COUGAR SCREAM

INCOME TAX

ALL SINGLE men who, during the calendar year 1941, received pay amounting to $750.00 or more and all married men who, during such period received pay amounting to $1500.00 or more, must under the law, render an income tax return, regardless of whether or not a tax must be paid.

Items of income from Naval sources to be included in such returns are:

(a) Pay, base and longivity;
(b) Extra compensation for special duty (aviation, submarine, etc);
(c) Mileage, including travel pay to discharged enlisted men;
(d) Cost of transportation of families of enlisted men furnished by the Government;
(e) Interest on deposits of enlisted men;
(f) All permanent and transient additions to pay, such as the $10. extra per month, messmen pay, gun Captains ship's service salaries, etc.;
(g) Enlisted allowance.

The facts to be remembered are:

(a) That all single men whose total income was $62.50 or more per month during the calendar year 1941 must render a tax return.
(b) That all married men whose total income was $126. or more per month during the calendar year 1941 must render a tax return.


Men with gross income of $3,000. or less, may in lieu of figuring out the tax due, elect to pay the tax shown in the following table (ther indicated to $2000. only):

It is Well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it, and to claim for it the respect it deserves.
------Charles Dickens

Navy Mothers' Clubs

THE NAVY Mother's Clubs of America is a national organization interested in the welfare of the Navy personnel but without any connection with the Navy Department. However, the purposes of the organization are highly commendable and deserving of full support. Among objectives of the Navy Mother's Clubs of America are the following:

"To promote a friendly and sympathetic social relationship between the parents of the Navy men.
To collect and disseminate information relating to the Navy and the manner of living and environment of its personnel.
To encourage contentment, efficiency, patriotism, and pride among boys and men serving in the Navy.
To extend benevolent relief to its needy members, those dependent upon or related thereto or to such other persons as the Association may seem desirable."

The National Adjunct of the Navy Mother's Clubs of America has requested the cooperation of the Bureau of Navigation in bringing to the attention of the men of the Navy the purpose of the Navy Mother's Clubs and secure its support in urging the men to stimulate the interest of their mothers in this organization.

Commanding Officers are urged to utilize such means as may be available to encourage men in tile service to write to their mothers, asking them to visit and become associated with the Navy Mothers's Clubs in their community.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry; -----Mark Twain

Send home the "SCREAM"

METAL SCRAPS

THE SECRETARY of the Navy has said: "This war will be won by production". Production means conversion of metals into guns, ships, tanks, and shells. EVERY available piece of metal MUST be converted. When that's done, production will be 100%. And nothing short of 100% will do.

Across New York's East River a ferryboat shuttles between Riker's Island and 134th Street. For years one could not ride that boat without passing scow after scow of junk going down the river to be loaded aboard tramp freighters bound for Japan. That 'junk' was scrap-metal to be converted by the Japanese into the necessities of warfare. That 'junk' bombed Pearl Harbor; that 'junk sank the ARIZONA; that 'junk' drove General MacArthur into his present precarious position; that 'junk' may rip you or me to pieces.

Therefore, -- save -- save -- SAVE --each and every scrap of metal. Pass on the word to the folks at home and make use of the METAL SCRAP BOX under No. 2 Motor Launch. Let's add a new meaning to that oft heard expression associated with a bar or gas-pump: FILL 'ER UP!

FORE AND AFT

Men turned twenty-one are required to register under the draft, and we suppose that is as good a way as any to mark that important milestone. It used to be that, on reaching twentyone, grandpa gave you a watch. Now uncle gives you a uniform...It may be a little farther around the corner of a square deal, but the road is better...Children may tear up a house but they never break up a home... Yes, and when an old-fashioned buggy turned over, no one ran up to it with stretchers... Sometimes when you listen to a radio commentator you become almost as confused as the speaker... One nice thing about a self-made man; he never blames anyone else...All we hope is that the day will never come when the Statue of Liberty puts up both hands... The world needs fewer permanent waves and more permanent wives.... Why is it a wife treats her husband like three cents and demands thousands when another woman gets him?.... Before houses had eaves troughs, the rain ran down the thatch and fell on the ground. Whenever an inquisitive neighbor clapped his face against the window pane to hear what he could from within, tile droppings from the eaves smote him on the pate and trickled down his neck. And so we still call keyhole detectives eavesdroppers... For millions today, home means only a filling station by day and a parking place at night.

Remember Pearl Harbor --
but DON'T TALK about it! !

LOOK ABOUT YOU

Many years ago, when our Navy was in its infancy a young captain spent many weeks in training his crew to the utmost efficiency, moulding a strong and unified ship from a group of gangling recruits. Backbreaking hours were spent at laying the guns by hand, running up sails by manpower alone, and holding a steady course by the force of a strong back and arms on the tiller or wheel. This young captain had none of the mechanical devices which are to be found so abundantly on board our modern warships. Neither had he to worry about all the fire control instruments, navigational aids, and the power machinery with which we are now provided. And yet, by constant repetition and attention to details, he organized a ship which soon became a nightmare to all her enemies. Ofttimes outweighed in guns and displacement, he fought his ship to the best possible advantage and gained many victories over greatest odds. And thus it was that Captain John Paul Jones, by constant drill and paintaking instruction of the green crew he was given, became the father of the United States Navy.

Time has seen many changes in the strategy and tactics of naval warfare; but certain fundamentals have remained ever the same. In the words of Admiral Mahan, "Good men with poor ships are better than poor men with good ships." It is the men who fight, not the ships. Every man must know his job thoroughly, and when he has learned it he should look about him at what others are doing in case he should be called upon to fill in on their jobs some- time. Without being unduly pessimistic one must face the fact that war is never fought without casualties. A gun is no good to a ship with no one to man and shoot it. The only way to learn a job is actually to do it, again and again. There will be many mistakes at first, but no man is perfect and mistakes are to be expected at first. Now is the time to iron out all the difficulties, to ask questions about things not clearly understood.

Sadly enough it is hard for some people to realize that we are not operating under smooth, peacetime conditions. We are in a game where the stakes are high--the highest they can ever be. Our lives and the lives of those close to our hearts are the chips on the table, and when the actual showdown comes along it will be too late to ask questions. Our hand will have to be good, and it will be if we all buckle down to the task ahead of us.

So the next time a watch becomes tiresome or a drill begins to lag, take a look at the man next to you. Do you know what he is doing, what his job is, how he is contributing to the fighting efficiency of the ship? If not, use that spare time to good advantage and find out. You yourself will benefit by it as well as the ship. In this way our ship will become the 'fightin'est ship afloat, ready to give a good account of herself in any situation. --The Lookout

ELITE MOVIE ACTORS

Famous former movie players: the Duchess of Windsor who received five dollars a day as a Hollywood extra when she was plain Wally Simpson; Leon Trotsky who played a bit in the film, Rasputin, at Fort Lee, N.Y., for three dollars a day; and Benito Mussolini who appeared as an extra at two dollars a day when Sameul Goldwyn filmed the Eternal City in Rome, twenty years ago.

YOU CAN'T WIN

If a man runs after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a ne'erdo well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it, he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a lifetime of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

"Be it ever so homely, there is no face like your own."

REMARKS THAT RUINED
MY FIRST LEAVE

Do you really have to make up your own bed?

The Navy will make a man out of you.

I'd like to see YOU swing a mop.

Pretty soft for you -- living off the government.

Don't tell me YOU have to get up at five o'clock?

You guys got it easy...now back in

You mean to say you ain't an officer yet!

I thought the Navy would take weight off you.

You're certainly a funny looking sailor.

So you're what's defending ME?

How're you doing with the Admiral ?

They tell me you guys eat like king.

I'll take care of your girl while you're away.

I'd love the Navy but they wouldn't take me.

Six years will be over before you know it.

TOMORROW

He was going to be all that he wanted

     to -- Tomorrow;

No one should be kinder or braver

     than he -- Tomorrow.

A friend who was troubled and

     he knew

Who'd be glad of a life--and he

     needed it too,

And him he would call and see what

     he could do -- Tomorrow.

Each morn he stacked up the letters

     he'd write -- Tomorrow.

And thought of the folks he would fill

     with delight -- Tomorrow.

It was too bad, indeed, he was busy

     today.

And hadn't one minute to stop on

     his way,

"More time I will have to give to

     others," he'd say -- Tomorrow.

The greatest of workers this man

     would have been -- Tomorrow.

The world would have known him had

     he ever seen -- Tomorrow.

But in fact, he passed on, and he

     faded from view

And all that he left here when

     living was through,

Was a mountain of things he intended

     to do -- Tomorrow.

A sailor, after placing a wreath of flowers on a grave in a cemetary, noticed an old Chinese placing a bowl of rice on a nearby grave and asked:
"What time do you expect your friend to come up and eat the rice?"
The old Chinaman smiled and answered:
"Same time your friend come up and smell flowers."

A man named Finkelberger went to court to have his name changed to Kelley.
"Why?" asked the judge.
"Business reasons", was the reply.
"SO ordered."
In a year he was back, before the same judge. He wanted to be known as Murphy.
"Why ?"
"Because whenever I tell anybody my name he looks at me and asks:
"What was it before it was Kelley?"

Captain: "Where'd all those empty bottles come from?"
Soldier: "Search me! I never bought an empty bottle in my life."

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
"Not so hot.
I've got ants in my plants."

1st Sailor: "Did you hear the joke about the crude oil?"
2nd Sailor: "No, how does it go"
1st Sailor: "Sorry, I can't tell you it isn't refined."

The advantage of having grapefruit in the refrigerator at breakfast time is that you can start the day with a cold shower.

Author: "Hurrah, I've received a check for two hundred dollars for my manuscript."
Friend: "Who sent it?"
Author: "The railroad company. They lost my manuscript."