The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1921-11-11
Adjusted Compensation Bill.


!. Adjusted pay, at the rate of
81 day for home service and
$1.25 for foreign service. Maxi
mum of $500 for man without
overseas service; 1925 for man
with overseas service.
!. Adjusted service certificate Tin
surance), a paid-up 20-year en-
dowment policy. The face value
of this policy will be 1888 times
the amount that would be re-
ceived in cash. The face value
of this policy would he payable
to the veteran at the end of
20 years, or if he dies before
the expiration OF 20 wears the
face value would lie plid to the
beneficiary IF the policy. Lean
values also are provided for.
!. Vocational training aid of
$125 a day while taking a
course in vocational training ibe
amount thus paid in no case
would exceed 140 per cent of
what would have been paid in
cash.
]. Farm or home aid, 14O per
cent of what would be paid un-
der option No. 1 if the money
is used to purchase, improve, or
make payments on approved
farm or city or suburban home.
. Land settlement.
(a) Provides for the estab-
lishment of reclamation projects
for the development and i'm
provement of vacant land. This
~, NV ho, rrouoro,,oa,, Iopd ~. wow
be land, purchased by the Govern
menta If possible projects will
be located in each State, the
State paying part of the pur-
chase price of private lands
bought for this purpose. FIX
service men to be employed on
the project as far as possible.
(b) Provides for the sale of
farm units on these projects
when they are ready for settle
ment. Sale price is to include
purchase price of land plus cost
of improvements.
(c) Veterans may have their
adjusted service pay applied as
first payment on. this land.
Mr.. Gilbert Bettman, Chairman
f the National Legislative Com
littee, in testifying before the
enate Finance Committee, made
he following statement; and there
as been no more logical nor con-
lusive argument made for the ad-
of compensation than this
in his remarks:
"There is, as it seems to me,
entlemen of the Committee, an
economic disadvantage which rested
n those men who were in the
Military service of the United
tates. The question for the Con-
ress of the United States to de-
ermine, it seems to me, is: Shall
hat economic disadvantage remain
permanent thing; or is not that
debt of the Nation to a certain
cement of the community that
ught to be adjusted or paid?
"All the debts of the Nation for
Their things in connection with the
and similar things
he Nation paid for; any obliga-
ions which the Nation incurred
we're paid in full. Those things
% to make up our SIS, 100000, 900
let debt resulting from the war.
t seems to me that that also is
ebt to the soldier element, an
economic debt, not a sentimental
ebt. And when we get Under
way in this decade and the next
lecade and shoulder the debt re-
ulting from the war-our $751;
,00,000,000 debt, that is a debt,
oo-that, additionally, that we owe
o that particular soldier element;
md, instead of shouldering the
lebt in the next two decades of
he SIS, 100000, we ought to
houlder $4,000, 100000 and pay
debt of $1,0OO,00O,O00 to the
older man and not let that ele-
nent of our social and political
abric carry that debt itself when
III of the rest of the Nations
obligation is borne by the entire
Nation.
'In saying that l have not said
word about paying the men for
he military risks. You can not
,ay them for that. l have not
aid word about paying them for
glorious service well done. You
annot pay them for that. But
7ou can adjust that economic dis
advantage which fell upon the men
~ reason of their being detached
rom the economic fabric, being
old to serve at 81 a day, or So
'r SO day; even at that there
vas an economic loss which those
men suffered Shall they suffer it
'ver again, or shall it be shout
Tered by the entire Nation? Our
Jew is that that debt should be
by the entire Nation,
md not by the soldiers themselves.
$50 much for the Justification
he basic justification for an adj
ustment of their compensation
Into what channels should that
of compensation be di-
ected? 1t is for the benefit of
he Nation as whole that that
Mines Experiment Building.