Evening star., 1949-11-23
Charges Capt. Crommelin
With "Self- Glorification"

Charges Capt. Crommelin
With "Self- Glorification"
To the Editor of The Star:
Like many other non-partisan bystanders,
I could not help but feel sympathy and ad-
miration for Captain Crommelin's spunk
when he first injected himself into the De-
partment of Defense controversy as willing
martyr to the Navy's cause. There was some
thing admirably heroic about it-or SO 1t ap-
peared at the time.
Later, however, after Captain Crommelin
was reprimanded without court martial.
friends of his passed the word around that
the captain was bitterly disappointed be-
cause, under court martial, he would have
been permitted to call witnesses in his own
behalf which would result in the launching
of new broadside of mudslinging. That
left Lad taste in my mouth.
Captain Crommelin's latest attempt to
force his reasoning on the American people
by requesting that the reprimand he earned
be expunged from his official record or that
he be court martialed is the tip-od to me
and I believe many others-that the cap
tain's self-righteous patriotism is tainted not
only with the brush Of the martyr, but with
the halo of -glorifcation.
Why not kick the captain out of the Navy
and elect him to Congress where he can
bellyache all he chooses without necessarily
disturbing the digestion Of the American
people? 80 -. HAROLD g., sTAGG. a.
Tells Why She breads Renting
To Parents With Destructive Children
To the Editor of The star. n s4A.e4A INT, ,
! I would like to answer the letter by Mrs.,
P. A. in your page Of the paper for
November II. She wonders why she can't
find home for four children. It is no
crime to have four children or more If you
can support them. But our experience
with tenants with large families is that
they take an apartment and agree to
pay what is asked and also pay for any
damage the children might do. Then, as
soon as they are settled. they run to the
rent board and try to beat down the price
and get the place for less.
The first family we had had two boys
who broke a window and kicked half the
railings out of the front porch. They
would not pay for it. The next family had
one boy and one girl. They knocked all
the lattices out from the front porch to
play in the dirt under the porch. We had to
buy more lattice. The next family had
one boy. He tore down one curtain COM
pletely and tore hole In another. The next
family had one boy He knocked two big
holes in the plaster in the bedroom and hall.
and they merely patched one up with Scotch
tape.
So you see why we are fearful Of renting to
people with boys between the ages Of 2
and H. LANDLADY.
Sees Share the Wealth Idea
Denied to Armed Services Personnel
To the Editor of The Star
Years hence historians will ask the ques-
tion: How did the New Deal-Fair Deal
machine get away with two decades Of
political swindling? They spent the country
into bankruptcy; they never promised less
than the impossible; and they never delivered
more than low-intereSt rates on the small
bond they forfeited after each election"
The answer Is quite simple. Like most
successful confidence men, they never used
their right name. They used an alias that
made suckers line up at the polls and vote
the straight ticket Of tax-spend-and-elect.
AS the suckers got wise they coined another
alias
This time their gold brick is called the
Welfare State. Piously chanting the Pream-
bic of our Constitution, voters are hyp-
Noticed once more into voting the straight
ticket Of tax-spend-and-elect. They laughed
at Huey Long with his ''every-man-a-king."
But Mr.. Truman's Welfare State is only
Huey's share -the-wealth theme played to
Andrew Jackson's "to-the-victor- r-belong-
the-spoils'' music. Mr.. Truman is much
O6tCeT pianist tlldu ulOSt QeOplc bIlIlh 4AC1C
is no end to the delightful parodies you can
sing to his share -the-wealth" tune. And
who would suspect pianist as a super
salesman of political gold bricks?
little heckling is bound to come from
skeptics in the audience. When you have
been swindling the electorate for two dec
AIDES, there are bound to be a few disil-
lusioned One of the gold bricks Mr.. Truman
currently is pushing is sharing the wealth
through compulsory health.
The Truman sales talk promotes his COM
pulsory health scheme as the perfect answer
to our health needs It Is tops among his
blue chip offerings. II it is SO good as
re-all for our civilian economy. why not
apply it to the urgent needs of our armed
services?
They would be an ideal guinea pig for
share the wealth through compulsory
health Recruiting officers promised our
soldiers the same medical care for their
dependents that the soldiers themselves re-
ceived. It looks like that promise is just
another gold brick for trusting suckers. Only
these suckers have no way Of Furnishing the
swindler The confidence man who sold
them the gold brick and the Judge who hears
their grtpes is the same person. It IS the
Truman administration in one Of its sales