Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-17

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what the bin really calls for. We have
yet to meet the man who has read the
bill who opposes it. A brief study o.
this legislation appears in nearly every
case to be a very happy antidote fol
the hue and cry raised against the casf
bonus, principally by people who have
not taken the trouble TO investigate
what they object to. ~.
There is cash option, 1t is true, bu,
1t is taken care Of by small payments
several months apart. The other -four
features of the Legion bill include
home and farm aid, paid up insurance
vocational training and land settle
ment.- We believe ourselves that they
are more advantageous to the veteran
If he can afford to take advantage OF
them, and we. believe that the majority
Of men affected will choose the feature
most helpful to them, but with hun
dreds of thousands of service men
walking the streets Of our big cities
looking for work it i'll behooves any
one to say that they shall not have
what option they. see fit to take.
When it was matter of passing the
Dent act to pay for war contracts
never fulfilled, some $3,0OO,000,OQO more
than this act would cost II every man
takes the cash. payments of. $50 every
three months, there was no such hue
and cry. Was the manufacturers SER
vice to the country so much more pa
triotic that no one could question it?
1t was an obligation and it was paid.
These men should have some adjust
ment in compensation as against the
men who did not have to go and whose
wages increased from. five to ten times
that of the service man.
The man at home had the opportu-
nifty to intrench himself in a perma-
nent position, and, whether he took
advantage of it or not, to save and
fortify himself for such conditions as
encounter the veteran today. al
You would not take one or two men
equally paid in your employ. and send
one" out on particularly dangerous
mission, which he gladly undertakes
out Of his loyalty to you, risking his
life, leaving his family, ready to en-
counter any difficulties to serve you,
and meanwhile multiply many times
the wages of the man who remained at
home in safety and on the first mans
return not give him at least an even
deal with the other. OF course you
wouldn't, even if you hadn't promised
him that you'd see he got a square deal
when he returned ....n
Yet that is what the opponent Of the
adjusted compensation bill is asking
the United States to do. a,.
1t is not a question Of sentiment of
paying for mans service or his pa
triotism, because no man can put a
price on that, nor can any man pay for
it. 1t is an insult even to suggest 1t.
But there is no reason for penalizing
the man for offering his life to his
country in dangerous days-and there
is every reason for giving him a square
deal. b.. 's.-.
49, .. Public Behind Bill.
You will be interested 10 know that
those men who dictate the affairs or the
Federal Reserve bank of the Chicago
district are in great majority unquali-
fiedly for this measure. They must be
given crdeit for a fairly clear vision of
the economic and financial conditions
in the part of the country most affected
by depression. On the recent Foch tour
it was our privilege to talk to many
members and heads of local chamber of
commerce bodies. They were almost
unanimous in their support Of the ad-
justed compensation bill.
There is no question as to how the
American public feels about it.
Whenever and wherever submitted to
popular vote it has carried by an
overwhelming majority. No man can
doubt our motives toward our country
and no man can question our right to
be heard, for if any man has earned his
citizenship it is the man who has offer
cd his life. No man can be more inter-
ested in it's welfare or more Jealous for
its future integrity and prosperity.
Ex-soldiers who have lost their dis
charge papers will be able to obtain
duplicates from the Secretary of War
under bill introduced into congress
at the request of the American Legion
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