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I fHE OFFICE OV/1 income, By - Mrs, F, L, Rollins The old saying "That March ccmes in like a lc?jnb and goes cut like a lion" is true to form in Lawndale this year. For like a lamb we all have nip.do our income tax returns, and as we are shorn we are all roaring like liohSk_ ' ' Lee Champion better known as Goofy Ginks, fill- .ed out his income tax'as foiLLows: 1, Single or married,’ living or not living with husband and wife?; Ans; I have been married so long think I was ^oYXi married, and ,I would like not living jvdth’mjr wife, ^'2* Do you have any dependents? is I I have all dependents on my wife»s side although sometimes she acts rather 'independent. Deduct your surtax? I guess that is not bad enou^ to pay but why insult me by making me call it Sir? 4. VJhat is your pact', present and future income? I Ans: Borrowing from friends is past income, sale from empty bott- :les (and.wouldn^t I like to find just one not empty) is present where to get the dough .to pay my tax is future incane. . Mr, Morgenthau I have figured cut what your name stands for:- M-money O-CXving • •. Rr-rubberneck G^greenbacks . . • E-enpty-till » , N-nothing T-taxes H--hard-up A-axcess-profits U-unhappy C, D, Forney Jr, was dismayed on looking out cf his office window to discover several employees kneeling on the Hoover Ri?.il in a reverent attitude about a game of •dibo,. He turned to Forrest V/allcer- and told him, "Go out and break up that dice game". The matter slipped Charlie’s rdud for the next hour then he noticed Forrest just com ing back to work,’ Charlie shouted at Forrest, "Didn*t I tell you'to go out and break up that crap game, what took you so long"? "I did v^hat you said",'replied Forrest with righteous dignity, "But all I had to start v/ith was a quarter,"- A new employee of the dye house had his lunch stolen the other night. The next day he came ^ Mr, Forney*s office puffing and blowing earring a peck bucket that see med to be so heavy that he could hardly carry it. He addressed Mr, Forney, "Did you know v/hat them rascals done to me last night"? "They stole niy supper but I am fixed for them tonight, I brought enough for both of us," Dr, Bliss our village doctor, said a colored woman crjao in his office recently to get a prescription filled for her husbrjid. She asked, "Is you gwine order Mose one o*dem mustard plasters agin"? If you is," he said to ;ix you kin he have a slice of ham wid it dis time, on account its a mighty bad prescription to take by its self," 1st soldier:- "VJhat made you volunteer?" ‘ • 2nd soldier;- "Oh I had no wife, and I love a good scrap, VJhy did you do it?" 1st soldier:- "I have a w^.fe and I*m looking for peace,"
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