The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-13
COX WOULD AID
EVERY VETERAN

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credit Of the nation-practical meth
DDS Of effecting home-aid can be
found without upsetting the govern
ment In any Of its departments.
Ex-Seryice Bureaus
Aside from direct home-aid for all
former service men and women, Gov
ernor Cox manifested particular in
terest in the future of the bureaus
Of war risk and the vocational train
ing board.
1T seems TO me inevitable" he ex-
planned, that the war risk and the
vocational board viii be consolidated
Great good can be effected both in
continuation Of government insur-
ance and in the upbuilding Of voca-
tional training The former, of course,
was organized under great emergency
and was created over night. In itself
IL was an extraordinary achievement
Now we have had time to, observe
its operation, 10 study the result, and
it appears to me only Just that an
effort should be made TO determine
the practicability Of making lower
rates. am heartily in favor of
taking such steps Immediately.
I'm regard to vocational training.
I cannot express myself strongly
IN 90 1.
possibe-and doing It expeditiously
TO help educate to new usefulness
and new helpfulness those who were
injured In defending their country.
The Cash Bonus
AT least 30 per cent OF the former
service men were In favor Of cash
compensation. What is your view Of
that, or are you like many big busi-
ness men, opposed TO TT" Governor
Cox was asked.
Il should not say that" was the
reply
For some time Governor Cox sat
in thought. Then he continued:
Who was II that said. Statesman
ship consists OF getting the best pos
s!ble results at a given timc?' So II
is now with readjusted compensation.
or cash bonus. as some style H. When
the men returned from overseas there
was unouesiIonably q dire need Of
funds The federal government grant
ed bonus Of SEQ. but that SEQ would
hardly buy suit Of c!vvles to re-
place the war-torn Q D.
IN the meantime too prices Of
other necessities had scared TO the
sky, while with the couanr Of the
armistlce there was gereral shifting
Of our industrial outlook At this time
there was no question of the need Of
the men just domobllized. Almost
anyone would admit It. Yet the
months passed and nothing was done
by our Republican congress to bring
the thought OF adjusted compensa-
lion into reality.
with passing months the argu-
ment OF immediate need grew less
forcoful for the mon of the army
had re-es,oblshed themselves without
their adjusted compensation. True.
they were put 20 creator difficulties
they hai "a struggle 20 overcome
the extraordinary circumstances which
had arisen while they were IN the
service Of their country. Finally, by
an elpvenih-hour spurt. the bill FOR
soldier relief was passed by the house
Then Il was laid on the doorstep OF
tho senate. while throughout the
country ran q propaganda against IL.
Now the question arises. have the
people Of the country bcen turned
away from the compensation idea,
have the former service men and wo-
men re-cs,sbl.lhed themselves de-
spite the lack of government aid
Or. In other words. what are the best
possible results that could be had
al this particular ume7 II ls be-
cause OF these new circumstances
keeping In mind at an times that the
nation does. beyond rainsay. owe
On Obligation to the men and We
men who served. that | am go pro-
interested In government aid
for homes"
That Governor Cox is interested
deeply in problems Of the former serv-
ice man IL manifest both from his "a
with those problems and
the pride with which he recalls his
own war record He, too was in
intimate association with ten men
5f Ohio from the moment they entered
service and his neighbois proudly
recall that he was the only governor
In the country who personally es-
serted the troops to their pert Of
and when victory finally
,arne steoa waiting to welcome them
ashore.