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SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1943
Above The Emeralds
Rooseveltian .c?t:mLrn, evidenced in the n esident’s
message last week to the 78th Congress, ha> it that
the United Nations will this year come closer to the
goal of victory and that in 1942 the Axis nations were
more than held at Bay.
The President’s message, in other w?ords, was a bid
for political peace at home, in the United States, and
for a vigorous carrying on of the war in the hopte that
international peace can be arrived' at during the life
time of the 78th Congress. Scene on Capitol Hill on
Thursday was indicative of that happiness and conse
cration to 'high purposes found in a Moravian lcve-feast.
The bickering and the biting, indicated at the mo
ment by the issue about to develop over Mrs. Harry
, Hopkins’ emeralds, will come later, but good citizens
will devoutly hope that the Congress which reflected
honor upon itself by being in a gracious opening humor
will be blessed with memory long enough to keep its
cooperative idealism held high. Liberty’s touch is so
held and the men and women who work in her name
ought under God to do no less.
For Good Intentions
OPA order relative to “pleasure driving” is not as
clearly defined as it might be and in such rural-urban
areas as Person County will leave many motorists
guessing, but to those who have a conscience, maybe
of the Presbyterian variety, definitions will not be so
difficult. What is to be done under the order is w!hat
should have been done aforetime.
Cutting out of pleasure driving, as we see it, should
make for elimination here of those social visits where
chief occupation is gossip. It will or should hit bridge
clubs, unnecessary PTA and farm conferences and it
will mean, that County folks who want to come to town
to see Dorothy Lamour or Joan Crawford will have to
contrive some business purpose with which to combine
their search for entertainment. For the rest, the way
is clear: driving to church or for any essential business,
whether of an economic or an administrative nature, is
permissable.
Success or failure of the ban on pleasure driving will
have to depend on a commodity all of us have at our i
command: commonsense.
Unimportant Episode
Confusion that resulted .here last Wednesday, when
somebody, somew'here, slipped up in issuance of a stop
sales order for A, B and C gasoline coupons, has turned
out to be an unimportant episode and should be so re
garded. Philip L. Thomas, Person’s War Price and Ra
tioning Board chairman, who acted on stop-sales order,
and was as quick to rescind it later, acted on the first
order in good faith and his motives should be regarded
in that light.
At this writing, responsibility for what happened has
not been pinned on anybody, either here or in Raleigh.
Chances are it never will be. If the confusion had been
more widespread than it was it could have had State
wide significance. About all that really comes out of it
is a wholesome and much needed lesson in caution, and
in avoidance of rumor spreading. Motorists who heard,
and ran to nearest station before they thought are as
much to blame as anybody for what happened here.
“Priority Os Youth”
>• Person, delegation that went to Graham Thursday
r.igfht to the annual Cherokee Council Boy Scout din
ner heard from Dr. I. G. Greer, superintendent of Bap
tist orphanages and speaker for the occasion, a chal-
T nging message on the abiding “Priority of Youth.” Dr.
Creer believes in young people. In war and in peace,
for many years he has worked with them and for them.
The Greer technique is by nature a Christian one. He
cculd have no other, but with it he has a faith and a
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confidence in the future and in the work to be done in
the future. Rub is that what is to be accomplished must
be accomplished by youth. Boys and girls now in Gram
mar grades and high schools will be the citizens who
will forty years hence be our leaders in civic life.
Dr. Greer does not blink at the fact that the world
as it now is, a rather sad and sorry world, is the res
ponsibility of those of us who are now in the saddle,
and incidentally, riding a bucking horse. What is on
his heart is our obligation to improve the world that
will have to be taken over by youth, and our present
and' pressing obligation to prepare youth now 7 for the
job ahead. ,
Priority of youth is what keeps the world from be
ing scuttled, but the job touches the old, the young
and those yet unborn.
He Never Knew
George Washington Carver, who died last week, was
known throughout the world as the man who re-dis
covered and put to use all of the elements in the pea
nut. Out of the lowly “gouber” he wrought economic
changes in a wide area of the Southland and brought
to the land, his land, a u-ealth not dreamed of by the
Negro and poor-white tenants and the landowners who
lived there, and still live there.
Dr. Carver must remain In history as a scientist
first, a Negro- afterwards. A devout man, having the
true humility that goes with knowledge, Dr. Carver
regarded himself as a human instrument working un
der God’s law. His parents were slaves, he knew not
the year of his birth, but he worked for that larger
freedom desired and in that work was honor.
Sunday School
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GOD’S LOVE AND OURS i
Our Golden Text is one of
those glorious statements of
Christian truth which shines so
brilliantly it fairly dazzles the
human mind.
It staggers the human imagi
nation to think that God loved —
and loves. But to think that he
loves enough to give his only
begotten Son—indeed, to give
himself in that Son who can
dare measure isuch a momentous
fact?
These exiting words clearly
and forcibly declare that God’s
heart is filled with compassion
ate, understanding, redeeming
love. The Heavenly Father
stretches out his hand and will
not turn uis loose until he brings
us safe to shore.
At Calvary we glimpse both
the measure and the cost of di
and redemption of a Deity whose
love. It tells us of the work
heart was in every gesture of de
votion and whose every service
is a portrayal of his tender care.
This is the deeper mesage of
those marvelous stories of pur
suing love such as the one that
describes the shepherd’s concern
for his lost sheep. That he re
fuses to give up until he has
found the lost is a truth that we
formally accept, but we shall
never truly appreciate it until
we understand that the heart of
the shepherd is the heart of God.
This is what the whole life of
Christ says. Peter may deny him,
and Judas may betray him; but
with increasing intensity and
i genuine devotion he follows on
1 with one supreme thought—that
jof saving them. This is why he
I hastens on to Jerusalem and to
his death.
All this is the love of God.
W. R. Maltby has discerningly
and appealingly written that Pi
late could wash his hands -cf Je
sus, but Jesus could not was?
his hands of Pilate. He loved hirr
too much. And, mark! you, this
is God’s love.
So great is the love of Goc
that even though men try to de
feat it with the Cross, he leva:
on. He will not five us up.
There is no way to understani
that God’s heart is portrayed b;
all the experiences of Christ ex
cept to be baptized with th
same love. We must make hi
concern our very own.
The Heavenly Father has th
most vulnerable heart in th
world. That' is why we hav
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such divine portrayals of devo
tion and tender grace in Jesus
Christ.
Calvary led to glory because,
j the heart of God was in it. Any
J human sacrifice becomes glori-
I ous to the extent that our hearts
j are in the experience. We do not
| give anything buoyantly unless
1 our hearts are in the gift. Cer
• tainly we do not' truly give our
;; selves until we give cur very
r. hearts.
I The trouble with the young
j man who came to Jesus and was
.] unwilling to sell what he had
. j and give to the poor was essent
ially a lack of love. He had
,| rigidy kept the commandments
. j but was aware of the fact that
,' something was still lacking. *
. | When Jesus gave him the right
| direction, he refused to meet the
challenge. So he went away sor
rowful. It was because his heart
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was not even in his charity.
, The apostle Paul understood
| the importance of this. This is
why he wrote in his hymn ot
love:
If I bestow all my goods to
feed the poor, and if I give my
body to be burned, but have mjt
i love, it profiteth me nothing. (1
, Corinthians 13:3.)
j In our intimate human rela
tionships there is no happiness
| or abiding blessedness save when,
’our hearts dictate our deeds. Wej
i may do all our domestic duties
' and have no blessedness and ex
-1 perience no joy simply because
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Know Your
Income Tax
WHAT IS INCOME TAX?
The federal income tax is, as
the name implies a tax levied
upon income®, and it is payable
in relation to the amount of in
come. Income, for Federal in
come tax purposes, means in
general any compensation for
one’s services, whether the com
pensation be in moneV or in
goods or other services; it in
cludes also the net value receiv
ed fer the product of one’s la
bor, as farm produce in the- case
of a farmer; income from invest
ments; profit from business
operations; and other gains from
sales and exchanges of goods and
property. Certain limited cate
gories of income are howev.er,
tax exempt', and to the extent of
such exemption are excluded in
computing the tax.
Because of exemptions from]
the tax given to having!
less than certain stated amounts |
of income, as well as because of
various deductions and credits ■
allowable, only a small propor-|
tion of the number of persons,
receiving income have until re
cently been subject to the
tax. Thus, of the esti
mated 55 million persons in
this country who received in
come in one form or another
during the calendar year 1941,
only some 26 million persons
were required to file Federal in
come tax returns for that year,
while of these same 26 million,
more than 9 million were not
taxable due to credits and deduc-!
tions allowable.
As a result of the lowering ofj
exemptions, many more persons i
are now subject tipi the Federal
income tax than before, and for!
the calendar year 1942 it is esti-j
mated that more than 35 million
persons will file Federal income j
our hearts are not in our homes. |
But when our heartstrings get
tangled up with those of anoth-i
er, we feel deeply.
We may read the daily news-]
papers quite nonchalantly, being
interested but not greatly con
cerned about those whose deaths
in air, on land, and at sea are
reported each morning. But if
ou.r son is in the number—ah,
that makes all the difference in
the world! Why? Because our
hearts are in the suffering and
agony of it all.
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tax returns. To the large num
ber of persons now subject to
the federal income tax, who have
never reported income before
for Federal tax purposes, an un
derstanding of the law and ap
plicable regulations is of prime
importance.
An income tax return is a de
claration on the part of the tax
payer of his total taxable income
for the year, together with the
various deductions, exemption®,
and credits to which he is en
titled. It is in reliance upon vol
untary disclosure, and the inte
grity of taxpayers generally,
that the cost of administration of
the income tax can be kept at a
minimum. Though the return is
a voluntary! statement, any per
son who willfully makes a re
turn which he does not believe
to be true- and correct in every
material matter is subject to the
penalties provided by-law.
The first requireent of the
law is the filing of an appropri
ate return. For individuals gen
erally, this must be done by
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THE NEW
VICTORY TAX jQ
IT is important to understand the new Victory
• Tax, as it is a charge against your 1943
income. Almost every worker will have to pay
it. If you have a regular job, your employer
will deduct for the government 5% of your
income over sl2 a week. Others, including
professional people and agricultural workers,
will pay their tax in one sum after the end of
the year. Certain post-war refunds or current
credits are granted which will eventually re
turn a portion of the tax you pay, but they will
not reduce the 5% withheld each pay day.
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March 15 following the end of
the calendar year. The return
must be filed with the approp
riate Collector of Internal Reve
nue for the district in which is
located the legal residence or
principal place of business of the
person making the return.
Under the present law every
single person, and every married
person not living with husband
or wife, having a total income,
(earnings, .together with other
income) of SSOO or more, and
married persons living with hus
band or wife throughout the
taxable year, who have an ag
gregate income (total earnings of
both husband and wife, togeth
er with other income) of $1,200
or more, regardless of the a
mount of net income, must file
a return.
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