The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-01
CARY SAYS BONUsI
 SHOULD NUT PASS
Head Of Steel Trust Sees More Benefit To All In
 Reduced Taxes

NEW YORK, Nov. 80. - Pseudo philanthropists who are eager to give away other peoples money were denounced by Judge Ebert H. Gary when he attacked the soldier bonus and the cancellation of foreign debts in Thanksgiving season address at Town Hall Friday night.
 Urging Americans to share their largely undeserved" bounty with the less fortunate, the steel chief re- buked those who would be falsely generous" at the expense Of their "obligations and responsibilities"
 Foremost among this country's ob- ligauions at present, Gary said, is the reduction of the tax burden-federal, state and municipal He endorsed the tax reduction policy proposed by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.
 Judge Gary warned against the insistence of organized minorities that may block this tax reduction program.
 Congressmen Will Be Besicged.
 "Congressmen, as usual. will be be- sieged and importuned by groups of individuals, representing generally small mtnorities, but claiming to represent large numbers of voters, all seeking for private benefits" he said.
 Coneressmen who submit to such speciallzed insstence, he declared, are simply campaigning for re- election with public funds, and will sooner or later be recognized by them constituencies as vote hunters with out principle.
 After advocating tax reduction as measure of greater real benefit to former soldiers than bonus, Gary indicated that the bonus proposal might well be dropped for the pres ent for possible revival later.
 of at A later date, when the con dition of the national treasury Will nernoit. majority of the soldiers sbor1d in any formal way make re- quest for payment of bonus, 1t IS certain the national vote would favor it. In the interest Of the soldiers themselves. and on account of their own pride. it is hoped they will favor at least a delay, he salo' Opposed Debt Cancellation.
 Judge Gary opposed debt cancel lation emphatically and hazaroed tna only few groups with speclai prizes at stake are demanding 1t in the na- lions who owe money to America.
 "When a nation, relying upon the friendship of another nation, borroWs money for immediate needs TOT definite time upon an absolute, un l. conditional promise to pay, there IS reason to question the bona fides or even the sanity of those who pro- nose repudiation," Gary asserted.
 4 f0 has lately been said by one of the foreign leaders in governmental mat ters, referring to war debts, that the war was fought by and for all the countries participating, for thelr joint benefit and safety.
 "Even though this may be falr, complete and accurate statement (which is not admitted), it may be urged in answer that as far as we were concerned we paid all our own expenses and furnished our own men and that they served efficiently ana with great credit to themselves.
 Devoting himself briefly to the Thanksgiving atmosphere, Gary salo that American business, despite wal expenditures and heavy taxes in con, sequence, "has more or less remalneo upon its feet. through it's back has been considerably bent It has been it is in danger of breaking-from eX- tortionate assessments.'
 He mitigated this view with z quotation summarizing what America has to be thankful for:
 While other nations lack food and raw materials. our problem is to get rid of our surplus on profitable basis. We haven't even begun tt scratch the wealth of this country Wages are higher than ever before prosperity is greater; there is more money to be spent.