The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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GRAND 8ALINE, TEXA8
“Garden Spot of the Galf South*'
POPULATION: 1639
APPLRGATE ------
IS. WILLARD PROCTOR
Editor
Owner
Entered aa Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffice in Grand Saline,
Voxas, under the Act of March 2, 1879.
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any
_ arson, firm or corporation which may appear in the columns of this paper,
will be gladly corrected uon due notice of same being given to the manage-
st at The Sun Office, Grand Saline, Texas.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Divided, They Fall
Surrounded by big government, big business and big
labor organizations, the farmer who tries to struggle
along by himself today is rather helpless. He finds a-
gencies on every side telling him what to do, what not
to do, when he can do it, and when he can’t do it.
Planting a crop, milking a cow, raising a hog or sell-
ing a steer have all become acts which virtually require
a lawyer’s advice.
So today more than ever, a farmer needs the help of
cooperative marketing organizations. He needs the ad-
vice of experts. Acting individually, he is sunk. Acting
collectively, he can compete with the power and the in-
fluence arrayed against him.
It is up to the farmer to solve his own problems by in-
telligent action through his own farm organization
speaking for him.
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I went along. We would walk into a
store—aay in H’Hanis, Sabinal or
Hondo—and he’d tell about the device,
then I’d climb up on a high stool »r.d
demonstrate. "
On one occassion, the merchant al-
ready owned a ‘Burroughs—a big
machine—but just to show, anyway,
what our “vest pocket" contrivance
would do, I sat at thv counter «nd
competed with the cushier. The
storekeeper called off a long flock of
(numbers and, while the cashier punch-
ed keys and pulled a lever, I simply
zipped little chains with a pencil-
shaped stick and when “Total” was
called, the amount was right there in
front of me whereas my rival had to
pull the handle three times to get the
result.
We both had the same total and my
dad’s machine was only $10. We sold
i lots of theim, too.
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tram die Hudson Dicpaich, Union City. iV« /•
Your Federal Income Tax
Fantastic!
The better brains of the country have been drawn into
the war administration. Politics has to be forgotten
when a burglar has a gun at your head.
Domestic problems have been largely sidetracked in
the public mind, as they have seemed superficial com-
pared with the war.
Bureaucracy has run wild in Washington. The simp-
lest acts in family life have been made complicated issu-
es.
Editor’s Note: This series of
articles covering every phase of
the Federal Income Tax problem
is furnished by the Bureau of In-
ternal Revenue and will be pub-
lished in 10 weekly installments
for the information o fthe public.
Installment No. 3
Personal Exemption
Every individual is allowed a credit
against his net income which varies
with his domestic status, that is,
One has but to read the requirements for cutting up marrk‘h° *S (8> 8 s'ngk pt,son’(b)
. # w *|‘* »«ed person living with husband
a beef in order to comply with price ceilings, to see how [or wife, or (c) a head of family. This
confused a local butcher must be. Running a grocery or jcre.iit is known as personal exemption,
merchandise store has become a problem so complicated |J-.*
that Stores are going out ol business by the thousands, jsonal exemption also carries depending
Instead of receiving cooperation from government
bureaus, evoryiaie s threatened with a $10,000 1 ine or ten
years in jail, or both, as the penalty for every failure to
comply.
The people are heart and soul for winning the war on
the battlefr <nt. Boys from every family are there. We
are proud of th? results they are accomplishing. The
people are also heart and soul for winning the produc-
tion and distribution problems on the home front to back
up our war effort. But they are beginning to open their
eyes to waste and confusion and politics-as-usual on the
home front.
The situation has become fantastic and it is high
time that thousands of bureaucrats who never raised a
chicken, a hog, or a cow, and who never produced an ar-
ticle by manual labor, and who never maintained a pay-
roll or sold a yard of goods, be replaced by men who
Jcnow something of the actual problems of production
and distribution.
Let brains come to the top in domestic affairs as they
have in military affairs.— Exchange.
upon the period during which the tax-
payer occupied the particular exemp-
tion status.
The personal exemption for a single
person is $500 for the year; for a
manned person living with husband
or wife, $1200; and for a “head of
family,” $1200. (Personal exemption
as head of a family has no effect on
liability to file a return.) For Fede-
ral income tax purposes, widows,
divorces, and married persons separat-
ed by mutual consent, as well as per-
sons who have never been married,
are classed as single persons.
A head of family is defined as “an
individual who actually supports and
maintains in one household one or
individuals who are closely con-
person, or a married person not liv-
ing with husband or wife, may, there-
fore, en joy a head of family exemption
under certain conditions.
Taxpayers using a Simplified Re-
turn (which is permitted if the gross
income for the year is $3000 or less
and derived solely from earnings from
employment and | or from dividends,
interest and annuities) obtain person-
al exemption based on their status
as of July 1 of the year. Thus, a tax-
payer married -and living with husband
or wife on July 1 is entitled to $1200
personal exemption on Form 1040A;
if he were a widower on July 1, his ex-
emption would be $500, irrespective
of the date on which he became a
widower. The amount of the exemp-
tion is not deductible from the income
but is reflected in the amount of tax
showm in the table on the reverse side
of the form.
Taxpayers using return Form 1040
obtain personal exemption proportion-
ate with the number of months during
which the particular status is held.
Thus, for a person who married on
July 1, (who was not a head of family
prior to his marriage) the personal
exemption would be $850 ($250 for
the six months as a single man, plus
$000 for the six imonths as a married
man). In this example it is assumed
that the wife has no income.
Married persons may. however, file
joint return, even though one has no
income, and by filing a joint return a
couple married during the year may
I GIVE
YOU
TEXAS
Everybody in the little Texas town
knew and liked Big Mack.
He was a hard-working, thrifty
farmer who was close to 50 years old,
a bachelor. And then he decided to
get married, so he joined a matrimini-
al bureau and got into correspondence
with a widow who lived up North. At
last, he proposed (sight unseen), was
accepted and sent his bride-to-be her
railroad fare.
Everybody in town knew about the
mail order romance and when the
train rolled in, the platform was
crowded. Well, nobody got off except
one traveling man and the train was
about to pull out when, out of the
coach up near the baggage car, off
stepped a negro woman, clutching a
picture in her hand.
She caught sight of Big Mack, ran
up to him, threw hre arms around
him and gave him a gerat big kiss.
He kissed her right back because,
you see, Big Mack was colored, too!
BOYCE
HOUSE
If you heard a threat growled in
your ear as you stood at a bar and
tuivul to find yourself facing your
worst enemy with a knife in his hand,
what would you do?
A friend of mine tells of an uncle
of his, in frontier days, who found
himself in this situation.
“I’m going to Ijill you”, his foe
said, through clenched teeth.
The man’s face didn’t change as he
remarked, in casual tone, “All right.”
Then he added, “At least, give me
the privilege of examining the knife
that is going to kill me.” And he
coolly extend his hand, took the weap-
on from his amazed enemy—and
then of course ran him out of the
place.
Recruits for W A AC’s
Sought by Officer
Sgt. E. S. Hickman will be in Grand
Saline, Thursday, January 28, 1943,
at the Post Office Building, between
the hours of 2 and 2:30 P. M., for the
purpose of interviewing and giving ap-
plications to women interested in the^
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
Women citizens who meet the age,
height and weight specifications, and
who present a completed application,
birth certificate and two small snap-
shots, 2x2 inches, will be furnished
transportation, meals and lodging to
Dallas for completion of enrollment.
Those who are accepted will be placed
on the Enlisted Reserve of the WAAC,
to await call to active duty, in from
three weeks to two months. Each ap-
plicant will be given transportation
back to her home.
At one time, I was probably the
nected with him by blood relationship, obtain an exemption amounting to the
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relationship by marriage or by adop-
tion, and w hose right to exercise fami-
ly control and provide for those de-
pendent individuals is based upon some
moral or legal obligation.” A single
exemption to which they would be en-
titled for the period of married status,
plus the amount of their individual ex-
emptions prior to their marriage, In
the example given the total exemption
in a joint return would be 1100 ($250
for each spouse for six months plus
$600 for six months married status).
If a husband nad wife living togeth-
er both have income and file separate
returns on Form 1040, the personal
exemption applicable to a married per-
son may be taken in the return of
cither or divided between them in any
way as they may agree, but the total
personal exemption taken in the two
separate returns may not exceed
$1200.
#Our Freedom
Is Priceless
By JOSEPH E. DAVIES
Former Ambassador to Russia
and Belgium.
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(Written for the Treasury Department la
with the Retailer*’ “SAY YES’*
nnection with the Retailers’ “Si
mpaign to complete the nation’s 100,000,000
rtially filled War Stamp albums.)
There Is A l)if ference
* Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, after returning from his
gruelling experience in the South Seas and his inspec-
tion of fighting fronts, is the only man who has said
what the American people needed to hear in connection
with production problems. In the newspapers and in the
news reels he said that if the soldiers could be transfer-
red from the hell holes they occupy on the battlefronts,
to our factories, and if the employes in the factroies
could be transferred to the battlefronts, production in
this country would double in thirty days.
By the tone of his voice and his expression, you could
see that he was disgusted with the Pollyanna talk about
workers at home being classed as filling “battle sta-
tions.”
Captain Rickenbacker emphasized that nothing the
people in this county can do will in any measure equal
what the boys on the battle lines are doing. They don’t
get overtime pay and they work day and night if neces-
sary.
The people agree with Captain Rickenbacker. Just
because some of us wear “tin hats” at home, we don’t
want to become swelled up with the idea that we are fill-
ing “hattle stations”—we are not. Battle stations are
where the bullets fly and men are dying; where men
work as long as there is something to do; where orders
are obeyed; where overtime pay and profits are not an
iastte; and where the perpetuation of liberty and free-
dom for the individual are the guiding stars.
— Joseph C. Grew Warns
Half-Effort Will Not Defeat Japan
By JOSEPH C. GREW
United States Ambassador to Japan until the outbreak of war, and author of **Report
From Tokio
(Written for the Treasury Department In connection with the Retailers' “RAY YES” cam-
Jete the nation's 100,000,000 partially tilled War Sta
paign to comple
tamp ulbums.)
\\T ASHINGTON, D. C.-In de-
scribing one of the big air
battles over Guadalcanal a recent
newspaper account tells of an Amer-
ican flyer who parachuted from his
crippled plane to the waters of
Lunga Bay. The Navy craft which
picked him up next went to the res-
cue of a Japanese pilot seen strug-
gling in the vfatcr nearby. As the
rescue boat reached the Japanese
flyer he suddenly pulled out his re-
volver, aimed it at the drenched
American pilot and pulled the trig-
ger. The cartridge failed to explode.
Then the Japanese officer turned the
gun on himself with suicidal intent.
Again he pulled the trigger and
again his revolver failed him. At
this point an American sailor
knocked him out with a’ boat hook
and pulled him aboard the Ameri-
can craft a prisoner.
Almost daily one reads eye-wit-
ness stories such as this one, and all
of them clearly demonstrate that
war with our enemy in the Pacific
cannot end in compromise.
For ten years I lived in Japan.
The truth as I know it from close
observation is this: Nothing less
than the exertion of our maximum
capacities, individually f* ooHee-
ttrafr. In a war ot
The Japanese are pawns of a
senseless but mighty militarism—a
warrior caste which is ruthless and
cruel beyond comprehension.
JOSEPH C. GREW
Says It’s Fight to Finish
From the flood of eye witness ac-
counts of atrocity and bestiality one
fact shines clear. We must utterly
crush that machine and caste and
system. If, howsvar. we Americans
Sisk that collaetferely and Individu-
ally we can continue to lead our nor- total victory
mal lives, leaving the spirit of self-
sacrifice to our soldiers and sailors,
we shall unquestionably run the risk
of a stalemate with Japan. I do not
have the slightest doubt of our even-
tual victory. But I do not wish to
see the period oij our blood, sweat
and tears indefinitely and unneces-
sarily prolonged. We must not fail
to realize that we are up against a
powerful fighting machine, a people
whose morale cannot be broken even
by successive defeats and untold
economic hardship, a people who
gladly sacrifice their lives for their
Emperor and their nation. We must
also remember that Japan did not
start this war without carefully laid
military plnns for victory over the
United Slates and a peace dictated
by their war lords at the White
House.
. This is a total war, the only un-
swer to which isi a total American
victory. It is a war in which half
measures of any kind mean incredi-
ble waste of material, energy and
human life. In this sense a half-
filled War Savings Stamp album is
symbolic of a hall’ effort. There are,
I am told, roughly 100 million par-
tially complete War Stamp albums
now in circulation. These uncom-
pleted Stamp albums are, in a meas-
ure, like a 100 million threats to a
speedy and victorious peace. On
the other hind, for every War Sav-
ings album completed and cashed in
for • Bond, you the owner have
helped aofna soldier or aailor take a
forward step qp (ha uphill road to
‘^' idctory. v. S. By mry
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What I myself saw in my four
years in Europe gave me a new
realisation of the priceless rights
which we here enjoy.
No secret police can in the night
whisk us away, never again to be
seen by those we love.
None of us can be deprived by any
party, sthte or tyrant of those pre-
cious civil liberties which our laws
and our courts guarantee.
None- of us can be persecuted for
practicing the faith which we found
at our mother’s knee.
None of us can be persecuted, tor-
tured or killed because of the fact
that an accident of fate might have
made us of the same race as the
Nazarene.
No American can be placed by
any party or government in a regi-
mented vise which takes from him
or her either freedom of economic
opportunity or political religious lib-
erty.
What would the millions of unfor-
tunate men, women and children in
Europe give to be able to live and
enjoy such a way of life?
Well, in this war, those are the
things in our lives which are in
I jeopardy. Our boys ore dying to pre-
| serve them for us.
Then we can do no less than to
‘‘say yes” and fill those war stamp
albums. It is our duty and privilege
to help the secretary of the treasury, •
Mr. Morgenthau, in his magnificent
effort to do the tremendous job of
getting the money to keep our boys
supplied with the weapons with
whicli to fight our fight.
Surely that is little enough for ua
to do on the home front. ^
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Applegate, C. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1943, newspaper, January 28, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003354/m1/2/?q=negro: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.