Show Sales Soles Slip i Corsage There was an amusing story in the last week about the wife of paper a congressman congressman congressman con con- gressman who bought a fur coat She was Mrs Blair Moody wife of Michigan's junior senator Because of all t the scandals about mink coats coals wangled in one manner or another by wives of Washington officials or others in positions of influence Mrs 1 Moody feared somebody would accuse her husband of participation in the mink coat racket So on her new fur coat she fastened a corsage Part of the corsage was a small container container and and in the glass container container container con con- she displayed the sales slip for forthe forthe forthe the coat And Mrs Moody noted that her fur coat wasn't mink anyway This is as we said an amusing story But it isn't all funny There is a moral in it If H all of our public officials and their wives would figuratively wear their private affairs thus openly for all to see it might be good for their personal ethics and and for the whole ethical climate inthe inthe in inthe the national capital Investigation after investigation has turned up so much under the business business business busi busi- ness in Washington it is shocking and deeply disturbing to every thoughtful American Official after official has been exposed in outside contacts deals commissions fancy presents free trips and a dozen and one other devices by which his personal income is swelled and his standard of living raised to the plush level of gamblers black and the easy casy money boys Its It's like an iceberg What one saw on the surface of these officials' officials lives and incomes was only a small part of what was hidden down below It would be wholesome if by some trick the iceberg could be turned upside down so the American people could see seethe seethe seethe the hidden part of the lives of Washington Washing Washing- ton officials in the bright light of day But well we'll wager many an official could never ne bear hear the burden of frank I public display as blithely as Mrs Blair Moody walking down the street with her sales slip corsage |