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Show \ Page S i x - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE SENTINEL, MIDVALE, U T A H - - - - - - - - - - - - - - F r i d a y , June 18, 1943 {sTRICTLY BUSINESS by McFeatters I lOOK/Nfl AHEAIJ BY Sellrcy, .Arkllllslls It's Everybody's Tax ·, - -- ...... "In just a moment our Mr. Horton will advise you whether to make that investment!" Home Economist Urges Housewives to Reuse Commerical Glass Jars Because the 1943 Victory food .Preservation program is going to take over five billion glass jars, Miss Myrtle Davidson, assistant director of home economics at the Utah State Agricultural college extension service, urges that Utah housewives round up all the glass jars, old and new, that can do a , job for home canning this swnmer. Although many women have already made a practice of reusing commercial jars, Miss Davidson points out that many more will have to do it this summer and nearly everyone can find a few more jars tucked away in cellars, attics or cupboards. For example jars that came into the house filled with peanut butter, mayonnaise and so on can be used. "Manufacturers this year are planning to make over half a FINE FLAVOR! FINE NUTRITION I Use this smoothmelting cheese food in main dishes! billion glass jars, but this means we need to hunt up and use all the old ones in order to have enough to do the whole canning job," declares Miss Davidson. Three kinds of new wartime jar tops are being manufactured, all using less metal and less rubber than the old-style screw-on with a shoulder rubber. They'll fit any jar with a standard Masonsize opening and a deep screwthread. "The standard Mason-size opening is 25 8 inches in diameter, but the best way to determine whether your bottle is standard size and has the deep-screw thread is to try an old zinc lid on it as you sort your bottles," explains the home economist. "After you have sorted out this type of bottle, you can buy new lids for them," she continues. Some of the jars that came filled with commercial products have a shallow screw thread, even though the opening is the standard Mason size. "If you've saved the original screw-on tops, you can use those jars again with a new metal disc with a flowed-on rubber gasket. "If you have commercial jars with smaller openings, save them too," directs Miss Davidson. "New discs for them are sold in the grocery stores, at the same place you buy the coffee or other foods packed in that size jar. To go with these discs you have to have the metal screw band that came with the jar, or one precisely like it." For more information and actual size illustrations of each of the new types of jar lids being manufactured this year, ask your local county agent for the glass jar leaflet. FOOD OPA TIRE INSPECTOR Recapping Vulcanizing - The Way You Like It FISHER, SCHLITZ, and BECKER'S BEST BEER LEONARD NEWBOLD CENTER ST. SERVICE ON DRAUGHT Gas ••• Oils ••• Lubrication Washing • • • Accessories JACK'S DeLuxe LUNCH Phone Midvale 298 One-Stop Service Phone Midvale 349 I Our Specialty- WEDDING INVITATIONS and ANNOUNCEMENTS • 7~e * /ltif/illle ~entinel HIGH QUALIT Y- LOW PRICES Phone Mid. 178 * 136 N. Main MIDVALE GARAGE ARNOLD C. TROESTE!l Complet e Automo bile Service Standard Gasoline Tires and Tubes R P M Motor Oil Batteries From U. S. Employment Service GEORGE S. BENSON l'ruideHt.J(Ilrlftitff Colleffe couNSEL. Manpower Messages Being a farmer mysel! and a farmer's son with more than 40 years of closa acquaintance with farm problems, my writing last week on the pay-as-you-go plan for collecting income tax was almost entirely a farmer's view of it. But it is not a one-industry tax. Just about everybody who earns a living this year will pay an income tax. Moreover there is a lot to say in favor of skipping 1942 and figur· ing this year's payments on this year's earnings, besides convenience to us farmers. Consider our floating workmen, for example. There are literally thousands of them m the country. Many are only farmers who are handy with tools; our own neighbors, moving as the war work moves from one war-boom stottlement to another. Most of these men have higher living costs than they ever paid before. Many are paying off debts on property and maintaining families back home. Income tax is a real problem with them. The Money Gets Away. Wandering workers as a class are • not saving any actual money. Those with a sense of responsibility are paying debts or investing perhaps, but others are going in extensively for cross-roads chicken dinners, gaining introduction to juke-box so· ciety. Wayside night clubs have be- . come a problem in many defense communities. I am not shifting into a moral lecture. I am merely citing evidence that a large and wellpaid class of potential income tax payers made no plans last year to have cash they will need for taxes next March 15. It has been said that swarms of wandering workers draw pay by a different name at each new joe, that no record anywhere will prove they earn $500 a year nnd that they will probably never pay any income tax. Obviously they would pay one under a pay-day deduction plan. But the really big class are the spend· ers, about to beat their income taxes accidentally. Unless they pay tax on a good year's income while they are getting it, it will be folly to seek payment after the war when most of them may be jobless. Revenue Needed Now Under the existing tax system, to whatever extent defense workers earned incomes last year that can· not be checked now, to that extent they will escape paying any in~me tax in 1943. A plan of pay-as-yougo, figured against their current earnings, would bring revenue from them immediately. And, in addition, to this gain for the Treasury, there is another one too big to ignore. In· comes generally are larger now than they were a year ago and taxes computed on 1943 earnings will be larger than those based on 1942. Students agree that 1943 will be the hard year of the war. Our country's greatest need is now. It seems positively unpatriotic to stay in debt to Uncle Sam for this year's taxes until 1944, especially those new wage earners who are paying nothing for 1942. Reckless spending certainly is unpatriotic foc it creates inflation. Revenue collected from spenders now will mean less money spent and thus safeguard fair prices. Who Will Oppose It It has been estimated that 90 per cent of America's income tax payers are not ready to meet one-fourth of their 1942 tax next March 15. The year after the war, when jobs are scan!e and salaries low, many of them will be in a worse dilemma still. Pay-as-you-go will help them, so who will oppose it? The answer is too obvious. It will'be opposed by pawn brokers and salary loan banks, among others. People who argue that the Treasury ought somehow to collect income taxes for 1942 and 1943 both. while shifting to a pay-as-you-go plan, have lifted the usual cry against rich people. They forget that income taxes do not apply on property; only on incomes. And, as for men who draw huge salaries, the more they earn the bigger the share taken by income tax. Any man who has a taxable income above $50,000 a year could not possibly pay tax on two years' income at once because one year's tax at pres· ent rates takes more than half of it. A Little Figuring Now there remains one sensible question th:>t is often asked and may need answering: "If I must figure my 1943 taxes on my 1943 income, how am I to know, say in January, what my year's earnings will be?" The answer 1s easy! One very reasonable plan would be to estimate your 1943 income by your present rate of pay; or by last year's earnings if you prefer. You would pay your taxes on the estimated income and adjust the errors after the year is over. This could be done whether you pay taxes quarterly, monthly, or weekly. When a man's earnings exceeded his estimate, he would owe the government tax on the di1!erence at the year's end. If he earned less than he estimated, he would have a tax rebate coming to him, deductible from his tax the following year . It will require some figuring but it's a very small effort, to gain all the other advantages in a year of crisis for the best government the world has ever known. Implementing the instructions from Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower commission, that a thorough search be made for nonferrous metal and smelter workers, Joseph S. Mayer, state manpower director, relayed instructions for the search to United States Employment Services offices in Utah. Specific instructions to office managers included! (a) Offer mine and smelter jobs to every able-bodied male job applicant before making referrals to any other activity. (b) Secure names and selective service iacts from nonferrous metal establishments to aid in locating all workers who have left the industry since the president's stabilization order was made effective last September 7. (c) Secure cooperation of all war plants in surveying personnel records to discover men with previous nonferrous working experience. A major phase of the program, Mr. Mayer said, is the return to mines, mills and smelters of the experienced men, needed for leadership and training. "Any man who has ever worked in a mine or smelter should be on the metal production front right now," he said. "There is no question about where they can best serve in the effective prosecution of the war. We are going to induce every experienced miner to return to this Number One war job, or satisfy ourselves that he is at least equally valuable to the war effort in his present work." of Employment of millions workers, the lives of millions of fighting men, and the actual winning of the war itself depend on the 2,000 additional mine and smelter workers who must be recruited for nonferrous establishments in Utah in the next 30 days, if present production schedules are to be maintained, he said. Inspection Requirements Changed Tire inspecitions for commercial motor vehicles now may be made every 5,000 miles or every six months, whichever occurs first, ODT has announced. Previously, commercial vehicles had to have tire inspections every 5,000 miles or every 60 days, whichever occurred first. BJ JEAN MEB:&ITT Bein• Dome Institute and flavor. Raisins, apricots, apples, pears, or prunes are pleasing. Serve hot ~r cold with whole milk, lemon sauce, apple sauce, hard sauce, or frozen custard Try both these dishes so: Ric:h Indian Pudding Over--1;2 cup yellow corn meal Current Com Meal Cookery Corn meal is a wartime heroine. Plentiful, unrationed, inexpensive, always good, corn meal will see you staunchly through kitchen crises in the months to come. Have com meal mush, fried golden brown, for breakfast. Make scrapple from meat trimmings and corn meal. Roll fish in corn meal before cooking. Bake Indian Pudding of milk, molasses, and com meal. As a filler-upper and a stretcher corn meal can't be beat. It has a robust, rugged flavor. It has a stickto-the-ribs quality essential to a satisfactory substitute for meat. Next time you need a main-course dish that will be flavorful and filling, minus meat, try corn cubes in tomato sauce. Make a batch of corn meal mush. Chill and cut in cubes. Then simmer these golden nuggets in a quick-to-fix tomato rarebit sauce. Try Indian Pudding when you want a dessert tailor-made to suit your wartime needs. This is a sort of mealy custard - faintly smoky flavored from the roasted, toasted corn . . . sweet with that pungent, concentrated sweetness nothing but molasses can impart. You can dress up this dish or tone it down. Serve it . Indian fashion, unadorned Or add an egg, if you can spare one. Bits of leftover fruits may be tossed in foc chew pour-llh cups milk, scalded. Add, combining we~l--cup seedless raisins cup molasses lh teaspoon salt 1 egg, slightly beaten. Pour in a greased casserole and bake in a moderate oven (350° F.) for 30 minutes. Serve with whole milk, lemon sauce or fruit flavored sauce. Corn Cubes in Tomato Cheese Sauce 1 lfl Cook for several minutescup yellow corn meal in.5 cups boiling water seasoned with1 teaspoon salt. Place over boiling water and cook45 minutes. Pour into 8" x 8" pan. Chill. Cut in l-inch squares and place in greased casserole. Mix and heat, blending untit smooth11-oz. can condensed cream of ! tomato soup 1/4 cup milk lh lb. American cheese, grated Ih teaspoon celery salt Dash of pepper. Pour over pieces of corn meal. Bake in a moderately hot oven (375° F.) for 20 minutes. Serves 4-6. ! Country Shipper Reports " Country shippers" of dry beans, peas, and lentils must report their pur_chases, sales, and transfers for the month of May to the Washington office of the OPA before June 20. A "country shipper" is the first person who acquires dry beans, peas, or lentils from a grower, or who imports them for the purpose of selling them to the wholesale trade. Ice Box Prices Retail price ceilings on new ice boxes have been established by OP A by models and states. Present prices will be lowered in many cases. Three sets of retail ceilings have been provided, (1) sales by ice companies and their stores, prices ranging from $16.75 to $7'5.50 delivered; (2) mail order sales, $18.95 to $59.95; (3) all other sales at retail, $30.75 to $88.75. ~ valuable booklet that ~14 helps solve menu problema "CHEESE RECIPES FOR WARTIME MEALS" e Here are 22 excellent recipes from the Kraft Kitchen •.. recipes for main dishes that will he a big help with ration menus. The book is illustrated; recipes are printed in large, easy-to-read type. For your free copy just send order form below. FOR ... Style, Quality and Long Wear ··········· ·······: --········ Kraft Home Economics Kitchen BUY Your CLOTHES 502-V Peshtigo Court, Chicago. Illinois Please send me a free copy of "Cheese Recipe$ for Wartime Meal5'' -from-- H. F. Rasmuss en Merchant Tailor Cleaning - Pressing Alterations • ) I I I NAME : CITY ADDRESS STATE I 1 : 1I 1 1 : ·------------------~---------- THE OLD JUDGE SAYS ••• , ''Ow men it. the service in this war have pretty definite ideas about what they're fighting for and the way they want to find our country when they come back ... don't you think so, Judge?" "I certainly do, George. just a week or so ago I was reading in a national magazine the results of a poll taken among our soldiers. Each man was given a questionnaire con~ taining twenty-five 'assignments' for the folks at home. He was asked to check the first five in order of importance to him. "Out of thousands ot replies the first •assignment· to the folks back home was 'Make sure I'll have a job in my chosen field of work when I get back'. Number 5 was 'Make sure that Prohibition isn't put over on us again.' "When the men in the last war came home and found prohibition had been put over on them behind their backs they were sore as boils. You can see from what I just told you bow they feel about it this time, too.'' .._.... ... ·- Ctmfnnu:c of Alclllolic 8fttr<Jl1 ltultulrlu, lrw. • |