The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-23

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Though it won't be announced,
Lieut.. Smith should also be able
to celebrate another accomplish
ment - namely that, although he
is now in the Potomac PATROL" he
is still drawing a $240-a-month
salary as an assistant clerk OF
the Senate Agricultural Commit
tee, of which his father is chair
man. 1t was understood that he
would get one months pay when
he resigned" from his job with
the Senate committee. But more
than a month has passed and, as
of this writing, he is still on the
payroll. Smith has been on the
payroll for so long that doubtless
it has become a habit. Early in
1941, he was about to be drafted.
Then a law student at National
University as well as clerk of his
fathers Senate Agricultural Com
mittee, he applied for deferment
on the ground that he was indiS-
pensable to the committee. He got
the deferment. Later. the draft
board classified him as physically
unfit because of a nervous"
trouble.
Apparently, the Smith family
is indispensable to the Senate Ag-.
ricultural Committee. Charles F.
Smith, second son of the Sena-
tor, is drawing $4,000 a year as an
assistant clerk of the committee.
He is listed on the Senate disburs-
ing records as living at the gran
diose Wardman Park hotel with
his father. However, a check at
the hotel showed no Charles F.
Smith registered there. Further
inquiry evolved the information
that Charles F. Smith lives in
Lynchburg, S. c., home of the
other seldom on the job with the
Senate Agricultural Committee.
Moreover, other members of the
Senator's family are on the payroll
of the committee. The total sal
aries of Senator Smiths family
run into real money. Here is
the Smith take:
SOn-in-law C. Alfred LawtOn,
secretary to the senator, and
committee clerk-S3, 800.
Daughter IsObel S. Lawton, as
sistant clerk-$2,2 200.
Daughter Anna b. Pierce, as
sistant clerk-$2. 200.
Son Ellison ID. Smith, Jr.
Though in Coast Guard)-S2,880.
Son Charles F. Smith, assistant
clerk-$2,2O0.
Senator Smith himself-S1O,0OO.
Total annual take of Smith
family-$23,380.
DEMOCRATS GRID LIONS
Members of the House Demo-
cratic Campaign Committee got
their first close up of new Demo-
cratic National Chairman, Robert
E. flanagan, at secret meeting
on Capitol Hill the other night.
Their ears are still burning from
some of Hannegan'S plain talking
comments. Unlike his placid,
good-natured predecessor, Post
MASTER General Frank Walker,
Hannegan quickly made it clear
that he can be both dynamic and
tough and that he intends to
run the campaign along those
lines.
His first words, after being in
troduced, were in rebuttal to re-
marks by previous speakers, in
Guiding a statement by Represen-
tative Patrick Drewry of Virginia,
chairman of the Congressional
Campaign Committee, that the
party organization was in good
shape for the 1914 fray and could
not lose with Roosevelt heading
the ticket. Drewry and other
members of the committee claimed
that last years grumbling about
the OPA, farm policies, Mrs.
Roosevelt, the White House "pal-
ace guard" etc., had subsidized
If Roosevelt ran for a fourth term,
the majority commended, he would
carry their districts and States
I'm not that optimistic"
Hannegan asserted bluntly. I'm
fact, I'm not optimistic at all.
/ believe in facing the facts, and
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