Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-02-14
WOULD
OPPOSE BONUS
So Says w. B. Dickson at
Woodbridge G. O. p
Dinner

WOODBRIDGE. Feb. 14.-Wil-
liam B. Dickson, a director of the
Midvale and Cambria Steel Com
panles, in speaking before the Wood
bridge Republican Club members
and friends at the Lincoln dinner
held last night il. the High School,
declared that if ADJ aham Lincoln
weco president today he would op-
| pose the soldiers bonus. His discus
sion CT the bonus problem and the
I reasons forwarde.. by him why the
national ponus should not be granted
resulted IN Thomas Wand, comman-
der OF the Woodbridge Post of the
American Legion challenging certain
statements. An argument ensued in
wEich Commando Wand asked sew
eral ~ estiops OF the speaker. which
Mr.. Dickson answered and the AM
erican Legion man pointed out the
attitude ol tie ex-service man on the
bonus issue.
The dinner got under way at z
o'clock, an excellent dinner being
served by Mrs. War Larson, of Perth
Amhoy, after which the speaking be-
gan Col. +. II. A!bee, noted bone
surgeon &C Colonia, presided as
toastmaster in an able manner.
About 1S5 were present at the din
ncr.
"Lincoln'5 Principles and Their
Application TO Present Day Prob
lens" was the topic upon which
Mr.. Dickccn spoke. The speaker as
serted that passage of the national
bonus BIZ. viii mean that the entire
country vi, suffe: for years. The
wrong has already been done, he
said and wronb cannot be made
right b. committing another wrong.
The draft law, Mr.. Dickson said, was
wrong as 1t gave thousands an op-
portunity t. make enormous salar-
les IL I'll: shipyards. steel plants and
other ind Istries while hundreds OF
thousands were forced to give up po-
sitions whicl paid. we'll and enter
the national servi"e. receiving pay
far be.ow tl@t which they had been
receiving. Everything should have
been drafted the speaker said. this
including government control of the
banks, industries, ship-yards, etc.
Commander Wand, in comment
ing upon the speakers remarks,
pointed out that the service men s
idea of the bonus was to get back
some of the money which they lost
by leaving their jobs and entering
the service. The speaker then ex-
planned that in order to pay the pro-
posed bonus every man must con-
tribute a certain amount and in this
way an cx-service man will be pay
ing out a certain amount in order
to receive from the government his
bonus. If only those who made
large amounts of money during the
war could be taxed and thus made
TO furnish the money for the eX-
service mems bonus. Mr.. Dickson
said It would be a different matter
entirely but this cannot be done, it
being necessary for each one to
assist the government in paying the
| bonus.
Mr.. Dickson said few realized
how much billion dollars is. If a
person started saving in the year l,
| he said, and saved at the rate of 81
a minute. he would save s1.440 a
| day or s526.500 a year. At the end
| of 1921 years, or the first of the
year. he pointed out. he wot Id have
! just massed 00.000.000. The
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