Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1954 — Page 11

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Students Save Dad Money By Tax Study High School Pupils Study Income Tax WASHINGTON, (INS) — A lot of fathers around the country are discovering new virtues in education as a result of the increasing instruction of high school students in the intricacies of the income tax. Reports have reached the Internal Revenue Service that many youngsters havl».<fven Dad a hand with his income tax, and in at least a Sew cases have saved him a tidy sum.

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There is the case of the enthusiastic father who called up ths office of Internal Revenue Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews and said his high school age daughter had saved him more than |2OO. It seems that this particular Dad had already used the regular short form in filing his income tax. But his daughter, who had learned about income tax at school, pointed out that he could file an amended return. He did so, and took credit for interest on the mortgage, some heavy doctor biUs and a loss sustained by theft — all of which ho did not know were deductible until his daughter told him. The result was that instead of owing the government $27 he obtained a refund of |175. There have been other cases. Agents in the Racine and Kenosha, Wis., offices reported that between 30 and 40 parents called and said their children were preparing their income tax returns. Similar testimonials have come from other places. , One teacher remarked on the enthusiasm the kids have for the exceedingly difficult subject, and said she thought the reason was that they wanted to be able to “lord it over their parents.” The eagerness of the youngsters to learn is also baffling some internal revenue agents who take time out to instruct teachers and children about income tax. One of them recently was addressing a group of high echoed students. He was trying to make his talk as simple as possible, avoiding the tougher angles. Sud-

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tl YEARS OLD and out of prison after spending 55 of the last 57 years there, Lyman W. Hall (left) said he is confused “by women trying to wear pants like men,” and added, “Who the Sam Hill is this fellow McCarthy?" With Hall In Chicago is Salvation Army Brig. Gen. Arvid Hamilton, who helped Hall win freedom to take a job with the organization. Hall got life in 1807 for the slaying of a Joliet, BL, constable. He escaped in 1925, returned voluntarily two years later hoping for an early parole. (International)

denly, a bespectacled 14-year-old boy rose from his seat and floored him with an involved question about “accelerated depreciation.” Instruction of high school students in income tax was started three years ago because schools requested help. The reason was that many students make extra money and have to file income

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. sisorsis Like any young couple ardently in love, Joan Foster and Todd Hunter are eager to wed. But Todd has -not yet been placed In his ehosen profession of teaching: and the little money which Joan earns by writing, is not enough to maintain a home. A SILENCE fell for a moment in the conversation between Joan and het mother. In it Joan heard a pair of robins filling the air with their twilight chirping. Lucky birds! Nothing for them to worry about but a few worms! “Which they can always find,” she said aloud. about?" Joan laughed and explained. “I guess it's still too cold to eat out here tonight, isn’t it?" she asked, changing the subject , “Well, it’s too cold for Gram, anyway. And 1 wouldn’t like to leave her alone at meal time the way she is now. She misses Gramp, you know. Still Pm sure she's not sorry that he slipped away so quickly. He couldn't endure being helpless. He'd have hated to spend the rest of his life on crutches or in a wheel chair. Puenmonia is, indeed, a friend of old people, as the doctors say." Joan nodded. “Wen," Mrs. Foster said, rising now, “I must get back to the kitchen. I have a meat loaf in the oven.” “Oh, good. Todd loves -a meat loaf. But cant Annie watch it?” "You forget This isn't Annie’s day.” “Oh, yes. You have her only twice a week now, don’t you? I do keep forgetting.” “Yes, she was getting too old to work full time. And I had to economize. 1 planned a six-thirty dinner. Will Todd be here by then?” “By six, Mums. It’s his early nlghL Can’t 1 help you?” “No, thank you. You set the table before you went out this afternoon. By the way, did you find anything?” Joan shook her head. "I walked miles, too. 1 should have taken Todd's jalopy. No, I didn’t find a thing except that room rentals are almost as expensive as apartments. Everybody sees a chance to gouge, so they're gouging. Anyway, I’ve decided that sharing a bath and a kitchen with people i you don’t know too well isn't an i attractive prospect Tve about 1 given up the idea of living in one room.” “Well, something win work out. The future has away of taking i tare of itself, I’ve discovered.” And 1 OnDvrivhf 1W.2 b» *

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tax returns. So they wanted information to guide them. From this beginning, the project has grown. The Internal Revenue Service estimates that this year five million students in junior and senior high schools will be receiving income tax instruction, and that next year the number will be between seven and one-

mts. roster smiiea reassuringly down on her daughter before going Inside. Left alone, Joan’s thoughts returned to the evening on the boat when she and Todd had planned for a June wedding. It had not had agreed that he would surely have a job lined up by this time. But what, actually, had happened? Todd had spent the winter in study at Columbia University, commuting there daily to continue the work for his doctorate which had been interrupted in Switzerland by his illness. Columbia had accepted his foreign record for the first term, but he had learned he could not possibly complete the requirements there for his Ph.D. by the end of the semester in June. He would have to put in this summer and another full year, and after that he would have to write a thesis and pass his examination. He would be halfway to his goal, though, by this coming September, and he had believed that with his Master’s degree (which he had secured before going abroad) and almost two years of advanced credit toward the higher degree, he would have no trouble finding a position. Then, later on, perhaps in a year or two, he would finish his doctorate. But this would not be until he had saved up some ’ money for more study and had ac- ' quired some experience in teaching. Having worked out the plan to ' his satisfaction, he had enrolled in 1 February, quite confidently, in the ' agency conducted by Columbia to 1 secure teaching jobs for their own 1 students. He had also entered his 1 name in an agency in Philadelphia ' and in one in New York City, as 1 well. Not content with that, he had obtained a list of colleges, I junior colleges and preparatory ' schools between Maine and Vir- I ginia and as far west as Illinois, 1 and had written a form letter to i each of them, in which he had i given a resume of his background I and education, three character ref- I erences, and information as to 1 where the transcript of his college i and foreign study could be secured. 1 At the end of the letter he had 1 asked if there would be an opening i this coming fan for a teaching po- I sition in German and, if so, would I the authorities kindly consider 1 him? Joan had typed these form s letters for him, all one hundred and fifty of them. I Todd had had the courtesy of i replies to more than four-fifths of, ] his inquiries. Almost all of them KIIm Rn«. Col.*. few 1

half and eight million. The Service has sent out teaching instructions to 30,000 schools. In addition, between 2,000 and 3,000 night classes have been organized for parents. Income tax is also being taught to enlisted men at Army posts all around ths world, and is even being taught in prisons. Rural areas are receiving special instruction on how to keep records of farm operations. Andrews believes it will all add up to better citizenship. Only two percent of Jhe returns filed by high school students contain errors. This compares to 25 percent for all the 60 million income tax returns filed now. Elliot Knighted LONDON, (INS) — John Elliot, head of British Railways, recently was knighted by the Queen Mother while Queen Elizabeth was on her world tour. Elliot once received the U. S. Medal of Freedom for transportation services to the United States Forces in Europe. Weather Insured BERLIN, (INS) — Vacation weather insurance is issued by Berlin companies with all expenses paid for a two weeks trip if there is a rainfall of two and a half inches and half the amount for a two and a quarter inch downpour, according to the German tourist bureau.

commended him on ms background, which was declared “rich." But almost unanimously the colleges bad said that there would be “no vacancy on their teaching staffs” or that they preferred “to engage some one with teaching experience” or that their German department was “shrinking rather than enlarging.” They would be glad, however, to put his name in their active files in the event that something opened up later in the year. • - - “How do you like that?" Todd had said heatedly to Joan. "Why are their German departments shrinking? Some of the most famous philosophers and thinkers and writers in the world have been Germans! I think that’s crazy!" The Columbia agency had given him the answer. He was told there that college students were taking up the study of Chinese or Russian or some Middle Eastern language rather than German. That interest in German had never been revived since the first World war. That Spaninh had taken its place thaw and still held greater popularity. And, finally, that German scholars, from Europe, filled many openings in the institutions of higher learning now. The preparatory schools had not been any more encouraging. Their chief objection was to the fact that Todd planned to be married. “We have no accommodations for married teachers,” they wrote. “Our teachers are required to live in the dormitories with the boys." Moreover, some had no German departments at all; some, like the colleges, expected no teaching vacancies; and a few were planning to do away with the language “since there is so little demand for IL" In the end, only abou’ six schools had so much as requested an interview. And Todd discovered during his appointments with the different deans of these six that one school was looking for a teacher, not for this coining fan, but for the fallowing one. Another lost interest in him upon learning that he was a graduate of a high school rather than of a well-known preparatory school where he might have a student following. Two schools wrote him that another prospect, interviewed later, had been engaged, and two informed him that, after all, their own instructors had decided to remain. Some few letters were trickling in, but enough rejections had arrived to make Todd and Joan feel pretty grim and disheartened. (To Be Continued) * — -.. lii

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