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0-+3-tRayy, |- 4 i 11-60) sey Ree wee oe “As Pegler Sees It: 4 \ ae Gov. Brown Likes Job—And Pension C> By WESTBROOK PEGLER - : AT BROWN, the Governor of California, informs “Me on the Governor’s official stationery that he certainly will insist on the pension of $16,000 which -preceding waves of similar politicians have provided ‘for every one of their kind who hits the jackpot in the jelection returns. California’s ex-Governors become eligible at the ‘age of 63. Brown’s eligibility begins in 1968. Two ex- Governors now are eligible, Earl Warren, the Chief Justice, and Goodwin Knight, Republican, who lost out in the last election. Brown is now flaring his nostrils, ‘arching his neck and tossing his mane for the Democratic Presidential nomination at'this year’s convention. That, however, is just futurity mat- ter, looking toward 1964. He will not eally go to the post in 1960 except to the extent of complimentary men- tion in gaseous amenities preceding the practical rites of the smoke-filled room. ‘ Brown is an old-style political roughneck, remin- iscent of Ed Kelly of Chicago and Frank Hague of New Jersey. Like Warren before him, he runs with the labor union machines and gets the allegiance of a problematical element of union serfs who think of themselves in warm endearment as “labor” while ‘beating their wives and throwing acid on new auto- }mobiles in parking lots which have been declared ‘unfair. ; ; Unlike the old age Social Security benefits, avail- able to the common man, the California ex-Gover- nors’ pension is an unconditional vested financial lien on the people’s taxes. Lesser pensions to states- men in descending array down to civil service lava- tory man, are equally secure and payable in the sweat of those who toil. Pay at Lifetime High Brown sets forth a belief that a year’s time which he put in campaigning for the job in his own interest and at no popular insistence constituted a precious public service. The specific value and nature of the public benefit thus conferred by a man seeking a job at $40,000 a year, Brown's highest pay in all his life, and a $16,000 pension for life, are not examined in the Governor’s letter. He is, by formal certificate, a lawyer, but he set forth this claim with no ative material. PEGLER ee sam arsons, ——__ Belmont ___-_-_—— Callahan —_____ * Delodth ____— Malgne —1___ McGuir jr Rosen Vz: fox Tolson ee Tamm fet Trotter’ 5 W.c. S Joan Tele. Room Ingram —____- Gandy The Washington Post and_______ Times Herald The Washington Daily News _——- The Evening Star —__—___-——- New York Herald Tribune ———— New York Journal-American a New York Mirror —_————__—_—_—_—- New York Daily News ———————-— New York Post ———————_——"_ The New York Times ———-—-—~+ The Worker —————___——————_— The New Leader ———___-_____———- The Wall Street Joumal ——_______ Date ______————————— ee