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Inside Indianapolis

By Ed Sovola

THE ANNUAL clamor to have department

stores establish fashion boards for college men Is being abandoned. Current crop of coed coungellors know exactly what Joe should wear on campus, Such confidence in their ability to choose a male wardrobe I never have seen. They dare you to send them a perplexed male.’ Alison Mead. 4732 N. Pennsylvania St., Purdue senior and fashion counsellor at Block's, acted Insulted when asked if she could advise a college man about fashions. “I KNOW what they ought to wear and not wear,” Alison said. “Boys need a good lesson in choosing color combinations. We know how we'd like to see them dress.” At L. 8S. Ayres it was the same story. The gals are riding high and ‘aren't backward about saying so. One little gal said she knows “all about men's fashions.” :

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BEVERLY CLENDENIN, 6502 Pleasant Run Pkwy.. Butler junior. would have all Blue and White men “fairly neat.” Her next statement hurt an ol' TU man.

“Butler men are better dressed than Indiana.

and Purdue men right now. but I'd sharpen them up even more.” said Beverly. “We girls watch Llothes carefully.” ' On the second floor in Wasson's. I had an Indiana University sophomore, Paula Hawkins, 1225 N. La Salle St.. sound off. Girls are all alike wheré men's clothes are concerned. “Sure I could advise a college boy, just send

.him in. At Indiana I'd have a boy wearing a dark

Buit-—that's for Sunday's and special dates . . It was time to check out. Dark suits at Indiana? What happened to T-shirts and GI trousers? Men, you know where to go with your college wardrobe problems. And a special feature at Block's is a gal who will teach. you how to strum a ukulele. You think that ain't peachy? oe oo oo OFFICIAL figures from the U. 8. Census Bureau show that in Indianapolis there are 90.1 men to every 100 women. Not quite enough men

Men's Styles? Ask the Coeds

to go around in the Hoosier capitali If that sounds like a rough deal to. some of you, girls, consider Tampa. Fla. For every 100 women there are 86 men. Slim pickin's. In St. Louis 100 women have 87 men to fight over. Manpower is more plentiful in Seattle where 102.8 men look over 100 women and vice versa and Norfolk, Va., has the highest ratio, 113.2 men for every 100 women. The Census Bureau doesn't explain what to do with the fractions. A JE “IS 'ANYONE interested in knowing what bird, early bird, that is, gets the worm in Indianapolis? Recently 400 Londoners hiked into the woods three hours before dawn to observe the eating and singing habits of their feathered friends. The blackbird, they discovered, was at work, singing and grubbing, at 3:50 _a. m. The last one up was the chaffinch, the lazd bum. 1f 400 Britishers can get up three hours before the crack of dawn, I figure some of us Hoosiers can do the same. Are there any adventurous bird lovers around who would care to join me about 3:30 a. m. this Saturday in front of the administration building of Butler University? There's a wooded section within stumbling distance. Call or write me if you want to go along. One or 100 or alone, I'm going to find out which early bird gets the worm. Pe MRS. TED MYERS, Miami Rd.. R. R. 6. Box 50A. South Bend, writes: “It's nice to think of you as a well-adjusted married man.” A pleasant surprise to hear from someone so far north. But this business of being a well-adjusted married man throws me. You don't get well-adjusted on a three-week honeymoon. Wait until Rosemary finds out she's going to have to cook breakfast about 2:30 a. m. Saturday so I can go out looking for the early bird. Nd DOES ANYONE know anything about The International Mark Twain Society, 5972 Clemens Ave., St. Louis, Mo.? g

It Happened Last Night Western Towns Have

By Earl Wilson

HUNGRY HORSE DAM, Mont, Aug: 6— Come, along and ride with us in Waldorfian luxury through the Rockies. : - These snowy peaks and-horseshoe curves and cool waters are wonderful—still, I am worrying about my shirts, and about Slugger. He'd love the names of these villages we've gone through aboard the Great Northern's superswanky train, “The Empire Builder.” Get these: Sundance, Gunsight, SinglesHot, Spotted Robe, Bison and Rising Wolf. . : “Is that Red Eagle or Blackfoot we just went through?” I asked the Beautiful Wife who was consulting a map. . : “Neither one,” she answered. “It was Whitefish.” They do have those names up here near Glacier Park and Canada—but my trouble is my shirts. “You don't have to waste another clean shirt today, do you?” the B.W. says.

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YOU SEE, on our other travels it was nylon ghirts, and she didn’t want to wash them. “Who was vour servant last year?” she would demand and I would have to answer, “I was,” as I am extremely truthful. Now a flock of shirts sent to me by ‘my Gorgeous Mother-in-Law didn’t get to me in St. Paul, and the Supt. of Mails in St. Paul is looking for them and promising to send them to me in Hollywood. _If they don’t get there, the glamorpusses will have to put up with me in a dirty shirt. On this beautiful train which has a ‘ranch “ear” that smacks of cowboys, we can hear the Yankee games broadcast, but I've been drinking in the Switzerland-like scenery—and reading “Peck’s Bad Boy.” : " D'you remember the mischievous kid? He put a rubber hose in pa’s macaroni, and soft soap on the steps when the five deacons came to call. He “spread the gospel.” He put fce in pa’s bed and furniture polish in the liniment bottle. Once when pa was to speak at church, he put a deck of cards in pa's handkerchief, first dousing it in Jamaica rum.

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WHEN PA WAS OVERCOME by emotion during the speech, he whipped out the kerchief. The cards went flying and so did the rum perfume. After that, Peck's .Bad Boy was “talked to with a bed slat.” A Milwaukee newspaperman reminded me that George W. Peck came from out here and thus I got his books, which I'd never read before,

Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 6—As an individual 1 never felt I had to be reverent before Douglas MacArthur, the politician, because the politico has his chin out there for a purpose. But as a servant of his country for over 50 years he has no peer in military history, and somebody ought to siap-down thisafellow Celler who loudly demands the General cut his pension. just because he has a job with Remington Rand. The people of the United States pay Gen. MacArthur $10,548 a year for life, and never %as a pension more bitterly earned or deeply deserved. As old as he is, the General would still be in harness and earning his dough if his military judgment hadn't conflicted with- that brilliant strategist Harry Truman, who canned him for trying to win a war in Korea. Now we have a brash one, Rep. Emanuel Celler, demanding the old man’s living allowance

‘pe rescinded, merely because Gen. MacArthur

finally took a fat-salaried job in private industry, after living off the slim pay of a military man for three-quarters of his life. Else, Rep. Celler says, he will run a bill through the next congressional hopper and unhorse the General from his perquisites, including his aides. He adds a variety of sarcastic quotes, which makes me ashamed for the Congressman.

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THE SIMPLE FACT is that for military genius Douglas MacArthur has never been topped in contemporary history. For economy of mortality in his campaigns alone the man deserves all the lasting gratitude his country can muster. He did not feed his nation's youth callously into the. furnace of war, but labored mightily (and successfully) on ways to avoid bloodshed.

In almost any other country the man would:

have been made a baron, at jeast, given vast estates, and rewarded as richly as the national exchequer would permit. We give him 20 grand a year for thé last few years of his life and allow him to retain some dides to, as Rep. Celler puts it so prettily, “Light his corncob pipe.” It is a mighty small reward for a man who has performed brilliantly in his cotintry’s behalf in two major wars and a handful of skirmishes. That he is finally picking up-a little outside! loot in his retirement is entirely a matter of his own business, and dogs not affect his nation’s debt to him. ’ ] , - TH A 3 GEN. MacARTHUR, since the day he returned after Mr..Truman fired him, didn't make a“buck

"above his military pay until he accepted the

Remington Rand job. If he had been greedy for quick money, a MacArthur. memoir would

paxe-enmnes him a lumped million, and he could ‘have worked the same capital gains oW it that

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Slugger is mild beside that kid. Still, Grammy told us by long distance phone that when she called him at camp long distance where he was so homesick a few days ago—he said: “Is it anything important, Grammy? busy playing ball.” I guess he grew up:while I've been away. THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN NEW YORK: Sen. Warren Magnuson came here from Chicago to see the “fights with Toni Seven, his old Later they did El Morocco and Greenwich Village. . . . Time's readying a cover story on Katherine Hepburn. . . . The French Casino is negotiating to bring Maurice Chevalier here for its next show. . . . The Kudner Agency got the job of handling the Eisenhower campaign on radio and TV,

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LAWFORD and Pat Kennedy (daughter of ex-ambassador Joe) are sizzling on the Coast. . Pat Wymore (Mrs. Errol Flynn) is mad at the divorce rumors and threatens to sue somebody. . . . From this column, April, 1951: “Gen. MecArthur will swap his uniform for civvies and become a $100,-000-a-year man at Remington Rand.” . .. Anne Baxter looks luscious in the movie, “Full House.” The Copa's presenting an excellent summer show headlined by Al Bernie and featuring Sonny Howard and the ever - mystifying Galli Galli. Bernie explained business was so bad around the country “even people who don't expect to pay aren't buying.” . The surprise of the show is Mr. Howard, a fine singer and impressionist. . .1. Ted Lewis’ autobiography, dedicated to his wife. will be titled, “Ada, I Don’t Wanna Write a Book.” . . . Producers and theater owners are battling for the chance to bring “An Evening With Bea Lillie” to Broadway. 0 oo oo TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Jackie Clark said at the Villa Capri, Tommy Manville would soon star in a “Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. and Mrs. and Mrs.” radio show.

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Miss Baxter

£3 < oe WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Alimony,” defines Bill Cullen, “is merely a part-time payment.” “The only girl who should wear a horse's tail hairdo,” says Myron Cohen, “is one with a perfect carriage.” «+ «+ » That's Earl, brother.

MacArthur Rates Old Soldier's Pay

Gen. “Eisenhower managed when he went into print with his personal hopes and fears. But Gen. MacArthur paid his own way out of his own dough so long as he was politicking, and he resisted any impulse to capitalize financially on his feud with Mr. Truman, and for that the man must be admired. In humiliation at the hands of the government he served he has already been paid enough to last 6ut his lifetime; and this Celler fellow's added insult is a little too much.

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REP. CELLER makes the usual brave remarks about Gen. MacArthur's salary and the expense of maintaining his aides being a drain on the taxpayers. I think this is just a touch ridiculous from the mouth of any professional Democrat, in view of the wholesale stealing of multimillions by party big shots, and the general wastage of the national substance over the last 20 years. Economy on the lips of a Democratic Congressman has rather a silly sound. Right now I think the least Gen. MacArthur deserves is an apology from Rep. Celler via Harry Tfiman, and a public reprimand by Mr. Truman of the Congressman. We do not owe the General admiration as a politician or individual human being, but as a retired five-star general of thé United States Army he is owed

everything in terms of public respect.” And, certainly, an old soldier's pay. * ® Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith Q—What rose varieties are desirable and hardy for this section? Mrs. Ira Whitaker, Trevlae.

A—You will find very few roses on the. general market that are not hardy in Indiana. Probably the trickiest kinds are the grafted hybrid tea climbers (climbing Talisman, climbing Peace,

etc.). To be sure of carrying, these over winter in

central Indiana it's wise to lay them down and cover them, or wrap them in place against the

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

bad winters when we have rapid ups and downs

of temperature. Tree roses, of course, need sim-

flar protection. Also hybrid teas often winterkill. But it is not so much from inherent tenderness to cold as it is from water standing around roots and sometimes from too much protection (smothering). As to desirable “varieties, Peace and Crimson Glory are just. about as choice roses as there are. Then there are plenty of. old standbys like Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Pierre du Pont, and too many others to mention. You will find that in general floribundas or cluster roses are easier to raise than these monthlies. Visit

nurseries and parks and private gardens. Send

for catalogs and complete notes. Then choose the ones that make your heart sig.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1952

BENEFITS FOR KOREAN VETERANS—

Gl Gets U.S. Pay to Learn Job

Third of a Series By JOHN TROAN THE blue-collar veterans of the Korean War aren't being overlooked by Uncle Sam.

Under the new GI Bill of Rights, they are eligible for training benefits similar to

those accorded their _white-col-lar brethren. The white-collar vets are those who expect to enter college or some other school for what's known as ‘formal education.” The blue-collar boys are the ones who intend to seek careers as skilled workers in in-

dustry via actual job experience. For the Korean vets who

don't want to go to school, the new law provides opportunities through on-the-job training programs. The law also allows for similar earn-while-you-learn training in the agricultural field.

o ” n TO QUALIFY for such benefits, the vet must meet the same basic requirements as if he wanted to go to school. He must have been released from service —under other than dishonorable conditions — on or after June 27, 1950, following at least 90 days of active duty. For each day of service since the Korean War started, the vet may receive 1'; days. of job training—up to a maximum of 36 months. If he’s

also a veteran of

- World War II and eligible for

- “emergency”

similar training under the old GI Bill of Rights, he can get up to 48 months of job training minus the number of months he already has spent in any such program. ~ - ” ON-THE-JOB TRAINING is for vets who seek to learn an occupation at which they expect to continue working after they complete their apprentice

ship. ) wy Koréan vets can enter such training any time after Aug.

20, The deadline for entering such a program will be Aug.-20,

1954, or two years after release whichever comes later, The job training must be

wound up within seven years after release from duty or seven years after the current is ended by the President or Congress.

u o » BRIEFLY, the vet who is interested in this goes to an employer and sells himself. The employer then submits a training plan to the State for approval; If the vet qualifies, he draws a regular salary from the employer. and the Veterans Administration adds a subsistence allowance. The allowance _will he $70 a month for vets who have no dependents, $85 for those with one dependent and $105 for those with two or more dependents, - . » ~ ~ HOWEVER, in no case will the vet be able to draw more than $310 a month in wages and government allowances.

GOVERNMENT ECONOMY—

Appropriations Often Are ‘Juggled’

CHAPTER THREE

This is the third of a series from Sen. Douglas’ recent book, ECONOMY IN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

By PAUL H.-DOUGLAS United States Senator from Illinois

ONE OF the common jokes around Washington is that a government agency will request more than it actually needs. It depends on the House. to cut its request by 50 per cent, the Senate to restore the amount to 100 per cent, and the conference committee to compromise at 75 per cent, the figure actually wanted by the agency in the first place. This is more indicative than accurate. But it is true the Senate, traditionally, is the more lenient body. Some wags suggest this is why it is oalled “the uppér House.” Subcommittees of each House hold hearings on all regular appropriations bills. These are very helpful in getting information. But, almost invariably, the witnesses represent agencies defending the budget requests or pressure groups demanding larger expenditures. There are some exceptions to this rule. For instance, the railroad industry has testified against expenditures for navigation projects which would create competition for the railroads.

n u s THERE HAVE been rare and fsolated cases of a group benefiting from certain expenditures to urge reductions in the interest of the national economy. Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, testified in 1951 favoring reductions in the amounts for the Agricultural Conservation Payments Program. But these are exceptions and-are-not at-all typical. In view of the general cries in the press and by politicians for economy in government, this may seem strange. But there is a logical reason for it which can be stated very simply: Namely, that the special interests are concentrated and

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strong, while the general interest is diffused and weak. There is a large body of public opinion which strongly favors economy. But few, if any, private individuals have the knowledge to attack specific expenditures on a broad scale. This duty, therefore, falls to the individual members of Congress. I have been accused of undermining the titular leader of my own political party by proposing budget cuts, on the false

premise it is the ‘President's budget.” It is true, theoretically, all

the details of the budget are approved by the President. This is actually done only with respect to major decisions. It would be impossible for the President, who is probably the busiest man in the world, to approve each of the thousands of individual items. 6 This is done instead by delegating presidential authority to the director of Bureau of the Budget. He, in turn, must depend upon the advice and research of his staff,

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President had personally approved each and every item, the fact would still remain that

Congress is the branch of government responsible for appropriations.

1 may, on occasion, run

counter to the President's de-

sires. But the Demoératic Party is not totalitarian. I hope the American party system

never reverts to one in which party differences cannot be brought into the open. If this happened, it would destroy the American system, which is based on a separation of powers. 1 faver a strong President but not presidential usurpation of the congressional spending power. Congress has stitutional ate money. It should not abdicate this power. The budget document is a fine base to work from, and the staff of the bureau can be helpful in furnishing information. But Congress needs to make up its own mind on the indi-

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No Talent’'—

Costello's Pipe

Frank ‘Costello is about to go to jail for the first time since his late youth. Costello's story is the story of a new era in gangsterism—the era of the velvet glove instéad of the smoking pistol; the era of political tea-parties instead of the gangland ride; the era of “fixing” instead of firing, of pseudo-respectability instead of the tough guy. United Press Correspondent Barbara Bundschu, who covered Costello's appearance hefore the Kefauver Crime Committee and his subsequent downfall, tells his story in two dispatches. The first follows:

By BARBARA BUNDSCHU United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 6— Frank Costello lived a

shadowy life just outside

the law for 37 years. He grew up in those years from ‘a neighborhood hoodlum and small time bootlegger to become what the Senafe Crime Investigating Committee called the head of an eastern United States crime syndicate playing hand in glove with a Chicago mob and bowing to the dictates of deported White Slaver - €harles (Lucky) Luciano

In 1942, the committee said, he ‘unquestionably had complete domination over Tammany Hall” and he remains “a strong and evil influence on New York politics.” Today, he ig about to go to jail for the first time since 1915. The beckoning prison bars shatter Costello's dream of regpectability which he has cultivated and nurtured with cologne and manicures since he first served time as a minor punk of 24. But even though he consulted a_ psychiatrist, he never made the grade of respectability. n £ " IN 13 HOURS of testimony before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee, he and his questioners put together a picture. of the life of a bigtime modern-era criminal. He wound up with an 18-month jail sentence for contempt of the United States Senate. Costello was 4 years old “— and naméd Francesco Castiglia

when. his parents brought their family from Southern Italy to a poor New York”

neighborhood in 1895. ; Asked to explain hig rather

“ forceful influence on, New York

politicians, Costello replied in his chronically unlubricated

power to appropri-_

“dismissed.

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In other words, the VX will make up only the difference between the vet's monthly wage and the $310 ceiling. If he earns more than $310, he'll get no subsistence check. This ceiling is the same no matter how many dependents the vet has. That differs from the provisions of the old GI Bill, which sets various income limits of $210 to $290 a.month, depending: on the size of the man's family, . To collect the allowance, the vet will have to file a monthly report with the VA. So, will his employer. The check will be sent out within 20 days after these reports are submitted. » n »

EVERY FOUR months, the

\ government will reduce the sub- ' sistence

allowance. This is known as the “four months’ reduction formula" -—something new in veterans’ legislation. The idea is this:"The government feels that as a vet progresses in his training, his value to the ‘employer goes up. Therefore, it’s up to the boss to pay him more so the burden on the taxpayer can be lessened. The aim is to discourage the post-World War II practice of some émployers who took advantage of the old GI Bill to gain a source of cheap labor.

Ld ~ ” HERE'S HOW the “reduction formula” will work: Say the vet trainee is in a program which calls for a twoyear appenticeship. That's 24 months, Now suppose he has one de-

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pendent. He'll start out getting a subsistence allowance of $85 a month, At the end of four months, this will he reduced by one-sixth, or $16.17-—because his training ‘will be one-sixth completed. The vet thereafter will get only $63.83 a month from the VA. Four months later, the checks will be cut another $16.17. And 80 on to the end of the twoyear training period, at which time the checks will cease altogether,

n ” ” THE LAW doesn't say the employer has to raise the vet's salary by this amount every four months. That's left strictly to the man and his boss.

The proposed salary scale will have to be filed by the employer when seeking approval of the training pro-

gram. The GI Bill stipulates only that the pay at various stages of the training program can't be lower than what

fa “customarily paid” at that particular plant and in that particular community ‘to a

learner in the same job who is not a veteran.” :

” n ~ THE SUBSISTENCE thus amounts to an incentive bonus to a vet to learn a trade. And the incentive is decreased .as the vet progresses toward his goal. The training program- can't be shorter than three months. The maximum is two years - except for “apprentice training” in trades where longer periods are required—as, for example, by union rules.

Decrease Governmental Expenditures through Utmost Economy

Increase Revenues by Closing

If Necessary, Increase General Tax Rates

The national government faces a $15-billion deficit in 1952-53. The wisest way to balance the budget is through the utmost economies and the closure of all tax loopholes. But if these measures ore not fully successful, a general tax increase will be necessary.

vidual items, and it badly needs

the information required to make intelligent decisions. For” Congress, despite (t=

faults, is still the branch of the government which ig closest to the people. It is elected by them and can be replaced by them. » n n AT THE PRESENT time Congress does not have facili-

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voice: ‘'I've-lived in. the same neighborhood all my life.” New York's former Mayor William O'Dwyer, testifying be-

fore the Senate committee, evaluated Costello's "sinister influbnce” in Tammany Hall

somewhat differently: “It doesn’t matter whether it is a banker, a businessman, or a gangster, his pockethook is always attractive.” Costello was arrested first when he was 17 for assault and robbery. The charge was dismissed. Three years later another charge was brought and

In 1914, he married Loretta Geigerman, with whom he has lived in devoted domesticity ever since. Thev are childless.

” n a MRS. COSTELLO is the mistress of their $300-a-month Manhattan apartment, and CosJello i8 a man known to be home regularly and on time for dinner. When they go to New Orleans for .Christmas -— her brother is co-owner with Costello~ in the gambling and swanky Beverly Country Club «Mrs. Costello goes a few days ahead of Her husband by train. “She doesn’t fly,” Costello said.” . :

Their comfortable $32,000

ties for making sound decisions on spending issues. By working with the help of my own staff and the staff of the legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, I was able last year to make 90 separate proposals for reduction in appropriations which totaled some $1.5 billion. Yet

Similar. training is provided for men who want to learn

how to run a farm. This Is called “institutional on-farm training.”

The program combines actual schooling—at leagt eight hours a month and 200 hours a year— in an educational institution and “supervised work experience” on a farm, including no less than 100 hours of individual instruction right in the field each year.

o " ” THE AIM is to give the vet training “in planning, producing, marketing, farm mechanics, conservation of resources, food conservation, farm financing, farming management and the keeping of farm and home accounts.” The vet must spend all his time working on the farm and school. For those who qualify, the monthly subsistence allowance will be $05 if there are no dependents, $110 if there is one dependent and $130 if there is more than one dependent. » ” » HERE AGAIN, the trainee will find his check shrinking every four months. But the formula for farm trainees differs because their allowances won't be reduced as sharply as those of mill trainees, apparently in recognition of the fact that a learner in industry fis likely to earn more than a learner on the farm.

NEXT—Mustering-out pay, and unemployment compen- - sation,

I feel I still have only scratched the surface. The Appropriations Committee staff members are hardworking, but there are not enough of them. 1 shall never forget my gasp of surprise when I discovered the Senate Appropriations Committee had only one professional staff man to help evaluate a $61 billion appropriation bill for the Department of Defense. It would be difficult to imagine one man even keeping up with the mechanics of such a measure. I would say there are primarily two things which should be done: ONE—Provide the appropriations committee with more staff help. TWO—Set up in the General Accounting Office, which is a congressional agency, a staff which would make continuing studies and investigations on means of reducing expenditures. The results of this work should e made available to all members of Congress. This recommendation would probably be opposed on the ground it would duplicate the efforts of the Bureau of the Budget. I will not deny this may be so. But, as I have pointed out, the bureau is an arm of, and owes {its allegiance to, the Executive Branch. Congress needs its own body of experts in order to cross-check the bureau’s recommendations.

n » n SINCE THE GENERAL Accounting Office audits past expenditures after they are made, it is therefore acquainted with most of the “soft spots” in each agency. It is admirably equipped to criticize the . proposed expenditures. Suppose it costs us an extra million or even two millions of dollars. I am certain that finding just a very few examples of waste would make up for this expense. And it would probably pay for itself at least a hundred times over. NEXT: The Awesome Mili-

tary Budget. (Copyright. 1952, by the University of

Go Flooey

Sands Point, Long Island, home is in her name. So are the lots in Hollywood, Fla., on which they plan someday to build a winter home, A year after their marriage, (‘ostello was arrested on a charge of carrying a pistol. “1 have got it right from his neighbors that he has the reputation of being a .gunman and in thiz particular gase he . .. wag “prepared -to do the work of a gunman,” the. judge said. Costello served 10 months of a.l-year sentence. Costello was

And never

known as a gunman again. He

had little education, but nobody has questioned his shrewd intelligence. ” n n WHEN HE got out of jail, he went into business with another man ‘manufacturing Kewpie dolls,” the gravelly voiced gangster admitted without a quiver. The Kewpies were punch board prizes, he explained. He also was operating as a betting commissioner —a bookmaker's 5 per cent man. In about 1918 or 1919, Costello says, turning vague. he first went into the ‘real estate - business.” ’

Chicago. Distributed- by United Peature Endicate, Ine.) On other occasions Costello

has admitted he got in on the ground floor of the prohibition bootleg game. “You don't need no talent” to

sell a good brand of liquag, Costello said. Costello then went into slot machines until Mayor Fiorello

H. LaGuardia ran that profitable enterprise out of New York City in 1934. ea Louisiana's (Gov. Huey Long invited Costello to come right down to New Qrleans, Costello said Gov. Long wanted to make them legal, but “he passed out”

.. before he got aroundgto it.

In the 1940s Costello hecame publicly “and embarrassingly identified as a political fixer: He acknowledged close friendship with nearly all of Manhattan’'s districtleaders. William O'Dwyer went to call on him in Army uniform, on Army business, and found a lot of highly placed politicians also calling. He turned faces red all over . ‘town by sponsoring - a * $100-a-plate dinfier for the Salvation Army. Dozens of politicians and a handful of judges got their pictures in the paper being charitable with Costello. “NEXT: Crime Committee rally trips Costello.

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