Show S T. r Honesty the Best Policy UNCLE T SAM is one of the most technical U individuals anybody ever ran an up against II He insists on accuracy to the is i's dot and the ts 7 jt ts s cross cross cross-as as many a war veteran has found f j out ut in getting his insurance compensation and Bother other adjustments fixed up with finality No NoI NoI I r I f I f I Jf i 1 f f t. t IT 1 1 It f. f f one knows how many living Jiving World war participants participants participants par par- have even found it next to impossible to prove to the war department that they were not long since dead Every now and then a astory astory astory story comes along about a living breathing and highly vocal veterans veteran's insistence that his name be taken from the roll of th the heroic dead Looking ahead to the time when benefits from the social security act will fall due and payable countless similar situations are more than haq likely to come a about out unless applying applying applying ap ap- ap- ap plying for account numbers are very careful to set down all information called for with exactness exactness exactness exact exact- ness to the last detail Honesty ev even n if embarrassing embarrassing embarrassing em em- or painful will be found in the end to be the best policy The social security board at Washington has had a lot of trouble learning how old citizens really are Countless workmen have been giving giving giving ing false ages fearful that revelation of the truth will cost them their jobs And the task of getting women to tell their true ages is something something something some some- thing fearful The same trouble applies to names The board is learning that many people are living under names other than their proper ones Among them are ex-convicts ex shielding their true identity actors and d business women using their maiden names Shakespeare once asked in a name That which we call calla a rose by any other name would smell as sweet But to the security board which is not in the flo florist business names seem to spell spella a lot of grief |