The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-06
By DreSO Pearson

The other morning, however, Brigadier- General Harry Vaughn, White House military aide hurrying through the White House lobby also bumped his knee on buffalo Promptly the four carved buffalo heads came off. It mattered not that the table a present from the Philippines most famous leader in token of his long withheld friendship to the U.SA. General Vaughn had bumped his knee, so the buffalo heads were removed.
 Elder Statesman JOsephus Daniels points out that in addition to his $i0oO0 year salary Congress- man receives various additional perquistes, such as $i62O annually for each Senator to pay his office hep $95OO for each Representative to pay his office staff while committee charmen get additional clerk expenses
 The ex-secretary of the Navy also observes that Senator McKellar of Tennessee has total of $38,- 14O to spend for office assistants However Mir Da- iels, more courteous than this columnist, did not mention the Mcclellan relatives on the Senator's pay roll plus his Government limousine and chauffeur.
 Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina also gets $19720 annually to pay for clerks on his Senate Commerce Committee: while other committee chair men receive extra allowances.
 However 1t remains fact that conscientious Congresslnen with no independent income. are un- able to save money in Washington, especially If they are scupulous about campaign contributions Perhaps the solution is the system of pensions for ongserv- ing Congressmen, despite the fact that sensitive House of Representatives just vetoed pension plan last week.
 Representative Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut who has announced she will not seek reelection this fall is busy writing two plays now. She also waited quite while for an appointment at the White House, complained to Republican colleagues that apparently the President doesn't want to see her. Congressmen could save money for the Treasury of they would read the Congressional Record more carefully Three days after Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire had inserted an article on the German underground movement five columns of close type Representative Walter Judd of Minnesota inserted exactly the same thing in the Record ~. The Russian Purchasing Commission, after trying unsuccessfly to find quarters in New York renewed its lease in Washington for another year The owner of the apartment house used by the Russians re- ceived $500 calls and letters from people asking for apartments when the Washington Herald printed 8 story saying the Russians would not re- their lease.
 Excerpt from a letter sent by U. S. sergeant in India: How pathetic 1t Is to see grown men eXiled by their own people. am the first sergeant of a group of men here in India. It is up to me to help keep the morale of the men up There IS no work to do, so try to organize games to keep their minds busy But 1t Is up to the people back home to that they, at least have hopes of something to look forward to-some definite information instead of depressing rumors
 "In the last month have lost three men in the mental ward. One had the misfortune of seeing last week, fine, healthy American sergeant this week babblng idiot in strait-jacket, who can remember nothing but his wife's name. There are dozens of such eases, and they certainly aren't war casualties"