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...prime exhibit of "Bawdy Boston" (expose article in Plain Talk by Walter W. Liggett (TIME, Dec. 23) was Oliver Bridge Garrett, onetime "million-dollar cop" of the Boston police force, now a pensioner of Massachusetts taxpayers. Investigator Liggett reported that, with no visible income beyond his $40-a-week salary as head of the vice squad, Patrolman Garrett used to maintain a blooded-stock farm, a racing stable, a Cadillac, a Marmon, a Chrysler, a wardrobe of $150 tailored suits. Suddenly, last August, Patrolman Garrett was reduced to a pavement beat. Said Writer Liggett: "It is the belief of Boston...
...Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson of Boston who received the full force of the attorney general's wrath. The commissioner had countenanced Garrett's conduct, even when warned by onetime Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller; the commissioner had obtained Garrett's fraudulent pension...
...shoulders. Almost every house was swept and scoured, its spare rooms prepared for visitors. Everyone who attends the Passion Play (admission $5) has to pay $11 or $12 for two nights' lodging whether he remains or not. During the Play season practically every Oberammergau home is also a pension. Important or lucky visitors are billeted at the house of the Virgin or Jesus or one of the Apostles...
...philosophy of annuities for the superannuated, said forthright President Pritchett: "Society does not owe any man a pension. . . . Any pension under which the beneficiary is provided with an old age annuity without cost or participation by himself is, in the long run, demoralizing to any group of men, however high-minded...
Bulletin No. 25 discovered 22 States with pension systems for its teachers. Twenty-one cities did likewise. But no such provision is made in 21 other commonwealths. Considered as having pension systems among the best were Vermont and Wisconsin. Connecticut, Indiana. Massachusetts, Ohio were classed as good. Not so good were Maryland, New Jersey. New York, Pennsylvania...