The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

an officers club at an Air Corps base.
 The Navy Department is so overstaffed with officers doing paper work that one young en- sign, who wanted to be sent to sea, adopted the practice of read ing a brightly-bound detective novel at his desk. He made his lack of duties so conspicuous that his superiors were embarrassed, finally sent him to sea.
 Many a handsome, uniformed Marone, who has joined the Ma rines to fight the war, finds him. self stuck in the Navy Depart ment building running errandl or standing guard in doorways. Why interior guards of combat age are needed remains a puzzle because no one can enter tl'a building without a special pass. Civilian departments use old War veterans as guards.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 New sergeant-at-arms of the Senate will be Wall Doxey, re- ti-ing senator from Mississippi, Ieplacing Chesley Jurney, former s cretary to the late Senator Copeland of New York Re- publican Ed Moore, the Oklahoma oil man who stunned the coun- try by defeating Democratic Josh Lee for the Senate, now seriously considers switching to the Demo- cratic side of the Senate. Moore was once a Democrat, now thinks he could get more political pa- tronage that way (Wrong dope, Senator-elect Moore. Roose- welt gives the jobs to Republicans these days A wave of fear buying" of radio batteries is sweep ing the country, but is unnecessary harmful. The WIPE limited sales of batteries to curtail this wave, but it has not frozens them :. Representative-elect Will Rogers, son of the cowboy humorist, will be the only member of Congress who has ever been on KIP duty in the army in this war Frank lin Roosevelt III, grandson of the President, has a regular de- tail of Secret Service guards. MORE INCOME CEILINGS
 One of the toughest tax prob- lems before Congress is to decide whether or not there should be a
 $25,000 ceiling on all unearned incomes.
 Beginning January 1, there is
 a ceiling on all salaries above
 S25,OOO, but there is no provision
 permitting the President to limit
 incomes from investments. Thus
 the man who makes his living
 through a salary, can make only
 so much. But the man whose
 family accumulated a fortune
 and who gets his money by
 clipping coupons, can receive
 just as much as before.
 Reason for this is the law passed by Congress last summer, giving the President the power to place a ceiling on salaries but not on unearned incomes.
 The law slipped through Con- gress partly by accident anyway, If some of the Old Guard sena- tors had realized that the bill even went so far as to limit sal- aries, they never would have passed it. But when they asked Sena- tor Prentiss Brown of Michigan. in charge of the bill, whether t permitted the President to place a ceiling on salaries, he replied, wen come back to that later."
 And the old Guard Senators forgot to come back to 1t.
 So now having passed the limitation on salaries, Congress is faced with the problem of either repeating the salary cell
 in or placing a ceiling on un- unearned incomes. They don't earned sincomes. They don't
 want to do either.
 The gathering storm was presaged last week by Senator George, who declared that the validity of the salary ceiling was