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State of the Union' : .j
He (the president) hall from time' to time
give to the congress information of the state of
the union . . ." These are the precise words of
" the constitution, in compliance with,, which '"
President Roosevelt on "Thursday addressed the
Tiew congress In joint session. Master of vocal ..
expression that he is, the president always has
a reason for the choice of every word. Though "
the constitution says "state of the union" the
. president said "state of the nation. Why? Per
haps for the, casual reason that "nation" is a
ommonly-used word whereas "union in that
sense no longer is; but perhaps on the contrary,
, for a deeper reason. For our part, we deem the
distinction to be of such significance that we
shall, except n d 1 r e c t quotation, stick to
("union."
f The president's message was a report, not ex
clusively to the congress but over its head to
the people; arid it is our conviction that on no
comparable past occasion have the people lis
tened more intently nor-with keener realization
of their identification with Hhe union and its
state or probable fate. .
r The state of the union the president told
them in so many words, saving the aforemen
tioned variation is good.
J- In advance support of that appraisal, he cited
' these creditable achievements and favorable
prospects: , j
On the war fronts, we have stopped " the
enemy's advance; we have shifted to the attack.'
r -On the home front, we are producing more
armament, munitions and war supplies than the
entire axis ,
We have kept faith with our allies, both as
to supply and as to our active share in the
fighting.- m . "
There is reasonable assurance' that by the
- end of 1943 we shall be nearer to Berlin, Rome
and Tokyo, than we were at its beginning.
I The inventory included much more, and pre
sented it in greater detail. There was the defi
nite promise that we shall strike again though
the. president said "next" by land in Europe,
" and that despite the strengthened resistance, ;
the enemy will be driven from his last beach
head in Africa. i
-But there were three other matters upon
which the people expected, and received, a re-1
port. One had to do with government effici
ency; specifically with' rationing and question-;
naires and red tape. Justifiably we think, the
president pointed to the difficulty of "doing big
things for, the first time" and affirmed that in
7 the circumstances,' mistakes 1 were inevitable. '
Yet it was our impression that in this phase of
his address the president was more than a little'
apologetie-more apologetic than the volume
- of criticism warranted, unless he was thinking
of the election returns rather than direct criti
cism of his administration.
For a second point, the people were waiting
to hear what he might say about "social gains" ;
the more eagerly sinc it was known he had
been advised against advocacy of further lib
eral" reformSf Well, you know Mr. Roosevelt;
and his Dutch antecedents. He just had to take -the
dare but he didn't take it any farther than ,
necessary. i
Third point was his attitude toward a po- ,
litical independent congress. In , the address
there was not the slightest hint, either that :
he intended to bend congress to his will or that I
: he expected trouble from it. Encouraging was j
his declaration , that in wartime the various
blocs" should forego their political and eco- '
nomic differences"-assuming he meant all off
them, including his own. For the rest, his atti- r
tude was one of confidence that in the face of
a task requiring the best efforts of all, there
must be and will be harmony and cooperation. :
In matters directly affecting progress toward
victory, there had better be.
Drinking Water and Floods
."Water, water everywhere, but not a drop
to drink." If the paradox of the thirsty ship
wrecked sailor's plight were not so familiar,
the similar current misfortune of numerous
Willamette valley communities . would seem
more remarkable. ' i:
Water in the basement, water ruining the
.dining room furniture but not a 'drop fit to
drink. Water systems out of commission, wheth
er the source is the river, or a tributary, or
even springs or wells. Turbid and unsafe river
water in the mains; -pumping systems ruined or
dismantled to avoid ruin.
Salem though we knock gently on wood
is an exception. No pumping system, except a
small one serving one elevated area, to -; get
out of commission. And the source free from
contamination under any probable set of cir
cumstances. A flood which might wash away
too great a portion of that island in the North
Santiam is conceivable but it would have to be
a most exceptional flood. And considering the
misfortunes of those neighbor cities, which
attest that it seldom is possible to forestall
I every possible calamity, such an occurrence
would reflect no discredit upon the judgment
of the engineers and city officials, who recom
mended and -approved this Stayton Island
source.
- As it is, we have-a water supply not only
satisfactory as to quality but, as
events demonstrate, safe from flood damage
when nearly - all others faiL Salem will long
owe a debt of gratitude to those who devised raised hell, threatened to sue the government, but
its water system and occasionally, as at this j . ne ot 00 mor oil and the government apparently
moment, remember to be grateful partly com
pensating them for the abuse they endured at
the time the choice was made. ,
East's 0U Supply . ,
James F. Byrnes, the economic
cently offered eastern oil and.
the literally cold comfort of a
"the best that can be hoped for
of the present supply? to the eastern seaboard.
The difficulty is purely one of
Yet we-can foresee, and Honest
already has foreseen and warned -of, an actual fourth full and me with two gallons and no proa
' shortage of petroleum some years hence. That . pects of oil for three or four days. I am leaving
doesn't really stump us, for substitutes have. for Mr. Leary's office with a copy of the paper.
Favor Sways Us; No fear Shall
From First Statesman. March 28,. 1331-
STATES3IAN PUBLISHING CO.
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, President
Paol M<oa
the past week's
Said customer
seemed un worried,.
stabilizer,
the next time !
gasoline users i
prediction that i
is maintenance !
trartation. , here have plenty
Harold Ickes order more unta
AwtT
been devised and if they hadn't, Americans in
due course would devise, therni "' - - ' ' '
' i But it causes us to wonder -couldn't this
"temporary shortage due to transportation diffi
culties be solved at least in part by developing
some of those substitutes? Perhaps it couldn't
be done ciickly enough, and without prohibi
tive expenditure of critical materials. On-the
other hand, a suspicious soul could envisage
resistance from the oil companies. :
Neivs Behind
the News
By PAUL MALLON -
, WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 The outgoing Mr. Leon
- Henderson and the remaining fuel oil rationera
h ve not the slightest idea what they have done
to the average individual home owner.
Their statements before the senate oil-gas com
mittee rang the same old notes
about "not being tough
enough," "people not cooperat
ing, and "stronger rationing
to come.
They are all good, genial,
conscientious men, but they are
thinking in terms of national
supplies, area quotas, and soul
less statistics. They simply do
not understand the human
problems they have put on the
average man. -'
Personal case histories are
scarce. No one furnishes them
in the debate. But I will tell
mine and prove" it with documentary, evidence, if
it wilU bring these officials any nearer a realiza
tion of the human problem in which they have
involved the nation. : r i f
It is an average case, not nearly as bad as many
but it shows such a condition of confusion and
misunderstanding as almost to defy solution.
I spent some hours filling out their long blanks
and measuring the square footage of each room
of my house last fall. "OPA announcements said,
they intended to allot two-thirds as much oO this
year as last.
Their publicity men gave out fancy stories about
how Mr. Henderson's smart young men had work
ed out a complex . formula based on weather for
the' last ten years so everyone would get his proper
share. . - . . s
But when my coupons .came back, the cut was
50 per cent. My last year's bills showed consump
tion of 4325 gallons in the mildest Washington
winter of a decade, but my allocation was 2200
gallons for what is proving to be the worst winter
in the same period.
Right there, I found Mr. Henderson's smart
young men were not smart for me. Instead of
measuring cubic footage of rooms, as every heating
man does when installing a furnace, they measure
floor space only.
The people in our neighborhood with low ceil
ings, in some cases, got more oil than they needed,
whereas the man with high ceilings did not get
enough to run the winter at any temperature.
Studio living rooms, with two story ceilings, left
some dwellers with a pittance. .
My oij dealer informed me there was no use
going to the rationing board even today.. It was
a madhouse. As late as this, it had not been able
to allocate coupons to all the people,' so there was
no need to seek reconsideration. Clerks had large
ly volunteered, were untrained and the average
of mistakes was high.
., Luckily, I had a vacation in - December, so I
closed the house for a month and went away to
USA the heat of others. Coming back, I felt com
forted by announcements from OPA that all Wash
ington dealers had enough oil, although I could
hardly reconcile this with the news in the same
paper that the British embassy had no heat for
several days. . f
My dealer thereupon informed me the value of
my coupons had been cut 10 per cent and anyway
he would have no oil for "three or four days," al
though there were only ten gallons in my tank.
The only other oil dealer in town had plenty, but
OPA had issued a regulation preventing him from
serving any except his old customers. The govern
ment had prevented him from serving me.'
There I learned the problem of the oil dealer
was worse than mine. Less than one-fifth of his
drivers generally showed un, on Monday, because
increased pay allowed them to take more time off
without losing salary.
OPA had descended upon" them with new reg-,
illations requiring detailed daily reports of mileage,
gasoline, tire life, hours driven, concerning each
truck, and it was almost impossible for the dealer
to answer the telephone, much less to maintain an
orderly business.'
So I closed off all except a couple of rooms in
the house, waiting until I reach the last gallon of
OH before seeking other shelter, although all hotels,
apartments, and boarding houses in this locality
are filled to overflowing. , . ,
Even then, as I waited, the afternoon editions
carried government warnings urging more con
version to . coal and threatened dire consequences
unless apartment houses did so. I became acquaint
ed with the "conversion to coal" song of Mr. Ickes
last year when I tried to convert my furnace. My
furnace dealer informed me:
"Oh, that's just bunk the government Is. handing :
out You would have to get a whole new furnace
and no furnaces have . been manufactured. We
simply cannot get them, or even get conversion
grates."--. ' , : ;, h: -. .v. 'mi
His desk now is stacked two feet ; high with .
emergency orders for heating repair in homes '
where furnaces consumed the last drop of oil and
blew out. A radiator in the home of one of his
customers blew out the wall under such circum-
Stances.- - -. - . . r
went to the rationing board and
: This is the story of my community, and this la
my personal experience, briefly told, but dramatiz
ing a situation of greater seriousness in every com-
munity In the land. I do not mind particularly, but
see an announcement by a govern
ment official telling me not to use too much fuel
oil, I am going to take the newspaper that carries
it right down to his office and make him eat it'
. PS The late afternoon ; editions have Just ar
rived with an announcement from the local fuel
director, Mr. Whitney Leary, stating fuel dealers
of oU and warning people not to .
their, tank eetN down tA r-
KSUO CaiOATISM KO
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'- t JO Popular Musis.
ts John Kirby's Orchestra. '
IS jDO World in Rvts-v. .
10:05 Gale GuUIermo.
10 -M Put Friday and Evelyn Trent.
11:0ft Maxine Buren. Women's Xdit
-. or for The Statesman.
11 JS Tour Notes. r
1130 Hits of Yesteryear. .
UM Organatirl -
11:15 News.
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Willamette Valley Onteloaa,
1M-lAim and Abner.
( las RoUo Rudson's Orchestra,
' 130 Milady's Melodies.
l.HS Spotlight oa RhyUua.
S0 Islo of Paradise.
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S .-00 Old Opera House,
i 440 Singing Saxophones. :
45 News.
430 Teatime Tunes.
SHtO Madiaoa Sincere.
5:15 Let's Reminisce.
S30 Golden Melodies.
AO News.
US War Commentary.
S30 Symphonic 8w1n
tao-Mtwi in Brief.
: T 45 Clyde Lucas Orchestra,
V 30 Willamette Valley Opinions. :
. T 50 Gay lord Carter.
SKW War Fronts n ReTiew.
:10 Teddy Powell.
S 30 Treasury star Parade..
S 5 Modern Choir. ,
AO Mews. .
. :15 Deeds Without Words,
30 Guest Night.
10:00 Let's Dance.
10 30 News.
: 105 Chuck Foster's Orchestra.
11 0 Islanders.
1130 News. ...
KALE BCBS FaUDAT 1S3SKS,
30 Good Morninf Club.
t News.
T-.15 Happy Johnny.
T30 Memory Timekeeper.
S. -00 Breakfast CluO
S30 News.
:4 Whafs New.
SAO Boake Carter.
as Woman's Side of the News.
30 This and That.
10:00 News.
10:15 TB A.
1030 News. -1035
Strictly Personal.
10. -45 Buyer's Parade.
11 AO Cedric Foster
11:15 Baron Elliott Orchestra.
1130 Concert Gems.
11 :45 Luncheon Concert.
12:25 On the Farm Front.
IS 30 News.
12:45 Philadelphia Symphony.
1:15 PT A.
1:45 East-West Football Game.
130 A Man With A Band.
1 AO Sheila Carter.
2:15 Newsreel Theatre.
2 :45 Northwest - News.
SAO Phillip Keyne-Gordoaw '
320 Hello Again.
3:45 Bill Hay. Bible.
4 AO Fulton Lewis.
4:15 Johnson Family.
430 News.
4.-45 Echoes
8:15 They're the Barrys.
830 The Cisco Kid.
CAO Gabriel Heatter.
- sas Movie Parade.
6:30 Candle Light and Silver.
7 AO Harrison Wood.
7:13 Art Kasael Orchestra.
730 Lone Ranger.
8.-00 Memory Lane.
8:30 Music Without Words. .
8:45 You Cant Do Business With
Hitler.
AO News.
. :15 Speaking of Sports '
30 John B. Hughes.
:45 Fulton Lewis. Jr.
10 AO Soldiers of the Press.
10:15 -TBA.
1030 News.
10:45 Hal Grayson Orchestra.
11. -00 Herbie Holmes Orchestra.
1130 Jan Garber Orchestra. ,
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KEX NBC FRTOAV UN Ke.
4:00 Momenta of Melody.
4:15 National ram and Home.
:45 Western Agriculture.
7 00 Smilin Ed McConneU
7A5 Home Demonstration Agent.
7:15 Music of Vienna.
7:45 Gene and Glenn.
AO Breakfast Club.
:4S Keep Fit Club With Patty Jean
-AO Meet Your Neighbor.
: IS Woman's World.
:30 Breakfast -mX SardTs.
10 AO Baukhage - Talking.
10:15 Souvenirs
1020 Andy - and Virginia.
1030 The Great Melody.
11 AO Breakfast Club.,
11:15 Current Events.
1130-rJames G. MacDonald.
11:45 Keep Fit Club With Patty Jean.
13:00 News Headltnes and Highlights
13:15 The Three Rs.
' 1330 Between the Bookends.
13:45 News Headlines and Highlghts
1 AO Club Matinee.
1:55 News.
3 AO Hollywood NewsgirL
3:15 Clancy Calling.
2:45 Little Jack . Little.
355 News.
3 AO Charles Runyan.
3:15 Kneass With the News.
330 Earl Wrightson.
3:45 Pages of Melody.
4 AO Scramble
430 Excursions in Science.
4:45 News.
AO Don Wlnslow.
5:15 Sea Hound.
5 30 Jack Armstrong.
5:45 Captain Midnight.
.6 AO Hop Harrigan.
8:15 Mews. -830
Spotlight Bands. "
835 Grade Fields,
7 AO Meet Your Navy
730 Your Income Tax.
7:45 Men- Machines and Victory.
SAO Ear Godwin. News.
8:15 Dinah Shore.
8:30 Gang Busters
AO Your Mayor Speaks.
8:15 Sherman's Ballroom Orch.
:S0 News Headlines and Highlights
9-45 Down Memonr Lane.
10:15 Deep River Boys.
. 10:30 Broadway Bandwagon.
10:45 Dance Hour.
11:00 This Moving World.
11:19 Organ Concert.
Interpreting the War News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman
If a monster j Japanese ' am
phibious exhibition against New
Guinea, - Guadalcanal , or some
other point is assembling, as
Australian reports have it, it is
doing so under trying condi-L
tions. - 4
' Rabaul, in New Britain, is said;
to be the nerve- center of the
enemy mobilization, , although
shipping for the expedition Is
reported widely dispersed to
avoid air detection. Within a few
hours after publication of the
, report in "Australia, MacArth
ur's bombers were on the job!
over Rabaul for the sixth time
in SO days. They bagged an es
timated 50,000 tons of Nippon-i
ese troop and cargo space and
brought to 21 the number of:
ships sunk or wrecked In that
area in the half dozen bomber,
sweeps. -
That does not necessarily for-
; bid a new Japanese effort tore4
trieve lost ground or strengthen
defensive outposts on the Solomons-New
Guinea-Timor peri-,
meter. However, it stoutly sup
ports Secretary Knox's state
ment that Japanese , doings in
the Rabaul area are being scout-
ed regularly by the Afflericans.
A followup bombardment of
the enemy's Munda airfield on
New Georgia by units of an Am
erican surface task force tended .
1 These' eefeedatee " are eeppBed fcy
the respective et ansae. - avay van
Hons aeied byjteteaere aae
emaaxes made by the statteas wtt
at aetiee te this aewspapee.
AB raale staUses aaay be est frees
Che air at any staae ta the taeerests
mt eatloeaJ def eeee.
U:30 War News Roundut. ;
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AO Nortnwest Farm Reporter..'
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Dick Joy. News. .
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830Stories America Loves.
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AOy-Kat Smiuv Speaks. , -a:lS-Bg
Sister. - ' ,
30 Romance Of Helea Trent,
: HS Our Gal Sunday.
10 AO Life Can Be BeauUfuJL
1:15 Ma Perkins.
1030 Vie and Sade. ,
10.-45 The Goldbergs -
11 AO Young Dr Maleae.
11:15 Joyce Jordan. m - - v '
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113 News. w.
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J5 Bob Andersen. - .
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Bachelor's Children.
1 AO Galen Drake.
1 US Old Chishobn iTral. ml
' 1 30 American School of the Air.
SAO Newspaper of the Air.
330 St. Louis Matinee.
3:45 Ben Bernie. i
SAO Meet Mr. EmmeL
3:15 Today at the Duncans.
330 Keep Workin-. Keep Singing.
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4 AO Milton Charles. S i
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430 Easy Aces,
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AO Martha Mears.
30 Harry FTannery. Mews.
45 News,
835 CecU Brown. News.'
AO Leon F. Drews.
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30 That Brewster Boy.
7 AO Camel Caravan,
7:45 Bobby Tucker.
AO Amos n Andy.
, 8:15 Secret Weapon.
8 30 Playhouse.
AO Kate Smith. .
35 Adventures of the Thin Man.
10 AO Five Star Final.
10:15 Wartime Women.
1030 Air-Co.
1030 World Today.
10:45 The Marines Have Landed.
11 AO Les Hite Orchestra,
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1135 News.
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30 News Parade.
635 Latxw News.
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7:15 Aunt Jemima,
730 News Parade.
730 Reveille Koundup.
75 Sam Hayes. .
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830 House Dividid.
S:4S David Harum.
AO The O'Neills.
:15 Everything Goes.
45 Kneass with the News. .
10 AO Benny Walker's Kitchen.
10:15 US Marine Band.
1030 Homekeeper's Calendar.
10:45 Dr. Kate.
11 AO Light of the World. ,
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11:30 The Guiding Light,
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12 AO Story of Mary Marlin.
13:15 Ma Perkins.
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13:45 Right to Happiness.
1 AO Backstage Wife.
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130 Lorenzo Jones.'
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Today 's Garden
By LIIXJE Li. MADSEN -
Mrs. I T. R. writes that she
and her husband have taken a
small new place for the duration.
The lawn has been planted but
mere are no shrubs or flowers
around it. She writes that she
doesn't want to put in perman
ent expensive plantings ' but
would like some color next sum
mer as she has always 'had a nice
garden around her old home. She
wants to know what to do with
out too much expense.
1 Answer: Annuals would prob
ably be the best solution. Of
course she could purchase some
of the smaller, cheaper shrubs,
many of which give good results
the first year. Or perhaps the
owner would be willing to add
a few to improve the home.
But annuals will give .color,
can be had cheaply and produce
at once.: As soon as the ground is
warm enough purchase plants of
nicitiana, marigolds, petunias,
snapdragons, calendulas, zinnias
all the well known varieties. If
seeds are to be used, plant them
in flats .this month. In setting
them out, remember better re- .
suits are had by mass colors, ra
ther than by planting singly. For
instance; a bed of the canary
bird or the Indian summer
snapdragons : ,-or if planted in
borders, group the same varie
ties together.
to show that American sea . as
well as air patrols -are widely
and aggressively on the alert. If
a mass Japanese sailing from the
Rabaul region . is impending, it
is confronted . with ' .the grim
menace ' of : American air and
surface attack along the way. It
could bring a sea-air fight even
more decisive than, the Midway
, battle which changed the face
of the war in the Pacific.
, The logic: of the situation for
the Japanese ' points primarily
'toward defensive. rather than
- offensive ; maneuvering in the
southwest Pacific. The ' allied
threat against! that vulnerable
corner Of the Nipponese r con
quest sphere is real and grow
ing. ' ; . ( j- . .
It is written in the Pacific at
trition figures which President
Roosevelt t so sharphly empha-'
sized to the new congress in his
hopeful review of the war on all
. fronts. Naval, cargo and, above
au, air losses of the Japanese
J since Pearl Harbor warrant Mr.
' Roosevelt's dictum that "the pe
riod of our defensive attrition
in the Pacific is passing.
'Now our aim is to force the
- Japanese to fight,", he added.
Last year, we stopped them.
This year we Intend to advance."
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Your Federal
Income Tan
: . ' NO.
THE , VICTORY TAX
The victory tax is a temporary
in come tax, additional to the'
revenue act of 1942. It is payable
upon income for the year 1943;
consequently tax-payers will
find no reference to it in the in
come tax returns for the year
1942 which are now being sent
out by collectors of internal re-;
venue. However, payments on I
account of victory tax will be
made currently, by deductions, :
or "withholding" from wage
payments made after December;
31, 1942. The amounts of the .
payments are required to be de
ducted by the employer, and re-'
mitted quarterly to the collector
of internal revenue. When the
tax-payer makes his income; and
victory tax return for the year ;
1943 (due in 1944) he will show
in his return the amount that!
has been withheld by his em
ployer and claim credit for this
amount in his return.
The amount withheld by- thev
employer Is 5 per cent of each
wage payment in excess of the
withholding deduction " Is an
exemption from tax on the first
$824 of "victory tax net income" j
for the year, or the proportionate
amount corresponding to' the
pay - roll period. Thus, for an
employee paid weekly, the
amount withheld on account of
victory tax is 5 per cent of the
amount of the wage payment
in excess of $12. A table of ap- '
proximate amounts may be used
by employers for computing, this :
deduction. For example,- the ta- ;
ble provides that on weekly wage
payments over $12 and not over 5
$16. the amount withheld is 10
cents, and on weekly wage pay
ments over $16 and not over '
$20 the amount withheld is 30 :
cents. Corresponding amounts
are withheld for wage payments
of other amounts and for other ;
pay-roll periods.
The amount withheld is com- ,
puted upon the total remunera-
tion f the employee for the '.I
period (in excess of the with- ?
holding deduction), including i
remuneration in form other than ;
cash. Thus, if board and lodging ;
are part Of the employee's re-
muneration, the cash value of ,
the board and lodging must be r
included in computing the ;
amount to be withheld. i
Employers are required to fur- j
nish employees a 'Statement of
victory tax withheld. These "
statements are not furnished with '
each wage payment but are
made for the calendar year, or j
for the period of employment
during the calendar year. If an '
employee is employed until the
ena oi- me year, to staiemenc
a .a at.. - -a " aa a 1
must ne rurnisnea oy January i
31, 1944; If the employment cea
ses during the year, then the
statement must be furnished
within 30 days from : the time
of the last payment of wages.
As the statements will be evi
dence in substantiation of an
employee's claim for credit for
victory tax withheld, they should
be carefully preserved by the
recipient , . - . -
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Chapter XI continued.
As the taxi got under way she .
iaw her acqualntancei "the Ueu-;
tenant - of . dtectives, striding .
purposefully ; toward the -,i en
trance of the apartment house.
- She i considered very briefly
the expedient of going back to
face the fact,! but discarded the
Idea at once i. . . Nothing must
. prevent her from appearing in
the Golden Blend 5irl contest
; -The police would not find her
at home, but; they would know
where to look for her. It was m
matter of public knowledge that :
she would be among the model ;.
competinr ti the Chamberlain-- ;
Towers. The police would, come. .
Wen, . let, them come. y-ih
The taxi left Darnley at the :
entrance to the great hotel and
she was not unconscious of the
glances that followed her as she
walked to the elevators leading 1
to the ballroom, She was early, ,
but that did not matter. '
Approaching .the! ballroom, ;
Darnley heard her name spoken,
and, turning, saw Chico Sanson
on the stairs. ' '.;
1 She paused and smiled. Wfll .
you wish me good luck, Chico?"
i "You know! you have my best "
wishes; Darnley.' ! ' .
? "I know." she said.
He was staring at her, not with
admiration, but with something
like horror. kod Lord!' he
said in a choked voice.
"What is it, Chico?"
j "That coat!"
-Confidentially," ihsv said- '.
"This coat was stolen. And the
police are looking for it." : ,
i "Darnley!" I
j "No, Chico, I didn't steal it."
.' "I don't understand.. How
come you are wearing It?" '
I "I don't understand fully eith- -er.
But I had to wear it It was
the only way I could be here to- - '
night to compete. I am turning
it over to the police as soon as I
can.- ' -i..-:
! "But they know "you have it?
They are coming here?"
; "Probably."
i "Have you thought," Sanson
asked gravely, "of what that ;
mean to me and to this contest? .
A competitor i f o r the Golden -Blend
Girl award arrested for
theft! Perhaps the winner of it .
Involved ia a. scandal!" H com
pressed his lips. "Tm afraid.
Darnley, I can't let .you: com-
pete. I'm afraid I must ask you
to gcr-away." '" : " ' j r-'- v.
"I thought this was a land,"
she said bitterly, "where every
one's innocence was presumed
until guilt war proven. Grand-!
pa Carfax told toe so. Have you
thought of the results to me if
I am refused the right to appear
tonight?'"" 'y':y--fi
: "Darnley, Darnley cant you
see? I must protect." ;
"Is business the highest law?
What about the finer law, Chico,"
that commands us all to protect
the Innocent? I assure you I
will be able to prove I did . not
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years, the United Nations should
hold and treat Italy Germany
and Japan as outlaw 1 nations of
the lowest type of gorillas, bar-
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of hell of all tvoes and timM
All three are no less; venomous
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steal this coat or anything else
verl"
; Sanson seemed lost in deep,
worried thought Suddenly he
declared, "Well, Darnley, de-
spite cop or robbers, you com
pete tonight That's that!" 1
Thank you, Chico," she said
imply. ; nd passed Into her
dressing room.
. She hung the - sable coat on
the rack and sat before a dress-
ing table. Other girls arrived, ,
and the room became noisy with
conversation. Several of her ri-
1 vals seemed dangerously beau
tiful. They made her conscious
that to be declared the most
beautiful model in New York re
quired something more than or
dinary good looks. ? f
' A man in evening dress rapped
and entered. He held a list in
his hand. There are forty girls,
in-1 hi competition,", he said.
"You are to appear In groups
of ten for the preliminary Judg
ing. : From r each group of ten,
two will be selected. . In the sem
ifinals there will be two group
of four, from each of which one
will be picked by the Judge to
appear in the finals.". He read
a list of names. "These young
ladles will appear in the first
group. Please be ready to step
-upon th . fl30 promptly."
' Darnley name was In the
third group. At last .she stood
ready, off-stage, to make r her
entrance with her section, and
could hear the applause from
the audience as it greeted the
winners of the preceding sec-
tion. An - attendant motioned v
them on, and Darnley followed
the5 girl before her out upon the
stage and before the footlights.
She looked down upon an area
of. white faces, vaguely visible ,
through the glare of light In
line the group walked slowly be
fore the Judges; then each girl
was required to step from line
and to walk back and forth
across the stage, exhibiting her
self to audience and Judges.
: " Some contestants chose to
make use of the artificial, un
dulating slink of the 1 trained .
mannequin. Darnley, when her
turn came, -did not do so. She. 1
walked as she believed an in- ;
telligent girl of good taste would
- carry herself, not proudly, not
with ' exaggerated . movement,
but with an effort , to be na
tural, unself -conscious. She re
assumed her place in formation,
and the ten i stood : while the
Judges conferred. One of these
stepped . forward and took a
dark-haired girl from the other
end of the line and led her for
ward. He 'turned arid walked
to Darnley, taking her hand and
leading her. to stand beside the
first selection. The room roar
ed its applause. : .i . ;
It was not with a feeling of
elation but of relief that Darn
ley realized she had surmount
ed the first barrier. She could
look, now, down into the aud
ience with greater serenity.
Faces ceaseti to be blurs and be
came human. It was not pleas
' ant ! to recognize Lacey ; Gone
In the fifth row. It was with
distinct distaste that she was
Elaine Sanson. But and she felt
a pang, of disappointment she
could not make out the untidy
hair or boyish . face of Clyde
Farrish.
(To Be Continued)
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