The Glenwood post., 1922-10-05
Uncle Ted's Bed Time Stories
Current Events for the Children
and Grown-ups, Too
BONUS BILL VETO NECESSARY

"Why so angry, Jack" said Ruth as
Jack rushed into the house, threw his
hat and began to talk about Freddie
and a few other boys in words that
were far from complimentary.
"You d be angry, mad, peeved and
everything else yourself if you had
just been listening to bunch of boobs
talk about the president the way they
have,' answered Jack as he sat down.
"What's that hear?' called Uncle
Ted from the next room. "Look here,
Jack, /" he continued, as he put aside his
evening paper, "you may be perfectly
right, but remember that the fellow
who loses his temper loses his head and
his argument at the same time. Moth
ing was ever gained in this world by
the fellow who temporarily lost his
reason because he had lost his temper.
Now just what was the trouble?'
Uncle Ted asked, as he sat down be-
tween the two kiddies.
just IHls, answered. odch. IAou-
die and bunch of the boys were in
our yard all afternoon having good
time until somebody started talking
about the president and saying that he
was always against the ex-soldier and
had proved it when he vetoed the
bonus bill not long ago. Of course, L
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my temper by telling them all the Won
derful things he has done for the SOL
diers as you told us, about the hospi-
tails and vocational training schools.
Well, they kept it up unutil, well, I
got into a scrap
"Jack," SAID Uncle Ted, slowly. "it
is pretty hard to blame you and it is
pretty hard to, make some people under
stand our president in this matter.
am going to tell you something about
him and try to show you his viewpoint
with regard to the bonus. We must
look into the president IS mind and see
just why he has followed the course
taken.
''In the first place there is no more
kind and gentle man living than War
rem G. Harding. Nor is there any man
who wants the ex-soldier to have
everything that is fine and right more
than our president. When the bonus
bill came to his desk for him to DECIDE
whether it should be made a law by
his signature or whether it should be
turned back to congress he did some
mighty careful thinking. He wants tt
join the rest of the country in showing
the nations gratitude to those who
served during the world war, but he
could not sign a bill even for that pur
pose which provided no means to raise
the money with which to pay the bonus
No man is more conscious or apprecia
tive of the work of the ex-sold.er than
President Harding. This is proved by
the fact that in the current fiscal yeaI
the government is spending $516,000,
geo on hospitals, care for the sick and
wounded, vocational training and in
surance. And this figure does not in
clude 35,OO0,00O beng spent on new
hospitals. He stated in his veto mes.
sage that THE estimates for the year
to follow are approximately $47O,0O0,-
900, and the figures may need to be
made larger
"We can start off with that inform
alton to prove that President Harding s
administration has accomplished some
thing real and worth while for the ex-
soldier. Now just think minute. How
would you like somebody to make you
gift which left it up to you and all
your friends to raise the money with
which to pay for it? Wouldn't it be
nothing short of foolish?'
81 III say it would,'' answered Jack
"Well, that in small way is just
what the bonus bill as it came to the
president would mean. Besides being
perfectly normal human being with o
full sen of appreciation for what the
soldiers did, President Harding is also
the head of this great nation and the
man upon whose shoulders rests the re
sponsibility of see ng that this country
is kept upon a basis as near busin
like as possible. The bonus bill would
pay the veterans more than $4,000,
Avn VILLA