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straight to the heart of the controversy.
He saw that only fraction Of neces-
Sary ornaments and munitions were
being manufactured i'll existing Govern
ment arSenals. His first amendment TO
the act, then, provided for a survey OF
all existing private facilities for that
purpose.
Second Amendment Is Epoch Making.
His second amendment went even
farther. 1t was epoch-making IN war
thinking. 1t provided that when pri-
vate manufacturer refused to give the
Government preference in the execu-
tion of war orders, or to sell 10 the
Government at a reasonable price. as
determined by the Secretary OF war,
then the President, through the heao
of any department of the Government,
was authorized to take immecla.e DOS
session of any such plant. u,llsen ~
reading of the congressional deoaCes Oh
those feverish days seems to 1ndlcate
that Good was the first man IN great
nublic position to advocate authorlta-
fively the CONSUMPTION of industry, as
well as the subscription of men, IN war.
It took the experience OF those war
DAYS TO disseminate among us the luea
Good then clearly saw of drafting the
industrial resources of the country, or
drafting age as well as drafting youth.
Clear Thinking Is Demonstrated.
In the losing fight he made for that
proposition, he illustrated the clear
thinking which won him such respect
as appropriations chairman, together
with that sympathy for the poor and
inexpensive he instinctively feels.
It was this latter quality which
brought his fight to raise the pay OF the
enlisted men. Here it was Jim" Good
the politician, Good the seasoned par
Humanitarian, Good who knew the psy-
clology of men, who won.
April %. 1917, found the soldier In
the American Army about to be sent
overseas with pay check Of Sl5.5V a
month. Good introduced an amend
ment to raise that pay to $50 month.
The bill went to the Senate, which. 10
bring the bill to conference between
the two houses, changed the pay 10
$29 a month.
Brilliant Plan Succeeds.
Then some one managed to tack on
the famous provision permitting Col.
Roosevelt to raise his own division.
Again Good the parliamentarian saw
his chance Also. he knew his man.
Knowing that Champ Clark, then
Speaker of the House, was opposed to
RC.ur.s defense policies, he pointed out
10 SIS Speaker that this was now no
longer the same bill, but new Dill:
Clark, he knew, would be glad 70 add
to its difficulties in passage. so ne
asked Clark to recognize him for the
purpose of amending the new bill
so as to raise the soldiers pay. Clark
did so Good made his fight on the
floor, opening with a one-hour speech
and following it with brilliant debate.
On that occasion he said:
"Let us not make this rich mans
war and a poor mans fight. There has
been no 'give-and-take' 1t has all been
'take'-take from the pay of the COM
mon soldiers of the United States"
This time he won.
Opposes Bonus Bill.
The next outstanding occasion in
which Mr. Good appears, as Congress
man, in relation to our military forces,
is the time when the bill for adjusted
compensation-the famous bonus bill''
was before the House.
Good was in opposition to that meas
ure He was then ardent in his desire
to spend every cent necessary or ad-
visable for the hospital care of men
invalided or incapacitated by war. He
would have been glad to give every SOL
der anything necessary to his needs.
But his cooler Judgment told him that
to hand a lump sum of money to young
men of the age of most of our drafted
troops was to hand them the means
of a blowout. week end party, brief
good time and not to contribute any,
thing to their economic welfare or
morale. ..,.-
He was sustained in that conclusion
by hundreds of letters he received from
the mothers of soldiers in many parts
of the Middle West, and he was fire.