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THE CLINTON
NEWS -RECORD
THURS.; AUG. 20, 1942
Employers ,and Post Offices
have been requested to dis-
play in. a prominent place
the official Table of. Tax
Deductions.
Forms TD -1 may be secured
from your employer, Post
Offices, or local Income Tax
offices.
Income Tax is Fair ® All
- In the fourth year of war, Canada will need almost four billion
dollars. This is the equivalent of nearly $3 50 from every man, woman
and child in the country.
Even with the highest income tax in history, 52% only of the
money Canada needs will be raised by taxation. The rest will have to be
borrowed j:sy means of War Savings Stamps, Certificates and Victory
Bonds.
Starting with the first pay period in September representing Sep-
tember earnings only, your employer is required by law to deduct your
income tax from your wages or salary, and send it promptly- to the
Government. Everybody will pay his share as he goes along. '
It's going to be tough. . . but not too tough! Here are
some good features:
1. You will pay as you earn, so that you
will not , be faced with a large lump sum
payment next year.
2. The National Defence Tax already de.
ducted during the first 8 months of this year
has been taken into account in the 'Table of
Tax Deductions,
3. Though the income tax rates'show a sharp
increase over lasE year, a large portion of this
increase is actually savings, to be paid back to
you with interest after the war.
4.. The money you are paying for life insur-
ance premiums, annuities, principal repay-
ments on your home, or into a pension fund
may be deducted (up to it certain maximum)
from the savings portion of yout. income tax.
In many cases this may be sufficient to make
payment of the savings portion of the tax
unnecessary.
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Unless you are single, without dependents, and not making payments of the
types mentioned in paragraph 4 above, you should file Form TD -1 with your
employer. Otherwise, you may not be allowed the credits to which you are
entitled. DO NOT DELAY. File Form TD -1 with your employer at once so
that you may get the full allowances from the start. •
taallarnallaIRDINEY
DOMINION OF Cl — DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL REVENUE
• 110N. COLIN GlBsoN,
Minister of Notional Revenne.
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INCOME TAX DIVISION
C, FRASER ELLIOTT,
Commissioner of Income Tea.
Five Hundred Warships in Thirty Months
(continued from page 3) of the war, and we have about 180
I corvettes whieli didn't exist at all
the corresponding per -war period.
when we first started to thwart the
And 1 think Ws a feat on which the U-boat campaign against our mereh-
aibipyard men can look back with
ant pride and on which the outside world shipping. ' part
Britain's war effort which has hither -
ought to congratulate them. I
to been kept secret to all but a hand -
But that is only part of the story.
ful of people. . •
On top of that tenfold increase in
We've talked quite a lo about the
derstreyers, the and have also been
•m
able to deliver 190 corvettes, a type
hadi astronomical fasares, about the
of vessel we were only starting to
manufacture, of small arms and am -
built in 1939, and for which we have.'
munition, about airplane poets and.
to Cooperative figuie. It represents
complete aireraft „about tanks and
en average delivery of nearly sevel
porvettes a anonth, and one of thle, a
shipyard men have toiled on and have
most striking- features about the
rarely been remembered by the gen-
is the big share of it credited
cral public unless. some disgruntled
to Canadian shipbuilding yards The
Blimp has spluttered abont waated
published names of Canadian -built
f time in the d,ockyarde You don't pro -
corvettes total sixty-one.
I eausst not give'you the irnpreassaa months by wasting time.
...masoo5
repair of damaged ships. There's
been a lot of it, however, and) it's been
done in record time. Pee given you!
nothing here but known facts. What'
gives them an appearance of novelty,
wha,1 makes them perhaps seem a ths-
closure of secret information, is
merely a little bit of industry in
bringing them all together,• tabulat-
ing and subtracting.
This, you will recognize ,is one of
the most important tasks of the In-
telligence Departanent
•
output •of military aqua eatW
. e'
ve
'dace 500 new fighting ships, in thirty
Nothing— -
vealed But ReFacts -
that the.s, se 500 nes.fighting ships are
a net addition to our strength at sea. I
We hive lost seventeen onagers, se,v- Ansi don'tlerget what I emphasized
enty-eight destroyers, 'thirty-eight at the start — that that 500 is a
• aulamarines, an well as five capital minimum fig-ure and that I'm talking
ships and lour aircraft carries but it only about the bantling oe warships.
is pretty 'clear, that the effort of our We have no figures, to tell us what
shipyard men has done much more has been the shipbuilding effort in,
than fill the gape. ' tho output of new merchant ships.
Our destroyer strength today is Finally, an aspect ef shipyard work
nearly double what it was at the start that we do not talk about at all is the
AMOOMONAOMmemead
the alfalfa is cut, its second growth is
much more rapid than the growth of
the weeds. This crop, if the land is
suitable forits• growth, will .psoduce
a high yieid of nutritious feed and
will kill moat species of perennial
weeds atlthe 'same time. This, surely,
is an .eaey way of rcrintrolling weeds,
, Couch grass amfortunatey, is• not
eradicated by alfalfa. In this ease
the growth of the weed starts earlier
in the spring than does the alfalfa
growth. The easiest way to. control
this wed is to mother it with buck-
wheat; but buckwheat cannot do this
Weeds
'without other help. Before seeding
• Perennial Weeds the buckwheat, the, vigour of ths.
couch grass should: be reduced consid-
(Expeaimental Parses Newt) erably so as to give the buckwheat
Easy ways of atillMg weeds are al- crop as meth atlavntage as possible
ways in demand, but in this period oe in the subsequent fig,ht.
labour ahottage, farmers are especial- . To control coach grass by buck-
ly, interested in getting rid ea weeds wheat, the following procedure is -re-
with the miniinuan of labour. Accor- commended. Plough the infested
ding. to the -results dE experiments area in the aall. In the following
uonducted by the Field Husbandry spring, after the early spring crops
Division, Central Experimental Farm, are seeded, give the couch grass area
Ottawa, states George Knowles of the considerable cultivation so as to bring
Division, the easiest way to getaid of as many as possible of the roots to
Canada thistle, perennial sow thistle, the surface. Rake up with a hay
chicory, milkweed and toad flax is by rake and burn them. Seed the buck -
growing alfalfa on the. infested, area wheat not later, than the middle of
for three or four years in succession. June. If the son is snoiet at that
the spring, alfalfa • grows more time, the growth of .the buckwheat is
quickly than these weeds, and, soon most rapid ,and man, smothers all
excludes sunlight from thesn. When weed growth.
Poorest of All Indian
Tribes Were the Gosiute
Lack of clothing made the Gosiute
Indians of .special interest to an-
thropologists. This American tribe
was so poor before the white men:
came to his homeland on the Great
Salt desert that it had little to wear,
according to a study now being com-
pleted by Dr. Julian H. Stewart,
Smithsonian Institution anthropole
gist.
Anthropologists are interested in
the Gosiutes because they are con-
sidered the lowest culture among
American Indians before the discov-
ery of Columbus and later explor-
ers. The tribe roamed over 172,000
square miles of barren lava plains of
the Great Salt desert, extending
across Utah and Nevada.
• Because they lived on the desert
wastes, where few of their fellow
Indians ventured of their own free
will, these peoples were cut off
from contact with others and thus
struggled to survive without aid
from outside. Even large game and
wild seeds :Were scarce, and during
the bayren winter the Gosiutes ate
mice, gophers, ants, lizards and oth-
er reptiles.
The tribes had only brush wind-
breaks or caves for shelters against
the intense cold of the mountain
desert winters. Utensils and tools
were few, although baskets, pots,
bows and arrows were part of every
family's possessions. With their
weapons the tribesmen were able to
kill an occasional large game ani-
mal which wandered out over the
desert, or the wild rabbits.
Laws 'Agin' Smoking in '
Bed, Cussing, Smoking
You can't swear in Elkton, Md.
A city ordinance. of June 1, 1936,
made the use of improper speeds
"in or about business premises"
punishable by fine. or imprisonment
and held the proprietors of buildings
responsible. Likewise in Burnsville,
W. Va., Mayor C. E. Whytsellsdes
creed a fine for all who could not
curb their speech.
The mayor of Keosauqua, Iowa,
the same month, issued a ukase to
his 1,000 citizens that they must
not smoke in bed.
Bermuda Boasts Having
Bar in -Old Quarry
. Stories have been written about
many unusual bars and thinking
places in the world, but Hamilton,
Bermuda, boasts probably the only
bar in a quarry.
"The Qtiarry's" was opened years
ago in what used to be an old stone-
cutter's working ground, which for
years lay neglected between the
northeast corner of the hotel Amer-
ican House, at Queen and Church
streets. -"
Much of "The Quarry's" charm
lies in the careful preservation of
the uneven planes and projections
Of the walls, which have beers al-
lowed to remain exactly as they
were hewn by the stonecutters. The
rough texture and the soft tones of
the natural stone add immeasurably
to the general warmth of its atmos-
phere.
In- the center of 'the room stands
the bar, beneath a gaily -striped
awning. The ceiling of the quarry
proper is supported by massive
beams and square pillars of natural
stone, and in a niche at the eastern
end is the bronze ship's bell of the
barque "Fancis Hilyard."
This bell has an interestingstory.
A little over 50 years ago the , 'Fran-
cis Hilyard," bound -from Philadel-
phia to Antwerp, put into St.
'George's an distress. Proving to be
hopelessly unseaworthy, she was sub-
sequently sold at auction for the
benefit of the underwriters. The
bell attracted the eye of the late
A. Paschal, who bid it in and in-
stalled it in the old bar at the Amer-
ican House. There, every New
Year's eve, it became his custom
to use it to ring the old year out
and the new year in.
zessing Experfonce b
With Prickly Pear Enda
Man often gets his Imuckles.
rapped when he monkeys with thd.
balance of nature. Starlings were
introduced into the U. S. to crowd
out English sparrows, Now the
starlings are a great nuisance in,
some eastern cities, while the re-
placement of horses by automobiles
hit the sparrows harder than the -
starlings did. When rabbits were
taken into Austrpha they prolifer-
ated enormously for lack of natural
enemies. Wholesale slaughter has
not suppressed them. Australia also
had a distressing experience with
the prickly pear—but in this case
there was a happy ending,
• North and South American prickly,
pears, members of the cactus fam-
ily, were taken to Australia in the.
Nineteenth century, planted for
hedges and as a source of fodder.
By 1925 they threatened to crowd
• out native vegetation on 30,000,000.
• acres of land, and on 3,9,000,000
more acres the pears had complete-
ly won, standing in a dense, solid
growth two to five feet thick. The
cost of fighting them with chem-
icals, by digging or plowing, stack-
ing and burning, would have been.
more than the land was worth. So,
year after year, more land was
abandoned, more homesteads de-
serted.
govern-
ment sent agents to the Americas
Meanwhile the Australian to See what the prickly pear's natu-
ral enemies were. The agents in-
vestigated about 150 insects that
feed on cactus and nothing else,
set a few of the most promising
to work in Australia. By far the
most potent destroyer proved to
be a little moth borer, Cactoblastis
cactorum. The larvae of this insect
eat the inside of the pear plant,
even the roots,, and their depreda-
Believes Stars Are tions promote rotting due to bac-
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teria and fungi, Armed with strings.
Source of Cosmic. Ray moth borer eggs glued to strips.
, Some yet unexplained power with- of paper, fieldworkers swarmed
in the stars to shoot out either posi- through prickly pear land, pinned
tively or negatively charged elec- their deadly/ eggs on the plants,
trical particles is believed to be the
basic cause of the mysterious cos- le
aria radiation, Thomas H. Johnson, Largest Sharks Harmless
assistant director of the Bartol Re-
search foundation of the Franklin
Despite an almost embarrassing
Institute, says in a report on cosmic Among the many strange area -
proximity to the night club, super-
ray knowledge published in the tures that inhabit the depths of the -
sophisticated city of New York, the Physical Review. sea there is a curious wine -colored
puritan aldermen of Yonkers have Summarizing research findings of shark, according to a recent pub -
banned the wearing of shorts by the many workers studying cosmic rays lication of the Smithsonian institu-
fair and sometimes fat sex. The through the world, Johnson suggests tion, writtet by Dr. Henry W.
reason was moral, not a gesture of that these primary charged parti- Fowler, of the Philadelphia Acad-
transcendental esthetics. cles go out through the star's at- envy of Sciences.
In Brea, Ohio, an ancient but mosphere and, in passage, create an This curious denizen of the deep.
still unrepealed statute makes it 11- abundance of secondary particles has 20 rows of teeth in its huge
legal for you to take your dog or which are positive and negative mouth, and its whole underside
cat out after dark without a red light electrons and the corpuscles of radi- shines with a ghostly light at night.
ant energy called photons. It is found in tropical waters the
on the animal's tail. Whiskers, in
"complete or partial," are illegal in The charge of the primary par-
world around, and its shining, as
Los Angeles, but beards are stand- tides, being of one sign, raises the the case of other marine animals,
ard equipment required by the laws potential of the star to the point worms, and insects such as fireflies,
of Brainerd, Minn., and Centralia, where opposite charger are repelled produced by phosphorus. isThe-
Wash., according to the scholarly and both types of particles move luminous parts of this weird shark
researches of Dick Hyman whose along with equal velocities, the will continue to shine for several
the mast hours after death.
Mn§ ad compilatioare called "It's heavier particles having
e
the LaW." An ancient statute makes energy, states johnson's report. Thbiggest sharks, Dr. Fowler
it -illegal to play the fiddle in Boss ' Once outside the star the elec- writes, are the most harmless of
ton or to own a dog more than 10 trical particles and the photons go all. They are known as basking
inches high. "It is against the law separate ways, the particles being sharks. They attain lengths of from
in the state of Virginia to have a held within the star galaxy by the 30 to 36 feet and are the largest of all
bathtub inside a house; same shall 'galactic magnetic field, while the sharks. They are found occasion-
beism, pass out into intergalactic
space. . The basking shark gets its name.
ally around American shores, but
chiefly inhabit Arctic waters.
kept in the yard," photons, uninfluenced by magnet -
Suitable for Defense Homes from its habit of lying motionless on
The characteristics of low cost the surface of the water in the sun,
and operating economy of a new White Garden in Moonlight often in schools. In spite of its
hot water and steam boiler make it White flowers have so many uses huge size, it is quite harmless, be
' particularly suitable for defense an the garden. • ing either so good-natured or s0.
homes built for two or more fami- For aesthetic purposes, they serve stupid that it never molests anyone
lies. A scientifically desigted corn- as peacemakers between colors that and if attacked will try to get away,
bastion charnber and long, doubleinsight otherwise clash.
swimming very slowly, It feeds on
fish.
gallery flue passages provide high 1
1 And for gardeners who get most
efficiency and economy. A small
water content and large steam space iof their enjoyment from their
If Wine -Hued in Color
give quick heat and dry steam. All grounds in the evening hours, white
section and door contacts are ma-
,flowers are very desirable. Viewed
chine ground to make them tight
by moonlight a green and white gar -
and air -proof. Special features et den is indescribably beautiful.Ex-
the new boiler set a high standard 'amine by moonlight . or artificial
of convenience. These include air lighting a portion of your own or a
cooled haridles, foot treadle door friend's garden that is dominated by
openers, and a new type of grate whit g flowers and see how much
shaker located conveniently at the more effective the scene is than
side. Concealed hinges add to the where colors are used in the garden
beauty of the unit whidh is suitable scheme. If, in addition, your flow -
for use with all fuels, automatic ers are fragrant, your pleasure is
or hand -fired, doubled.
Another advantage of white flow-
ers is that in many instances they
For Army Men have been found to have muels
bigh-
American troops in the field, away er visibility to those with failing
from canteens or other stores, may sight. If you have an elderly per -
be issued tobacco and candy as pattson in your household whose sight
of their daily ration at the •discre- is impaired beCause of age, or if a
tion of the commander of the field member of your family has nor
forces, the war department points vision because of other causes, plant
out. Army regulations provide that a small green and white garden es -
in a theater of operations, when such pecially for his enjoyment. Here,
articles cannot be obtained other- too, fragrance is an added virtue.
wise by troops, their issue may be
authorized by the commander from
stocks supplied by the quartermas- Beautiful Brazilian Parrots
ter corps. The regulation which he Birds abound in the jungles of
may invoke provides for a daily re- Brazil and the macaws are the most
tion of one ounce of candy, one- beautiful of all, These are the larg-
half box of matches (20 rnatches) est and finest of the parrot family
and 20 cigarettes, or one • ounce of and measure three feet from head
chewing or smoking tobacco. For to tail. Some are red, green, and
soldiers who "roll their own," ciga- blue, while others are blue,
yellow
retie papers are authorized for is- and brown and are called the Hy -
sue. .acinthine macaws, due to their Mil-
. liant plumage. With its hard beak
'• one of these birds can crack a nut
Let Doctor Prescribe Them that would be difficult to break with
Hailed as the "miracle" drug, sal- a hammer.
fanilarnide and its related corn- '
pounds are indeed achieving amaz-
ing results on many cases for which Rich Food Shipments
they have been found to be specific, Food shipments to the British
says a report. Yet "sulfa", has market under the lend-lease pro -
powerful reactions, and even skilled gram consisted largely of foods rich
phyaicians find extreme care neees. in proteins, vitamins and minerals.
sary in its use. The average lay- Since the inauguration of that pro -
man has no more business buying gram more than 300 trillion dollars'
these drugs and taking them without worthof evaporated milk, cheese;
close medical supervision than he .eggs and egg products, dried fruits,
would have in buying insulin or mor- canned fruits and vegetables, lard
phine, or in performing .herne sut- and other pork products, and other
gery on his family. - agricultural commodities have been
sent to the United Kingdom,
Party for Lonely Hearts
Because he had known what 10 18
to be lonely in a big city, Carl H.
Caro inaugurated his Studio Parties.
Their purpose is to provide a social
life for the shy and friendless. To.
his Greenwich Village come guests
for an evening of music (Caro is a
pianist -composer), dancing, games
—and refreshment that contains no
hint of alcohol. Subscriptions for
most affairs are $1 a person; Satur-
day evenings the rate is $1.25,
Guests of all ages are drawn by
advertisements in looal papers and
through recommendations of friends.
Within the past year and a half'
Caro has entertained home 5,000.
persons. His home has come to be
a recognized social center, appeal-
ing not merely to the lonely, who
have no place to go, but to those
who feel they can have as better
time at Caro's than at most of the
conventional entertainment centers.
Result: Twenty-six marriages, four
suicides averted, seven jobs found.
Host Caro met his bride at one
his parties.
Versatile Labor Savers
Household labor savers, running
to fly -executing machines, can open-
ers, ant control traps, personal
beauty aids, such as a bathing cap,
equipped to massage the bald
scalp, thus stinaulating hair growth;
travelers conveniences — like the
tiny plastic washboard to launder
hosiery in a hotel washbowl, and a
dog exerciser were recently on dis-
play at an inventor's convention in,
Los Angeles.
Trick Lighter
Catch a mouse and light a cigar
in one simple operation. The mouse
takes the cheese, and that springs;
the trap, knocking down a ball that
pushes a lever—and it strikes a
match. That is one of the newest
gadgets—a combination cigar lights
er and better mousetrap—on the
market ,