Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1952 — Page 19

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Inside Indiana

By Ed Sovola

THERE'S MORE to this old-aged and survivor insurance than meets the eye on your aril statement. It pays to ‘inquire befo

to use the local bureau's words.

Several months ago, while waiting to hear the bad news from Wilbur O: Plummer, assistant internal revenue collector, I wondered aloud how much money the government has collected for

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re you retire,”

the time when these curly locks will be silver.

“Send this card to Baltimore and find out.”

said Mr. Plummer.

The printed matter informed me a statement of my social security account would be forthcoms= ing and it wasn’t necessary to pay anyone for

the information.

Old-age benefits soon were forgotten. A statement arrived in a week or so which had more fine print on it than a man with problems cared

to read. oh oh

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AFTER returning home from parts south and with another mouth taking part in the ritual of making groceries disappear, the statement from

Baltimore became more interesting. since January

Item E or “Total wages

1937,” curled the dollar signs in the pupils of my eyes. Where'd all that dough go? If figures don't

le, I should be rich.

The next stop was the office of Harold O. Mountjoy, manager of the Indianapolis Social

Security field office.

Mr. Mountjoy began by explaining the total in item E was tne amount from which 1; per cent has been .extracted. I recalled the governin previous vears and $3600 in 1951. Oh,- what a spendthrift

ment stopped nicking after

I had been.

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“MORE taxpayers should take the trouble to learn about their accounts,” chided Mr. Mountjoy. “For example, if there is a mistake it can be corrected provided the mistake isn't over four years

old.”

He said benefits are pavable at time of death to the smivivor. It's more than a retirement bene-

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

SPOKANE, Aug: 7—Bing Crosby spent plenty of time—here in his lovely hometown—in the jug. hase of Der he and Dixie live during August at nearby

I found out about this

Bingle's past when

$3000

dark p the beautiful

roamed around Gonzaga University.

“Oh, yes, Bing was in the jug regularly,” ad-

mitted a tall, handsome, rug-ged-looking Jesuit priest, the Rev. Father Arthur Dussault.

“I'd say that’s one reason for

his success.” The joke was on me. “The Jug” is Gonzaga's nickname for the penalty class where you “stay after school” to memorize lessons. “In the jug,” Father Dus-

sault continued, “Bing learned

to ncentrate and memorize bill he could get out and play the drums.

“His great memory for songs and plus his diction and personality—made him what he is. He owes a lot to having been ‘jugged. Actually Gonzaga overflows with affection for its son Bing. He gave it $75,000 toward its engineering building—and a big start on a $500,000

Crosby memorial library. oe £3 oe

THERE THEY'LL deposit his films, his scripts

—and his Oscars.

. Bing's loyalty to .the university he was never graduated from is one of the finest things we've

Bing Crosby

seen on our “Around America” tour.

In the corridor of the old main building, I

wife and

seripts—

saw some pictures under the title, “Our Bing.”

. Father Frdmcis E. Corkery, the president, talked fondly of his old classmate who lived about a block away and did his first groaning

right here. “He was Corkery said. Harry. The name carved—all over the college.”

He was not regarded as any great singer. In fact—some prankish classmates locked him up in some storage space in a physics class once.

When class started, he began to sing.

The teacher, no talent scout, instead of signing

him up, threw him out of class. Bing’s faculty friends

he has sent them.

Americana

show you lighters, knives and other Christmas gifts that

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 7—Lew Hershey has been fiddling around with this draft business ever since I can remember, and he still doesn’t seem to have it licked. “Fathers may soon face draft,” the headlines say, and therewith the usual doubleconversation from the good general about the

pool running dry, and we view with alarm.. If the draft director was in any other business outside the arbitrary selection of handcuff volunteers he would have been fired for fneompetence years ago.

If you will cast your tired =

little mind backward you may recall that the true status of a class of eligibles for distinc-

tion has not been sharply de-

fined in your memory, even

during an important war.

been able to strike on basis for choosing up draft goes and who stays has v

ow oo oe

In this country we have never a stable = . ees. The say-so on aried with the breezes.

‘Bing’ from the first grade,” Fr. “Only the teachers called him ‘Bing Crosby’ is written and

inscribed

It Pays to Inquire

fit. A wife, provided she has been married at least a year, gets assistance at the death of her spouse. In the case of retirement, three years of married life are required. If there are children, th: widow doesn’t even have to be married a year. As of March, 1952, there was $16,090,364,000 in the Federal fund. As of Feb. 28, 1951, in Marion County 16,017 persons were drawing $594,079 a month. That includes widows, retired people, widowers and childrer Nationally, each month, $169.,703,000 is paid to survivors and the aged. The amount of benefits i increasing $1 million annually. de ae db MONTHLY benefits to 107.311 Hoosiers amount to $3.8 million a month. Almost makes you want to be #5 and occupying a rocking chair with A Rocket engine, Mr. Mountjoy wishes those who are planning to retire would come to his office in the Century Building, 36 S. Pennsylvania St. about four months before retirement. Everyone would be happier, he feels. Experience has taught him that the rank and file of taxpayers don't take enough interest in social security. He wants people to write Baltimore for statements. You.can get the cards by calling MA-1581, writing or stopping by the office. If you have any questions after. vou receive the statement, don’t hesitate to take the problem to any of the 34 nice people on Mr. Mountjoy's staff. And do “inquire before you retire.” cae HARLEY HORTON, owner of LaRue's Supper Club, 1121 N. Pennsylvania St. said, “I'm an idiot.” when asked about the new steel and porce-lain-finished sign in front of his hobby house. To add permanence to his “two floor shows nightly,” Harley put $2200 on.the line for the 18 foot high and 12 foot across sign. In a town that has little of big city night life, the little man with big ideas is determined to make his newly remodeled venture on Little Broadway pay. “It's a challenge and I'm going to heat it since I'm the last one in this kind of business,” he: laughed. Faint heart never made a nightclub go, Harley, especially in Indianapolis.

Gonzaga College Loves ‘Der Bingle’ Crosby

And they also love “Doctor Crosby’--he has an honorary ‘Doctor of Music’ degree—because Hay1 den Lake. In Father Dussault's office, three pictures hang on the wall, and are placed at an’ angle. At the top is Pope Pius. In the center is Bing Crosby. At the bottom is President Truman, who once made a speech here. President Truman's picture s at the bottom because it was received last. However. the President should not feel bad about being placed below Bing. The way they feel about him at Gonzaga, it's an honor even to pe on the same wall. THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. YY... . Rep. Mike Monroney is in front of -the race for Democratic National Committee Chairman. . . . Marlon Brando, noted for his careless dress and cold- - water apartment, rented a Hollywood mansion complete with swimming pool. Our first Negro ambassador will soon be appointed, to Ethiopia . . . Pres. Truman has offered his White House staff to Adlai Stevenson, who said he'd “think about it” . .-. Even shows with top names for next fall are having trouble raising money . . . Arthur Marx (Groucho’s son) is doing a series on Hollywood for a magazine . . . Piper Laurie will be in “Mississippi Gambler” with Tyrone Power, who was her hero when she was in high school. Irving Berlin was asked about his song, “Roses of Yesterday,” which Tony Bennett'll record. Mr. Berlin didn't even remember he'd written it . . . Cab Calloway suggests a name for Adlai's fans: “Steve-Adores” ... The bar of a thirdrate West Side hotel is the latest hang-out for dope “pushers” . .. Lenore Lemmon said at The Penguin that Brian Donlevy’'s been phoning her from Europe. = , Billy Eckstine will reopen the shuttered Apollo on Labor Day . . . Rosemary Ridgewell of the Latin Quarter is around with Ted Doucette, of Boston society . .. One of the top boxing figures of all time looked pretty silly in a village spot after losing a decision to too many drinks. > WISH I'D SAID THAT: “The easiest way for a girl to become unpopular with her girl friends is to win all the popularity contests.” —J. B. Clark, Charlotte, N. C. “A psychiatrist,” defines Pat Morrissey, “is just a coach with a couch” . That's Earl, brother.

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Why Doesn't Hershey Quit Fooling Around?

might be laid down and might be forced to work. One is that the head of a family is less expendable than a single man. Another is that young men make better soldiers than older men. Another is that poor boys and rich boys are equal under the law, which also applies to college hoys and non-college boys. 03 oo oo ANOTHER IS that people who have been once should not have to go twice, so long as there are eligibles around who haven't been once. Another is that six months never was the difference hetween a man and a boy. Another is that you're supposed to know from a standing start how many men you need in your army, and plan accordingly. A final one is that it is no nobler to draft one man than it is to exempt a class of men.

These precepts are too simple for Washington

~-¢ comprehension, which is why the draft and the who

recall of reserves have been a muddled mess, kicked around politically, and operated cynically, for the last half-dozen years.

: The operation of manpower procurement WE INDUCTED fathers and We did nok has heen every hit as competently handled took marrieds and ve with ducational depart- As the administration of prisoners of war on sliding scale with 3g nal deferments. Gen. Her- Koje Island, as competently as the peace ments, with becupa RR s has changed, from negotiations, as competently as the running of shy changes one or eding to some mysterious the Korean War itself. That, brother, is all mon 0 : statistics grabbed out of a hat. ersal

We made one 8 military training—and one over for a the constituents gible to serve his country.

around. with educational deferWe Jaddied build a so-called aristocracy

English premium We called back the weary old reWorld War IL, and loused up famwe. still got Old Man Hershey.

nts, in order to Taine, and put a reverse on stupidity. treads from flies—and here

is mind. _ unable to make ph 8 pw,

IT 1 Not so much we have been fighting a that a draft machinery h has been in operation since Hector was a pup_.still oesn’t .know what it needs or how to Fo about fulfilling the needs. Since the war ended, has been a capricious, at best, satisfying a craving for manpower. I'm pretty sure the average man must be sick and

police war in Korea as whic go about and even before. it technique of

‘tired of the process.

You cannot sit there and tell me that a father must cast off his family and go away to fight a political war while shiny-chinned college boys are exempt from service because they ate taking Lit. . III or an advanced course in bee husbandry. You cannot say that it makes sense to exempt 18-year-

w years and decided n I$ 2 making the mass Willie eli-

—univ erious pass at sense—un 2 Congress talked that ot to anger

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

Q—Please give instructions for making a compost pile. Mrs. R. E. French, 2135 Pasadena. A—This question is so important to successful gardening I'd like to take it in two sections: For today's answer let me say that the trend in composting is now (thanks to experiments of organic gardeners) toward a much easier method than making compost in a pile. It's called “sheet composting.” It simply means that instead of building a pile of carefully made layers, you spread lawn clippings, old weeds (preferably without seeds!) and whatever you have that will

Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column in The Sunday Times

decay (saw dust, vegetable refuse, corn cobs, etc.) in between garden rows. Then let it decompose in place. This eliminates all. the carrying of garden rubble to the compost pile, usually somewhere in the rear of the lot, then hauling the compost back .a year later to use it on the garden.

olds while taking 181;-year-olds—or that a weary - Some experts take exception to this method as

retread with years of real war time is logically called back into service while virginal bait stays

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spreading disease. Certainly if you do it care lessly and. spread dead cornstalks in the corn rows, dead peony stalks around “the -peonies. vou'll get into trouble. But if you put the peony

: I WOULD NOT gratuitously accuse anybody ‘tops in the corn rows you won't. Especially if you

n the mobilization business of intelligence, since “that would automatically stamp me as an idiot,

turn them under at the end of the season. Tomorrow I'll give you the now out-dated in-

but for even a small brain a few simple precepts structions for building a compost pile.

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Before You Retire

BENEFITS FOR KOREAN VETERANS—

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1952

Jobless Pay Loophole Plugged

(Fourth of a series) By JOHN TROAN

THE ill - famed “52-20 Clup” is to be buried forever when the last few-

hangers-on are dropped from its membership rolls. The new GI Bill of Rights for veterans of the Korean War provides special unemployment. compensation bene, fits. But it represents no renewal of the 52-20 Club charter. That name was tagged to the compensation program set up under the old GI Bill, which offered idle World War II vets up to $20 a week for as long as 52 weeks. In enacting a new GI Bill, Congress sought to establish rules that would prevent a repetition of the abuses which marred the War II giveaway deal.

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- has plugged the giant loophole

through which thousands of dollars were funneled after the last war to unemployed vets who really didn't want jobs. By and large, of course, most veterans preferred honest work to subsidized idleness. But there were some who milked the taxpayers through legal goldbricking. For example, the old GI Bill of Rights said 'that even if a vet quit a job without good reason, provoked his own dismissal or rejected a suitable employmesit offer he still could collect idle pay from Uncle Sam.

n » Ld OH, YES, THERE was a penalty. Such vets were cut off

the compensation rolls for one to eight weeks, depending on the seriousness of the offense. But they could get right back on the benefit wagon after sitting out the penalty and eventually collect the full quota of 52 checks. Under the new law, this is out. The Korea vet will have to qualify for unemployment compensation on the same basis as the “nonveteran. In other words, the state unemployment laws will apply to both vets and nonvets, Only the money will come from a different pocket. ” ~ = IN PENNSYLVANIA, for instance, the Korea vet who voluntarily quits or is laid off for wilful misconduct will be denied unemployment benefits until he obtains another job and ‘works his way back into the good graces of the law. He can't just sit out a brief penalty period. Thid was written into the state statute last year for nonKorea vets so now it will apply to the vets, too. As is the case in most other states, vets won't be able to draw any jobless benefits in Pennsylvania if they are on strike because non-Korea strikers can't qualify, either. ” ~ n UNEMPLOYED Korea vets who qualify for compensation under the new GI bill will draw $26 a week. This will be issued to them through the State Employment Service, which will act as a middleman in.the deal because the money” will come from the U. S. Treasury. If such a vet is eligible to receive regular state unemployment compensation—as the result of previous employment—

GOVERNMENT ECONOMY —

‘Silk Curtain’ Obscures Arms Funds ARMY WASTE IN MANPOWER AND MONEY

CHAPTER FOUR

This is the fourth of a series from Sen. Douglas’ re-

cent book, Economy in the National Government. By PAUL H. DOUGLAS United States Senator from [Illinois

ONE approacnes tne military

budget with feelings of awe and fright. It is the most important

budget which comes before Congress in terms both of national defense and of the amounts of money involved. The prevailing opinion—in Congress and, I am sure, in the country as a whole —is that the United States should be as strongly prepared as possible. The threat of Communist aggression: makes "this imperative. My own feeling is that we should have a stronger force than present plans call for. So

* my desire not to impair our

armed strength is . pronounced. At the same time Congress has a grave responsibility in this matter. When the defense budget was before the Senate in the fall of 1951, we were faced with a proposed appropriation of $61 billion, or over one-fifth of the national income. Such a large expenditure should certainly be scrutinized carefully by Congress. The defense budget itself is a formidable document. Last vear it consisted of more than 200, pages, and nearly every page was filled with closely printed tables which are supposed to break down the lump-sum-item appropriation. un n ” IN 1951, the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate had only one staff expert who dealt with the question of dofense appropriations; the House committee had only two. The Department of Defense probably had hundreds, if not thousands, of men working to develop the budget and to justify it. So far as expert knowledge was concerned, the Appropriations: Committee was almost helpless in dealing with the Defense Department. What the committee really needs is a

especially

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group of inspectors to give detailed attention and scrutiny to the budget. True economics—cutting fat, not muscle—would be best effected through a scrutiny of spending policies and processes before the budget iz made up. When the scrutiny comes afterward, it is too late. The budget has been justified. and wasteful practices, such as “luxury buying,” have been accounted for. The congressional committees use investigators to some extent, but a force of from 50 to 100 experts to help Congress would be scarcely enough. iy o n ” THE COMMITTEE on Appropriations of the House took over 3000 pages of testimony on the military budget.’ The corresponding committee of the Senate took approximately 2000 pages. Nevertheless, it is estimated that she House committee studied appropriations at the rate of $10 million a minute. The witnesses who appeared before these committees were drawn almost entirely from the Defense Department. The difficulties experienced ny members of the Senate who are not members of the Appropria-

tions Committee are much greater. They are busy with their own legislative duties,

with their own correspondence, and they must attend the hearings nf other committees. What should they do when they are suddenly confronted with a 223-page military budget containing thousands of individual items? When an individual Senator tries to probe into the details of the budget and to get information about it, he runs up against further difficulties. o n ” ONE OF THESE is the tendency of the military to classify material "and to make it unavailable or at least difficult to obtain. Such material, as is well known, is classified in ascending order of importance — “restricted,” ‘confidential,’ “secret,” and in some cases ‘top secret,” Somebody once said

FRANK COSTELLO—

Hoodlum’s Polish Was A Thin Veneer

Last of 2 Articles By BARBARA BUNDSCHU

United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 7T— Frank Costello, now at last on his way to jail, was once told by his psychiatrist to

“get out and meet nice people.” With the respectable veneer of a Waldorf-Astoria manicure, a master tailor and a rich but not gaudy Long Island address, Costello tried to sit down as an equal with the U. 8S. Senate's Crime Investigating Committee. He said he wasn't “particu“t1arly proud” but hoped not to be “eternally punished” for getting rich as a bootlegger, gambler and slot machine tycoon—and throwing a bit of political influence around town.

- a ” » “I AM retired,” the swarthy, A1-year-old racketeer told the comynittee in his frog-and-gravel voice. The Senators wouldn't buy that. Costello, they charged, was no independent capitalizer on minor vices but the sinister

“education but of

across half the country and paving allegiance across the seas toa deported white slaver and reputed narcotics king. Charles (Lucky) Luciano. The questions were hot and unfriendly. Costello, always polite, pleaded a sore throat and went home. That brought a contempt ‘conviction and his downfall, Costello's manner with , the committee was respectful, his manners impeccable - and his charm apparent even under strain. But the English 'language tripped him up. “I'm sorry I'm not a college man like you, Mr. Halley,” he retorted at one point to Prosecutor Rudolph Halley, with the

shadow of a chip on his shoulder, Francesco Castiglia (Costel-

lo) brought from Southern Italy to the cold, tough slums of New York at the age of 4. never finished grade school in the land of opportunity. His manner suggests he somehow feels cheated—not so much of the the respect properly due such an obviously

he'll have to collect his state benefits rather than his fed«ral benefits. But Uncle Sam will add whatever is needed to bring the vet up to $26 a week.

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IN PENNSYLVANIA, jobless checks now range from $10 to $30 a week, depending on the man’s prior earnings. Thus, if a Korea vet gets $26 or more a week under the state law, the federal government won't add accent. But if he draws less than $26, the federals will make up the difference. Under the new GI bill, the Korea vet is eligible for 26 full

compensation checks. If he draws only a partial federal benefit for any week of idle-

ness, he may collect more than 26 checks—provided he doesn't knock down over $676 in federal unemployment checks. That's the top, as compared to the $1040 a World War II vet could get under the old GI bill.

THE UNEMPLOYMENT provision won't take effect until Oct. 15. In other words, idleness will be until then. Inasmuch as Pennsylvania has a regular one-week waiting period, this means Korea vets

won't be able to start “earning” ®

unemployment benefits here until Oct. 22, and won't get any checks before Oct, 29. Unemployment compensation is tied to another provision in the new GI bill which extends mustering-out pay to Korea vets. ” » » THE MUSTERING-OUT benefits go to persons discharged or released from active duty on or

MARINES

noncompensable’

In a Marine Corps division there are 20 per cent more men in infantry units than in an Army division, but svi

after June 27, 1950. However, majors, lieutenants, commanders and those of higher rank are excluded. The mustering-out pay is $100 if the man saw less than 60 days of active duty. If he put in 60 days or more, the payment is $200 for those who served only in the U., 8. and $300 for those with some service in Alaska or overseas. The mustering-out pay is to be issued in $100 monthly instalments. Korea vets who got out before this benefit was voted have until July 16, 1954, to apply. = » ~ A MAN who qualifies for a $100 mustering-out payment can't draw unemployment compensation for 30 days following release from duty. A $200 mus-tering-out benefit bars a vet from jobless compensation for 60 days and a $300 check knocks him out for 90 days.

There's one other gimmick. To get mustering-out pay, the man must have left service under honorable conditions. To get unemployment compensation, he must have been released under other than dishonorable conditions. “Thus, some vets who drew discharges which are neither honorable nor dishonorable will be eligible for Jobless pay but not musteringout pay. n ~ n UNEMPLOYMENT compensation will be shut off for all Korea vets five years after a date yet to be set by the President or Congress. Although no minimum period of service is required to get mustering-out pay, a Korea vet

ARMY

COST PER MAN, 1948

4,440

that there is still another classification —“burn—oefore reading.” ’

No one wishes to obtain truly classified information. A man is always afraid that he may talk in his sleep or that he may let something slip out in conversation with" others. A Congressman worthy of his salt

Frank Costello

Costello had agreed in private session with the committee to reveal his ‘net worth’ or actual present assets. He changed his mind. .

He admitted to keeping $50,000 in cash in his Manhattan

master-mind of a crime and successful self-made man as apartment, about $3000 lying rackets - network stretching himself. around his Sands Point, Long rom i gi y - ——— a trees erg isn ————— rs ive pe =

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wishes to preserve to the fullest degree the necessary confidences

. of the government, Pe But there is a tendency for

the Defense Department, and for.the defense services, to overclassify a great deal of material. Sometimes this is done through a natural desire to make safe decisions.

Island, home, $90,000 to $100,.)00 readily available in a bank iccount,

His reported tdxable net inome, insofar as is known, anged from $30,000 to $100,000 i» year during the 1940s, (In 947, when he left nearly $25. 00 in a taxicab, the federal rovernment took most of it for ack taxes owed for the 1930s.)

Costello was found in con'mpt of the Senate for walking ut when the questions became oo insistent. He said his throat The doctor who had treated him 18 years before for ‘ancer of - the throat agreed with the committee's medical examiner that it wouldn’t have harmed Costello physically to talk a little more.

The jail sentence wrecked all Cotsello had strived for.

Following the advice of his psychiatrist. Costello had started going to the better places in Manhattan, © Costello met his friends in the barber shop of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel—there bookmak-

ing king Frank Erickson sold” him some oil investments as a

“gamble,”

> who have served

can’t collect jobless benefits unless he has put in at least 90 days of active duty. The only exception here is for those who are released sooner for serviceincurred injury. :

Faked compensation claims are punishable by a maximum penalty of $1000 and a year in jail. Also, a guilty vet can be forced to refund money he collects illegally; or the overpayment can be kept on the books as a charge against his - account, to be deducted from any compensation to which the man might become entitled during the next two years.

» = » BESIDES HIGH-RANKING officers, certain other vets can’t collect mustering-out pay. These include some men who are eligible for retirement pay upon

release; those discharged at their own request to take key civilian jobs (unless they served outside the U. 8.); those who spent all their time in a civilian school, a military academy or in pre-cadet training, and all commissioned officers who fail to leave service within three years after the “cut-off date" is fixed by the President or Congress, » n »

ALSO, RESERVISTS sum-* moned for temporary training or for physical - examinations ~ can’t qualify unless they are called up for at least 60 days. The mustering-out payments will be tax-free. Presumably, unemployment compensation also will be exempt from taxation.

NEXT—GI Loans.

Sometimes, however, it is done to obscure mistakes made by the Defense Department and to make some of its activities more inaccessible.

~ » ~ DOCTORS can bury their mistakes. The military can

achieve the same end by ‘‘classifying"” theirs. My colleague, Sen. Thomas Hennings (D. Mo.), a distinguished naval officer during the last war, made the following statement in the debate op the military appropriations i: “Certain high-ranking officers of the Armed Services to my knowledge in the past have made it a practice to have certain nondescript and routine papers stamped ‘secret’ for their own private purposes.” I will not say there is an Iron Curtain around the Pentagon. But there are a series of silken curtains which obscure one’s view of the defense establishment. As a result of all these difficulties, it is very hard to fight defense appropriations on the floor of the Senate or ‘he House. They tend to go through more or less automatically. u » » WHILE SEEKING to effect economies in the armed services, it sometimes seemed as though I faced a regiment of tanks, while equipped only with a few rocks and a carbine. The difficulty of making intelligent criticisms and of having these criticisms adequately - considered deters virtually all senators and congressmen. Nearly everydne finds it much easier to abdicate hiS responsibility to accept the bill as it comes from the committees. The committees in turn, as I have pointed out, have been almost overwhelmed by the representatives of the Department of Defense, Yet all of us as citizens, and particularly those in time of war, know the great wastes of military life. NEXT: Some Wastes by the Armed Forces.

(Copyright, 1952, by the University of Chicago. Distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

In the barber shop and bar of that and other hotels and night clubs, Costello met his friends the. big names in gangdom, Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano. At Hot Springs, Ark, he took the baths regularly and became acquainted: with California lobbyists Arthur Samish. He played golf in a foursome that included an internal revenue collector, and George Levy,-owner of Roosevelt Raceway in Long Island. Levy paid Costello $15,000 a year for four years to scare the bookmakers off his track. Costello said he didn't do anything, but anybody would take the money if offered. New Hampshire's righteous Sen. Charles W: Tobey ran Costello through a sharp catechism on his patriotism, “You . must have in your mind some things you have done you can speak of to your credit as an” American citizen,” Sen Tobey barked, “If so, what are they?" X Costello looked bewildered. “Paid my taxes,” he replied.

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