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PRICES FROZEN IN
18 OHIO COUNTIES
LAST SATURDAY
Youngstown.—The OPA order plac
ing a ceiling on meals served in res
taurants, and one bar prices for beer,
wines and liquors as well as for mixed
drinks, became effective for 18 North
eastern Ohio counties last Saturday.
Prices are limited to the maximum
charged during the April 4-10, 1943,
basic period. Any type of eating or
drinking establishment is covered. No
"tie-in" which makes purchase of one
item necessary for service of a second
food or beverage is allowed.
EAGLES PLAN
ANNUAL PICNIC
Plans for the annual picnic Satur
day, July 10, at LeSourdsville Lake,
were made by Butler Aerie, No. 407,
Fraternal Order of Eagles at a meet
ing Monday night in the temple.
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE ITEMS
VICTORY GARDENS. Many
victory gardens are beginning to pay
dividends now.
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N A V A O U E E N
Lieutenant G. E. Giesecke, U.S.N.R.
will be in Room 824, adjoining the
Chamber of Commerce office on June
21-22 from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. to in
tei'view prospective officers for the
United States Navy. There are a num
ber of classifications open for commis
sions and anyone interested should see
Lieutenant Giesecke on either of the
two days.
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O N N O W A Y John
Northway's many Hamilton friends
will be pleased to know that he has
accepted the secretaryship of the Mar
ietta Chamber of Commerce, effective
June 15. The secretaries' association
will be pleased to have him back in
the Chamber of Commerce work as
his valuable experience will be an as
set to the association. Best wishes of
Hamilton go with him to his new job.
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AGRICULTURAL WORKERS.
The response to the call for agricul
tural workers was very good and even
though all persons who volunteered
may not have been called, reports
from the office of Gerald Huffman,
Butler County Agricultural Agent,
indicated that many persons helped
and are continuing to do so in the
fight for food.
MAYOR PLANS PARLEY
ON CHILD PROBLEM
Mayor Leo J. Welsh said that he
would call a meeting soon for a fur
ther discussion of the juvenile delin
quency problem in Hamilton.
At the meeting, the committee
named to study conditions and formu
late a program for correction will
hear the report of a subcommittee
which will recommend adoption of the
National American Legion "practical
program for the prevention and
treatment of juvenile delinquency."
Members of the subcommittee are
Mayor Welsh, Juvenile Judge Oscar
R. Leiser, Don W. Fitton, Robert D.
Fisher, and Herbert Miller.
Speed To Cost Coupons
Middletown, Ohio. Motorists con
victed of speeding will be deprived of
their gasoline ration coupons as a re
sult of a ruling issued by the OPA,
Walter Bender, Chairman of the gaso
line panel of the Middletown Ration
Board, announced. Bender said that
the gasoline ration penalty would
vary in accordance with the serious
ness of the charge. In instances, he
said, the board might be required to
deprive offenders of gasoline for the
duration of the war.
Advertise in The Press.
CHICAGO MARKET CO.
Front and High Sts.
CHUCK ROAST 29c
GROUND BEEF ...» 27c
PORK SAUSAGE 32c
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What It Is
On July 1, 1943, a withholding tax
on individual incomes goes into opera
tion. From then on you will, for the
most part, pay your Federal Income
Tax bit by bit as you earn, instead of
in a lump sum or four installments.
You will pay it through regular de
ductions from your pay envelope. This
is the same method that has been
used to collect your Victory Tax and
Social Security Tax. It is NOT a new
tax, NOT an extra tax but a new
method of collecting the Federal In
dividual Income Tax. It includes the
Victory Tax, the withholding rate for
which has been reduced from 5%
to 3%.
This new Withholding Tax is at the
rate of 20% on wages over and above
exemptions. After exemptions it will
actually amount to no tax at all for
some persons, up to not moi'e than 10
or 12 percent of most people's pay. It
is NOT a gross tax on wages.
How It Works
The very first thing for any em
ployee to do is to fill out, sign and
hand in to his employer a WITH
HOLDING EXEMPTION CERTI
CATE. This tells your family status,
whether married or single, how many
dependents you have. The greater
your responsibility, the more of your
pay is exempt from the 20% with
holding.
The law specifically puts upon em
ployees the responsibility for filing
these EXEMPTION CERTIFI
CATES. If you do not file one with
your employer, he will not be able to
give you any exemption, but will be
required by law to deduct 20% from
all your pay.
It is of utmost importance that
every employee fill out, sign and give
to his or her employer a copy of the
Withholding Eexemption Certificate—
right away! Employers will supply
blank forms.
If your marital status or the num
ber of your dependents changes, you
must notify your employer' within 10
days.
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Taxpayers Put On Current Basis Through New Collection
System Tax To Be Withheld After July 1 Workers
Must File Exemption Certificates With Employers
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"PAY-AS-YOU-GO" INCOME
TAX BECOMES LAW
VOL. XLIII. No. 13 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY JUNE 25,1943 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
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Pay Exempt from Withholding
From your Exemption Certificate,
the employer determines the amount
of tax to be withheld from your pay.
For single persons the amount exempt
from tax is $12 a week, or $624 a year.
For married couples, the exemption is
$24 a week, or $1248 a year. This ex
emption can be divided between hus
band and wife if both are working, or
the whole thing taken by either one, in
which case the other spouse cannot
claim any of it. For each dependent
there is an additional exemption of $6
a week, or $312 a year.
Do not confuse these exemptions
with your basic income tax exemption.
They are used only to calculate the
amount to be withheld.
Here are three examples of how it
works out. John Smith, a single man,
is making $37 a week. Of that, $12 is
exempt. The other $25 is subject to
withholding at 20%. Thus the amount
withheld from each week's pay is $5.
George Jones is married, has three
children, is earning $50 a week. His
exemptions are $24 for himself and
wife, $6 for each of the three children,
a total of $42. Only $8 of his weekly
pay is subject to withholding, so
Jones' employer will deduct only $1.60
a week.
James and Sarah Brown are both
working. They have 4 dependents at
home. They elect to divide the mar
ried couple exemption of $24 equally
between them so that each has $12 a
week free of witholding. Since James
furnishes the chief support for the
dependents, he may take $24 a week
for dependents, making his total ex
emption $36 a week before the 20%
is withheld. If James alone were
working, he would claim the entire
exemption of $24 and $24 for the 4
dependents, or a total of $48 a week
exempt from withholding.
A word of warning here. It is quite
possible that the amount withheld
from your pay will not be exactly, to
the penny, 20% of your pay above
your withholding exemption. You may
find that the tax withheld will be a
trifle more, or a trifle less.
Employees should understand that
this is because the law allows employ
ers to withhold the tax in accordance
with "Wage Bracket Tables." These
tables set definite amounts to be with
held from each pay. For example, in
the case of married employees with
three dependents, whose weekly wage
is anywhere between fifty and sixty
dollars, the employer is authorized to
withhold a flat amount of $2.60 per
week, instead of requiring him to
figure the exact amount for each in
dividual employee.
The law grants the employer this
"short-cut" method in order to simpli­
fy his job of computing the amount to
from an exact computation at 20%.
What Happens To Money Withheld
Tax money withheld from wages is
paid by the employer to the United
States Treasury. The amount withheld
from you stands to your credit at the
Treasury against the amount you owe
on Income and Victory Tax. At the
end of the year, or at termination of
employment during the year, your
employer will give you a certificate
stating the amount of wages he has
paid you during the year and the
amount of tax he has withheld. Keep
this. It is your tax receipt.
On or before March 15, 1944, you
will be required to file, in the usual
manner, your income tax return show
ing your actual income for 1943, and
figuring in the usual deductions and
credits. The tax withheld by your em
ployer, both before and after July 1,
1943, the income tax installments you
paid March 15 and June 15, and any
tax you may have already paid in ad
dition to the above-mentioned pay
ments will be shown on the return as
credits. In other words, you will add
up the tax payments you made on
March 15 and June 15, 1943, plus the
total amount that has been already
withheld for Victory Tax purposes, as
well as the amounts withheld from
your pay since July 1 by the With
holding Tax, plus any other amounts
you may have paid on September 15
and December 15. If the total comes to
more than your liability, the Govern
ment will credit you with the differ
ence against the next year's tax pay
ments. If it comes to less, you will
pay the difference.
Why We Have the Withholding Tax
There is no doubt that the country
as a whole welcomes this method of
Income Tax payment, which lets peo
ple pay their taxes in small frequent
installments corresponding to their
regular pay periods, and which lets
people pay this year's taxes "as-they
go" out of this year's wages. It is
easier to pay this way than to have
be withheld for each individual work
er. In any case, where "Wage Bracket
Tables" are used, the amount of tax
withheld will be only slightly different
to save up part of each pay for de
layed quarterly or annual payment.
Withholding brings tax money into
the Federal Treasury faster, now
when it is needed to pay for the war.
It should help us in our fight against
ii.flation.
Members of Organized Labor and
wage-earners in general should rea
lize that the new method of collecting
taxes has not increased the tax bur
den. It has, however, lightened thS
burden by distributing it over an en
tire year..
It can be repeated that "It Takes
Both Taxes and War Bonds" to
fight and win the war. Enlightened
self-interest and the call of patriotism
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COUNTY PRESS.
Speaking to 500 executives of the
American Federation of Labor and
Congress of Industrial Organizations
at the meeting and to the nation over
the Columbia Broadcasting System,
the AFL president emphasized that
American labor, having taken a big
part toward the winning of the war,
is insistent on doing all within its
power to prevent a third world war.
Economic Security Stressed
'International conferences, councils
and interim commissions have already
been formed to deal with the war
problems of the Allies," President
Green said. "These bodies will inevit
ably predetermine to a very large ex
tent the solution of many postwar is
sues.
"Labor demands that it be fully
represented in all deliberations
which deal with postwar recon
struction and with such basic in
ternational postwar problems as
food, relief and trade relations."
Praising the Wagner-Murray-Din
gell bill to expand the social security
program, Green said labor is dedi
cated to the establishment of eco
nomic security on a world-wide basis
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Labor Role At War's End Demanded
Workers to Insist on Enduring Peace,
Security for All, Green Declares
Full Labor Representation In Reconstruction Stressed
Must Not Wait Until Armistice Then It Will Be
Too Late Labor Voting Power Needed
New York City (ILNS).—Organ
ized labor's demand for a major role,
with a voice and vote in reconstruction
after the war, to attain enduring
peace and world-wide economic secur
ity, was strongly stressed by William
Green and others at a meeting of the
American Labor Conference on Inter
national Affairs here.
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REFRIGERATION PROBLEM
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SAVES FOOD, SAVES VITAL
WAR MATERIAL
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MEETS W. P. B. REQUIREMENTS
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as a foundation for a just and peace
able l'elationship in international af
fairs.
Definite Promises Urged
In an address that made many of
the same points advocated by Green,
Emil Rieve, general president of the
Textile Workers' Union of America,
CIO, told the conference that labor
must have "its own definite plfu:e at
the peace table."
"Our unions, singlely and collective
ly, must even now be importuning our
governments for definite commit
ments to that principle," he said. "We
cannot wait until the armistice then
it will be too late. Labor representa
tives must not only be at the peace
table but must have more than a
voice, they must have voting power."
Big Works Program Asked
Alvin H. Hansen, special adviser to
the Federal Reserve System, said un
employment would be a tremendous
problem after the war, with 6,000,000
workers losing jobs, and advocated an
$18,000,000,000 housing and public
works program to take new jobs.
Professor John L. Childs, of Colum
bia University, urged American labor
to develop an adequate program to
make its great potential strength felt
in the political field. Arthur J. Alt
meyer, chairman of the Federal Se
curity Agency of the Social Security
Board, said there is a community of
interest in raising the standards of
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PURE WASHED AIR
KEEP FOODS FRESHER
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frigerator. Coolerator washed air refrigeration uses ice in a new
way air circulation method. It keeps foods fresher, preserves
their natural flavors longer.
Pure washed, humidified, chilled air circulates constantly over
the food and carries away objectionable odors. Covered dishes
are not needed to prevent excessive tow COST,
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