East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-03-24
UNCLE SANS RESPONSIBILITY

E lower house congress yesterday passed the soldiers
adjusted compensation BILL often termed the bonus bill
by an overwhelming majority.
As passed by the house the bill would provide for immediate
cash payments to veterans whose adjusted service pay would
not exceed $50 and would other the option
these four plans:
Adjusted service certificates with provisions authorizing
loans by banks in the first three October
by the thereafter the certificates run for 20
and to have face value at maturity the amount of the
adjusted service credit at the rate of ST day for domestic
vice and $25 day for foreign service by per
cent plus interest at the of 2 per compounded
nually.
Vocational training aid after January 1928 at the rate Of
$5 day the total not to exceed however, lao
cent OF the adjusted service credit.
Farm and home aid under which veterans purchase or inn
prove farms or homes would be paid after July 1929
eqda to their adjusted service credit increased by rs cent
Land settlement under which lands would be reclaimed
den the supervision of special board and farm units established
for sale to the veterans at fixed by the board less the
amount Of the adjusted service credit due the purchasers
In two important particulars does this measure differ from
the by the house two years and that sheed
the senate last July The original cash bonus option em
mated and the bankoan provision of the service
tificate title substituted
now remains to be whether the bill will pass the
ate and be approved by the president There have been many
reports that the president will veto the BILL 1t has also been
announced by the controller of the currency that he will advise
banks not to- take the proposed certificates would
frozen credits
out OF regard for the soldiers severely criticised the bill
bogus affair because does not provide for financing
the Scneme however, ente membership OF mouse
representatives faces reeon and the members wished to get
right with the service before they enter the campaign The
house seemingly acted independently of both the president and
the senate What the the president may do with the
problem does not bother house members They primarily
interested in their political campaigns not in the bonus
What the administration and lawmakers should do get
geher equitable plan for adjusted compensation
end the horse play proper that the service have ad
used and it logically the duty of the national
government to provide it. Many states including Oregon have
enacted compensation but that does not relieve the
federal government of its responsibility The soldiers served
Uncle SAM not the various states.
Our late allies recognized the Justice Of this claim for
pensaton Australia that paid her soldiers 40 cent
than received paid all veterans Sic to SIS week
til they obtained employment Canada paid Of 5000
extra compensation to each veteran and $75 month
ploymen pay England and France paid cash compensation
in all these compensation paid after the mef
demobized. There waiting quibbfng These
nations money to the United States debt of approx
inaey eleven billions of dollars Our total national debt
about thirteen billion dollars Great Britan hirtynne bio
dollars; Frances forty-six billion dollars.
In the face Of these facts the United States must and viii
acknowledge its Indebtedness to its former soldiers sailor
and find to discharge that Indebtedness