Show from rom where I 1 sit y e joe marsh HAVE you ever thought how much a million dollars really is sure is nn an awful lot of nice things a fellow could do with a million dollars if he had it A million dollars is a 01 ot ol of money 41 just think it would take about three weeks counting as fast as you could 24 hours a day just to count up to a million I 1 read in the paper the other day that the beer industry pays diore ore than a million dollars a day in n taxes federal state and local every day more than a million dollars I 1 guess the government is g glad lad to get that help these days what with a war to win and pay for of course not all of that beer tax money goes to the federal government quite a lot of it goes to the states and is used for such useful purposes as public health emergency relief old age ge assistance education n and public welfare farmers surely ought to like the veer beer industry too from what aliat 1 I hear last year the brewers bought nearly two billion pounds of barley malt and nearly half h a billion pounds of corn and corn products and plenty of rice and hops too a lot of farm products back around 53 33 and 34 when the tough old depression was hitting all of us pretty hard farmers were certainly glad to sell 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 if I 1 gone in for this writing busi business I 1 think id like to have tried my hand at the brewing business id like to be making a fine tasting beverage that helps the public treasuries so much and that people can rightly call the beverage of moderation that moderation incidentally ci is another of the fine thins thirds about beer aser acci r 12 cj cf a series 12 drewis drew is foundation |