The Informer and Texas Freeman (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 65, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 13, 1943 Page: 14 of 16
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1943
PAGE "*
am’s Horn
By CARTER WESLEY
OUR. DUTY-
We got the following quotation
from Colonel West A. Hamilton, in
charge of military training at Prai-
rie View, and whom we knew as a
comrade in the first World War:
“Duty"
“This truth comes to us more and
more the longer we live, that on
what field or in what uniform or
with what aims we do our duty
matters very little—or even what
our duty is—great or small-splen-
did or obscure. Only to find our
duty certainly and somewhere, or
somehow, to do it faithfully—makes
us good—strong—happy and useful
men—and tunes our lives into some
feeble echo of the life of God. 7
Anon. ‘
It is natural that Colonel Hamil-
ton should adopt the above quota-
tion because it fits his philosophy
of life and aptly describes the way
he has lived. But it is a reminder
to all of us that the way to avoid
confusion and distraction is to em-
brace that attitude toward duty
which is represented in the quota-
tion.
WHAT IS EDUCATION?
A letter from Mrs. Viola Adams
in which she says, "I am one that
truly believes that we as a' race
need a new definition for education
as well as success,” prompted us to
ask the question that heads this
section. Day in and day out, we
run into able and well-informed in-
dividuals who are worrying because
they didn't go to college and who
refuse to believe that they are well-
informed and educated. On the
other hand, we are constantly find-
ing under foot products of our col-
leges who are dumb, backward and
perennial bores, who are usually
counted as being educated. I still
prefer the individual who knows
well his or her subject and knows
how to perform his or her task, to
the theoretic bug who hasn't the
gumption to even find his way in
a 100-foot garden. Education is
gaining enough knowledge to do
all the things it becomes an indi-
vidual to do, and to understand all
the things that an individual has to
read or come in contact with. Go-
ing to college or high school is one
of the ways we have adopted to get
education, but it doesn't mean that,
people who don't go can't be edu-
cated; and it doesn't mean that ev-
erybody who goes to high school or
college is educated. We need to get
• back to the fundamental purposes
and stop substituting degrees for
the knowledge that an education is
supposed to signify.
WRITE HIM-
We have a letter from Willie
Jones Edwards, Jr., asking us to
tell his friends to write him. We
are going to carry his letter below
but we wish all those who have,
other friends would write to them
too, giving them the news. It gets
kinda lonesome out there in the
service. When one gets to thinking
about home and friends and won-
dering what's happening a letter
that's newsy. telling about all the
people one knows, is valued very
highly. What the soldiers want now
is news about everybody they
know, who stumped his toe, who
got married, who's gone away,
who's got a new beau, who's got a
new dog, and all of the little things
that they'd see and hear normally
if they were home. Write to them,
don't put it off and don't assume
that somebody else is doing it. If
you read Willie Edwards' letter, you
can see how hungry the boys are
just for a little news and a little
word. The letter follows:
U. S. S. Lamson 367
c/o Postmaster
San Francisco, Cal.
“Mr. Carter Wesley
“Dear Sir:
“I would like to inform you that
I have received my first paper from
you, and was more than glad to get
it and read about Houston. Now
when I finish with the papers I pass
them on to some more boys from
Houston. I don't have much to say
in this letter, but if I come across
any news I will let you hear from
me. I would appreciate it very
much if you would put this in your
next issue as follows: I would like
to hear from all schoolmates of
Booker T. Washington school and
friends of Houston. They can reach
me at this address. I am serving on
the U. S. S. Lamson 367, c/o Post-
: master, San Francisco, California."
Very truly yours,
* 3) Willie Jones Edwards.
thing.”
The driver seemed frustrated and
furious. He drove around the cor-
ner and started down Holman. But
when he got to Live Oak and Hol-
man, he deliberately turned the
bus around. But here is the moral
or here is the tale: As he turned
the bus around he drove it into the
ditch and couldn't go back to town
or anywhere else. Then a bus came
along going out Holman and he had
to give all of his passengers trans-
fers so they could catch the other
bus. He probably will tell the com-
pany that he ran in the ditch by
accident, and unless they send
somebody out to see which ditch he
ran into, they'll never know that
he ran into the ditch by turning
around at Live Oak and Holman to
keep from going to the end of the
line. Mind you, he had other pas-
sengers on the bus and one of the
other passengers was my good
friend, who gave me the full de-
tails.
Here was a bus driver, insulting
the other inmates of the bus by
cursing at these girls because they
made him angry, and finally turn-
ing around two blocks from Dow-
ling to make these people walk
(and it was raining) clear to the
end of the line, just because he
wanted to spite those girls. No
doubt those girls were insolent and
tactless, but a bus driver has an
obligation to all of the people on
the car and he can't use the com-
pany's car for a vendetta between
him and some passenger that makes
him mad. He had no business curs-
ing over the length of the car,
when other people were on it, and
he certainly had no right to turn
the car around. This is another in-
stance of a green, young driver.
The bus company has kept as many
of its old drivers as it could, and
one has to sympathize with them
when they have to use these crazy,
hot-headed drivers. Personally, I
still think they ought to take them
to school and teach them how to
react to flippancy, and tell them
that they only' pour oil on it when
they pay attention to it or react to
it. But in any event, the bus driver
is a poor servant of his company
when he curses up and down the
car and refuses to go his full route
for people who have paid, just be-
cause he wants to spite two or three
people who make him mad.
Former Indiana
Gov. is ‘Food For
Freedom" Speaker
WASHINGTON.—(ANP) - cur-
ford M. Townsend, former governor
of Indiana and now food produc-
tion administrator of the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, will be the
principal speaker Food-for-Freedom
Sunday, February 14, at Mt. Carmel
Baptist church. Dr. W. H. Jerna-
gin, pastor, and chairman of the
executive board of the Fraternal
Council of Negro Churches in
America, announced this week.
Officials from the war depart-
ment, representatives of the Brit-
ish, Russian, and Chinese embas-
sies and other department of agri-
culture executives, together with
farmers and farm youths will also
appear on this program which is
designed to help further mobilize
Negro farmers for increased food
production this year.
The observance at Mt. Carmel is
in keeping with a resolution passed
by the executive committee of the
Fraternal Council which set aside
Sunday, February 14, as Food-for-
Freedom Sunday. On that day some
40,000 Negro churches throughout
the nation, representing 11 denom-
inations, will devote a part of their
services to the program of increased
food production.
ANNOUNCE NEW PUBLICATION
DATES FOR OPPORTUNITY
NEW YORK.—(ANP) — Changes
in the publication dates of Oppor-
tunity magazine, official organ of
the National Urban league, was an-
nounced this week by Lester B.
Granger, executive secretary.
The magazine, a journal of Ne-
gro life, will appear in January,
April, July and October. Because
of the “exigencies of war” the
plan to present the magazine as a
quarterly was decided upon, it
was explained. This new policy
will be in operation until after
peace has been declared.
RIGHT BACK AT YOU, SIR!-
We received a nice letter from
Sergeant Dean S. Johnson, from
whom we quoted several months
ago under the title “Jesting with
Johnson," on the subject “Tribute
to the Downtrodden." It was a very
fair and friendly expression from
a white person, and we were glad
to let our readers know that there
were such men in the Army and in
the younger group.
Mr. Johnson expresses his thanks
for “the honor bestowed on him by
quoting his column,” and says he
is glad to know that Negroes ap-
preciated what he thought, and re-
emphasizes the fact that he is sin-
cere. He was also very apprecia-
tiye of a letter that he received
from Private Curtis E. Davis of
Camp Swift, commenting upon the
article we quoted.
There are two things worth no-
tice here: 1. That there are honest,
friendly white men who want to
do something about the injustices
that Negroes suffer. 2. Those who
go out to do something for Negroes
are appreciative of the expressions
of good will and gratefulness from
Negroes. Often we doubt their ex-
istence, and most often we forget
to express our appreciation for
what they do. We predict that Ser-
geant Johnson will be heard from
again and that he is likely to go
places.
rhe Lone Ranger
SETTING THE DEATH TRAP!
BUT, SEE HERE, HIGGINS, HOW DYA PLAN a
TO KEEP THE LONE RANGER
FROM 4POILIN' OUR /----
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WILL THIS DO,
HIGGINS?
FIRST RATE.
I’LL SHOW YUN/
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RANGER GET ME AN INDIAN BOW AND
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MESSAGE OF DEATH!
CAN YOU HANDLE A BOW
AND ARROW,
HIGGINS?
SURE, LEARNED
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NOW THAT THEY'VE SEEN THE REAL LONE
RANGER, PAN AND MARTIN KNOW ABOUT
HI INDIAN PARTNER.
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BACK ON BUS DRIVERS-
I keep getting stories about bus
drivers, and every time I say I've
done my last one somebody sends
another good one. A very good
friend and solid citizen called me
Friday to give this story:
Three colored girls boarded the
bus at Dowling and Holman and
gave the conductor transfers. He
kept looking and looking and refus-
ing to do anything, and one of the
girls finally said, “Take 'em!"
The driver then said, "You know
I don't have to take Holman trans-
fers on this Dowling bus.”
By that time the girls had gone
to their seats and one of them said,
“Well, you've got to take those.”
The driver then said, “Don't get
so d---smart, ‘cause I don't have
to take 'em."
One of the girls then told him
that the bus they were on broke
down and the driver had given
them the transfers. The driver said,
sarcastically and furiously, "How
do I know that a bus broke down
and that you're telling the truth?"
A third girl said, "Well, you've
got to drive down to the end of this
line, anyhow." .
The Eus driver answered, "No I
e to drive down to the
don't D
end of he line, no such a d-
INCOME TAX
There are several questions that
that are bedeviling people who are
filing income tax for the first time
this year. Most people understand
that if they are single and make
$500.00 they must file a return,
whether they have to pay or not.
But there are a good number don't
realize that if husband and wife
make as much as $1200.00, or $23.08
or more a week, they have to make
a return whether they have any
tax to pay or not. Everyone should
realize that if they make a cer-
tain amount they have to make the
return to the Government, even
though they don't have to pay tax,
because the Government will have
to check on what they say or think
for their exemptions, and they
can't avoid a penalty by failing to
make the return. Another lady ask-
ed the other day whether or not if
she and her husband made $1500.00
and they had an allowed deduction
of $1200.00, would they have to pay
$300.00 tax. The answer is no. In
that event, after they have taken
out any other deductions. allowed
against the $300.00, they would pay
a certain percentage of tax on the
$300, for instance 6 per cent, may-
be, which means that they would
probably pay $18.00 or $20.00. The
safest thing to do is to consult
somebody familiar with the income
tax laws, and preferably the income
tax office should be consulted be-
fore time to make the report, and
they will tell you what you can
do and what you can't. Don't be
afraid to call them and ask for in-
formation because it doesn't preju-
dice your case, and they won't be
sitting up there remembering your
return to do anything about it. In
this connection, there are many doc-
tors, physicians and others who
have made a tremendous income
in ‘42. A few of these people are
thinking that the Government has
no way of checking on what they
make, and they are thinking that
they can turn in any kind of re-
port and that it will pass.
• That reminds us of a case in c
certain Texas city a few years ago:
A doctor who made a large income
turned in a report. About five or
six years later three men walked
into his office from the Treasury
Department and showed him their
badges. They asked him about his
income tax and he told them that
whatever was in it was true. Then
they told him they were sorry and
opened a brief case that was about
three inches thick and began to
take out photostatic copies of
checks that he'd made, photostatic
copies of bills where he had bought
fur coats for his wife, photostatic
copies of checks paying for cars, an
itemized list of a secret deposit
box that he had in his own name,
and when they got through the
man was trembling and told them
that they seemed to have the facts
and he'd throw himself on their
mercy. The told him that they had
worked out a settlement which
would cost him $7000.00, including
the tax and the penalty. He knew
that they could just as well have
turned it over to the Federal Dis-
trict Attorney and he would have
gone to the pen for having falsi-
fied his returns
Don't try to be smart with the
Government, if you owe tax, or if
you've made money, put it down
and then get a trained accountant to
give you all of the legitimate de-
ductions that you are entitled to
and you'll get more reductions than
you could possibly get by trying
to hold out on the Government.
Remember that in whatever line
you are, there are thousands of
people over the country and the
Government soon gets a pretty good
line on what they ought to do and
make. Don't think because you got
by last year that they won't. be
back, because they are likely to
come back five or six years later,
when you can ill afford to pay
the great amount that you will
owe in penalties and interest, plus
whatever you didn't pay. In this
connection, it's well to say a trite
thing: You live and profit by the
Government and you must be will-
ing to pay your legitimate share of
the cost of traffic involved in gov-
ernment in the form of taxes. It's
all right to take all permissible de-
ductions,—and there are far more
than you know about and that's why
you need to consult an authority
if you have large income for any
year. For instance, though I studied
income tax and used to be pretty
good at it when I practiced, I never
make my own income tax report
now because I don't keep up with
the new laws, and I turn it over to
somebody who specializes in it and
I find that they get me more de-
ductions than I dreamed of, and the
little I pay for their services is a
small percentage of what I save by
having their services.
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THE LONE RANGER WANTS US
TO MEET HIM AT THE BIG BEND
( CAVE/ BOTH OF U5.5
GREAT/ WE CAN GET THEM
I THE BG BEND CAVE ne
DEATH'S TRAIL!
NOW WHAT, HIGGINS? THERE GO PAN AND
MARTIN. WE CAN TRAP EM IN THE CAE
AN' THATLL FINISH 'EM.
—ANP LEAVE THE LONE 1
RANGER ALIVE? NOT ON YOUR
LIFE/ I WANT 1
HIM, TOO.
RIGHT HERE IS A COPY OF THE ^
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THE OFFICE.
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r A TRAP AT BIG BEND CAVE /
TRAPPED IN THE CAVE OF DEATH!
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JIVE GRAY
T I’M ALMOST To THE "
BOTTOM OF THESE STEPS...
PRETTY SUMY... IVE GOT
To KEEP FROM SLIPPING
Wire MY ARMS TIED
i BEHIND ME... * A
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RANGER, HIGGINS, JUST
OKE YH 4AIP. ressl
/ RIDIN' FER
I BIG BEND
CAVE/ THAT’S
GOOP/WELL
HAVE EVERYONE
THERE FER
. OUR
( CAVE-IN /
I PONT SEE THE
LONE RANGER, )
MR. MARTIN. 1
WELL GO INSIDE
AN' WAIT FOR HIM. HIS NOTE
5AID TVH MEET HIM HERE.)
WHEN THE LONE RANGER 5EE5 TH,
HELL HEAD FOR BIG BEND CAVE, 1
TOO/ THEN WE'LL HAVE'EM/and
(COME ON, TONTO
HI-YO, SILVER
GITTU
SCOUT/
THERE THEY ARE. NOW
THE FOUR OF ’EM ARE
IN THE CAVE, HIGGINS
WELL LIGHT THE FUSE
AN THAT’LL BLOW EM AL
TUH 4MITHEREENS3
By Ol Harrington
• PRETTY DARK DOWN
HERE... DAMP TOO... MY
EYES WILL BECOME
ACCUSTOMED TO THIS
DARKNESS IN A
FEW SECONDS
CONTINENTAL FATUR.S
SOMEONE ELSE IS IN 1
HERE. AND THEY MEANT 1
BUSINESS WHEN. THEY THREW
THAT ROCK/ s
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