Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1946 — Page 9

+ New Year's resolutions, it's probably N en) superstitions. There are a million and one. of them. tious manage ‘to abide by one or more of, the beliefs on the first day of the year. ... Plenty of house--wives cooked cabbage today. That seems to be one luck the rest of the year. Then there are those who sew pillow cases, eat peas, place a piece of money on the window or hold new money in their hand.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY X; 1946 Sas (First. of a:Series)e |... DR A: hy

| SECOND SECTION = T ; T ~ 11946 INCOME TAX PRIMER (F

| i Te peas, they say, are supposed to helng ones , Here is the first of 10 authora. - - . hl or gid . ‘during the entire year. ,.. There seem ml . easy-to-follow articles tell- Se - i i J a) By J M | that tious 1s avoid doing than +. _enyy: : ete neh: xR ALI A hives tha oe affor ta do. They. slain ivs. ing the, Wafe-earning taxpayer || Taxable Income Lh ; C0 imp HbA | | unlucky to let the fire go out on New Year's day how ‘to prepare his income tax || “ yp you had income in 1945 from any of the following sources, FE sippl, Kansas and Sa (we'd say it would be unlucky to lgt it go out on any return. Readers should clip and || it is taxable. gr ths 2 “+. 1 |b IN SOME instances it has proven| ‘yon. price for ri cold day.) ,.. If you break a lamp globe on New save each installment of the If all your income:was in the first group, and your total-1045 | mechanically unfeasible to carry alll remaining techni Year's day it's a sign of the death of a near relative. series. income (including your wife's, if you file jointly) did not exceed | exhibits with the dispatches they| nation which we + +.» If the ice melts Jan. 1 it's supposed to freeze Fn a $4099.99, and if you did not have more than $100 not subject to Also. 15. has Deen Devehe] gk: ii noth April 1... It's considered unlucky to eat anything By 8. BURTON HEATH withholding tax, you can file the withholding receipt and let the ‘to combine some topics, and to| The 45 wet green on the first day of the year. . . , It's bad luck if NEA Stat Writer collector of internal revenue compute your tax: : divide othérs between two articles.| 708,517,984 liquor § a red-haired oman enters ihe house. Of course, the | EW. YORK, Jan. 1.—You!| ; A || 80 the best way to use the infor-{ The 1945colsuperstitious ones, in this case, just can't be red- NP . 'N ORK LL. | Bonuses Interest Prot or ‘loss from 1} SG the Dest way 16 te the TIO} ieee tel haired. ; . . And there are many, many more. But ‘Mrs. John Keating and her son, Robert . , . do not have to file a final Commissions Eg Alimony RE business or pro- ments as they | x and ceed $8 billie oh .. .here's one that the younger set might believe. The he took the service flag down. return’ on 1945 income until Fees, including jury Annuitios fession You bave them appear, sit Xhen ; inthe , t person’ of the opposite sex that you meet on j = fees. ; : . Rents : NG together, People 1 + us tat : They were sert in by Shirley Musselman of Millers- | March 15. a Endowment policy, | with your tax blank and some| three dry states ; New Year's day is supposed to have the Christian b a: dated 1904 and 1905 ' on Gifts from anybody Retirement pay, or ||scraten paper, and go to Work. are: paying: is name of your future partner...And here may be “UE And were i 1 »4 But-you may be required to for whom you did matured poralan’ nest wir norsdo Bel dN Bnsl wii ho one consolation for the early risers. If you rise early Organ Takes the Spotlight " Imake a final, estimate, not] Work or favors Estates Royalties of most sources of income that are] but they're on Jan, 1, you'll have good luck for 364 days. MISS ARDA KNOX, who's still a part of Manual Tater than: Jan 15-of the alcunt of Salary and vies Pastateship the ds Separation allow. |sublected to income tax. With the! “paying them ue high school although she retired from teaching t a oo | - heck » ; Last Man Into Civies five years ago, went west for the holidays. She cele- | aX that you will owe on March 15, | gy, of any physical ances next dispatch there will be a check| away from THE NEW YEAR is bound to be a better year for brated Christmas and New Year's in Kansas: ,,. ond to transmit a payment Wikis Dividends possession Trust fund st rae that are not subject| home--Missis Mrs. John Keating, 2540 N. Delaware st. Almost five ‘The piano has taken a back seat at the Ernest Meyer | gm . _ Ie RT via ho . years ago Francis, the first of her sons to enter serv- home. Mr. Meyer bought his wife a portable organ fg If your income was as much as $5000, or if you had income from Le ice, was Inducted into the army. Then one by one for Christmas. It's about three feet tall, three feet han 20 per cent, | any of the following sources, or if you had more than $100 from any || TOMORROW: Who must file a her other two sons, James and Robert, and her two wide and a foot and a half deep, It has to be you ean Be) ‘source not subject to withholding tax, you must file Form 1040. return--and who should file. fn grandsons, . Willlam Keating and ‘William Metcalf, pumped with the feet but the exercise is well worth penalized ink put on uniforms of the army or navy. Francis served on’ n

while; Everyone in the Meyer family tried the organ out Christmas day and relatives visiting them practically had to get in liné for a turn to-play it. The organ is a chaplain’s organ such as those used by the army and navy. They're being sold to civilians

that you have all

in the South Pacific for four and a half years and piled up 87 points. James, a Times linotype operator, and William Keating were in both the Atlantic and Pacific and Mr. Metcalf spent his army life in the

bureau does not want Form W-2 attached to 1040 returns this year, The law .under which you are about to file and compute your tax

THE INFORMATION given for preparing final returns is equally valuable for making an accurate Jan, 15 estimate, which really is

SERVICEMEN AND VETERANS

va Aleutians. But Dec. 21 Mrs. Keating had them all now by local music companies. . .. The day after Mccurate checkup |on 1945 income is the same law that |a tentative, informal tax computa-|| The special privileges and - back again. Still she didn’t take the five-star service Christmas a woman came to the John Reese Christ+ 18 ee h | controlled -your return and meas-| tion, ° : igs « {responsibilities - of - servicemen {= . flag down from her window. She said Robert was mas free lot and wanted to buy a-silver tree, She ; you choose, yreq your tax last year. The new| Thess dispatches have been pre-| and women, active and de- ) i the last one to come home and that was his job. 80 said she, wanted one so badly that finally she de- you may file your jaw does not affect civilian returns|pared in consultation with experts|| mobilized, in connection with : | Friday Bob took the flag down with pleasure. ... cided to get one. Mr. Reesé couldn't accommodate |fiDal return by Jan. 15, instead of on 1945 income, of the bureau of internal revenue.|| the federal income tax, will be . } The conservation department now has two of the her, however. He had sold all.his trees by Christmas| Walling for March. That would ® % » : Those who are certain that they!| discussed in a special series of i 1 oldest hunting and fishing licenses issued in Indiana. eve. ~ permit you to omit the final esti-| THE WITHHOLDING receipt has want- to file Form W-2, and that|| dispatohes which will appear h : : # : ” mate, and save you some work. But been revised considerably, and for|they can do so legally, will need|| in The Times before March 15,

there is one obstacle: the better. only the first four dispatches. when final returns on 1945 in- -

__entered the colony that Louisiana

"Round the U.S.

CARVILLE, La., Jan. 1.—“Mademoiselle”—outsiders never knew her by any other name—is dead. And that, you might think, would be the end of one of this strange community's most tragic stories. But it isn’t. 3 Most likely you have heard of “Mademoiselle.” Out of her shadowy background sundry haphazard biographers have gathered enough 2 fragments of fact to show that

: - . ,{tell you how to compile correctly sional office. > until their special serfés. apShe: ie. She Saigh va Story of Man Called ‘George’ Form. 1040, the regular “long fOr." tps information you must give to| There are many small businessi| ‘pears and then use ths two el BUT THE MAN whom we shall call “George” still {#150 had to wait for the receipt and answer some of the questions that,(and professional men who need|| together. ~ Her a ed history begins in is alive. ; attach it to their returns. That re- year after year, continue to plague assistance like this; but their tax ’ » 1

1896. Then in some obscure fashfon, she contracted leprosy and.

had just established on the old «Carville estate, 25 miles down river from Baton Rouge. Her life during the next 40

years was that of all the other

By Robert J. Casey

The next morning when the attendant came to open up the visitors’ registry at the entrance to a church, he found an old woman lying face down in the gravel of the driveway, her thin arms thrust

through the bars. of the iron gates. “I've gome home,” she said. “Take me in.” They took her in. “Mademoiselle” died a~few months ago, reasonably content, 3

George's case in many respects was like that of the woman from New Orleans, although he never was visited by her initial despair. He came to the U. 8. marine hospital of Carville 12 years ago after medicine had begun to find out some things about the Hansen bacillus.

And he never was completely isolated from the

If you are going to file a with. holding receipt and let the collector of internal revenue do-the work of . computing your tax obviously you will have to. wait until your employer gives you the W-2 form. He has until Jan, 31, under the law, to close his 1945 books and prepare the receipt for you. » . »

LAST YEAR, taxpayers who filed

quirement now is eliminated. The

Minor improvements have been made in Form 1040, but they are not extensive and they do not affect the information required: or the end results. “In this series of articles, I shall attempt to help you to decide whether to file thé withholding receipt or to prepare Form 1040; to show you the easiest way to prepare whichever form you are using; to

taxpayers.

ignore the fourth.

Those who use Form 1040 can . an" THOSE 'WHO must use Form 1040, -but choose to take their tax from the table without listing their own deductions, can ignore the fourth, ninth and 10th. . In this series everything is aimed at the individual taxpayer who does not have a business or a profes-

come are due, Information common to service - people and civilians will not ‘be repeated. Only points of difference, and special provisions, will be considered.

recenfly demobilized veteran should save these dispatches

problems are complicated .by sol

By ROBERT BLOEM

| would end in 1945 when Goveérnor | Gates took office in the midst of a

Gates Evaluates First Year in Office

tors’ ljcenses a matter of party pa-

THE PUBLICITY pinnacle

: { wn and three to go! tronage, the license setups has beer | reached when the Department of victims. of -Hansin's disease at ihe; time, blighted "°C De had left. : NE down e€ 10 20: | egisiative session, the groundwork the cause of severe dissension with-| Commerce and Public Relations by the despair of 3000 years. Le Somewhere out in the blue beyond the fences he Ralph F. Gates, Indiana's was 1aid to help cope with prob-|in the party. under Paul Ross and Lt Gov. b 1 ‘ Science had found no therapy better than chaul- A E10 wpe encouraging letters and camé| gai), ogvernor, paused today lems that would accompany recon-| ~~ *« = Richard T. James a cam- parishiarly i 5 . had ‘a i . : " version, 4 FIRS paign in the fall bring the . moogra oil extracts; which a'beneficial effect m The love and loyalty of a wife such as his were | {0 look back on his first year T EMERGENCY faced by

less than 10 per cent of the cases treated. Since the days of Babylon, the world had looked upon leprosy as the one incurable disease. “Mademoiselle” knew from the beginning that she would never leave the colony alive. “Mademoiselle” sat down and tried to forget that

the Rue Royal was Royal st. In all the town she found not one person’ she had ever seen in her girlhood.

more effective than medicine in the treatment of his

disease. J A few days ago his tests all showed negative.

He went home expecting to pick up the old life where he had laid it down. But there were compli-

cations. Pe

“Mademoiselle” is. dead but her story goes on

.and on.

The Chicago Daily News, Inc Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis I'imes and

in office—the first year of Republican state administration since 1932, the last year of world war IT and the first of reconversion. “One always feels,” the gover-

and that the results by and large live “up to my hopes of last New

3 . ! . 5. Gov. Gates Year = - i Science By David Dietz ayguration Jan. 8, ee

I HOPE that some senate committee will call in the seientists during national defense. -1I feel that what they have to say will be as valuable as their pronouncements on the atomic bomb. The determination of American sci.entists to speak their minds on the sibject of the atomic bomb

Soon after the bomb dropped, someone—Washington gossip said it was Adm. Leahy, but this may

1946 to "give their views on-

the international phase of the situation and hope that Senator McMahon's committee on atomic energy will

do the same for the domestic phase.

But even though we hope there will be no more wars, we must continue to think in terms of national defense and that is why I would like congress to hear the scientists who worked on war problems

in-the sense that it lacked the plans for the equip-

ment that world-war II needed.

Big Job Done by Scientists

has had his troubles; most of them political. But to the man on the street the record of his first year rates high. The elements of popular appeal and reform have been present throughout his administration so far. Sas Most outstanding results of his

gated under his guidance have been broadening of the state health department, setting up of a Mental Health council to supervise care of

» » . : ZZ UNDER THE new Republican governor new boards and commissions were added to spark the governmental machinery—a new Department of Veterans’ Affairs, a Department

{of the chief executive's biggest headaches. Set up in such a way

the new governor was the spring

the state guard for rescue and reHef service. By summer he was well on his

ernment to the people” through local conferences eonducted by

as to make the issuance of distribu-

By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D. THE physician who diagnoses diabetes in his patient plays the most important role in the outcome

necessity for continuous scientific care. The new

state department heads.

' THE DOCTOR SAYS: Treatment Is Simple But Vital

Diabetics Require Training’

PURROSE of diabetic treatment, is to Prevent loss of sugar through the urine, to prevent an abnormal breakdown of protein and its con-

well, feel well and enjoy life. All diabetic patients must be taught to test their own urine and to keep

flood along the Ohio. He mobilized to

the guard was alerted in connection

activities at Whiting.

THE DIETS vary with age; sex, weight and - occupation of the patient. New diabetics usually are started .on a simple diet and alter-

. ; of the disease, The patient should | ations are npfade as indicated. 0 was almost as revolutionary as the during world war IL administration according to the ke versi : 55 bomb itself, Never before in the When wold war IT broke, this nation was not|governor's own evaluation, have|D® told quits Saney he ature of on into sugar, and to hold fat| pngulin is given to diabetic pa- War Separati i 3 history of the nation had scientists } only unprepared in the sense that it needed troops, |been legislative. his disease, the 0) an 1 Jv. metabolism - in = check. Proper tients to compensate for deficiency - E. 3 made an organized entry into the planes, ships, tanks and guns. -It was unprepared! Among’ the civic reforms insti-| 2777 a BE - n treatment will make the patient look [of the pancreas. fs ¥ ¥ ’ » political field. . :

A normal person secretes a small amount of insulin at a'] times, and a large amount when he eats starch and sugar. The average diabetic

with charges of illegal picketing|

: . there was another world outside the Carville fences. Phe joa) Title woman gave him a Hervous greets nor said “that if of Aviation, 2, Deparumént of Oo and megs photographed governor 2 : ! : a : e P Relations, - possible exception of Paul LE SAM'S position . No Old Friend Was Left ing. She wasn’t so sure he should have come straight the year were 10 time Legislative R h B uw. |V. McNutt, in In History's s 4% incon © SHE WAS at the end of hope when in 1036 the lbme, she said. / ; be done over it ir Employment Prac Com- : tracting : With a dead-pan he sells S ‘disease burned itself out—as it frequently does in - Perhaps 1 would be belter for Gorge 10 go some could be done micgion, and a Division of Farm , a a on pod a Sebending vo he liquor permits, and then pr patients otherwise physically fit. She was discharged Where else a swifle » + + just until she could make better. ke |Chémurgy at Purdue university. | tion-and-answer session between missioner Charles Kern to keep| CUteS &ny permit-holder f from the hospital as an arrested case. Some adjustments. : But on the.’ on the debit side of the legisla- state employees and the Hoosier order. hauling wet goods across a state She went back to New Orleans, riding on a train hi Tndersioo Quite well. He went away with- wiigle 1 feel TAL tive ledger was the new. Alcoholic delegation, and a district-by-dis-| Nearest approach to .a Isbar| lDE. Ll f first time in her lif. She found that the ©OU' saying g : my first year has|gey - : ; Blandly Uncle Sam : ® Re He Canal had EE ATior in Canal ‘st., He came back to Carville and "he's still here. been ores Ige law which has been one trict program to “bring state gov-|emergency came in October when :

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not have been so—persnaded Pres- SCIENTISTS not only had to develop synthetic|the insane and feeble-minded, and : Siuvets . Jag any HERBtIves Sugar i A pa fin: injects g single Seige Of pro= So pinks il ir ¢ a J ident Truman to issue a directive rubber, riew. steel alloys, means of extracting mag-|eStablishment of a 45-member Ad- nd a hospitalibased upc e Maagement is he insulin each mn 8 which h a which made it virtually impossible “nesium from the ocean, etc, but they aiso had to ¥isory Health council to establish 8 pin upon proper diet. Although|works slowly, lessening the danger| war have learned

~ stay is helpful in

getting a good ; ue

various diets are used, there is one most married people never point oh which all agree; that ‘is ; start. {to keep the total calories down 80

Every case of the patient stays slim. trembling” and apprehension are!

for a scientist to say anything. Bill Might Have Passed SUBSEQUENTLY the war department ‘had its bill on the subject drawn up and introduced into congress . as the May-Johnson bill after the way for it: had been cleared by a message from the President. Had not the scientists revolted at this point and insisted on being heard, it is probable that the bill would have been passed in its original form, throttling

of insulin shock resulting from an overdose. ; Hunger; weakness, sweating,

develop better .planes, better tanks, and better guns, |#nd over-all health program for the to say nothing of such items as invasion landing craft, | State. bazookas, radars, submarine detection. apparatus, new POST W AL n i rien] navigation methods, new types of “incendiary bombs, ST-WAR repair and mainte- | - signs the radio proximity fuse, and finally the atomic bomb. | DANCE of the state's institutions wis Jahres i Sans Ee ar sacle un Caf be ny insulin. vs Sion ‘Without radar, our planes would have been vastly Provided in a special excise WX. | anagement of the disease is not also are in agreement in mineral, rected, 10ss of consciousness may | bien cola evr hav S80 In sh. hone af 5.14 10D them back in shape 413cU bit 1 me consuming. Pole, od, Pham recommended: alow, smal amount of uth ji r s e shores pos Japan. There is no need to.dwell on the effectiveness |2ftef the “no repair” ordeal of four | tad Ba Ertiorited. A. aly. v3) ssi of the atomic bomb which, in Churchill's words, ;

Dr. O'Brien

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- his study to join with the few

+ the chief serve together. . able men to give up their own, and their

administration. py

atomic research in this country and embarking. the world upon an atomic bomb race which could have ended only in world war III and the destruction of civilization. . As a result there is new hope in the situation for 1946, hope that the Big Three foreign ministers’ conference in Moscow has made a start toward solvihg

My Day

EN ROUTE TO LONDON, Monday—On New Year's day our thoughts turn back to the beginning of the year just passed. On New Year's eve, 1944, my husband was not

. feeling very well. In order to do the work which

was really important all of us were , trying to ask of him.as few unessential efforts as possible. : . Bo we did not ask him to come § down to dinner that night or to spend the evening with us. But he insisted that the custom which we always observed while we were in the White House should be carried on that evening, and about 11:30 he got. up and came into

members. of the family and the

friends. who had gathered there.

He greeted us all as cheerily as usual. Some of Us knew he was pinning to start before long for the important Yalta conference. Many of us ‘knew the difficulties’ which beset him as they all men in public life. Associates who" should

be selfless and who instead are self-seeking; co-

workers who are often ndt only personally disloyal to the chief with whom ‘they serve, but who frequently are disloyal to the ideas which they and The difficulty of getting Titbnds’ interests, in order to serve in a- public capacity; the misunderstanding of .motives; the. criticism of

saved the lives of 1,000,000 -American soldiers and 250,000 British soldiers by bringing the Pacific’ war to an end in a few days. National defense needs to be discussed in the terms of these accomplishments. Congress would do

well to hear the scientists as well as the admirals and generals. : |

~- By Eleanor Roosevelt

All of these are familiar troubles, but why go | on? They are the recital of the difficulties which beset any man who rises high in public office in this country. This is the price any public servant pays for serving the people, IN ! In spite of the price, however, the chance to do something which may change the course of history and may mean. that future generations will not have to suffer some of the ills which beset the present generation, is worth it, as many men have found out. It certainly never seemed too great to

the man who, as the clock struck midnight and 1045 came in, raised his glass and.said, “We drink! to the United States of America.” The year. 19045 has been a hard year with loss | and bitterness to many people, but to the United States peace has come again, Our men.in the armed. services still. are scattered in many pdrts of the world, but now they are building better - relationships with the nations where théy, are stationed. Let us hope we all have the same ‘Sense of responsibility and good-will to implement, the United Nations Organization which in this coming year will be permanently set up to try to bring peace to the world. : v »

. A year of important happenings both sad and!

glad lies behind us, but the year ahead is an unwritten page and much that will be written on it - depends on the way our hearts feel, our-minds understand and. our hands: work for the good of * the world as a whole, ~~ ..

uk $e

on RED CROSS AID GIVEN Expansion, too, entered into the 1 '

institutional program witlr plans for a new hospital for crippled children

Although no’ one knew the war

in northern Indiana.

*HANNAH «

SEE YOUR FUTURE CRYSTAL BALL

IN THE

SEE YOUR FUTURE IN THE CRYSTAL BALL

“| reported tonight.

* | directly to the hurricane. It ascribed

| vide transportation to crippled chil-

IN 261 U.S, DISASTERS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (U, P) .— The Red Cross brought relief to victims of 261 disasters throughout { the nation in 1945 and. at the same time reached a new high in its domestic service to members of the armed fbrees, national headqarters

Included in the list of calamities were the Texas and southern Florida hurricanes, widespread tornadoes, floods and many fires. Red Cross said the deaths of less than 12 persons were attributable

this to advance planning by its dis~ aster preparedness and relief committees. Describing 19456 as one “of the busiest years in the history of its domestic operations, “it said that nurse's aides worked 14,736,326 hours" in 2506 civilian hospitals, More than 20,000' hospital and recreation corps volunteers served

civilian institutions. Mofor corps members drove 24,766,000 miles, many of them to pro-

dren, the blind

and other unfortunates. : .

PLAN OFFICERS’ NIGHT

observe officers’ advance night at 7:45 p. m, Friday in the Masonic temple, North and Illinois sts. Mrs. Verd Rippy is worthy matron and

in - children's hospitals and other]:

Naomi chapter 131, O. E. S., will]

BILL MAULDIN

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