The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-11
PURPOSE IS
G|VENBY
S. QUINN
Gamers Measure Regarded
as "Snow She'd" for Foes to
Crawl Under in Election.
By JOHN T. LAMBERT,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

Cosmopolitan News SERVICE
The American Legion stands to-
day on the bonus where it has
stood since the war. It is for
the four-fold plan Of adjusted
compensation.
"There may be 100 new plans
or schemes before Congress-" said
National Commander John R.
Quinn today, "but the American
Legion is not acquainted with
them. The legion knows only
one plan. That is the four-fold
plans which represents the study,
and disappointments, of years, and
which has always won the over
whelming Endorsement Of the
legion"
Legion Is Suspicious.
Some of the eleventh.hour sub.
stitutes for the bonus have come
like gifts from the Greeks. The
legion Is suspicious Of them. It
looks upon some of them as the
dead decoy Of enemy snipers.
The latest Democratic plan,
1athered by Congressman Garner,
II regarded as a snow-shed under
which near and alleged friends
may crawl for shelter.
Quinn said today that the legion
u not going to be drawn into par.
t1san politics.
Congress has before It q bill
which has stood the test Of time.
1t was good enough for two
congresses to pass. It was good
enough for the late President Hard.
ing to say he would sign II there
was money ready to pay 1t.
Since that time the country has
saved at the rate of 1926, 900, 900 a
year, enough to pay the bonus and
100000. 1"''
Attitude Stated Again.
Any attempt by Democrats to
frame a bill which President Cool.
1oge IS certain to veto will get not
q particle OF help from the legion.
'NepuoAcans have no excuse to be
mlsled by the Anti-Bonus League.
which has been financed bv WaIi
Street and whose princiuai mem.
bers are high.brow Officers NOT
entitled to a bonus.
Succintly, the attitude Of the
legion is this: You know what the
war veterans want. You know what
they are entitled to. Wen plav no
politics now. Well keep our nowdar
dry until election"
Tho fo11rfo11 ola
Is interesting. It provides adjusted
compensation Of 81 a day for local
and $1.25 a day for foreign service.
The maximum would be $500 for
local. $625 for foreign service. Cash
could be taken by only those whose
adJusted-pay would be less than $50.
Most Of the bonus would go into
twenty-year endowment policies.
Hard'pressed veterans could Dor
row on the policies. Their families
would be the immediate beneficiaries
In event Of death. If allowed to
'lay," the policies would eventually
net the veterans about 81 800.
Another Of the four-fold features
allows the veteran to accept voca.
tional education as a bonus. The
fourth provides that he may elect
to have the Government help him
buy a home or farm.
Quote Melons Figures.
That bill has been kicked around
Congress so long that no member
has any excuse for saying he isn't
familiar with it.
The veterans quote the figures of
Mr.. Melons Treasury experts to
show that the bonus bill can be
easily financed. If all the veterans
took the most expensive form of
adjusted pay, it could be financed
by the country at an average rate
Of about 100000, 900 a year.
That cost would leave $230. 900 900