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Show V PAGE , TWO PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD,-.WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939 V r v V r li f -The Herald , . . . i , . v :t Every Afternoon (Excepting Saturday) v ..' ' and Sunday Morning ,v Published by the Herald Corporation, 0 South First West Street, Pro vo, Utah. Entered aa second class matter at the postoffloe In Provo. Utah, under the act of March 2. 179. - - Gllman. Nlcol & Ruthman, National Advertising representatives, .New . York, San Francisco, Detroit Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago. Member United Press, N. E. A. Service, Western Features and the Scripps League of Newspaper. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, '60 -eents-ths month, $3.00 for six months, in advance; S5.75 ths year, in advanee; by mall in county, IS.00; outside county 15.76 (he year in advance. ; fir is mm Liberty .through all , the land" Th Liberty Bell The' Herald will not assume financial responsibility for any errors which may appear in Advertisements published in Its columns. col-umns. In those instances where - the paper is at fault. It will reprint that part of the advertisement in which the typographical typograph-ical mistake occurs. '' But pot' forth thy .hand now, and touch aU that he hath, and he will cone thee- to thy face. Job 1:11. "7" Curses are like young chickens, and still come home to roost. tJuiwer. Guam Action Means Not Weakness rThe action of the House in rejecting the $5,000,000 project proj-ect to begin fortifying Guam will undoubtedly draw interested interest-ed comment abroad. - U'. It will be said that this-was a great rebuke to President Roosevelt, and it will be suggested that the American people are plainly divided on armament plans. . Neither deduction will be justified. True, rejection of the .Guam proposal is to some extent a rebuke to President Roosevelt and one particular item of his plans for national defense. But it is not a grave rebuke. For the House almost al-most unanimously went right on to pass appropriations 10 times as great for other items of Pacific defense, r The question was not 4Shall we resolutely provide defense de-fense measures proportionate to the increasing armament of the world about us?" To decide deliberately on defense means and policies that accompany them, and not to be .stampeded into hasty action, is a mark of strength, not weakness. - " 'f n- "i The House decided that to begin fortifying Guam was .not the best way. On defense itself, practically the entire country is united as it has been on few things in recent years. Let no foreign commentator make any mistake about that. These reasons undoubtedly ruled in the mind of the House majority in rejecting the Guam proposals: First, it would certainly be annoying or alarming to Japan, precisely as we would be alarmed if Japan began fortifying for-tifying the island between San Francisco and Hawaii, or Britain turned Bermuda into another Singapore. Such action, in a world where countries are spending half their time annoying an-noying or alarming others, ought not to be taken unless vital to defense. . ; Second, it wasn't considered vital to defense of the United States. And third, if Guam were to be fortified at all it should be fortified in such a way that it could be defended. The proposed Dlan merely made it a more desirable plum for Japan or anyone else to pick at any time it pleased them. Those are all sensible and reasonable reasons for the 3ouseclionJ3ut no one should tow from it .the conclusion !K-'t the United States is willing to provide such defenses as feem to it necessary to make itself and its interests safe. On this general theme, the country grows more united daily as it becomes more and more clear that the rest of the world is determined to churck orderly procedure out the window win-dow and resort only to the tactics of the alley bulley and the Neanderthal Man. We don't like that game, but we can and will play it withv anybody who insists on dealing us a hand. 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WHY You Won't Have to Co to Washington This Year If You Get in a Tax Row With Uncle Sammy By BRUCE CATTON Provo Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 1 Not that it will make the paying of your current income taxes any pleasanter but this year if you have a row wi'th Uncle Sam about the sum he is going to collect from you it will be easier, simpler and less expensive to get the thing settled. Ordinarily, most income tax disputes dis-putes are settled!, by the Technical Staff of the Commissioner of Internal In-ternal Revenue. Formerly centralized cen-tralized in Washington, this outfit now is being scattered all over the country. Bv May 1 the work of setting up 10 regional divisions will be completed, and the 600 technical advisers on the staff will be out where the taxpayers can get at them without taking a long trip to Washington. Income tax returns are already starting to come in, but for the present they are simply being divided di-vided into two piles returns on incomes under $5000, and returns on incomes over that amount. When the March 15 deadline arrives, ar-rives, Internal Revenue Bureau deputies will begin checking the returns to see that everything is on the up and up. It's No Problem Under $5000 Disputes over taxes in the less-than-$5000 bracket don't cause much fuss. The sum involved is small, and mostly a deputy can get things settled by simply mak- Forum and Agin 'Em The Herald holds that freedom of expression Is the most lmportontrTght"of a free people. This right includes freedom of speech and freedom of the. press. Newspaper publishers are merely the custodians of that greatest of rights, and-are not the owners or sole proprietors. The Herald opens its columns to the intelligent temperate discussion of all subjects of general interest and affecting the public welfare. There are space limitations, so be brief! Comes to Defense of Wife on the WPA' Editor Herald: Just a few words in defense of the "Wife on the W. P. A." I read her letter and it is my opinion that there was more truth in it, than in the one by Mr. Goddard in answer. Mr. Goddard was far from courteous in his criticism. The picture in my mind of this "Wife on W. P. A." is of a woman who appreciates what the government govern-ment is doing for her and her famHy, hers is the first letter I've read where it was thankfulness expressed, instead of the usual (the world owes me a living ' attitude. atti-tude. Maybe this wife's man was skilled, as a boss, and was drawing $68.00 as some do, and if he was only getting the regular $44 it's a lot more than some people get who never have been on PWA, as this wife seems to realize. She is not the first to advance the thought of full time work for the WPA and the elimination she speaks of, would in my opinion, surely take place and make the full time idea seem more plausible. She is not the first to mention the expenditure of WPA money for liquor, or pool room pleasure, .nor is it at all likely that the men are driven to these places by their wives, and it is not to be denied that many a little tot has had to go without because of dad's appetite appe-tite for other things. I have personally per-sonally watched . many . a PWA nickel go into the marble machines. mach-ines. Now, it la agreed that wnen a man works his pay is his to do with as he chooses, and X feel that he la entitled toi all the diversions he can afford. ; Aa 'tor the fwife" she expressed heiopihidiir hi a WAV Which I VlPf. rfp-Ht: Vmr- lotff was gopdj', and dknotrithel; Y : X NEED. A FOf Ef f t PAV IS HIS SMOPPIM6 UJL CMY--HAHAT THE J uuu Ld . ..-- V WAMT' y UH MOTHERS GET GRAV ing a call on the taxpayer and having a chat. Its in the over $5000 bracket that things really happen. First of all, the returns are checked for obvious mathematical errors and mistakes in computing the amount of tax due. (You might be surprised to learn that a great many citizens pay more than they need to or try to pay it, anyhow They're always set straight, painlessly). The returns in which errors are found go to revenue agents in the field. These agents, who are primarily pri-marily auditor, check through the returns again, and the taxpayer is called n- Often enough, an adjustment ad-justment can be made right away. If not if the agent finds a deficiency de-ficiency in the tax and the taxpayer tax-payer can't see it that way then the field agent's superior calls a conference of agent and taxpayer and another attempt to reach an agreement is made,. If the taxpayer still feels that he isn't getting justice, he may peal from these findings to the technical staff; and here is where the importance of the current decentralization de-centralization of the technical staff comes in. For in most cases the sum at stake is comparatively small a hundred dollars or so. When the technical staff was in Washington, the taxpayer who wanted to appeal to it had to come down here to do the appealing; chances were it would cost him Increase In Crime Blamed to Liquor Editor Herald: Judge James C. Davis, of Decatur, De-catur, 111., in commenting upon the increase of crime among minors, said : "Practically one-fifth of all crimes, committed in the United States last year, costing $14,000,000,000, were committed by young people under 21 years of age minora while 70 per cent were committed by persons between be-tween 18 and 35 years of age. It is the experience of every Judge that when young people face the court charged with serious crimes, the invariable reply is that they would not have done it if they had not been drinking "We are building- churches to save the souls of men, and at the same time license shops that destroy men; we license places to sell that which will make tnen drunk, and then we make laws to punish the man when he gets drunk; we license shops that make paupers, and then we tax sober people to take care Of them; we license saloons where vice is taught, and then, we tax people for schools, wherein to teach virtue; vir-tue; we derive a, revenue from a traffic which no decent man can defend; boys in the home;-, are nasty answer of Mr. .Goddard. To. bis statement of how -readily men would leave PWA. let me offer a few . expressions from he : Local Boys.: First 1 wouldn't give .my PWA , card for the" best; dm farm on Provo Bench"; second "Why should I top beets for $3.00 when " the government pays' ;Vme. $4.00 and they Vdontmakeme .work": third-We're lust klllmtr f tm tWaa All ntJ . ; : A FEXlWOBCEl f By WILLIAMS more to do that than he would save by winning the case. Availability In Aim Now, however, the regional Office Of-fice of the technical staff is likely to be within fairly easy reach. The tanaver can go to that office and v i"c " . , , ; " nical adviser, who will then hand down his decision. As far as the Bureau of Internal Revenue i3 concerned, that is final. But the taxpayer who wants to keep on fighting may do so, by appealing to the Board of Tax Appeals. Ap-peals. This board it has 15 members, mem-bers, by the way is going to follow fol-low the policy of the technical staff and make itself more easily available to the taxpayer, too. It will "ride circuit," so to s peak-hold peak-hold sittings in different parts of the country, so that the taxpayer can get at it more conveniently. The case usually ends with the Board of Tax Appeals, although anyone who wants to (and can afford to) can always go to the Federal Court. The only sure ap-rthmg"' about'' such a procedure though, is that it will be expen- jslrve. In the fiscal year of 1938, the Board of Tax Appeals disposed of 5689 cases, involving total tax payments of $134,519,000. Of this sum, the government finally collected col-lected $86,613,000. In other words when he has rows with taxpayers, Uncle Sam collects about 27 per cent of the time. (Copyright 1939 NEA Service Inc) 'sy- r ... Squaw Creek. Dear Newspaper Mrs. Indian CharUv won't let Charlie patch up hole in cabin floor. She says it's handy for cats to come in and out. PIUTE JOE. ANGER IN SLAYINOS NEW YORK (AW) Following Fol-lowing a national survey of homicides, homi-cides, an American life insurance company revealed today that quarrels lead all other motives as causes for murders in this country. coun-try. taught honesty, and then we vote to license a place where he may be taught to gamble; we are preaching justice and charity, and then we license a thing' which robs the widows and orphans of their bread." The 18th Amendment was repealed re-pealed Dec. 5, 1933. In the pre-prohlfcition pre-prohlfcition days the greatest number num-ber of liquor-selling places under license at one time-in the United States, was 1&3.468, Today, under repeal, there are 469,468! It Is found that there are 1,350,-000 1,350,-000 girls and women engaged in the real sale of liquor as hostesses, bar-maids, and come-on girls-That girls-That total is three times as many as all the young women enrolled q all the universities, colleges, and normal schools in the United States! C. V. HANSEN. The home that we , r- r- ' Piute bbilcj wUl give you pride and con fort, at 1e$s cost .1 ! mow nates w n jaaw Term 195 WEST THIRD SOUTH .V. A- - PHONE 34 , ."z ccn I A l : CTODV , NO TlME f O f Yeatcrayi 81Ita fcack fat tfce apartmeat arty tm taa atora-SaswCyatfcta, atora-SaswCyatfcta, tIIa,Jaat taat mm ' aueaa 1 ' taa J w-'' ; r - GHAFER-VIII ' ' JANET said, after a moment of , bewUdermentT- 4,Why.' Barney, Of course. supposed naturally itj wasBarney you meant." r 'Oh, did yout Jndeed Cynthia demanded 'drearUy.fr "Janet, was there any. more: reason, why? I should Barry Barney tonight than there, was yesterdaywor, a week agoi-o.rt a:TOonih?:; ?V: V- '.v v why-rl don't know; . Then, in Heaven's name Cyn, who is "Why, Timothy Benton,:, of course. I thought you knew I was going out to dinner with;hn to-i night? , .'. ' ---.:-v. imcthy Benton! Janet echoed slowly after what seemed to her so long and empty a silence that her own voice startled her. But, Cyn, you v couldn't! . v- You couldn't! Why you hardly know him! You cant possibly be In love with hjm.' - "In oveyith 'him?, Cynthia voice was harsh. "Who said I was in love with him? I said, I: had married, hinv. .- . People cant always al-ways have everything, you know, Jan like you. Well, I decidecW some time age that if I couldnt have what I wanted .! most I wasn't going to be fool enough to let that keep me from taking the next best thing that offered . . You see, Tim has his points , . . And at least I shan't have to charge my frocks to your account any more Jan.' Janet made a helpless inarticulate inarticu-late sound, in her throat before she could speak again. VBut, Cynthia," she said. 44Why do you say you couldn't have what you wanted most? You could have had Barney. He . "Barney'.'' Cynthia stormed to her feet, her eyes suddenly blaz ing. "I7n sick of hearing about Barney . . . Why, you little fool, you dont imagine it was Barney I wanted, do you?" rpHEN abruptly she crumpled in- to a sobbing heap upon the bed Janet sat quietly by her, warming her icy hands in her own warm ones, until the paroxysm had worn itself out. Finally Cynthia sat up abruptly. , "Forget it!" she said with a ghost of her old mocking smile. "It's amazing how it helps to let your hair down once in awhile, isn't it? . . , Well, I guess I'd better be running along." "You're not going back to him, Cynthia." "Nonsense!" her cousin said, and got abruptly to her feet. "I made my bargain and I'll stick to it . . . And not so bad a bargain at that. Bob Bums Says HOLLYWOOD, March 1 That was sure a shockin thing that happened in Lima, when a beautiful beau-tiful young woman got all her clothes ripped off by a bolt of lightnin'. They say she was left without the power of speech but a man passerby who hadn't been able to speak for years, took one look an' recovered his voice! It's a wonder to me he didn't lose his eyesight! Scientists are claimin' now that lightnin. strikes the same place .more'n once, so this young lady had better take to cover the minute she hears a clap of thunder. If she don't, she'd better bet-ter carry one of Sally Rand's rubber rub-ber bubbles with her an start blowin it up every time she sees a cloud in the ekv. Gosh. , m . - -r - of walkin down the main street of Hollywood an' havin' a streak of lightnin' do a strip aet on me! But, if it ever did I got it all figgered out as to Jes what I'd do- I'd head for the nearest nudist colony where I wouldn't attract no attention! (Copyright 1939 for the Herald) CRANIUM "The Statue, of Liberty on Barren Bar-ren Island. New York Harbor," recited re-cited Willie, "is the work of Sculptor Sculp-tor Frederic Bartholdi. It weighs 225 tons. ' Liberty carries in 'her right arm a plague" representing the Law, which has on it the date, July, 4, 1776. The head of the statue was completed m 1878. It is under the control of the Department De-partment of the Interior." "There are just three errors in your answer," said the teacher. What are they? Answers on Page Eight Help ypu plan and MARRY BY ELI COPTRIGHT, S. Jan. Dont get the idea that I'm sorry ' for myself. Besides, I've been living on Grams entirely too long: already 5. . . Call mo a taxi-cab;, taxi-cab;, wiUyou while 'I revise my facial scheme? Tlwisfc to. Heaven I were one of these women who can cry without making their faces look like futuristic landscapes.'y Nevertheless, she clung like a frightened t child: to JaneVs hand before she let herseU carefully; out at the apartment door. Vv 1 "Don teU Grams i tiXL she's had her coffee, Jani she repeated before be-fore she went v v ,; 1 Janet spent her next few .hours wondering how she was ever to tell Aunt -Mary even after Aunt Mary had had her-morning coffee. JANET was just coming from her own room when, to her com plete consternation, she heard the telephone ring clearly and loudly in the hall, and Aunt Mary's crisp tones answering the call. "Oh, good morning, Lance! Aunt Mary said. "I'm glad to hear you sounding so fresh after the hours you kept last night It must have 'been: almost four- when you called Janet.- wasn't U? . ? . . I wohder -if I'm not hearing very well this morning. You say you did not call Janet? . . . But I understood un-derstood from her Oh, well, never mind . . . Then you wouldiike to speak tq her now, of course. Hold the line, please." When Janet had talked with Lance briefly and somewhat dis-jointedly, dis-jointedly, because her mind was racing ahead to the ordeal before her she went slowly into the dining din-ing room. Margy was just bringing bring-ing hot rolls from the kitchen. "I found your chiffon scarf all tangled up with the telephone bell when I was dustin' the hall' this mornin', Miss Janet," Margy said on a cheerful, congratulatory note which Janet found definitely discordant dis-cordant "It sure was lucky, else Mr. Lance never would have been able to ring you. I wpnder how on earth that scarf ever came to get in there" "I wonder," Janet said, her eyes on her plate. Mrs. Cantrell waited until Margy had gone back to the kitchen before be-fore she observed dryly, "I'm wondering, too and also just why you told me it was Lance who called you last night, Janet and incidentally, why Cynthia hid be hind you in the hall when I opened my door . . . Just my insatiable curiosity, of course. No doubt it's all one of those things you girls sometimes seem to think I'm too young and inexperienced to be told. By the way, where is Cynthia?" Cyn-thia?" JANET said swiftly, "I don't think she's coming to break- Side Glances j I- l TflfW He was cruel to her mentally and lie kicked her, too FREE for WOMEN GOLDIE COPE Dr. R. A. Richardson's. Staff Lecturer at ROBERTS HOTEL Thursday, March 2 8 P. M. One Night Only c Do You Really Desire Health? Free Consultation by Appointment THURSDAY and ITOlito : NORE COWAN "STON E NEA INC fast, Aunt Mary. Hadn't you better bet-ter butter your roll while it's hot It sounded parrbt-like and re hearsed as it was. ; s O Aunt Mary set down the silver pot from which she had been about to pour her niece s coffee, ana folded her hands .before her "Janet Dwighltr she s a i d, "you're the most transparent equivocator I've ever had the privilege of listening to." v "All right," Janet said desperately; desper-ately; "it too Cynthia .who called1 me last night and I muffled the telephone bells. I did it because we didn't want the newspapers to bother, you." - v "The newspapers?' If Aunt Mary turned a little white, her voice was not less steady. "My dear child, if this is your idea; of breaking something to me gently, you might as well give a war-whoop war-whoop and, fire off a gun. Any-.; how, I've had so many unpleasant things broken to me in my day that I'm practically shock proof.-So proof.-So Janet told her what had happened hap-pened between Cynthia and herself. her-self. When sh had finished, the. old lady nodded her head slowly and murmured, "Timothy B en to n, hm? . . . Well, I can't pretend to be surprised." r ' . "Aunt Mary, you mean you expected ex-pected this?" "I wont say I expected this, but I've been expecting an explosion of some sort ever since ' since what?" For once, Aunt Mary seemed embarrassed. "Well ever since I've noticed how restless she is." Janet knew that was not at all what Aunt Mary had started to say; but she also knew that there was no use in pressing the point. "And you didn't do anything to stop her?" "When people reach Cynthia's age, my dear, there's not much use. trying to stop thenW-or start them, either. AU that should have been taken care of years ago with a birch rod. Did Lance mention having heard about this?" When she had talked with Lance awhile ago, she had not mentioned Cynthia's marriage for fear Aunt Mary would hear. Now she wondered won-dered a little blankly what he . would think. She had so often had the feeling that Lance did not approve of Cynthia. ,N Before she could answer, the knocker on the hall door sounded sharply. "The representatives of the press, I presume," Aunt Mary sighed. "Cynthia might at least have supplied us with a few more essential facts. Just what I am to tell them I'm sure I don't know." (To Be Continued) By Clark ONLY? v..-:--. v. - v. ' . ... 9 W ! 4' K.r ' A .V. |