THE BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942
ORIGIN OF EASTER
A tiny tot, a basket of gaily-
colored eggs - delivered by the
buny rabbit—together they sym
bolize the Easter that Americans
know. And so traditional are
these novelties that few realize
their origin.
It all started in the Far East
thousands of years ago, when the
Persians exchanged eggs at their
"‘New Year’s” spring festival,
which, by the old calendar, coin-
cided with the Easter festival. To
"hese people, the egg was a sym-
bol of birth, resurrection, or
creation—perhaps the re-creation
of spring.
Strange as it seems, the color-
ing of eggs isn’t a sentimental
nastime of modern vintage. Even
■ he ancient Persians colored eggs.
Originally, this process repre-
sented the new colors which
spring brought with it. Centuries
ago eggs were chiefly painted
red, by some in honor of the
blood of Christ, and by others to
. H- represent joy after the 40-day
Lenten fast,' during which in
times past, eggs were not per-
r~ tted to be eaten.
The Easter Bunny’s history,
■hough somewhat vague, goes
back to ancient Egypt, where
the name for ‘rabbit’ or ‘hare’
also meant ‘to open,’ and was
probably used as a symbol of
the spring festival that opened
the new year of life and hope.
Again today we fight for-
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND WORSHIP-FREEDOM TO VOTE
AS WE PLEASE - FREEDOM TO WORK AND .TO STORE UP
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guns that are superior in many
ways to foreign makes. And they
are constantly improving on
themselves, ^ constantly making
weapons that, are better than
anything they’ve made to date.
They’re busy, too, devising
ways by which they can make
our peacetime goods last longer,
now that we’ll have to do with-
out many new products until the
war is over. They’ve already per-
fected methods of caring for au- If there was any doubt in the
tomobile tires to stretch the wear minds of official Washington
we get from them. They’ve dev- j about how the people back home
eloped ways to extend the use feel about the prosecution of the
&
THE FRUITS OF OUR LABORS IN SAVINGS
/AND LIFE INSURANCE.
ABOVEALL, FREEDOM TO RtSE TO UNUM/7ED HE/6HTS.
Washington
Gets Earful From
Folks At Home
KNOW YOUR
many
that wood, plastics, and
other products give us.
Such facts indicate that our
industries today are not only
sweating for victory on the firing
lines; they’re working for it on
the home front, too. And they’re
planning ahead to the post-war
period, figuring out new wonder
products that can be manufac-
tured then to raise our standard
of living higher than anything
we’ve ever known in the past.
EASTER EGG BATTLES
war, that doubt was removed by
the thunderous voices of 500 of
them, assembled Monday and
Tuesday in the capital.
The government officials asked
for it and they got it. Only the
future will determine how they
will act on the strong opinions
expressed in the so-called “grass
root” representatives.
Upon call of the- officials, is-
sued on recommendation of rep-
resentatives of county officials in
Washington, 500 men and women
from 44 of the 48 states descend-
ed upon the confusion and tur-
moil of the war capital.
- | After hearing from a large
In Mexico, children and young j number of the prominent offi-
people have Easter egg “battles” j cials and war administrators,
which are the equivalent of the j 500 men and women, whose
American Easter egg “roll” and ' or:*2*ns go right back to the com
v .    T-,    mon npnnlp Cairo -fT-loir. anoTYro
hunt. For many weeks before
FIRE PROTECTION
“Few cities have sufficient men
in the fire department to permit
full capacity to be obtained from
their pumping engines,” says a
bulletin issued by the National
Board of Fire Underwriters. “A
minimum of an engineer and
three men is needed for the ef-
fective use of one hose line and
if two lines are used the man-
ning must be increased accord-
ingly. Many fire departments are
operating with less than this,
which may be satisfactory for
the multiplicity of small fires,
but for the infrequent serious
fires this undermanning is ser-
ious. The need of keeping the
apparatus in good condition is
vital at all times, but more so
under the conditions now pre-
sent, as replacement, of appara-
tus may be greatly delayed.
“Training of fire departments
has never been so important as
now, and if an auxiliary fire
force is organized, it must also
receive a thorough series of
drills.”
Adequate fire protection is as
important to the small communi-
ty as to the great city. " ,
EXTRA DUTY
During peacetime more than
$300,000,000 was spent here in
America in a single year to dev-
elop new products that would
make our lives more comfortable.
In research laboratories all over
the country many thousands of
men and women worked at the
endless task of raising our stand-
ard of living higher and always
higher.
Today those great industrial
research laboratories have an-
other job. They’re working now
to protect our freedom and the
comfortable way of life that
they helped to create. For our
armed forces they have already
•developed airplanes, tanks and
Easter, Mexican cooks and house-
wives save the shells of all the
eggs they use in their kitchens.
The contents of each egg is re-
moved through a small hole in
the end. Then, just before Easter,
the eggs are dyed in bright col-
ors and filled with confetti. Tlie
hole is sealed up and the “am-
muniton” is ready for battle. On
Easter afternoon the children
gather in the Plaza with their
supplies and the battle of the
Easter eggs ensues as they pelt
each other with the confetti-
filled eggs.
ANTI-BRITISH TALK
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
shek’s recent appeal to Great
Britain for it to grant the people
of India real political power of-
fered an opportunity for the ene-
mies of England in this country
to renew their vicious attacks
against our Ally. They made the
most of it. On every hand, the
age-old Indian situation was re-
hashed, mostly to the discredit of
Great Britain.
There is still an element in the
United States that, while want-
ing a United States victory, would
prefer it if Great Britain and
Russia came out badly used up,
finished as first-rate powers.
They may honestly want to see
Hitler destroyed and Japanese
LIFE
Life is a gift to be used every
day
Not to be smothered and hidden
away.
It isn’t a thing to be stored in a
chest
Where-you gather your keep-
sakes
And treasure your best.
It isn’t a thing to be sipped now
and then
And promptly put back in a dark
place again.
Don’t keep it in niches, and cor-
ners and grooves,
You’ll find that in sei'vice, the
beauty improves.
—Selected.
mon people, gave their answer
in no mealy-mouthed ambiguous
manner. Here are the recom-
mendations, contained in resolu-
tions adopted:
1.    A fair and equitable ceiling
at once on wages, profits, rents,
farm and commodity prices, to
avert inflation.
2.    Immediate action to prevent
and prohibit strikes or profiteer-
ing, or any action by employe or
employer which interferes with
war production.
3.    Immediate action to suspend
the 0-hour week to whatever ex-
tent necessary to win the war.
4.    Curtailment of government
peace-time functions, national,
state and local, convertible where
possible- to war effort.
5. Discriminatory action against
or in favor of any group is con-
demned.
6. Allocation of OCD mate-
rials and equipment to counties
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COASTAL EMPIRE
If that drop of iodine smeared
over bruise or abrasion could
share the intelligence and ten-
dencies of its human beneficiary,
it would, likely enough, have
much to say of its unappreciated
dignity and importance, in war
as in peace; of its parents, ni-
trate of soda; of the nitrate’s
power in life and death in the
human family; and, finally of the
world’s only producer of natural
nitrates on a commercial scale—
the Republic of Chile.
Chile, an empire in itself, a
great ribbon of 286,396 square
miles, spread along the rim of
the Pacific for nearly 3,000 miles,
reaches farther south than any
militarism forever broken, but
they cannot forget their hatred
of our two Allies.
Such a hope just is not in
the picture. It should be evident
by now that it will take the
combined resources of all the Al-
lied Nations to win, and that
victory for one will be victory
for the others. The United Na-
tions will win or lose this war
together.
One of the best sources of aid
and comfort to our enemies has
been the way in which these
anti-British and anti-Russian
elements in our country have
made use of every available op-
portunity to criticize our Allies.
Consciously or unconsciously,
they seek to drive a wedge be-
tween this country and the na-
tions fighting with us.
as well as to larger cities for dis-
tribution to smaller incorporated
and unincorporated areas.
7.    More courage, diligence and
promptness in dealing with sub-
versive activities.
8.    Single coordinating agency
through which local government-
al priorities may be handled.
9.    That as local representatives
of government throughout the
nation they pledge their un-
qualified support.
Commissioner Attends
Among the speakers were Vice
President Henry A. Wallace,
Maurey Maverick, former Texas
congressman, now chief of the
bureau of government require-
ments, war production board. A
dozen other speakers, one of them
chief lieutenant of Donald Nel-
son were on the program.
Each speaker was asked ques-
tions when he concluded his pre-
pared address. Questions indi-
cated that the people back home
are far from apathetic about the
war and that they have been
able to put their finger on the
most important weaknesses in
the war effort.
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HAPPY
EASTER
May This and
Each Easter
Day Usher in
for You a Year
of Joy and
Happiness
J. R. DE LEON, Prop;
Benavides, Texas
other nation of the American
continent. It is sometimes refer-
red to as “the California of South
America.” If there is some sim-
ilarity as to relative location,
shape and topography, the par-
allel cannot be carried far.
Two Californias, nearly, could
be contained within the boun-
daries of Chile. They would hold
Germany, Begium, Denmark,
Holland and Switzerland. Cape
Horn and the Chilean archipelago
are about as far from the bleak
desert country of the north,
where are the nitrate fields, as
San Francisco is from New
York. The belt line, at its broad-
est, is about the distance from
I Washington to New York.
Stretched out between the
great Andean mountain range
and the Pacific, Chile has a cli-
mate varying from the heat of
the baked northern desert to the
snow and ice of the stormy deep
south. Nature has portioned the
country, roughly, into three pro-
ductive zones. In the extreme
south, adjacent to the strait of
Magellan, are good grazing areas
where stock-raising is a rapidly
developing industry. To the
north is the great Central Val-
ley, famed as one of the world’s
garden spots. Here all the pro-
ducts of the temperate zone and
most of those of sub-tropical
climates grow luxuriantly. This
is the most thickly settled and
the most highly cultivated part
of the country. And here, in a
fertile valley between mountains
and sea, is the beautiful capital
city of Santiago. On the coast,
only 116 miles away, is the equal-
ly famous port of Valparaiso.
And last, but by no means
least, is the zone of the nitrate
fields. The eyes of the nations
of a world at war, as the strug-
gle in defense of the ideals of
the New World moves toward
decision, will turn with more and
more eagerness toward Chile’s
desert storehouse. For nitrate,
with its by-product, iodine, is a
principal item in the manufac-
ture of explosives. A necessity of
war, both for the making and
mending of wounds, it is price-
less, too, as a nutrient for man
and his husbandry.
In times of peace and normal
demand, Chilean nitrate was
second only to Chilean copper,
another war need now. As a
world-producer of this metal,
Chile is outranked only by the
United States. The country has,
in addition, surpluses of iron and
coal. After more than a hundred
years, the mining of gold has
been resumed. Recent discoveries
of oil seepages may be herald of
another great industry to come.
Chile’s is a republican form of
government, with executive, leg-
islative and judicial branches.
Its present constitution dates
back only to September 18, 1925,
but it retains many of the im-
portant features of one adopted
nearly a hundred years before
it. This older constitution was
largely the work of the great
statesman Diego Portales, Min-
ister of State under President
Prieto from 1831 to 1841. This
constitution, in turn, superseded
a still older one, Chile’s first.
It was drafted by a committee
World Needs
More Religion
And Kindness
By GEORGE PECK
What America and the world
needs today is fewer religions
and more religion; fewer tenets
and dogmas and a bit more of
the milk of human kindness.
Recently we had the pleasure
of seeing “How Green Is My Val-
ley?”, the motion picture ad-
judged the best of 1941. It sets
forth all the misfortunes of man-
kind brought about by brutality,
evil-mindedness and thoughtless-
ness. It emerges a great film,
achieving dramatic power be-
cause the baser qualities of man-
kind are contrasted with the
sweet and fine.
It made us realize once again
just how unnecessary is most of
the suffering we see about us. A
little of it san be cured by Gov-
ernment regulation and legisla-
tion, but it goes deeper than that
and becomes our responsibility
—yours, dear reader, and ours.
Some of us are deluded with
the idea that Government by it-
self can adjust the relationship
of men. Others among us, be-
lieve that going to church or
supporting the church ends our
obligation to society. The former
is futile, the latter false.
Only by being more patient,
more- thoughtful, more tolerant
of others about us, can suffering
really be alleviated. Sympathetic
understanding and consideration
of our neighbors, our friends,
yes, even of our enemies will en-
able us to overlook their sup-
posed faults which so greatly
annoy us. America is fighting a
great war against cruelty and
oppression—against the pagan
doctrine that any people has the
right to force its dictum on an-
other people. So far the battle
has gone against us. We fear the
tide will not turn in our favor
until we abandon our material-
ism and stop demanding rights
appointed by the famous General
O’Higgins shortly after the Chil-
eans, with the help of the Argen-
tine patriot and soldier, General
San Martin, defeated Spanish
royalist forces. This triumph,
the Battle of Maipo, April 5,
1818, marks the end of Spanish
power in Chile and the birth of
the Republic.
which we neither have earned
nor deserve.
Even if we defeat our mili-
tary enemies, we can still lose
the war if we do not as a nation
experience a spiritual regenera-
tion; if we do not substitude the
words “sympathy, understanding
and sacrifice” for “my rights and
gimme.”
There is too much of hatred,
brutality and suffering running
rampant in the world today. Let
us resolve here and now, not,to
add to the world’s woe by any
harsh word or covert act of ours.
Let us further resolve to l^j
more cheerful, more kindly, mo^
self-sacrificing to those about us,
beginning with our own family
and reaching out to all with
whom we come in contact.
Self-sacrifice is the child of
love and love is of the being of
God. Yes, we need fewer reli-
gions and more religion—less
hatred and more love—less cur-
sing and more prayer—less
“gimmes” and more giving. If
we purge ourselves, both ma-
terial and spiritual victory ulti-
mately must be ours.
EASTER
GREETINGS
Our Best Wishes
For Happines
and Good Fortune
in this
Glad Easter Season.
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EASTER
JOY
May we Wish
You a Happy
Easter Season and
Express our
Thanks for your
Patronage.
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Drug Store
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Benavides, Texas
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