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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR ATHENS BANNER HERALD ESTABLISHED 1832 w Every Evening-Except Saturday and Sunday and on Sunday Morning by Athens Publishing Co. tered at the Post Office at Athens, Ga., as second class mail matter, e ——————————— e e e BT R . ... ... i ierenennstnnrrinbaiinantsexsshvisiinnres EDITUR MOB PURILIBNER B.O.LUMPKIN and DAN MAGILL ........ocooooooooocsssseesrssssnnsess.... ASSOCIATE EDITORS NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Ward-Griffith Company, Inc., New York, 247 Park Avenue; Boston, Statler Office Building; Atlanta, 22 Marietta St.; Chicago, Wrigley Building; Detroit, General Motors Building; Sait Lake City, Hotel Newhouse; San Francisco, 681 Market St. ; MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local netws printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP News dispatches. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday by carrier and to Post Office boxes in the city— TR TR RO S I SDG e e I A R e SR IV i e BOIINS . e d hal MEE e rUG e b S L ek veah e o - R R e A e T S e e vk S I ..l R i e v il dissairsdaet i s SRBY SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL Subscription on R. F. D. Routes and in Towns within 50 miles of Athens, eight dollars per year. Sub scriptions beyond 50 miles from Athens must be paid at City rate. All subscriptions are payable in advance. Payments in excess of ¢ne month should be paid through our office since we assume no responsibility for payments made to carriers or dealers. DAILY MEDITATIONS And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will \ make you to become fishers of men, And straightaway they for sook their nets and followed him, — St. Mark 1:17-18. —Little Patsy Campbell, King Avenue, City. Have you a favorite Bible verse? Mail to A. F, Pledger, Holly Heights Chapel. . The Washingfon Notebook BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON.—(NEA)—With still higher taxes fnevitable, the U, S. Treasury has been doing some checking up on tax evaders. The purpose is to see if a few more dollars for defense couldn’t be col= lected this hard way. Over 52,000,000 returns have been filed in each of the last few years. It's impossible to do more than a superficial audit on thenr all. Common belief has been that only the big income returns were checked carefully, but this is said to be not so. All returns which show certain tell-tale signs of deliberate fraud or incorrect reporting are given a close scrutiny, Experience over the years has taught income tax examiners where to look for evasions and how to spot them. ? Recently, however, the Treasury realized that it needed a more scientific method for selecting a small number of returns for close audit. As described by Assistant Secretary of Treasury John S, Graham, this resulted in an “Audit Control Program.” First step was a scientific sampling method which turned up 162,000 out of a whole year’s returns. Those returns which were selected for audit were picked by number, without any knowledge of who the taxpayers were, or how much tax they had paid. One of the surprising results of this sanmrple was that Secretary Gibson's own return was one of those scientifically selected for audit. as were those of some of his friends, i 5 FIND 25 PERCENT HAD ERRORS But the most surprising discovery of all was that one out of every four individual income tax returns audited was in error by $2 or more in tax liability. In other words, 13,000,000 out of the 52,000,000 re turns filed that year must have been in need of cor rection, And nine out of ten of these errors were against the government, In still other words, these errors must have lost the government about $1,3300,000,000, since the average understatement on the returns checked was sll4, - The other side of the picture is that the 10 per cent, or the 1,300,000 individuals who overstated their income contributed $90,000,000 that the gov ernment wasn't entitled to. On the returns with errors, 5 percent were sim ple mistakes in arithmetic, with no fraud intended. Sixteen percent, however, made mistakes in claim ing exemptions, 25 percent claimed deductions they were not legally entitled to, and more than 50 per cent made mistakes in reporting their income. Zxamples of mistakes made by people in report ing their income taxes—as given by Secretary Gib son—show that out and out criminals who try to conceal income from illegal enterprises are rela tively few in number, and are usually caught, The people who try to defraud the governmrent of tax income are more numerous. But the big bulk are just ordinary people who apparently try to get away with something — just once, or perhaps oftener. Temptation and greed are a little too much to cope with. K OWS NOW WHAT “HELPMEET” MEANS “‘here was, for instance, the case of the man who in .:ted that he had only one bank account. His wile, who was sitting in on the interview with the examiner, spoke up and admonished her mate that he had several, and named the towns. The taxpayer tried to brush aside his wife’s remarks. “Don’t you know you can go to jail for not telling the truth,” she asked. As a result of her honesty, the correct tax was computed and the case closed without trouble. - Simple honesty results in many leads to the Treasury on income tax violations, There was the case of a Quaker who, outraged by his neighbor's bragging of how he had defrauded the govérnment through failure to report full war industry profits, passed the information along to the Treasury. Many defrauders give themselves away. There is the case of a jeweler who falsified his books and buried §IOO,OOO in unreported income in his cellar. One day he dug it up and to his horror found that the money had molded. When he tried to exchange the bills for new ones, the odor of fraud was so strong that he was caught. Another case was that of a man who claimed big exemptions for entertainment. A check-up showed that the man had thrown big parties, all right. His excuse was that if he hadn't spent the money that way, he would have had to pay it to the government in taxes, It hadn’t occurred to him that he was a slacker, and that he was letting others carry his re sponsibilities as a taxpayer. People seldom know me in public. I guess it's because I'm not beautiful. — Film star Barbara Stanwyck. In the long haul, the fight against comraunism will not be won unless the free peoples of tne world show clearly and conclusively that it is they, and not the Communists, who have the courage and skill to really do something about poverty and in iustice,—Presidential Assistant John Steelman. Allies’ Retreat so Hungnam Will Live Through History When they slashed their way victoriously out of a Chinese Red trap, some 25,000 U. S. Marines, 7th Division G, I’s and British Commandos etched a pattern of incomparable heroisnr in the snow and cold of northeast Korea. This was the longest retreat in Marine annals— nearly 50 miles of bloody struggling over icy, tor tuous mountain roads. Exhausted, tense, chilled by temperatures ranging down to 25 degrees below zero, these fighting men drove to temporary haven at Hungnam through a cerridor of relentless fire. The cost of this epic break-out was high, The Ist Marine Engineer Battalion, which carved a path through the Chinese blocking the route ahead, suf fered 60 percent casualties of men and equipment. One reporter said 200 Americans were buried in a single grave, because there was no time for better arrangements. As the gallant force hacked through to Koto on its way to the sea, it linked up with a smafler band of Marines surrounded for days by Chinese. Here'’s how, in the words of a correspondent, that little group looked to the larger force: “It was a gruesome sight — wounded nren with their blood frozen to their skins, their clothes stiff with ice, grotesque dead men lying across trailers and stretchers, live men stumbling along, grimacing from frost bite, using their rifles as crutches.” Once the long, bumper-to-bumper column stood almost motionless for four hours as engineers strug gled to replace & bombed-out bridge. There were similar anguished delays as craters in the slippery road were filled. To go 10 miles on one part of the escane route required 14 hours. All the way Chinese Communists were erecting obstacles ahead of our weary men, harassing their flanks, sniping at the column’s rear. The enemy force was estimated at from three to five times greater than ours, Yet we exacted a toll o 0 Chi nese for every casualty on our side. When they finally made it down to the coastal plain, embattled Marines could find no energy for the formalities of *“link-up” handshakes with the U. S. patrols who met them, nor had they many smiles for newsreel cameramen who asked them to “look happy.” They'd seen and experienced too much. - “We have lost an awful lot of friends up on that plateau,” said a Marine officer. “Almost everybody up there was a hero. It's just that some guys are asked what they did and tell about it, and others don’t talk so good.” The schoolbooks of tomorrow will call this saga of skill and endurance and courage a retreat. But it is no surprise that the Marines who made that bitter march do not see it so. “It was no retreat,” declar ed a colonel with fierce pride. “It was an advance to the rear.” - What man, hearing of this ordeal, dares to say it was anything less? . Musical Hero !s Unsung The hero of President Truman’s “music critic in cident” is the critic himself, Mr. Paul Hume of the Washington Post, With understanding and restraint, he has declined to condemn the President for a letter written in what appears to be a moment of great strain. Mr. Truman had just lost Charlie Ross, one of his old est and best friends. He was under terrific pressure to make wise and correct decisions affecting Amer ica’s whole future. Hume saw it that way, and let it go at that. He did not apologize to the President for an “invasion” of his private life. He had no need to do that. For when the critic picked flaws in Margaret Truman'’s singing performance, he was not assailing her as the President’s daughter. He was judging her as a professional musician, the only way she should have been measured once she stepped onto a public concert stage. Surely Mr. Truman must appreciate this himself. We suspect that some day scon Hume will find a fitting expression of regret addressed to him on White House stationery. . . > Hiss Faces His Last Chance Only the Supreme Court stands between Alger Hiss and prison. A federal appeals court upheld unanimously his conviction for perjury in connec tion with alleged espionage activities for Russia in the 1930'5. The appellate judges found that there was suffi cient independent evidence to support the broad charges made against Hiss by Whittaker Chambers. Chambers was vigorously attacked by Hiss as a wit ness who couid not be believed, but the appeals court suggested that it was not unreasonable for the jury to believe his story—as it apparently did. The court fastened on one aspect of the case which seemed to get too little attention during the two trials: the patently false performance of Hiss in identiiying Chambers by his teeth and voice after previously saying—while looking at his picture— that he didn’t know him. Front here on, it’s steeply uphill for Alger Hiss. “He has not marshalled evidence that fits a pattern of innocence. He has one more try. When you go into the voting booth you are nras ter of what you do. There will be no Gestapo, no Communist dictator watching, — Ohio Governor Frank Lausche. Death, now knocking at iny door, is not an un weleome vigitor —Geqree Be nard Shaw. THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA SOCIAL SECURITY: By NEA Service What kinds of self-employment income are covered by the new social security law? Generally, the net earanings from most trades, crafts or busi nesses in which the owner or part ner “works for himself.” If you ?are sole owner or partner oper ating a store, shop, garage, lunch ‘room, etc., an independent con tractor, an artist or a writer you may b uild up old-age and sur vivors insurance protection under this new part of the law. What self-employment is not covered? Income from self-employment as a farm operator, physician, lawyer, dentist, osteopath, chiro practor, optometrist, naturopath, veterinarian, architect, accountant (certified, licensed, registered, or full-time practicing), Christian | S cien ce practioner, professional engineer, or funeral director. How much do you have to earn in self-employment to be covered? If you have net earnings of S4OO or more in any one year from self employment you are covered and your income will count toward social security payments. How much do self-employed persons contribute? . From 1951 through 1953, the rate will be 2% per cent of self employment income; from 1945~ 59, 3 per cent; from 1960-64 33} per cent; from 1965-69, 4% per cent, and after 1969, 47 per cent. Only the first $3600 of total wage and self-employment income is' taxable. _How do self-employed persons \ pay the social security tax? 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Household workers in | clude chauffuers, butlers, walets, | grooms, footmen, cooks, house | maids, nursemaids, housekeepers, laundresses, gardeners and fur nacemen. But you must have worked for your employer on some part of at least 24 different days in the same calendar quar ter or in the calendar quarter just before it to be eligible. How do you report your house hold workers? Fill in the name, social security number of the worker, and the amount of cash wages paid dur ing the quarter on a simple re port form furnished to household employes by the Collector of In ternal Revenue. Send this re port each quarter to the Collector of Internal Revenue, together with the tax on th e worker’s wages. Until 1954, the tax is 3 per cent, one-half to be deducted from the cash wages, one-half to be contributed by the household employer. May you report household workers with other employes? If you are a household employ er who already is making social security reports (Form 941) as sole owner of a business or pro fessional practice, you may re port your household worker on C. A. Trussell Motor Co. “Athens’ Oldest Dealer” Broad at Pulaski Phone 1097 that form together with non household employes. ' If a household worker leaves before working on 24 different days in a canlendar gquarter, and did not work on 24 different days in the preceding quarter, what do you do about the tax? It will not be necessary to send in a report. If you withheld the tax from the worker’s weekly cash wages up to the time of leav ing, it should be refunded. If your close relatives work for you in your household, do they get social security credit? All relatives except your chil dren under 21, your spouse or parents are covered for work they do in your household, provided they meet the 24- day, SSO test. ey | la‘ﬁéi»qe?“?'« TR E@'kﬂeaﬁbmq ’ ST REIEF —with no rebound! Tums are different. 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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, December 18, 1950, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4