The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-05

HoU About IT, Uncle?
Uncle Sam is being obliged to kick lot of folks around
these days not because Uncle is that kind of
not at all but because there's and were in
1t right TO the dome light and the turret steel top
War makes Uncle do lot of things he doesn't like
and the word can't has been into the spot
his vocabulary. In fact life is just one mustn't touch
after another for the gentleman with the white goaee and
the long index finger which he insists pointing
like you and me with Uncle Sam Needs You"i
Well =. while ago he lowered the boom the
automobile dealers from the rocky coast Of Maine to
the sunny sands Of California with the result that
the erstwhe prosperous merchants Of benzine ocomo-
ton are now about destitute . swordfsh in the
Ari.on. desert they're long leases which can't
Be broken, cars which can't be sold, and income tax
blanks which MUST be filed =. but definitely!
OF course Uncle isn't worrying too much about the auto
mobile dealers but the automobile dealers are After
ALL March 18th just around the the isn't
any farther away than your vest pocket
@automaticcluchers" like shadow. Last year good
one for the dealers and most of them made money
but making money doesn't always have what
: have made business just isn't run that way.
And 30, here il is income tar time in the year Of
Our Lord. 1872 and the self same Uncle whom we
have mentioned several times before is getting that
: -gimmie" look in his steelblue eyes and when
Uncle gets the rimmiss." he gets it bad =. now
The other day the dealers operating in the State of
Washington met in Seattle to discuss their problems and to
silver lining Believing that if they in the mood
they could do better job of probing they three
of Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag" and
that didn't help much they neglected
remove huge calendar from the wall which hung like the
OF i. and threw mos, 81 them and on Ke
-reach the lining which may or may not be silver the
august body with March its mind turned with pleading
to the resolutions committee for bit of a bracer
mental. of counsel
And did the resolutions committee let them down!
did this chosen few forth from the council
chamber empty handed? did they fail their broth
s N their hour Of Peril! sSns in tomorrow at this
No. dear readers the resolutions committee did not miss
the boat
When they filed into the assembly hail. sunshine burst
Through the windows like day in Spring birds were
singing and all the world was gayl
The resolutions committee had resoluted and howl
The following in substance the last stand of the boys
with their backs to the bumper:
WHEREAS the automobile dealers of the State Of
Washington remember us? no longer engaged
in the great American sport called busness
choppers of the automotive Tobacco Road"
AND WHEREAS We have automobiles to sell and
body to sell them to-
AND WHEREAS have income taxes TO pay and
money with which to pay them
AND WHEREAS Uncle Sam says he needs all the
automobiles there for his Army and his Navy
We, the automobile dealers Of the State of Wash
ngon resolve that In view of the foregoing. Uncle
. Sam accept the automobiles have and can't sell
in lieu Of the coin Of the realm payment Of
income taxes for the 1941, which become due and
payable the 18th Of March, in the year Our Lord
1912!
And thus did the automobile dealers of this beseec
the government of these United States TO have heart
and revive their faith in what their toll
them that every cloud has silver lining
How about it, Uncle?