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Battalion Editorials
INCOME TAX CHANCES THROUGH THE YEARS
Your Income 7'fix—fi
Page 2
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1953
Education Must Regain
Prestige to Attract Talent
k GOOD TEACHER can produce a better
student, but the better students are not
becoming teachers.
This evidence was disclosed recently in
the annual report of the Educational Test
ing Service of Princeton, N.J. It reported
that men who are preparing to be teachers
are, as a group, the poorest students of all
those attending colleges and universities.
The report was prepared by the head of
the college entrance examination tests serv
ice, Dr. Henry Chancey. About a year ago,
this board was asked to give draft deferment
tests to young men of military age.
About 150 items were included in the
test. Half were verbal, requiring an under
standing of relations among words, and the
other half were quantative, calling for
arithmetical reasoning.
The starting results show the students
in education—those men who were preparing
to be teachers—did worse on the tests than
any group of students.
Many persons claimed the tests were
loaded and madeup with the intention of
giving the engineers the necessary breaks.
To determine the validity of the examina
tions, the tests were halved, producing the
all-verbal half and the all-quantative sec
tion.
The all-quantitative tests, designed to fa
vor the scientists, showed these results:
Top — Engineering, physical sciences,
mathematics.
“Spoon feeding in the long run
teaches us nothing but the shape
of the spoon.”—E. M. Forster.
Intermediate—Biological sciences, social
sciences, humanities, general arts, business,
commerce, agriculture.
Bottom—Education.
The all-verbal, supposedly designed to fa
vor the liberal arts students, showed these
scores:
High fields—Engineering, physicaj sci
ences, mathematics, biological sciences, so
cial sciences, humanities, general arts.
Low.fields — Business, commerce, agri
culture, education.
Needless to say, educators were astonish
ed and greatly disturbed by the results. The
reason for the results is obvious.
The graduates with the most promising
immediate future are the engineers and sci
entists. This is evident in the bonuses giv
en an engineering or science graduate. They
are: Deferments from military service be
cause of essential industry; the salaries.
On the other hand, the new teacher is
faced with a beginning low salary, interrup
tion of advanced education because of mili
tary service, fear of government control
through investigations, removal of civil lib
erties, diminishing idea of the position and
prestige teachers hold in community life.
It is no mystery to the present student
which job may give him the best in life,
esteem it once held, it cannot expect to at
tract college and university students of high
caliber.
Although good teachers produce better
students, these quality instructors will play
out if more of their replacements are not
from the head of the class.
Who Must Use
Long
Filing
Form
Return
(Editor’s Note: This is the
fifth in a series of six articles
on how to make out your fed
eral income tax return.)
EVER CLIMBING—Taxes shown are for a man with a $5,000 a year income and two de
pendent children. The 1943 peak supposes that the taxpayer chose to pay all the taxes
in a lump sum in shifting to the pay-as-you-go method. He might have postponed part
of it to the following year.
More Money
Doesn’t Help
]VrO RELIEF to taxpayers was seen with
the Department of Commerce’s report
that Americans earned more in 1952 than
ever before.
Reason: The average wage earner’s net
income for last year was just about the same
as in 1951. This was explained by the fact
that the 1952 income was spread over a
greater population and that higher taxes
and higher prices cut considerably off the
take-home pay.
Low men on the wage scale were the
farmers who made less in 1952 than the pre
vious year.
The report said personal income as a
whole rose 5.5 per cent in 1952, reaching
268Y> billion dollars, compared to 254 bil
lions in 1951. Wage increases accounted for
almost eight billions of the 14 V2 billion dollar
income rise during the year.
The farm proprietors’ earnings fell off
3.2 per cent during the year, from IS'/j bil
lion dollars in 1951 to 15 billions in 1952.
What all the figures add up to is: The
more you earn, the more you burn—via
spending or taxes.
“What the schools have failed
to teach is that a man has no more
right to an opinion for ivhich he
cannot account than to a pint of
beer for ivhich he cannot pay.”—
G. M. Young.
A Question
/CORRELATION, defined by Webster, is
^ “the reciprocal relation in the occurence
of different structures.”
Mildred P. Sherman, dean of college re
lations at Radcliffe College, recently de
clared, “There are things to be said for a
woman’s college—especially if it’s near a
man’s college.”
As a dean of the “coordinate college with
in Harvard University” where girls are
granted degrees signed both by Radcliffe and
Harvard presidents, she emphasized that an
atmosphere of coeducation will better equip
both men and women for marriage toward
working together on a partnership basis. A
girl who has been educated at a school with
men has fewer illusions to lose about them,
she said.
The question: Could Webster’s defin
ition of correlation be applied to Miss Sher
man’s statements ?
Th e Battalion
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FRANK N. MANITZAS, JOEL AUSTIN Co-Editors
Ed Holder, Jerry Bennett..... Managing Editors
Harri Baker City Editor
Peggy Maddox... Women’s News Editor
Today’s Issue
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FRANKLY SPEAKING
By FRANCIS J. KELLY
AP Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — If your
1952 income was $5,000 or
more, you must use long-forni
1040 in making out your in,
come tax return.
That four-page, white paper
form also is the proper blank if
you:
1) Had more than $100 income
from sources other than wages
from which taxes were withheld, or
2) Had any income from a bus
iness or profession, farming, rents,
Greeks Well Organized.
Used at Kent State U
Manitzas
royalties, annuities, or transac
tions in securities, or
3) Claim status as “head of a
household,” as defined in the tax
laws. A widow with dependents
may claim such a classification,
for example.
Practically always you will save
money by making a long-form n
(This is the fourth in a series
of stories about colleges and un
iversities visited by Battalion
Co - Editor Frank N. Manitzas
while on a recent midwest tour
with the A&M debate team.)
By FRANK N. MANITZAS
Battalion Co-Editor
KENT, O. (Delayed)—If an ed
ucational institution ever could
boast a successful fraternity and
sorority system, it indeed must be
Kent State University, located in
central Ohio at Kent.
dents. The varied union program
and union building itself, located
in the center of the campus, pro
vides an acticity gathering plus
for faculty and students.
As an arts school, Kent State
receives favorable student body
support in its many theatrical per
formances presented during the
year. Art classes are taught in
a new arts building, the likes of
which is unknown in Texas.
Here, 90 per cent of the 6,000
male and female students are
members of one type of Greek let
ter organization, ranging from the
social organizations to the profes
sional and honorary societies.
And the results: One of the
friendliest campuses in the North
and undoubtedly in the U. S.
The de-emphasis placed on the
fraternal system is by the students
themselves. They consider them
selves lucky to be attending a
state university such as Kent,
where the liberal arts are a major
part of everyone’s life. They also
have kept their fraternities and
sororities a small part of the
school, not building lavish houses
or trying consistently to outdo
one another.
As compared to the fine arts
setup in the MSC, Kent State pro
vides 10 times the facilities. But
it is encouraging that nowhere
did we see an arts exhibit compar
able to those brought to A&M by
the MSC Art Gallery Committee.
School Grows
Kent state has grown from 1,000
students in 1940 to its present
6,000 enrollment. By 1960, the
school expects more than 10,000
students. The school is preparing
by building more classroom facil
ities, and more dormitory space.
Vital glances: The Kent women
are quite similar in personality
and dress to the southwest women.
Fortunately for the men, the ratio
of males to the opposite sex is 3
to 1.
It is not illogical-to assume that
A&M would' be slmilhr to Kent
• i -——-nring-nr ^
State, if it had the female ad
vantage, or disadvantage as some
might say. Located in a small
city (Which it built) Kent is about
50 miles from Cleveland and Co-
lumbus^. (Ohio) and Pittsburg, Pa.,
giving the KSU students an envir
onment which would be parallel
to A&M (with women).
Leave Campus
However like Aggies KSU men
leave the campus on weekends and
return late Sunday night. But the
different campus groups we talked
to could not agree on the number
of students which leave the cam
pus on weekends.
Some said as high as 80 per
cent of the student body was ab
sent on weekends when demonstra
tive events were not scheduled
on the campus.
It is very much like A&M in
this respect, but one Kent student
explained the difference thusly:
“You say A&M has no gals? I
guess that’s okay. And even though
a lot of us leave on weekends, we
don’t necessarily leave alone.”
Thus the evils of a coeducation
al school of comparable size to
A&M are seen: pleasant compan
ionship and social development
while garnering an education.
Point, counterpoint.
turn if your non-business deduc
tions run more than 10 per cent o(
your income. This form may be
used for incomes below $5,000 aa
well as above.
Read Instruction Booklet
Like many other schools in the
nation, Kent boasts a ROTC pro
gram which is accepted favorably
by the student body.
Building Arrangement
One of the outstanding features
of the Kent State campus is its
buildings’ arrangement. Most are
constructed on a semicircle drive
and others are located on the roll
ing hills of the campus. A new
field house, with a 10,000 seating
capacity and indoor pool, is one
of the chest-busters for the stu-
★ Bright Spots ★
Cooking Privileges
Hospital Starts ROTC
Camp Shots Thursday
Nine hundred and twenty Army
and Air Force advanced contract
cadets, scheduled to attend sum
mer camp, will be given immuniza
tion shots at the College Hospital,
beginning Thursday.
The process will continue
through Mar. 5 on Thursday after
noons.
Students who expect deferment
from summer camp also must re
ceive the shots, according to the
military department. Each unit
has been given'an alphabetical ros
ter, and the previously announced
schedule will be followed, officials
said.
From Word Study Magazine.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox once open
ed a poem with the following cos
mic line, more or less typical of
her style:
“My soul is a lighthouse keep
er ...”
But when the printer, apparent
ly a bit of a critic, got through
with it, it read, to the author’s
permanent chagrin:.
“My soul is a light housekeep
er. . . ”
Logic
From Noir et Blanc, Paris.
Overheard in a Paris court:
The Judge—How can you swin
dle people who place confidence in
you ?
The Accused—But, your honor,
if they had no confidence in me,
how could I swindle them ?
Texas Blowout
From ReadeFs Digest.
As a line of sleepy travelers
waited to board the midnight bus
in a Texas town, a sharp report
suddenly rang out down the street.
A startled young woman turned to
the boot-clad man behind her.
“What was that?” she asked ap-
presensively.
“Blowout, probably,” the Texan
answered.
She still looked worried. “Sound
ed more like a pistol shot to me.”
He nodded reassuringly. “What
I said. Some fool got his brains
blowed out.”
Footwork
From Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Air Force says it has an
armless typist at McClellan Air
Base, at Sacramento, Calif. She
types with her toes, at a rate of
45 words a minute—makes no more
mistakes than typists who use
their fingers.
Local Pride
From Circle Arrow Retailer.
Two vacationists, from neigh
boring rival states, met at a re
sort and got into a bragging ses
sion about the merits of their re
spective states. One of them, more
wordy than the other, was getting
the best of the argument.
Finally, the loser, as a last shot,
said: “Well, in my state we have
the finest governor and the best
legislature that money can buy.”
P O G O
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
has made a considerable effort in
recent years to simplify the tax
return form. Each is now accom
panied by a 12-page book of in- I
structions designed to make things
easier for the taxpayer.
Persons who use long-form 1040
must calculate their own tax in
stead of picking it out of a table,
A space for the computation is
provided on page 3 of the form.
Before starting to fill out thi
blank, it is well to assemble dati
on your income and various dc-
ductiblc expenses.
Only a few types of income an
exempt from tax, These includi
social security benefits, soldiers
pay in combat zones, some vet
erans’ benefits, gifts, inheritances,
interest on state and municipal
bonds, and .proceeds of a life in
surance policy upon death.
Allowable deductions include “
non-federal taxes, interest paid
out, contributions to religious,
scientific and charitable groups,
losses from fire, storm, flood and J
theft, and some medical and den
tal expenses. Spaces are provided
on page 3 of form 1940 for listing
each of these categories.
Out-of-town travel expenses, and
other expenses paid by your em
ployer and included in your wages,
may be deducted from gross in
come on page 1 of the form. This
saves you from paying taxes on
expense money.
Lump Sum Deductions
If your income is $5,000 or more,
you do not necessarily have to lisi
your deductions in detail. Yoi
have the option of deducting 18*
per cent of your income instead,
Married persons filing separately
are allowed a $500 deduction. The
top limit on lump deductions for,
all other taxpayers is $1,000.
In filling out your return you
will need to know how much you
have already paid on your 1952
taxes — by withholding, or paid
with tax estimates during the
year. Your employer is required
to furnish you a form W-2 stating
your total wages for the year and
amount of tax withheld.
Generally, married couples find
it advantageous to file joint rather
than separate returns. This is
because the current law permits
income splitting, which in turn
means a lower tax. However, in a
few cases, where husband and wife
both have income, separate returns
may be preferable.
Must ov\
By Walt Kelly