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THIS WEEK—THIS WORLD |
In the course of Hitler's rise to power, he solemnly promised the Ger-
man people that he would never make the mistakes of his predecessors.
Those promises were: (1) Never to make war upon the British, to whom
he conceded an unconquerable spirit; (2) Never to embroil the United
States, which helped to lose the last war for Germany; (3) Never to
fight a two-front war. He also prom-
ised not to make Napoleon’s mistake
of fighting a winter war against
Russia.
Like all Hitler promises, to the
Germans or anyone else, they were
not worth breath wasted upon them!
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The crime of the isolationists,
Wood, Wheeler, Lindbergh, Nye, et
al, was not that they did not see to
the ends of their noses, but that
they permitted themselves to be al-
lied with, or exploited by, the rot-
tenest elements in the American
scene,
Laura Ingalls, the flying fascist,
who since has been jailed as a Nazi
agent paid to spread the poison of
disunity, was not the worst of them.
There were enemies of the democrat-
ic spirit such as Father Coughlin,
who printed political forgeries in his
publications; Joe McWilliams, who
smeared venom aimed to stir relig-
ious pogroms; A. Wheeler-Hill, an
outright traitor now. imprisoned as
a spy; General G. Van Horn Mose-
ley, fascist-minded tool of foreign
agents; and James True, pal of
Fritz Kuhn, the German-American
Bundist now in jail.
The isolationists took the gran-
doise name “America First Commit-
tee.” It was a device which at-
tracted many innocents. Innocents,
too, were attracted to names such
as “The Christian Mobilizers”, “Paul
Revere Sentinels”, “Crusaders for
Americanism”, “American Guards”,
“American Nationalist Confedera-
tion”, “Silver Shirts”, etc., etc. Hid-
den behind these and other labels
were personalities who connived to
devitalize the prevailing American
resistance to fascist influence. Also
present and doing yeoman service
were reactionaires of the stripe of
George Deatherage, whose organiz-
ation sported a red, white and blue
swastika; the fascist-minded John
Snow; E. N. Sanctuary of racial per-
secution fame; F. K. Ferenz, exhib-
itor of Nazi films; Benjamin Frank
Bullard, anti-union agitator; and
that redoubtable propagandist for
the Japanese, William J. Baxter,
Declaration of war on the United
States by Japan, Italy and Germany,
has liquidated the activities of pres-
sure and subversive groups for the
moment. But only for the moment.
Not to be forgotten, now or in the
future, is that the malefactors are
still amongst us, and that given the
opportunity they will come out of
their sewers of political connivance
to stab America again in the back.
Be on the alert for bombers! Be
on the alert, also, for blackguards!
* * *
Via Grapevine Telegraph: Yugo-
slavia—America’s entry into the
war resulted in pro-American dem-
onstrations in Belgrade . . . 50,000
Montenegrins have been. executed
by the Fascists since the occupation
of the country by the Italians . . .
NORWAY—Quisling Norway is com-
pelled to pay five million kroners a
day to its ‘liberators” by the Ger-
man occupational forces . . . PO-
LAND—More than 40,000 Germans
have been drafted to combat under-
ground Polish patriots who are caus-
ing havoc among railways, roads
and bridges.
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Embarrassing Quotations Dept.:
Said Hitler on August 27: “The Rus-
sian armies have been smashed from
Finland to the Black Sea!”
* * *
In spite of assurances to the Ger-
man people the past several months
that the Russians have been defeat-
ed and the British have been pre-
pared for the kill, it is plain that
they have been more than a little
war weary. Undoubtedly it was that
war weariness which impelled Hit-
ler, as recently as last October, to
attempt to bluff himself into a peace
with the British and/or Russians.
His plan was the old simple one:
“Buy one off at the expense of the
other. Then wait a few years to re-
coup strength and finish off the job!”
The “peace plan” was released by
Herr Doktor Burckhardt, one time
Nazi League of Nations Commis-
sioner at Danzig, and was floated
through Swiss and Swedish news-
papers,
It got nowhere. Both Churchill
and Stalin turned the offer down
cold. They even checked with each
other, meanwhile giving assurances
of mutual determination to blot out
Nazism forever.
* * *
Score up the year 1941 as one for
the democracies. Hitler is now fight-
ing on two fronts—and then some.
Russia is bleeding the Nazi armies
white. America is all tooled up and
stepping into high industrial gear.
Central and South American nations
Your
Income Tax
Seven Timely Articles
To Help You Prepare
Your Income Tax
WHO MUST FILE A RETURN?
Every single person having a gross
income of $750 or more; every mar-
ried person, not living with hus-
band or wife, and having a gross in-
come of $750 or more; and married
persons living with husband or
wife, who have an aggregate gross
income of $1,500 or more.
WHEN MUST RETURNS BE
FILED ? For the calendar year 1941,
on. or before March 16, 1942. For
the fiscal year, on or before the
15th day of the third month fol-
lowing the close of the fiscal year.
WHERE AND WITH WHOM
MUST INCOME TAX RETURNS BE
FILED? In the internal revenue dis-
trict in which the person lives or
has his chief place of business, and
with the collector of internal reve-
nue, ;
HOW DOES ONE MAKE OUT
HIS INCOME TAX RETURN ? By fol-
lowing the detailed instructions
given on the income tax blanks,
Form 1040 and Form 1040A (op-
tional simplified form).
WHAT IS THE TAX RATE? A
normal tax of 4 per cent on the
amount of the net income in excess
of the allowable credits against net
income (personal exemption, cred-
its for dependents, interest on obli-
gations of the United States and its
instrumentalities and earned | in-
come credit) in the computation of
the normal tax net income; and a
graduated surtax on the amount of
net income in excess of the allow-
able credits (personal exemption
and credit for dependents) against
net income in the computation of
the surtax net income.
Forms for filing returns of in-
come for 1941 have been sent to
persons who filed returns last year.
Failure to receive a form, however,
does not relieve a taxpayer of his
obligation to file his return and pay
the tax on time—on or before
March 16 if the return is made on
the calendar-year basis, as is the
case with most individuals.
Forms may be obtained upon re-
quest, written or personal, from
the offices of collectors and from
deputy collectors of internal reve-
nue in the larger cities and towns.
A person should file his return on
Form 1040, unless his gross income
for 1941 does not exceed $3,000 and
consists wholly of salary, wages, or
other compensation for personal ser-
vices, dividends, interest, rent an-
nuities, or royalties, in which event
he may elect to file it on Form
1040A, a simplified form on which
the tax may be readily ascertained
by reference to a table contained in
the form,
The return must be filed with the
collector of internal revenue for the
district in which the taxpayer has
his legal residence or principal
place of business on or before mid-
night of March 16, 1942. The tax
may be paid’in full at the time of
filing the return or in four equal
installments, due on or before
March 16, June 15, September 15,
and December 15.
In making out your income tax
return read carefully the instruct-
ions that accompany the form. If
you need more information, it may
be obtained at the office of the col-
lector of internal revenue, deputy
collector, or an internal revenue
agent in charge or at the revenue
office in Wilkes-Barre Post Office
building.
Remember that single persons or
married persons not living with hus-
band or wife, who earn as much as
$14.43 a week for the 52 weeks of
the year, and married persons living
together who have aggregate earn-
ings of as much as $28.85 a week
for the year, are required to file
returns.
A second article on your in-
come tax will appear in next
week's Post and in the next
following six issues. Clip each
one for your convenience in
making out your income tax
report—Editor. :
have ranged themselves with the
United States. The Battle of Britain
has been won! The Battle of the At-
lantic is being won! The Battle of
Africa has been re-won!
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THE CALL TO
Dig deep.
loan association.
IS A CALL FOR DOLLARS
need the planes, ships, and guns which
your money will help to buy.
Go to your bank, post office, or savings and
Teli them you want to buy
Defense Bonds regularly, starting now. ~
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Strike hard. Our boys
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POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16,
1942
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THE BOOK SHELF
Native American
By Ray Stannard Baker
Charles Scribner’s Sons. $3.00
Reviewed by Helen Breit
Ray Stannard Baker has two dis-
tinct personalities as a writer. The
first is that of the newspaperman,
later turned historian, who reports
the events of his day. Because of
his own close association with those
events he has become the official
biographer of Woodrow Wilson.
The second personality is that ex-
pressed in those books which he
has written under the pseudonym of
David Grayson: “Adventures in Con-
tentment,” ’‘Adventures in Friend-
ship,” “Adventures in Solitude,” to
name a few. David Grayson seeks
surcease and perspective by long
tramps in the countryside and by
simple, friendly chats with the per-
sons he meets in that manner. The
next best thing to taking such a
trip is to read a David Grayson ad-
venture. Both experiences are re-
freshing, both restore zest to life.
Now at 71 Mr. Baker in ‘Native
American” integrates his two per-
sonalities and shows from what
stock and experiences they sprang.
He spent his boyhood on one of
the last frontiers in the St. Croix
Valley of Northwestern Wisconsin.
He knew Indians and listened to the
lusty stories of loggers and river-
men. The hardships of the frontier,
he implies, shortened his mother’s
life. But pioneer days were ending.
The Indians he knew, he writes,
“were fragments. of the once power-
ful tribes of the Chippewa, degener-
ated by liquor and the diseases of
the white men, demoralized by the
breakdown of the stern tribal us-
ages which from time immemorial
had constituted the morals and but-
tressed the religion of a courageous
and hardy people.”
In later life he saw his father im-
poverished by too much land—
something the pioneer could not
have understood, Indeed, his father
himself had difficulty in understand-
ing it.
Nonetheless, young Baker learned
to make his way through forest
paths, he acquired the self-reliance
the frontier compelled, and he learn-
ed most of all not from the primi-
tive schools which he attended but
from his father, who had fought in
the Civil War and who knew how
to tell stories. The Baker family
staged its own plays. The rich, in-
dividualistic characters of three old
aunts, sisters of the boy’s father and
mother, helped mold him.
At the age of fifteen he went to
the Michigan Agricultural College.
Important discoveries came to him
there. He made a friend of the eigh-
teenth century philosopher, Mon-
taigne; he learned from Dr, William
J. Beal the scientific method of
studying and observing; he met the
girl whom he was to marry, that
professor's daughter. And he took
his first tramp in the country. Of
this he says:
I had a vague idea of going to
Hillsdale . . . It was sixty or seventy
miles off and I never got anywhere
near it, but as in so many excurs-
ions of later years, if I rarely reach-
ed my objective, I had a fine time
on the way.”
Until young Baker was twenty-
one he did not know what he want-
ed to do. Then he found his goal: he
was to be a writer. For a year he
sent stories to magazines and re-
cevied rejection slips in return. He
sold one—for five dollars.
with the courage of 22 he went to
the wilderness of streets which was
Then, |
Chicago in the early 1890's.
Though Mr. Baker relates how he
made himself a niche in The News
Record of that city, his is no Ho-
ratio Alger story, Those days re-
vealed to him the inadequacy of
frontier virtues alone for fitting the
individual into an overcrowded city
at a time of depression. With that
revelation Ray Stannard Baker, in-
vestigating reporter of social con-
ditions, was born.
Early in this autobiography Mr.
Baker describes his father’s use of
suspense in story-telling. It is a
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THE LOW DOWN FROM
HICKORY GROVE
Everybody is bending
his back to put the quiet-
us on Japan, and we are
gonna do it—even if it
takes our last dollar. But
when it is all over we
don’t want our boys com-
ing home to a Socialist U.
S. A.
Mr. Morgenthau says
we should cut out 1,000
million of present planned
non-defense spending. Mr.
Byrd, the old “Virginia
“Soreback,” says reduce it
by. 2,000 million. Now,
above all times, every
dime should go into bul-
lets and guns versus social
experiments. Running the
army . and the mavy 1s
plenty for Uncle Sambo.
Unless we watch our
step, we won't be like the
guy who lost his west
when he took a Turkish
bath in the fall but found
it again mext spring, unm-
der his shirt. We won't
have any shirt left, to find
a vest under.
Yours with the low down,
JO SERRA.
“More than a newspaper,
a community institution”
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trick he himself playfully uses with
his readers in this, as he “calls it,
“the book of my youth.” A book
worth reading it is.
» * *
Will Rogers, His Wife’s Story,
Betty Rogers. The Bobb’s Merrill
Company, $2.75, Indianapolis-
New York.
Any book about Will Rogers could
not help but be worth while, and
this one is more than that. No one
could be more qualified to tell Will
Roger’s story than his wife who ac-
cording to Irvin S, Cobb in EXIT
LAUGHING, is “in her own right a
very wonderful person.”
To those of us who remember
Will Rogers when he quipped from
the stage, and even to those who
remember him as a movie player,
this book will bring back those fond
memories which tend to put one in
a sadly dreamy frame of mind, To
muse of the past—to remember the
things we did and the people we
used to know is a great joy—a
privilege that even the humblest of
us enjoy. So to Mrs. Will Rogers
I offer my thanks for bringing back
to us a really fine remembrance.
One would not be wrong, I be-
lieve, to consider this book as some
sort of an anthology of Will Rog-
erisms, for its greatest asset lies,
not in its portrayal of Will Rogers,
but rather in its presentation of so
many of the numerous passages
from the cowboy philosopher's life.
We all knew the kind of man Will
Rogers was and any effort to char-
acterize him anew would be simply
so much wasted ink and paper. Any
person who saw Will Rogers on the
screen saw the real man; they saw
him as he was in private life, for
one thing Will could not do was to
act—perhaps he was too honest for
that. His charm lay in his disarm-
ing frankness, in the way he poked
fun at people on top of the pile, and
nobody enjoyed the ribbing more
than the victims, In fact one con-
sidered it decidedly an honor to
have Will Rogers point a disparaging
finger upon him. The government
always bore the brunt of Will's wit.
He said at one time “I don’t make
jokes, I just watch the government
and report the facts and I have
never found it necessary to exag-
gerate.” Seldom was anyone's feel-
ings hurt by these remarks, for Will
“never kicked a man when he was
down.”
But Will’s chatter was not all
nonsense; in truth very little of it
was nonsense. It was probably his
ability to gloss over common sense
with a veneer of drollness that caus-
ed his long popularity. Almost twen-
ty-years ago Will Rogers in one of
his weekly articles for the McNaught
Syndicate wrote “. . instead of
teaching a boy to run an automo-
bile, teach him to fly, because the
nation in the next war that ain't
up in the air, is just going to get
something dropped on its bean.”
Somebody once gave Will Rogers
a license of free speech (or perhaps
he took it without asking) and he
never took advantage of it. He talk-
ed to the King of England man to
man—and the King loved it.
What Mrs. Rogers lacks in writing
technique is made up in her subject
material, The book is not written
with the ease and grace of a master,
but it does tell a story and an in-
teresting one, too,—not absorbing,
not exciting, but unpretentious and
memory provoking. I wish we had
Will Rogers, but we haven't. We
can recapture much of his charm
in this book by his wife,
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE
By EDITH BLEZ
The new young lady in our house is going to college next year!
We
want our fair daughter to go to college but we do wish we could do with-
out all the chatter and preparation which seems to go with attending col-
lege a year from now!
For months, in fact since, last summer most of
our conversation at home has been punctuated with, “mother, when do
Health Topics
By F. B. Schooley, M. D.
a
Measles (Rubeola) is an acute in-
fectious and highly contagious dis-
ease, characterized by a catarrhal
inflammation of the upper air pass-
ages and a typical red rash extend-
ing over the entire body. It is the
most contagious of the childhood
diseases, The average incubation pe-
riod is fourteen days.
Measles affects all races and oc-
curs in all climates. It is more com-
mon in the winter and spring
months. It may occur at any age
but is most common from two to
fifteen years of age. One attack of
true measles usually confers im-
munity for life. It is possible to
have a second attack in later life
but recurrence is rare. Drug erup-
tions, hives, allergic foods and chem-
icals and German measles have been
mistaken for messles, Scarlet fever
and serum rash may resemble
measles. It may be difficult to dif-
ferentiate a mild case of measles
from one of German measles. A cor-
rect diagnosis may be impossible be-
fore the skin rash appears. In Ger-
man measles the catarrhal symp-
toms are, slight, glands in back of
neck are more commonly enlarged,
the fever is less, the skin eruption
is pink or lighter red in color and of
shorter duration. In the catarrhal
stage of measles, 2 or 3 days before
the rash appears, typical spots will
be noticed on the mucous mem-
brane of the mouth, throat and
cheeks. These spots are pinhead in
size, of a dark-red color, slightly
elevated and with bluish-white
specks in the center. They are ab-
sent in German measles,
The most frequent complications
are those involving the ears, the
lungs, the gastro-intestinal tract and
the kidneys. Secondary bacterial in-
vaders as the streptococcus germ us-
ually causes these complications and
should be suspected when the fev-
er fails to decline after the rash is
completely developed. Bronchopneu-
monia is the most serious secondary
involvement. Epidemic or sporadic
cases of ‘whooping cough, chicken
pox and scarlet fever may occur
with or following measles.
Human convalescent serum and
immune globulin have been used in
the prevention afid modification“of
measles, The globulin is an extract
of human placenta or after-birth,
the organ cast from the uterus or
womb after the birth of the child.
THE SAFETY
VALVE
In Appreciation
January 13, 1942.
Editor The Post:
In behalf of the family of the late
Charles J. Zinn I wish to thank The
Post for the lovely item that appear-
ed in your issue of January 2, 1942.
Respectfully,
Mrs. J. R. Steinhauer,
77 Alexander Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Syou think I will know what I want
to study at college? Mother, where
is——college located? Is it a small
town or a large city. I refuse to go
to college in anything but a small
town.”
Last summer there was much talk
of attending a college in New Eng-
land. For days we were bombarded
with catalogues. The academic rat-
ings and requirements weren't half
so important as whether there were
mountains nearby, and was there
good skiing, and did the skating
last all winter? Now that we have
been having zero weather, New Eng-
land is out—definitely out! Every
time our fair daughter comes home
from school or skating she sits on
every radiator in the house! Many
times we have discovered her prac-
tically sitting in the oven, We have
all kinds of trouble preparing din-
ner because our fair daughter insists
on literally hugging the stove. She
can't get warm! She has decided
now that she would freeze to death
in New England. Now our college
leanings are nearer home. Not quite
South but closer to home!
We have come to the stage where
we are filling in registration blanks.
All day and most of the evening we
are interrupted by a voice asking:
“Mother where was I born? Have
I had any modern history? Well, I
can’t see how English and French
history can be any more modern
than American history. Mother, does
Civics mean Problems of American
Democracy. It says here I only need
three years of English, Why didn’t
you tell me I didn’t need four years
of English. Is the food good at most
colleges, Mother? Will I have to
send my laundry home each week ?
Gee—!"
Then there is the perfectly ter-
rible business of finding a small pic-
ture to send with each application.
Our daughter will not have a new
picture taken, She insists that she
doesn’t take a good picture and that
some of the old ones will have to
do, So we hunt hours for pictures.
Finally she finds one! She knows it
doesn’t look like her, but it will
have to do. She stands in front of
a mirror with the picture in her
hand comparing the face in the pic-
ture with the one in the mirror, all
the time sighing and saying "It
certainly is strange. The picture is
of me, but it doesn’t look like me.”
We suggest that it is a very good
likeness—as usual we do not know
what we are talking about. The pic-
ture looks nothing like her! If we
rwouldronkynell the truth.
We do not know what will happen
next. We are a little afraid of what
is to come! What we are in for we
do not know, We have one wish—
we would give most anything to
have our fair daughter in college
without all” ‘the things which we
know we must go through. We have
stood up bravely under four years
of High School. What will college
do to us!
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