Show from where eliere I 1 sit t y joe marsh HAYK you ever thought how much ciuch a million dollars really la in sure la fit nn an awful lot of cf nice things a fellow could do with a million dollars if lie ho had it A million dollars Is in a lot of money 0 juat think it ib would take about three weeks counting ns as fast na as you could 24 hours a 8 day just juat to count up to a million I 1 read in the paper tho the other tiny day that tho the beor beer industry pays more than a million dollars a day in taxes Ve federal deral state and local every day more than a million dollars I 1 guess buesa the tha government Is glad bind to ret got that help these days daya what with a V war ar to win and pay for of course not nil all of that beer tax money goes goca to the V federal coteral government quito quite a 11 lot of it soen goes to the mates and is used for such useful purposes as public health emergency I 1 relief old ago age assistance education and public welfare Farin farmers surely ought to like the tha beer industry too from what I 1 hear bear last year the brewers bought nearly two billion pounds of bar ley for molt malt and nearly hilf a billion pounds of corn and corn products and plenty of rice and hops flops too a lot of farm products back around 33 and 31 3 1 when tile the tough old depression was hitting all of us pretty hard farmers were certainly slad glad to sell bell those extra crops that beer bought from them and come to think of it when beer came back it made lots of new jobs for plenty of other people too city folks and country folks both it if I 1 gono gone in for this writing business bua inea I 1 think id like to have tried ray my hand at tho the brewing business id like to bo be making a fine tasting beverage bavo raga that helps tho the public treasuries so BO much and that people can rightly call the beverage bever ngo of modera moderation 11 that moderation incidentally ci la ii another of the fira things about beer 1 we l |