New Britain herald., 1924-05-20
Job Is Big One and Thousand More Clerks Are Needed
 at Once
PRESIDENT FEARS TAX
 BURDENS WILL INCREASE
Millions of Blanks For Veterans To
 Be Printed At Oncc-CoOlidge Be- lie,cs Business Will Feel Effect of
 Iionus Law For Twenty Ycars--Red Gross Will Aid in Helping Veterans

Washington, May 2O.--A veteran may determine the amount of his bonus this way:
 Figure mp the number of days Of service. For each day of home serv- ice above the first sixty days s1 will be allowed In adjusted service credit and for each day of orcrscas service, above sixty days s1.25 will be given.
 If this adjusted service credit does not amount to more than $50 it will be paid in cath. Otherwise an insur- ance policy will be given. The ap- rroXimate value of this policy may be determined by adding 23 per cent 10 the amount of credit due and multi plying the total by about 1-2.
 Thus if a veteran served 400 days at home after the first sixty days, ho would be entitled to policy valued at si0o plus sIO0 (2j per cent of the amonnD multiplied by l-2 or sl,2b0.
 tThe l-2 is approximate The eN- act factor for multiplication is pub ishod in tahle elsewhere in this issuel
 Cabinet Meets Today
 steps for carrying out the proyi- .'ftlN pA AlAf bpAiu' ttNA Mfit tbllslbff cd at tuday's cabinet meeting and Secretary Weeks reported that 1t would be necessary at once 10 add about a thousand employees to the staff of his department. More vii be re- quired later.
 The preparation of millions of ap- rlicaiion blanks to be distributed throughout the country Tor the con- Rcnlenco Of war veterans, already has br gun, the plan being to send out first tbose destined for remote parts of tho plieations will be ready simultaneous ly in all sections.
 Meantime administration officials are making no predictions as to the attitude of President Coolidge toward The tax bin in view Of the certainty mat the treasury must bear the bur d,n of a bonus. He is fearful of the olfect enactment of the bonus bill will have on economic conditions general W, and believes that tax reduction will be affected this year, but that the ef- feet will he greater in the years 10 come.
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 Tho president has held from the first that the immediate effect on tax reduction would not be as marked as in later years. when through normal reduction of the public debt, greater and greater reductions in taxes could be made.
 The effect of the act upon business generally, the president believes, will be measured from year to year over oa-year period. during which the bonus appropriations must be made by inc extent 10 which those appro- priations will decrease the expected normal reduction of taxes.
 Red Gross fo Aid.
 The nucleus of the wartime organi- ration Of the Red Cross will be put in motion 10 help the veterans obtain their compensation. At the request of the war department. national head quarters of the Red Cross announced today instructions have gone 10 the various divisions and chapters 10 be ready 10 asssit in distributing blank forms and seeing that they are prop orly filled out About b.0OO.000 blanks will he sent 10 the various divisions.
 By means of the Rcd Cross. it was said. the huge task would he con siderabiy simpiifed and the work ex- redited.