Miller: and said, "Would you like to work for the government?" 



I said, "At what?" 



He said, "Well, I think you* re not getting enough 

 money, and maybe you can stand a little more money, 

 and I could get you a job in the income tax department, 

 Internal Revenue, because you have the very qualifica- 

 tions that they need. You have the German, you have 

 Spanish, you have Italian. You have knowledge of 

 bonded wineries and they pay tax on these, and you 

 have the farm experience, and the government needs 

 you." (A great many farmers took a piece of raw land 

 and developed it and sold it for a profit and forgot 

 to report the income tax on it.) 



So Senator Will R. Sharkey, whom I had just helped 

 and whose paper is still here, and I helped to get 

 him elected senator of this county, took me one day 

 by train to San Francisco. There in the custom house 

 I met John P. McLaughlin, who hired me, and I worked 

 then from 1921 to 1930 for the United States govern- 

 ment for $150 a month* 



In all of the larger income tax cases, the impor- 

 tant ones, I acted as a judge, although I was a young 



