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FiD-38C (4-3-62) . “ * (Mount Clipping ir Space Below) ——= Mike Royko oth Was Popular The Day Justice Was Truly Blind. The inside story of the big raid on the press room cf the new United State’s Courthouse in Chicago has not yet been told. ys Until now, the only facts that have filtered out are these: @ A Christmas party, with liquor, was being held Tuesday in the press room. : @ Reporters, judges, FBI men, government prosecutors, pri- vate attorneys and assorted federal officials were standing . around drinking, bragging and fibbing to each other. An official of the General Services Administration—which is in charge of maintaining and guarding the building— walked into the room, put his fingers in his mouth, and whistled for attention. @ He told everybody that drinking is not permitted on a federal reservation. They got mad and went home. These socalled facts were reported, Df course, in the newspapers, on radio atid television, : But now, as we say in this business, the true, inside story can be told. ROYKO ACTUALLY, when the GSA official walked in, the party was much too noisy for anybody to hear him whistling. “Look,” someone shouted, “there is a man standing there in the doorway with the fingers of both hands stuck in his mouth.” : “Yes,” someone else shrieked. “That is a strange thing to do.” But it was not considered strange by several of the federal judges. They immediately recognized it as the classic legal think- ing posture, known as “De Profundis Sapientia Venit.” Roughly translated, this means: “Out of the depths comes wisdom.” eee (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 210460 DAILY NEVs Chilaua, ILLINOTS Date: 12/2), /6), Editiens"; DART Author: MT RvYVO EsterrESD C, SLACK Title: Character: or Classification: Submitting Office