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Show PROVQ. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, WEDNESDAY, . JANUARY 17. 1945 Editorial... f-Xfess with the Lord God; Are ye com U en-af en-af nur As I live, salth tha Lord God, I wUl .t ba enquired f by yau. Eseklel tOJ. V" Who best bear bis mild yoke, they serve him best: bis state is kingly; thousands at his bidding gpccd, and post o'er land and ocean without rest Milton. - The Washington Merry-Co-Round A Daily Picture of Whafa j cSTbSSS? f2stinr fin tin NatiAnal Af.iaa Allan OB WASHINGTON White House advisers have been staging a quiet campaign this week to put Mayor Fiorello La Guardia across as the new secretary of labor. So far the president has been unable to find the right or willing person to step into Miss Perkins' shoes and "the madame" is intent on leaving. Some of the president's friends, therefore, there-fore, think La Guardia is not only a natural, but could be persuaded to take what is the most thankless Job in the cabinet The labor post is being hard to fill because possible appointees will tiave to step into the middle of the hot CIO-AFL row, in which they are sure to offend one side or the other. La- Guardia, however, is used to stepping on people's toes, doesn t care now many people be offends, and will ride roughshod over any group he thinks is wrong. 3 Moreover, the Little Flower's political prospects pros-pects as mayor of New York for a fourth term are not bright. The Republicans, and nominally he is one, say they won't nominate him again. The Democrats, toward whom he leans nationally, oppose him locally. La Guardia s popular follow Hospital Retirement Fund Workers at the Utah State Hospital who have been trying for several years to establish es-tablish some form ot retirement plan are hopeful that their efforts will be crowned with success at the current sessions of the state legislature. They were greatly encouraged en-couraged when Governor Herbert B. Maw in his biennial budget message, to the. legislature legis-lature recommended that such a retirement plan be established for all state employees, and those city and county employes who wish to join, similar to the teacher retirement retire-ment fund 'which has been in operation for several years. -Workers, men and women who have given giv-en 25, 30 and more years of their lives in the service of a state institution such as jS just as large as ever, but he will have a .at- - . a A 1 .1 A. A. I. . . , . tm ine suite nospiuu are enuuea 10 greater security for the future than they are given today. They have worked at such a low rate of pay during their active period, that most of them have been unable to lay aside a sufficient fund to keep them independent in old age, when their useful working days are over. It is unthinkable that the state should accept their services for the greater portion of their lives and then, when their usefulness useful-ness is over, throw them on public charity. Retirement funds for public workers have been an established fact for many years in the postal service and other branches of the federal government. Since city, county and state workers are not covered under the federal social security plan, they form one of the largest groups at the present time, without any old age security. There is a fine opportunity for the present session of the state legislature to take the necessary steps to correct this injustice by acting on Governor Maw's recommendation. toueh time being re-elected if nominated So you may find the fiery Fiorello coming back to his old haunts, Washington, where he once served as one of tne most, efficient hard-hitting hard-hitting representatives ever elected to congress SECRET DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS They weren't talking about it publicly, but several Democratic senators were hopping ma a last week when, in secret caucus session, Texas statesman Tom Connally told them to check with the foreign relations' commitee before forming conclusions or taking a stand on foreign affairs. Connally held forth at some length to assembled as-sembled Democratic senators as chairman of that committee. He appeared to be trying to re establish the prestige lost by his committee when it railroaded the six state department nominations through last month, only to have the full senate toss them right back at Connally and his com mittee for further consideration. Connally's remarks were addressed principally princi-pally at the new members. "Foreign relations." he explained, "are an extremely complicated subject today and I hope, before you declare yourself or commit yourself in any way, youll give our committee com-mittee a chance to reach some important con clusions and to help you personally." ' The Democrats, as one of them put it, sat "silent as a tomb, but not meek as a lamb." Not only were there murmurings about Connally, Con-nally, but there was no enthusiasm among the A J nt frlr new senators over the leadership of Senator Ken- .t? MJWn, l.,K MvnB. nt Tnn,HM whn was elected The House Military Affairs Committee,! president pro tern of the senate. There was a according to a dispatch from Washington, strong feeling that the senators who really should would like to canvass thp mannowpr nrnh.'0 heard from are those who aided in the carnal. carn-al. .-"-Tr; canvajs ine manPOwer Prop-.ign last year Connauy and McKellar were not ua ui uuuuuj uiu rial pruuukuuu licius x before reaching any decision. A look before a leap is certainly commendable. commend-able. But why is the committee (and apparently ap-parently the House and Senate) only now getting around to look? And why has legislation leg-islation to cure these manpower problems already al-ready been introduced when congressional information is apparently so inadequate ? The existence of manpower shortages in certain critical fields is not news. The Presi dent first asked Congress for national ser-i active, whereas senators like O'Mahoney of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Pepper of Florida. Kilgore of West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Guffey of Pennsylvania, really went down the line, working night and day to re-elect Roosevelt Roose-velt to his fourth term. Note One of the freshman senators whom Connally lectured was Fulbright of Arkansas, former Rhodes scholar and university president, who knows more about foreign affairs than Tom ever though of knowing. It was Fulbright who forced congress and Connally to adopt an international inter-national cooperation resolution last year. THE BRITISH DIPLOMATIC GAME The lone, lean, gracious Earl of Halifax emerging from a one-hour session with the presi Vice legislation well over a year ago. And dent last week, told news men he had come to since mat iirsi tentative request tne manpower man-power situation has gone from better to worse. The need for more ammunition, heavy artillery, ar-tillery, trucks and tires, radar equipment and cotton duck is six months old. Con gress has known of this need. It has sent wish F. D. R. A Happy New Year and present him with a book as a gift. "Did you discuss Drew Pearson's column with the president?" Halifax was asked. "No." he replied. "Did you discuss it with Mr. Stettinius?" "No." "Are you sure you didn't discuss it with Some 01 Its members to the battlefronts to( "No." said Halifax, somewhat more icily. 'But Mr. Ambassador." he was reminded, "only ten minutes ago Mr. Stettinius said you Temporary Respite " i mr,S if j$brs I I rf i A w I p mil w?iJl V v IMP sMi mm mm ar r ARTICLE NO. Deduction Permissible For U. S. Income Tax DEDUCTIONS Ctatribabaw JEL4X.t..j.VJ,fc,i.0..ghVff.?.bJ. .T..-n?jsj:J5.cjB-La ST io 6b 5.fe0. 00. latarwt AlWibh Ciirtntlm (at h l 15 hm S. pi I). 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The recent war production shortages and result ant tightening of manpower and Selective Service controls, the sweeping series of orders and recommendations from the Office of War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes, the President's own request for reconsideration by Congress of the national serv ice legislation issue all these things are supposed to add up to the conclusion that General Staff thinking is dictating too many domestic policies. The all- out liberals view this with some concern, believing that in a democracy de-mocracy the civilians should be telling the military what to do and not the other way around. The last time this military dom ination was presented as an issue people were expected to get excited ex-cited about, Donald M. Nelson as Chairman of the War Production Board was supposed to be fired to prevent Lt.-Gen. Brehon B. Somervell from getting control of war production and the civilian economy in general. Plots Seen at Every Turn The Washington observers who see deep dark plots in every little Desk Chat WHY SOME MEN FAIL Many and varied are the causes that lead to failure. Some are beyond our control but most oU tnem we can control u we act V before it is too late. Some of the important causes that lead to failure are: Finding fault with the other fellow but never seeing you own. - Doing as little as possible and. trying to get as much as possible, for what little you do do. Slandering those whom we do not like or those who do not like us. Procrastination the habit of putting off until tomorrow or some vague iime in the future, those things we should have donev the day before yesterday. Disloyalty to those who have trusted us. The false idea that 'we know it all' and no one can teach us anything more. Spending too much time shovK ing up the other fellow's weak-points weak-points and too little in correcting our own. . Unwillingness to forego some selfish pleasure or gratification in order to achieve our objective. Lack of the necessary training. education or understanding to enable us to stand at the head in our profession or line of work. Too little or the wrong kind of advertising. Not understanding how to budget bud-get our time or finances. . The bugaboo that competition. thing tried to build this upset ! cai out-distance us and trying to- Here are the Does' deductions, on page 4 ef Form 1140. All except the Miscellaneous item are discussed dis-cussed in today's article. That will be taken up tomorrow. see the result of shortages with their own eyes. It has received from War Mobilizer Byrnes a detailed report on production and manpower problems. And now, when enough of everything and more to spare is needed to press the attack in the Philippines and throw back the Germans Ger-mans in Europe, the House Military Affairs Committee wants- to canvass the situation. What has the committee, and congress in general, been doing in the meantime ? Well, for one thing, they were pretty busy running runn-ing for office. There was the question last summer of recessing without unbecoming haste so that the members might get home to their constituents. And after the elections elec-tions were over there was really very little that the waning 78th congress felt that it would do, emergency or no emergency. And then what happened when the new congress finally rolled up its sleeves and prepared to tackle its critical tasks? Well, the first order of business in the house was to reconstitute the so-called Dies commmit-tse commmit-tse and put it on a permanent basis. There was also considerable talk of investigating organizations like the CIO-PAC and curbing their future activities. We don't say that a congressional committee com-mittee to investigate un-American activities activi-ties is not, in principle, a good thing. Nor do we contend that "non-partisan" political organizations should be immune to investigation. investi-gation. But we do maintain that they are not of first importance today, at the expense ex-pense of pressing military needs. Postwar Travel In a recent advertisement one of our domestic do-mestic airlines has published its postwar time table of flights from San Francisco to ' Calcutta. In 1929 this airline, TWA, in- worth the effort. I have been waiting so long mM v. i - : ito see the inside of the White House. I think nwvaawiivw situii 4 duovvh liiw4i mm 03 . a ivv did discuss it with him.' "Did he?" answered the ambassador. "Well, 1 must have I must have talked to him about it er on the telephone or something." ROOSEVELT FAMILY BD3LE The president received a gift he greatly valued when Rhode Island's aristocratic, scholarly. scholar-ly. Senator Theodore Francis Green called to present pre-sent him with an old family Bible which had been given .the president's mother in 1863. The Bible, bound in 1824, had belonged to Eliza Parker, second wife of Warren Delano, the president's presi-dent's great-grandfather on the maternal side. It was discovered last year by Attorney Henry Crowe of Pawtucket, R.I., during examination of an old estate. The Delanos had lived in New Bedford, Bed-ford, Mass., whaling city near Pawtucket The Bible contained a number of pencilled notations by the second Mrs. Delano. It will be sent to the Roosevelt museum at Hyde Park. While Senator Green questioned the chief executive ex-ecutive about future orders for the Newport torpedo tor-pedo station, the president delightedly thumbed through the old Bible. Finally, he assured Green the assigning of more orders for torpedos are needed and must be ordered from other plants. As Green was preparing to leave, the president presi-dent said with a a smile: "Senator, they tell me that Rhode Island is the one state , in the union which has given me a larger plurality each time I have run for president." presi-dent." Green agreed it was, and told the president he stands ace-high with Rhode Islanders. "Well, come see me again soon," called F. D. R. as Green departed. ONE REPUBLICAN'S VIEWPOINT Republican National Committee publicity Expert Ex-pert Lee Chesley was sitting with a group of friends discussing politics the other day. One ef them was trying to console Chesley on the Dewey defeat in November. "Just think, Lee, if Dewey had been elected, you'd be busy as a Beaver now working your head off trying to jam everybody into the inaugural inaug-ural proceedings and not having half enough tickets to go around." Yes, I know," replied Chesley, "but it would using planes. The elapsed time of these rugis (with train travel at night) was about 35 hours from New Yortc to Los Angeles. After the war, according to present plans a TWA passenger will be able to go from San Francisco to Vienna or Milan in slightly if Roosevelt were smart, he'd invite a few of us Republicans in for dinner, show us the place, and tell us something; about his troubles. Maybe then we wouldn't be so eager to Jump on him." (Copyright, 1949, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The inflation (in China) is terrible. A fare for a 100-mile bus trio has iumned from S8 less time than the New York-Los Angeles in Chinese money to $1260. A 150-pound bag of rice that cost $8 before the war now costs $2600, Rev. Francis J. Moehringer of New York, back from 22 years in Kiangst Province. time of 16 years ago. We think that's encouraging and pretty wonderful. And we would think that it was even more wonderiul ll someone could The recent Japanese offensive in China and guarantee to US that mutual international the present German counter-offensive in Western cooperation, sympathy and respect would Fupe,.bot,hs te,-2d.i2 ,how that,.bt,ore t.helfnemy .j nwv,,.J T ; .ia finally liquidated more will have to be de-be de-be increased m direct proportion to the m-m,nded of us before. w must not relax. creased speed of international 'travel. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Here is the eighth of 10 authoritative, easy-to-follow articles telling the wage-earning wage-earning taxpayer bow to prepare pre-pare his income tax return. Readers should clip and save each installment of the series. BY S. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer For income tax purposes you are entitled to deduct any interest in-terest that you paid to anybody for any reason, business or personal. per-sonal. Strictly business interest goes into the business schedule, which I am ignoring in these articles. ar-ticles. All interest paid by those who are not in business comes out on Page 3 of Form 1040. Common items include interest paid on notes, personal loans, deferred de-ferred payment purchases, cars, radios, refrigerators, furniture, etc. (when such things are available); avail-able); interest, in mortgages, in taxes you were slow in meeting, etc. In connection with installment items you can deduct only the actual ac-tual interest element, and not any service charge, insurance or other fee. If interest, taxes, amor tization and insurance all enter into monthly payments in a mortgage, mort-gage, charge interest here, taxes in the next group, but do not deduct de-duct the other two items at all. Deductible Taxes As I said in an earlier article, the tax situation is even more muddled now than before Congress Con-gress simplified the income tax. It is not even as ostensibly logical as it used to be. There follow two lists: the first, of taxes you can deduct, the second of taxes you can not deduct. If you are in doubt about others, I suggest that you check with your collector's office. On page 3 you can deduct automobile auto-mobile registration and driving license fees: city fees, licenses, permits and privilege taxes (most, but not all of which affect only businesses); state excise taxes tax-es on articles brought into this country for your own use or for gifts; city and state sales taxes; state gasoline taxes, excepting those of Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississipp, Utah and Wyoming and the Territory Ter-ritory of Hawaii; real estate, personal per-sonal property and poll taxes; state income taxes. Non-Deductible Taxes- Note these' carefully, because several were deductible until this year. You can not deduct federal admissions taxes on theater tickets, tick-ets, cabaret tax, and the like; federal fed-eral taxes on club dues, on tele phone and telegraph messages, on train, bus, plane and other transportation trans-portation tickets, on gasoline, liquor, cigarettes and tobacco; federal customs duties, even though the imports were for personal per-sonal use; federal income tax; any estate, inheritance, legacy, succession or gift tax; any federal stamp tax; social security taxes deducted from your pay; ' assessments as-sessments levied by communities to finance local improvements; the 'federal use stamp tax on automobiles, au-tomobiles, dog, hunting and fishing fish-ing license fees; water "taxes." The tax on safe deposit box rental, formerly deductible, no longer can be taken as such. But now you can deduct as a nonbusiness non-business expense, in the miscellaneous miscel-laneous group below, .the entire rental charge for the box, including includ-ing the tax. Casualty Losses The next item covers deduction of actual out-of-pocket losses through fire, storm, theft and burglary, accident, shipwreck, etc. In computing such losses you must subtract any salvage value and any insurance you may have collected. You must be prepared to prove such losses.and in claiming them must give reasonable details. Police Po-lice and fire department records will help in some instances to prove what happened, but you should not charge more for the losses than you believe you can prove if challenged. Medical Expenses-Deductible Expenses-Deductible medical expenses are limited at both ends. To see whether you can benefit, first list in the space provided on page S. or on a separate sheet to be filed with Form 1040, exactly what you spent for hospital, health, surgical surgi-cal and accident insurance premiums; pre-miums; what you paid to doctors, surgeons, dentists, nurses, hospitals, hospi-tals, laboratories and clinics, including in-cluding X-ray, anaesthetia and other special fees; for medicines, dressings,' ambulance use, false lambs, artificial teeth, eye glasses, hearing aids; for nurses' board, if you paid it, and for travel essential essen-tial to obtaining medical care. Include In-clude your tax, family, and de pendents. From the total of these items subtract anything reim bursed by insurance. Enter the remainder on the line "Net Ex penses." Now take 3 per cent of the in come shown in Item 5, page 1, and enter it on the line provided. Subtract this from your net expenses, ex-penses, to get the allowable medical med-ical deduction. If net expenses were greater than 5 of income, the excess up to $1250 for a single person without with-out dependents or $2500 for a tax family of two or more can be en- tered in the right hand column as a deduction. If net expenses were less than the 3, forget the whole matter. This formula differs from last year's so it will be wise to follow instructions . carefully, and not trust to memory or intuition. Q's and A's Q What does the Marines' shout "Day-tay-coy!" mean to the Japs? A "Come out! We won't hurt you." Q What is dextran? A A hew "synthetic blood plasma" made from a by-product of sugar processing. Q What are the B-35, B-36. and B24? A New big bombers being perfected per-fected by the U. S. The B-36 is described as the largest plane ever attempted in this country. Q How many penalties has the WPB levied for restriction violations? vio-lations? A 950 in the last three years. Q In meteorological parlance, what is an inversion? A A condition in which, temperature tem-perature say 2000 feet up is warmer than near-earth temperature, tempera-ture, thus preventing rise of smoke and fog and creating "night" in daytime. into a big feud. Nelson was back ed by the War Investigating Committee, then headed by Senator Sen-ator Harry S. Truman. The com mittee secretly expressed itself as ordering Nelson W tell the Administration Ad-ministration and generals where to get off. When Nelson put over his "spot authorization" plan for a limited reconversion, that was supposed to be a great victory for the civilian over the military. Then Nelson himself was re lieved of WPB control. Senator Truman was nominated to the Vice President and his once-po tent committee seemed to lose much of its punch. The military is now presented as having been in the ascendant from then on. An idea that this can be in terpreted as a coup d etat, a putsch, or just a plain old Amer ican take-over of power, is ' of course so much b a lderdash. Things like that don't happen in the United States. Bureaucrats in or out of uniform may wrangle among themselves for position. departmental influence, and pet ideas, but that isn t the whole government as long as Congress, for all its faults, still breathes. But granted that Army and Navy general staff thinking does not dominate the executive de partments of the government, and that this accounts for such things as the recent orders to stop spot authorization, close the race tracks, draft farm workers, put ceilings on live cattle, tighten up meat, butter, sugar, and canned goods rationing, cut back civilian goods production, take over Montgomery Ward and similar trouble spots, cut down on coal consumption, turn off the display dis-play of advertising lights so as to save fuel what of it? Maybe -the Military Was Right-Any Right-Any way you look at these recent re-cent curbs on the civilian economy, econ-omy, they seem to bear out a sneaking suspicion that maybe the military point of view General Gen-eral Staff thinking, if that's what it was was right in the first place. Maybe there should have been a national service law passed a year ago when Under secretary of War Patterson first stuck his neck out to advocate its necessity. Maybe the military authorities were right when they balked at the spot authorization plan for limited reconversion. The military master minds aren't perfect by a long shot and they have made plenty blunders. But when the Army has to furlough fur-lough men to make tires aad steel and help with the crops, that is a severe indictment that the men behind the men behind the guns have fallen down on the job. 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