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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-25
GET III QUICK

But Jim may be dead by then,
so the thing for him to do is take
this refund as a credit against his
income tax. To get this credit, Jim
must show that he has made pay
ments on insurance, paid off debts,
and bought war bonds to an amount
greater than S54.91. In Jim'S case,
his S100 insurance payment is
enough to entitle him TO this cred
it. but he has in addition payments
on the principal of his mortgage
amounting tc SIS a month or $50
a year, and he has been buying war
bonds at the rate of Sc week Tor
50 weeks or 1912. The total is
S592, but as far as saving him
money on his tax bill it is mostly
window dressing, for all it permits
him to 90 is get credit fer his
refund of S54.9l now. instead OF
having to wait till after the wal
is over to collect.
The way Jim gets immediate
credit for his S54.91 is this: Jim's
boss took S124.80 out of Jim's
wages as Victory tax. Jim is en-
titled to a refund of S54.91. Sub
tract the latter from the former
and you get S69.89, which is the
real amount of Jim's Victory tax.
Jim can realize on this S54.91 re-
fund on March Is, 1914, by enter
ing this sum as a credit claimed
in advance on the payment of his
regular income tax on his 1943
earnings.
At Jims salary of $50 per week
gross, his regular income tax Woult
be around $3.50 year-say Sl649
to make it easy. But since ne /
already credited with having pait
S54.9l too much Victory tax, jim
can deduct this $5491 from tn
sl64.91 and he can get by Will
an income tax payment of onl
$110; neat.
What the Victory tax amount
to, therefore, is part payment o
income tax in advance. 1t tighten
the income tax you pay year-after
year. by making you pay littl
mere the year before. Maybe that
one reason for calling it a Vieotr
tax. It's a victory for the tax col
lector, only he's going TO have hi
troubles when he tries to explain
ali this complicated and coniusln
business. Talk about headaches
Wait till pre-March 10, 1874
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-25
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

The easiest way to understand
this new per cent Victory tax and
what it may do to you is to take
a typical case and try to spell it
Z oltt tc show what happens to the
5 per cent the boss will start TAX
ing out of your pay envelope after
January l, l943. The typical case
will show how you will get refunds,
if any. for this deduction, and IT
shows how you get credit for the
amount you subscribe for war bonds
and stamps, for the amount you
pay in life insurance premiums,
and for the amount you pay on
debts pricr to September l, l942.
So take the case of one James
lJiml Dandy, married. two chill
dren. earning $50 week all
through I943, buying his home
and paying for il at the rate of
$50 a month, half of it being in
terest ant the o,ler nalf pay
ment OH the principal. Assume
that Jim Dandy carries life in
surance to the amount OF S5J00,
which costs him S100 year i'm
premium. Assume also that
Jim is having 10 per cent of his
paw deducted weekly for the pur-
chase of war savings bonds.
Now this is, of course, a phony
and incomplete and maybe impos-
sible budget, but it will show how
this Victory tax thing will work.
In the first place, the Victory
tax does not apply on the first $l2
of every workers weekly wage. Peo-
pie who earn less than S12 a week
don't have to pay Victory tax. But
when Jim Dandy's boss makes up
the payroll each week, he will have
to subtract Sl2 from $50, which is
Jim's weekly rate. That leaves
S48. The Victory tax is 5 per cent
CT this s48. or S240 a week, taken
directly from Jims pay envelope
before he gets a look at it.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-25
A CALCULATING FELLOW

For the year 1943, Jim'S Victory
tax of S240 a week for 81 weeks
will amount to S12480. Jim himself
will account for this money when
he makes his first Victory tax re-
turn before March Is, 1914, making
his calculations somewhat as fol-
lows:
Having contributed this Victory
tax. Jim is theoretically entitled
to certain postwar refunds. II jim
were single, he would be entitled to
a 25 per cent refund. Being mar
ried. he gets more. On July l,
l943, therefore, Jim should be re-
minded to count his family, for
the computation of his refund is
to be determined by his marital
status on that date. Congress
probably didn't figure it out delib-
erately, but this gives a young gal
a Is per cent inducement to be a
June bride, for folks who are mar
ried and living together on July l.,
l943, are entitled to a 40 per cent
refund.
But to get back to Jim Dandy.
Counting his family on July l,
he learns that he has one ID
wife. That entities him to 40 per
cent refund. They have two (2)
children. He gets 2 per cent
refund on each, or a total of Al
per cent refund on the Sl24.SO.
This is the sum which Jim's boss
had already taken from his pay
envelope during 1913. Multiply
ing it out, a. per cent of Sl24.SO
comes to S54.91, the amount of
the sO-caIled postwar fund.
Does jim get this refund and if
so, when and how? If Jim had
no insurance, no debts, and was
buying no war bonds, he could not
get this refund till after the war
is over.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

A CASE IN POINT
A good case in point was the
stubborn refusal last week of the
Georgia Board Of Education to even
consider the petition of the Coun-
Gil on Defense Training for Negroes,
asking that adequate and proper
tionate opportunities be provided to
utilize stalWart Negro manpOWer,
now unpatriotically allowed to go
to waste.
This refusal ironically came at a
time when American defenders were
being more hard ressed than ever
before in history, largely because
they lacked necessary weapons. Men
and machines and more men are
needed to produce these weapons.
Thousands and thousands of black
men, who otherwise could be hurting
their tremendous energies into the
gigantic task of producing these
weapons. for democracy, stand idle
in Georgia merely because q hand
full of officials, spending federal
money, undemo cratically refuse to
authorize training courses for them.
The question resolves itself into
the simple issue: Who IS the great
est authority, the President Of the
United States or the handful Of
stubborn Georgia officials who are
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
Texas Primary
Case Coming Up
Next Monday
Seek to Prove
Facts Same as In
Louisiana Case

HOUSTON, Texas-tS N 81
Trial for the Texas primary case
been set for. April 20 here. On
Saturday. April II, Thurgood Mar
shall, NAACP special counsel,
was in this city for a pre- trial con-
ference under the new federal
rules called before Judge Thomas
M. Kennerly to clarity issues be-
fore the actual trial.
A brief is in preparation which
will show the similarity between
the Texas primary laws and the
Louisiana primary laws in an eff
fort to bring the Texas case I'M
der the rules set down by the U. S.
Supreme Court last year in U. S.
VS.. Classic.
In the latter case, the Supreme
Court held oH May 10, 1941, that
the primary is an integral part OF
the election machinery of the state
and is subject to the federal con-
stltution and laws.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
New Program
For Negroes Hif
By Labor Leader
Sees Doctrine Of
Racial Superiority
In Announcement

NEW YORK CITY--(SNSD-De-
claring that the United Nations
will not win this war until they
recognize and appreciate the i'm
uortance, value and equality OF
the cOlored races in our interna-
tional arrangement and world eco
nomy," A. Phillip Randolph, presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters and nationally known
leader Saturday denounced as
'undemocratic' Secretary of Navy
Knox change of policy regarding
Negroes in the Navy.
The statement reads:
ut was announced by Secretary
Knox Of the Navy that Negro volun-
teers would be enlisted in the re-
erves of the Navy, Marine Corps.
and Coast Guard, but he made 1t
clear in his official announcement
that the color line will exist in the
Navy and that Negroes will not be
nlisted on equal basis with white,
md that even enlistment will MOI
begin until a separate school OF
training can be established. MI
Knox makes it also clear that there
viii be no provision made for com
nissioning Negroes as naval Off
GERS for higher rank than petit
officers as yet.
while this is a change in the
policy of the Navy toward Negroes
it is rot desirable change. 1t &C
cepts and extends and consolidate
the policy of jim Crowism in thu
Navy as well as proclaims as an
accepted, recognized Government
theology that the Negro is inferio
to the white race
"This doctrine of racial SUPERIOR
ty propounded by Secretary Knox
in relation to the Negro in the
Navy is one of the major causes
OF our present world debacle. Pri-
marily, this war arises out of the
exploitation of the labor and land
and natural resources of the people
of color in Africa, China, and
India and the islands of the sea
by the white power nations who
have set themselves up as the
chosen guardians of the world who
are privileged to sit upon the necks
of non-white people ard rob them
of their wealth and insult then
souls to boot" observe Mr.. Ran
dolph.
'The United Nations Will not win
this war until they recognize AND
appreciate the Importance, value
and equality of the colored races In
our international arrangement and
world economy.
'The Negro is one of the minority
groups of America and must nat
urally recognize that their hope lies
the maintenance and perpetuation
of the democratic though
limited as it is in the so-called de-
nocratic nations-and therefore
must be concerned about the victory
of the arms of America and her
Allies, Great, Britain, China and
Russia, but white America must
understand that the Negro is now
determined to insist upon his place
in America, the world and in, this
war effort, namely the Navy, Army:
Air Corps and U. S. Marine as
quals and that they resent the
stigma of inferiority and the
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

Originally the Florida Education
Association which is composed Of
white teachers in Florida, sought
to intervene in the seve. al salary
equalization casss filed in the
State on the ground that their in
terests were involved since a de-
cision favorable to the Negro
teachers would result in the low
ering Of the white teachers
salaries.
This motion was argued and de-
MED in the various district courts,
Whereupon an appeal was noted
by the Florida Education to the
United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals. Pending determination of
this appeal, the Florida Education
Association moved to stay further
proceedings II. the district courts.
These motions were consolidate
md argued before Judge Louie w.
Strum at Jacksonville on March
"a, d on March 26 he entered an
order denying them.
The Florida. Education Associa-
ton is also trying to stay the en-
forcement of the consent decree
which was signed recently in the
Escambia County case, calling for
an injunction to enforce complet.
equalization by the school year
1884 msrking a signal victe 3
for Negro teachers of the deep
south. This case was likewise heard
on Monday, an appeal from denial
OF the motion to stay.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

from 81 per cent of the 282, 245 war
job openings during the period from
September, 1941 through February
1912. This situation is intollerable
and must be overcome if we are to
show victory results in war produc-
ton during 1912"
Highlights of the Dickerson plan
are operation of industrial war
training classes in Negro schools
and colleges and factory training
in industrial centers, "a hours a
day, seven days week; spreading
Of contracts among plants in CEN
tiers were the available supply of Ne
gro labor is large; full participa-
ton of Negro people in 1abor-gov-
ernment-management conferences
to be held Immediately in Chica-
go, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Mobile and
Atlanta.
Mr.. Dickerson said the plans grew
out OF conferences which he has
been holding with Negro labor and
government, leaders during the
past month.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
School Board
Consider
Equal Pay Plea
Settlement May
Be Reached In
Richmond, Va.

RICHMOND Va.-(ANP)- TIL
city school board is consideriro q
consent decree prenared BY CITY
Atty. Horace H Edwards deeioned
to end suit instituted by Negro
school teachers in federal court TO
70 &c. equalization Of teachers sal
aries. it was announced THURSDAY
Terms Of the decree were not
made public. but wee said to be
satisfactory to tire counsels for
10th parties in the suit.
BASED on the 18th amendment
Of the U. s. constitution, the suit
challenges the right of the school
board to discriminate between
races in payment of salaries. A
five-years equalization plan was
submitted to the Negro Teachers
association by School Supt. Jesse
H. sBinford shortly after suit was
filed III December.
The city council finance com,
nittee dis cussed the question O.
school finances here Friday nigh
as the mayors budget came before
that body again for consideration
The city has been asked by the
cnool board to allocate funds to
meet a deficit of S155,000 and also
S227, 900 to enable school employs
10 share in salary raises given
other city workers Representative
IF the school hoard were asked 10.
attend the Friday meeting.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
Hc OIODe 1TOlteT Bv Cliff Mackay

slider the possibility of trainees re-
ceiving jobs, before training courses
are setup.
This was stated in the policy set
up for these courses by the Office
of Education, which held that
There will be no discrimination be-
cause of race or color in the
selection of trainees for the defense
training courses" This policy goes
one step further to cover the situa-
ton Mr.. Collins contends he found
by saying: Negroes must be train
ed in selected occupations in COM
munities where at the present
time, there may be no employment
for them"
Of course all of us, including Mr..
Collins knows that everybody with
skill will be used, which Is the
real fear behind this effort to
keep Negroes from obtaining this
training.
THE PRESIDENT RULES :.
1t might be well for Mr.. Collins
and the other officials so short
sightedly determined to deprive
America of the energies of these
black workers to read the Presidents
Executive Order, part of which SAYS:
"All departments and agencies Of
the government of the United
States concerned with vocational
and training programs for defense,
production shall take special mea-.
sures appropriate to assure that,
such programs are administered
without discrimination because of
race, creed, color or national origin"
This handful of Georgia officials
by their actions, as well as their
words, say they are not planning
to abide by this order, even if II
did come from the President. Jr,ev
are answering the nations cali for
the full use of all available man
power by training only about half
of Georgia's workers,
This is the type of action an
America fighting with her back to
the call can no longer tolerate The
japanese, you can bet, are not
wasting half of their ma,apower
The Germans are not only rssinp all
OF their men. but are pressing men
from conquered countries j,ato pro-
duction lines.
halfway measures, those Georgia
officials should be madu to realize
VII! result only in disaster and defeat.
ms IS an ALL-out war and that ALL
includes ALL workers, no matter
wnat tnelz racial Identities might
chance to be
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

ment of new order IN Asia +"
Rome aid Berlin have been broad
casting about working for thc
general good of all peoples"
'"peaking only IN interest of peo-
Iles of India,'' and the Berlin ra-
dio has gone SO far as to label the
japanese as Eastern Asiatic Ger
mans"
Germany and Italy have always
looked upon and openly declared
olored peoples to be ignoramuses
md nitwits, but it is to be hoped
hat colored peoples of Asia will
not allow themselves to be duped
} fascist p ooagandists, and mis-
ID and blackmaile6 by 5heir own
brjbed sheiks and traitors.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
Prejudice Seen
AS Big Barrier
To About Effort

refusal to train and hire Negro
skilled and semi skilled workers. to
speed up production. And we know
they are doing it at a time when
the President, Nelson, and the man
agement of organized labor have
called for immediate utilization of
every available bit of man and ma
chine power in order to reach the
goals set by the President in the ma
tons victory program for winning
the war.
From my participation in the
work of the Fair Employment Prac-
tees committee, have come te
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
Nelson Given Plan For Training
OF SO, 600 Negro Defense Workers

WASHINGTON, D. c. --(ANP) -
A plan for the immediate training
of $4,000 Negro war workers IN
vocational industrial training cours-
es during the next 80 days was pre-
sented Monday to Donald Nelson,
chief of the War Production board
by Aid Earl B. Dickerson of Chi
ago.
In commenting last week on his
plan to speed up production of i'm
plements of war, Mr.. Dickerson
said:
1--WE know that production is not
up to a satisfactory pitch because
many employers holding large war
contracts are still deliberately en-
gaging in the tragically wasteful
game of prejudice as usual in their
status of vassals which Secretary
Knox has affixed to them, conclud-
ed Mr.. Randolph
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

During recent times the spear
head of the German undermining
work has been directed at the Kur-
dish tribes in Kurdistan (region in
northwest Tan and Turkey. Pre-
viously Nazi aeents ATTEMPTED to
incite the Kurds 20 uprisings
against the Iran. Irak, and other
Near East governments.
Following the fascist fiasco in
Iran. the Nazis have directed Their
main attention to Kurdish tribes
IN the Turkish border. surrlvino
them with modern arms and max
ing all sorts of promises abo1r
~'rsnan Nazis being deeD frierde
nd offenders Of colored people %
Ne Near East
Information from reliable source
IN Anka"a. Turkey. state a specia'
"ourier from Hitler recently deliv
red Instructions to a few corru''
Kurdish sheiks and Berlin he
'~creased propaganda brcadcae
1bcut the Kurdish problem
vhich is close to the hearts of fae
'moerialists. This move is made
n all effort to Gain control Of rich
'rak and Iranian oil fields.
Nezi radio station broadcasts o
late have been filling the othe
with all sorts Of crocodile tear
about fascist desires to cooperate
With Asiatic peoples in establish
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
An IntoIerabIe Situation

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and
Donald M. Nelson, chief Of the
War Productions Board, have CALL
ed for the utilization of every avail
able, bit Of man and machine power
in order to reach the high goals
of production set in the nations
victory program.
These appeals are being made
over the radio, on the screen and
through every publication. Produc-
ton, more production is the call.
But in many states, the call falls
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

see clearly that scores of employers
holding large war contracts have
deliberately sought to bring in out
side workers, while an available sup
ply OF Negro labor in their own 10
cality stood iminobilized. A survey
report recently released by a fed
eral agency shows that Negro wor-
kers are being deliberately excluded
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIA army school for
chaplain candidates has, cen opened at TT. Benja-
min Harrison here, where the chapains receive four
weeks training before ass gnment to regiment
post. A candidate must be q citizen actively en-
gagged in the ministry his principal vocation in
life with at least three ycrs Of practical experience
class note books Pictured to are Lieutenants
Walter s. White Of Spara', Fla, an African Meth
odist; George w. williams Of Sumter, s. c.. Meth
Odist; John r. Wesley Of BeaufOrd, N. c., an Afr
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
OFFICIALS STAND FIRM

apparently determined to block the
about, total war effort?
OFFICIALS STAND FIRM
Thus far the Georgia officials
have stood firm in their deter
mination that Negro workers shall
not be trained. The case of PERM
cious and fragrant discrimination
being practiced by them against
loyal Americanism merely because
of their color, has been proved
even by their own statements.
In doing so they have violated
the clearly-outlined federal policy
which has been repeated over ano
over again. They have deliberately
and Intentionally nullified President
Roosevelt's expressed ruling con-
tanned in his memorable Executive
Order 1902. They have ignored the
Congressional Appropriation Act
under which federal funds are pro-
vided for the training of defense
workers. They have stubbornly re-
fused to abide by the orders OF
the United States Office of Educa-
ton, which has control of these
funds. They have ignored the order
handed down by the former Office
OF Production Management.
Georgia's Superintendent of Ed
ucation, M. D. Collins sums up the
position of these officials in the
matter of training Negro workers,
who form virtually half of the
available labor supply in Georgia
He says: I'VE haven't found any
body that will use them yet. It
would be just a waste of money to
train these folks when nobody will
hire them"
A FALSE CONCLUSION
One wonders just by which
method Mr.. Collins arrived at the
false conclusion that Negroes would
not be hired when as a matter of
fact they are already working all
over the South.
And whether or not q similar
survey was made to see il any of
the other races now being train
ed under the federally financed
Georgia program would be given
jobs, before they were allowed to
take this training.
And one also wonders II Mr..
Collins knows that federal policy
does not permit him to even con-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
White Tutors To
Fight Pay Move

NEW ORLEANS La-(SNS) Argument was heard
here Monday April 13 in the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals for the First Circuit the appeal by the Flor
ola Education Association from the decision of United
States district court in Florida denying their motions
stay proceedings in salary equalization suits filed in Duva
Marion, Hllsborough and Palm Beach Counties
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18

OAi 0Cd4 Cd1S. nC-
sponsible officials
hear, but will not
heed, so deter
mined are they to
maintain their sa-
cred tradition of
frustrating any
possible economic
advance of the
large Negro popu-
lation in their
midst.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-04-18
new NAVAL POLICY ACCEPTS, EXTENDS and
c0Ns0LIDATES Jim CR0WIsM, SAYS RANDOLPH
Ndzis No1u Say
They're Friends
OF Dark People
By CHATWOOD HALL

KUlBYSHEV, USSR-(ANP)-Afte being kicked out
of Iran PERSIA by TIE joint action of Iran British and
Soviet governments Naz agents have evershy turned to
increased woong of swarthy inhabitants of the Near East
and points deeper in ASIA with the aim of using them as
scapegats to further the fascist program in that sector