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' DATE ‘| Hoover Earns This Salary And The Agents Deserve Protection .1| Congress passes & bill increasing 4. Facer Hoover's salary ak chief ni the {bureau of investigation, department ol justice, from $8,000 to $10,000 a ‘year. The president will probably sign it. _. And few, even among the most rabid of “| advocates of “economy,” will protest. 1 Ten thousand dollars a year is hot BD” 1 excessive salary for that ‘office, consid- ering its responsibilities, requirements, land dangers, — considering also Mr. ‘| Hoover's impressive record of achieve- ment in reorganizing, modernizing, and Improving the efficiency of the depart- <j Ment. Pulice-chiefs in many cities get this much, or more. — Hl We also think the proposal that pen- sions be paid dependents of agents in ‘I this department who are killed in the ‘l line of duty is. just and reasunabie. ‘Their duties often are dangerous. They sometimes are in greater danger of death than soldiers in front line trenches. And it is literally “war” they tare waging with crime. They are literal- jy defending the nation in the sense that soldiers do in war. They are entitled to ithe proteetion which the’ government gives solders and their depzndents, To parspdrase a War insurance slogan: i*There a to armistice with crime.” {