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Show Chatter Box , Dear Suzy, This town is becoming a long . line of wailing queues. First of all the men gather in the local stores . and wait in long lines for a pack- age of cigarettes, only to have the . last package sold as it comes their . turn, the women rally around any of the stores where it is rumored . they have nylons or girdles; then both sexes form a long line hoping to get a seat for a basketball game; at each meeting of the ration ra-tion board a line appears out of nowhere asking for gas and tires ' to go see Aunt Matilda as she is ' ailing; and now they ,are all lined up with forlorn faces' getting one 1 of the local figurers to outfigure Uncle Sam on the income tax. So you see if they have anything to " at after the war we will have all the "waiters" here to help serve. 5 Ken Cahoon is real pleased with himself at present. He says,' "I set " the Collector of Internal Revenue back on his heels this year. In the " past I have always waited until f March 15 to file a return and the 1 collector sits at his desk just drool-" drool-" ing to get his hands on my return f This year I outfoxed him by mail-' mail-' ing it on March 13. He has had it a full day now and hasn't found " anything wrong with it. My next 1 project is to get my gun repaired at least before deer season opens." - That will be done on the night of October 23. The easiest way to figure out how much income tax you should c pay is to roughly estimate how much you can afford to send to " Uncle Sam, then you double that, ' add 10 percent penalty, add 2 per- cent sales tax, and finally, if you ' are a man, add your poker loses ' for the past six months, and if'you 1 are a woman add all that you ' would like to spend when you get a new catalog, and this final fi-" fi-" gure will be as close as you can 1 come without going into the sor-' sor-' did details. Rufe Clark has the best system for farmers that I have heard of. ' He takes his license number and uses it as a guide. Thus if his li-' li-' cense, we will say, is No. S- 5942 . he does it this way: if the frost holds off until December 20, he puts a decimal point after the complete figure and has $5942.; if the frost lays off until October 15 he moves the decimal place one number to the right and has the figure of $594.20; if the frost comes as usual and he bloats a couple of cows during the year he moves the decimal point over another notch and ends up with $59.42. Then he watches for the license plates of other cars and uses the letter as sort of psychic influence. The first three cars he sees he puts down the letter appearing on the plates; such as B, A, Dif it comes out that way he re-figures the whole thing. But if he gets the letters "OKR" he knows he is on the beam and it means OK Rufe. There are lots of short cuts that you can take and anyway the government gov-ernment penal institutions aren't crowded so you can always have plenty of room, in case your short cut is too short in cash. Helping Hand Toots. |