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The Washington times., 1932-12-10
PAPER.
MAKES BOW

"Crossed Sabres," student publ
cation of the Journalism Club Of
the Westinghouse High School
of Arlington county made it's
first appearance today with a
10-page edition.
The new paper, of which War
rem Dodd is editor was published
entirely by students and includes
news of student activities, clubs,
and various classwork.
The Washington times., 1932-12-10
Drivers Mules Turn
Into Reindeer;
Did He Run!

It's pretty startling to put
mules in a stall, and then find
horned critters there when
you return. If you don't believe
so ask Jack, a colored driver
for the Mutual Ice Company in
Alexandria.
Jack put his mules in a stall
for the night. Someone turned
them out and put in reindeers
used in a Christmas pageant in
the historic Virginia city. Jack
returned, took one look, and
started running.
They caught up with him
early last night.
The Washington times., 1932-12-10
I STILL DRAW
1872 PENSIONS

MARTINsBURG, w. Va, Dec.
lot was over a hundred years
ago that Isaac Graham. a musi-
clan in Bodkin's company,
marched off to fight the British
in the War Of 1912. He is dead,
but the name Of his widow, Mrs.
Lydia Graham. of Brushy Run,
Pendleton county, is still in.
scrihed on the pension rolls Of
the Government.
She is one of seven living
women the Government is paying
pensions to as the result Of ser.
vice Of husbands or fathers in
the second war against England.
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z CLERKS lose
BY RULING

Comptroller General j. r. Nc
Carl has decided legislative fur
loughs of Government employees
cannot be applied retroactively.
Two employees of the Veterans
Administration had taken leave
without pay after they had al
ready yielded an 8.3 per cent sal
ary reduction for the month.
Later they decided they wanted
the time they had taken off con-
sidered as legislative furloughs
and asked return of part of their
pay reduction. McCarl ruled that
this would be impossible, and in
principle "tatamount to a retro
active promotion"
The Washington times., 1932-12-10
Store Burglar Gets
5-Yeur Prison Term

Judge Arthur D. Willard, in cir
cult court at Rockville yesterday,
sentenced Samuel Levi Hill, col
ored, to five years in the house OF
correction for breaking into the
store of Charles E. Hill, at Brink
low, Md.
The defendant was found guilty
a few days ago by a jury on finger
print evidence obtained by Detec-
tive Theodore F. Vollten, Of the
Montgomery county police identifi'
cation bureau. ,...
The Washington times., 1932-12-10
MISS WlLLOUGHBY GAINS

Miss Louise Willoughby, of the
press service Of the Department
of Agriculture, is convalescing
from q severe illness following an
infection several weeks ago. She
viii resume her duties in q
month. ---.-.....---..--
The Washington times., 1932-12-10
CHI RHO LUNCHEON

A luncheon of the Alpha Chi
Rho Club of Washington will be
held Monday at 1890 p. M, in
the Lafayette Hotel.
The Washington times., 1932-12-10
SACRED CIRCLE MEETING

DR.. Julia Seton will conduct her
Sacred Circle, tomorrow night at
8 o'clock, at 3125 P st. N. w.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
Once Hero,
NoW a
Bum

- A. -
Times a square shooter, so please
shoot square once more. The ar
ticles you are running by Talcott
Powell seem to be a one-sided
affair. The veterans get no credit
whatever.
They we're heroes in IT, now
they are treasury robbers and
buns. That little compensation
the government gave was in a
way a debt to the soldier while
he was lying in the mud and serv-
ing his country for a dollar a day.
Folks at home we're earning $40
and s12 a day and when he came
home with $50 in his pocket and
no Job he was a hero.
Anyone who could see the suf-
fering and hardships suffered by
the ex-soldier never would write
such articles for the paper. Ask
the staff to write Mr.. Powell as to
how many days he served behind
the lines. Now please be square
and publish the sponsors Of this
article, and where such reliable
information comes from. and /
can guess the informant does not
know his own organization.
READER.
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viewed the First division of the
A. E. F., he said, 1.-THE American
people and the government of the
United States owe you men a debt
they never can repay" Now when
the e~x-service man asks for what
is due him, he is told that it will
bankrupt the country If the
balance Of the money is paid.
No one makes a protest when
a few billion dollars are loaned
to foreign countries, with no
chance ever of getting the inter-
est, let alone the principal, but
let the ~ex-service man ask for his
just dues and some of these sup
posed-to-be patriotic people that
mind every ones business but
their own are ready to condemn
him.
We don't want charity or any,
thing that we haven't earned.
Ali we want is what belongs to us.
Why wait until 1915 for the
money when we need it now, and
not when we are dead?
The American Legion and all
other service organizations are
wonderful things, gotten together
for the benefit of the ~ex-service
man, and their widows and Or
phans. so why should an exclusive
set of men like the Willard
Straight post seek to pass judg-
ment for the rest of the menP
JOHN MORRIS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
H. C.. E..
Wants
Bonus

ior of this great philanthropic
nation of ours?
Could it all be possible that Mr..
Powell so deeply was engrossed
in his duties that he failed to take
cognizance of the countless billions
Of hard-earned dollars our gen.
erouS government shipped to all
corners of the globe, used by the
defaulting borrowers to pay their
gallant soldiers bonuses; used for
rehabilitation of their industries;
used to meet their numerous
financial obligations; and as ex-
posed by Senator Hiram johnson
even used to boom business on the
gay boulevardS of Paris, along
which countless thousands of u. S.
World war boys trudged with a
franc or two to Squander for en-
joyment? Could it be possible that
the brilliant Mr.. Powell has never
heard of Muscle Shoals, that enor-
nous $50, 000 5000 monument to
idleneSs? And by chance some
one may enlighten Mr.. Powell on
the countless millions lost by the
government through prohibition,
that greatest piece Of assinine leg
islation ever perpetrated.
The profits from Muscle Shoals
during its fourteen years of idle
ness and the cost of prohibition
alone would come near meeting
the just obligation our country
owes her World war soldiers.
Mr.. Powell IS to be congratulated
in his last-minute efforts to save
the nation. H. C. E.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
It's Great
to Be
Hero!

SdHSSUerS OF Cne
v. +. w. We went to war to save
Wall Street and big business for
81 a day, $50 a month, minus 81
for insurance and SIS for alot-
ments, leaving a grand total of SO
for the soldier, and if you talked
back to some swellhead officer or
got drunk you had two-thirds of
your pay taken for six months.
Gee, it was great to be a hero
and defend Wall Street. It's such
a famous place and now they ap-
preciate it so much.
1 served with Company A,
eighteenth United States in
fantry, First division, in five
major battles and a dozen quiet
sectors, lived in mud knee deep.
ate cold food and not enough,
froze in January mud and water,
was wounded and captured by
the Germans, then spent nine
months in the Army of Occupa-
ton of Germany. and I don't
get one red cent pension. I'm not
disabled 10 per cent service con-
nected, and not disabled Is per
cent on the after the war pen
sion.
I've been commander of the
local V. F. w. and now am adj
jutant. I've served as vice-coun-
sci and service officer of the
legion, was active in the D. A..
u, and am past commander of
the Ex-PrisOners of War, and I
know that right now ~ex-seryice
men are living on the township,
eating cabbage soup, seing their
children starve, because Wall
Street and big business won't
come to the front and save the
ones who saved them.
Where would big business be
had Germany won the war?
Germany would have asked for
twenty times what we are ask
ing for and would have gotten it.
Did any n object to the ship
builders bonus? No. To COM
mon laborers' SIG a day? No.
To the railroads getting financial
aid? No. To the big banks get
ting money from the governments
treasury? No.
Hoover says buy automobiles.
End the depression. Why buy an
auto when one needs money for
the mortgage, the grocer, the
shoe and clothing man and big
taxes, for large salaries and
plenty of graft. Pay the veteran.
Put $4,000, 000, 900 on the table and
help every one. It's due the vete-
ran. It's not q gift.
I take The Times regularly and
have ever since it's been pub
lished. Will you let me wait
twenty years before I pay IL cents
to the girl who carries it? Do
you pay your employees once every
twenty years? You pay every
week and send statements every
month. Well, then. why make
the veterans wait twenty years
and get a dozen to testify, be-
sides red tape, before a pension
is given? j. A. FRIEND.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
KEEP THIS In n

T<HE TIMES today prints a large number of letters,
i most of them severely critical, sent by readers in
reply to the articles published concerning the pending
bonus legislation.
The Times always has believed that every question
should be settled by discussion and that every citizen is en-
titled to present his views upon any controversial matter.
The Times believes that the service men who are de-
handing, perhaps in desperation, an immediate settlement
have been misled as to the real facts. It believes that such
payment means disaster to them and to the things for
which they fought.
In this connection we desire to repeat an editorial
printed on April 8 as pertinent. That editorial said:
In all our consideration of this whole subject of veterans relief,
let us bear this in mind:
THAT the amount Of money that any government can provide is
necessarily limited; and that therefore every dollar which is paid to a
veteran who is not in need is a dollar denied to the veteran who is
in need"
Veterans relief, as originally conceived, was to provide benefits
for disabled exsoldirs, and the heirs or dependents of dead soldiers
This idea has become 81 expanded by legislative liberalization since
that the original cost to the taxpayers is but a part of the present cost.
Legislation which has been superimposed on the original plan in
cludes these results:
l. A man injured at the front averages less in monthly payments
than the man whose disability was incurred in camp on this side of the
Atlantic.
IA veteran suffering blindness from the results of veneral disease
is rated the same as a man whose sight was lost in battle.
3. Dependents of men killed in action receive less compensation
than men suffering from minor servce-connected disabilities.
4 Dependents of men killed in action receive less in man in
stances than men suffering from disabilities incurred in civil life wears
after the war.
5. Certain specific illnesses have been selected by congress for sne-
cial legislation under which a man suffering from any of these maladies
is automatically rated to have contracted them while in the service
whether he actually did or not.
{. disqualification is provided for all veterans. The man STRICKEN
with appendicitis yesterday is in this respect on a par with a man in
Jueo III DaCUe' EDITORS NOTE.
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Toss Out
Dry Low,
Pay Bonus

running the country bankrupt?
Why pick on the boys who did
their bit and leave others out?
What about the losing game of
prohibition?
Everybody in his right mind
must know by now that it is a
losing game, costing millions every
year. Also, how about the big
loans at 2 per cent, while the
grabbing veteran had to pay Az
per cent on his own money?
In IT and 10 we were, very
much in demand, but now it
seems the people have other ideas.
The majority gave up good jobs
to answer the call at that time
and what have We to show for it
today? The kind hearted who
stayed at home pulled one of the
biggest whizzers that ever was
pulled off, Prohibition. And that
while two and one-half million
were in uniform and had no say
in the matter. Was that what
could be called playing the game?
And now, according to some
people, we are trying to break up
the country. Why didn't the
broad minded ones howl about
prohibition breaking the bank?
What has the law netted the
United States? I'll answer that
question. Nothing other than that
our jails, prisons and graveyards
are being filled up faster than
ever before, with plenty of graft,
and booze just as plentiful as
ever.
So, now, Mr.. Editor, give the
veterans an even break. The cost
of prohibition soon would pay the
bonus, SC I close by saying, toss
prohibition in the ash can and
pay the bonus right now.
PAUL j. SEARY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
PAY US Now WE NEED HELP; EMAND EX7SERVCE MEN

feel that, as far as VI higher
class of people is concerned, the
words honor and patriotism have
been replaced BY graft and selfish
greed.
AS far as the veterans gouging
the government, compared to the
way the rich have gouged ii, 1
think that the veterans bill can
be considered only a scratch.
Not all non-veterans are against
the bill. not even ali slackers, and
neither r gil voters going to
vote the same as they have here
tofore.
I write you this letter to let you
and your staff know that there
r many ways that could be used
for a scoop other than the bonus
bill, If you are not afraid to step
on the toes of the Big Fellows.
against whom the little fellow is
defenSeless other than his vote.
1 do not expect this article to
reach the press, for I am a poor
man, and a poor man has no
voice, even though he is not total
ly dumb, for cash is the voice Of
America.
II u country goes broke, 1
will feel something else broke it
besides the few dollars placed in
circulation by any veterans legis-
lation. F. L. TRUEBLOOD.
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Editor Times I
The bonus proGfeer
To vo, Healthy IsTorget
war veterans get of Attack
colossal sum-" --
We agree with
you in your article of the second
part, but why not be fair in your
dimensions of the first part2 If
you will discuss this so-called
bonus bill, be fair enough to give
both sides of the story equal
prominence in print. Don't ex-
press your opinion against the bill
on the front page and hide argu-
ments for it in the back sections.
It's q shame all the boys could
not have been buried as Unknown
Soldiers. Then the millionaires
created during the war could have
leaned back and grunted to
themselves, i've got mine and
dead men are dead, that's all"
Then they could feel relieved Of
the thought that they might be
asked to help remunerate the boy
who offered his life to preserve
this dirty scoundrel, who gladly
would loan to foreigners to paw
their soldiers a bonus because
he derived a profit on his money"
never thinking about the boy who
protected his scalp and pocket
book.
And this type is the one who
actually is bowling at the top Of
his voice, Halt the payment of
the bonus. 1t will bankrupt this
country"
What right have you to cry halt
to this proposed legislation and
what proof have you that it Will
bankrupt our nation? The debt
this nation owes these soldiers is
a dastacdly smirch on our govern
ment, which paid bonuses to
railroads. appropriated money in
billions to our so-called distressed
bankers, and loaned money to
foreign nations 30 pay off their
soldiers bonus.
Yet the ~ex-service man is
classed as a thief and unpatriotic
because he asks for what is due
him.
What would you do If you had
money on deposit, bound by po-
litical graft to leave it there, and
be charged Az per cent inter-
est compounded on your money!
I wonder if you would sit back
and twiddle your thumbs. I'll say
you wouldn't, and we don't intend
to allow our money to be divided
among a flock of dirty foreign
bond sellers and political rack
eteers.
They say he should show patri-
otism by refraining from asking
payment at present. Let the gov
eminent refrain from stealing it
back through interest charges
and the majority of the boys
would be glad to wait.
VETERAN ELEVEN MONTHS
IN ACTION.
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FGirDeoI
AHThut
He Asks

it one Of the fairest on every sub
ject that I ever have read.
I have been reading the articles
by Talcott Powell in regard to the
veterans of the World war trying
to bankrupt the federal govern
ment, etc.
Now, Mr.. Editor, I am a So
called government pauper.". I
enlisted in the United States army
at the age of II, served eleven
months in France, was wounded
twice and am also a wearer of the
D. S. G.
During my twenty-five months
in the army, my pay on this side
amounted to $50 a month, over
seas $33 a month. After the de-
duction of s6.40 for government
insurance and SIS for liberty
bonds, you and every one else
easily can figure the balance left.
l am not raising a kick about
my services. I went willingly and
am just as willing to go again If
emergency arises, but 1 do detest
being called a robber and a thief
for taking the small amount of
compensation I get each month.
Why blame the rank and file Of
the legion for all the legislation
enacted in Washington for the
veterans? Personally, I think some
of it is unfair.
l readily can't see why all the
eg1tation is being brought I'D at
this time, and I for one need the
bonus that some Of the gentlemen
in Washington want to pay, but If
1t is impossible to pay it, don't try
to do it.
Again, I will say that il is I'M
fair to the veterans to be blamed
Tor 1t all. How are we TO know
the condition Of things when We
hear long-Winded congressman
speak over the radio. saving II
could be paid and should b. and
would cause no hardship upon the
FEDERAL treasury? We have q
legion post here of approximately
n1ty veterans. I have talked to
most OF them In regard to the
bonus, and Lhave yet to hear one
say he wants 1t regardless of con-
ditions.
Isn't 1t true that the blame for
II all is in Washington? Why do
me men who are the pick ofthe
country go there and pass all the
legislation they do if it is running
the country?
/ think the federal government
Is going too far, but why blame
me as a veteran. or any one else
as a veteran. for the actions Of
some one else? We all want to be
fair. HENRY 7. FRENCH.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
Bonus Bill
Not
Grab

ROPC4s 1 4CE1
that if MI. Powell is attempting
to build up fame and popularity
for himself, he most certainly is
using small and very frail ma
terial, and I, for one, would term
it laughable political propaganda.
l wonder if Mr.. Powell expects
us to believe that two billion dol
lars, OF any amount paid as pen
sion or compensation to veterans,
a spending class of people, would
be the cause Of the nation going
broke. If so, may I ask, where
is the rest of the nations wealth?
Who holds it, and why?
Now I believe that if Mr.. Powell
would like to make a big name
for himself and your publication,
he would use big, solid material
to do so, such as how much is
squandered annually for the sup
posed-to-be eighteenth amend
ment, which was part of the ma
TONS thanks to the veteran.
thrown in his face upon his re-
turn after the war, or the ex-
posture Of the billions boarded,
sailed and frozen that will bene-
fit none of us, and a great part
of which is tax exempt, by some
OF our famous automobile manu-
facturers, to whom we are ex-
pected to look up because they
are rich.
Or he may explain why the war
made a millionaire look small on
Wall Street, and at whose ex-
pense. Or how much a certain
balloon cost that made a wonder
full mess in Ohio a few years
ago. Or the valuation of cash
and equipment received by rail-
roads and industry Immediately
after the war.
There are many subjects with a
greater and f1rmer foundation
than any petty veterans bill that
ever has been up. and in the first
place is the soldiers bonus, as it
was issued with a clear vision of
the capitalists reaping the great
est benefits from same.
Now, speaking of honor and
patriotism. may I ask which would
be more honorable and patriotic
at a time ike this, a dollar spent
and placed in circulation by the
poor. or a few millions gouged and
boarded with that already hoard
ed by the rich, while their own
race are suffering and hungry?
Who kows more about patriot
ism than the poor? Some Of our
state officials either know less or
care less when they let the Tag
of our country rot from the
domes Of our public buildings, 7
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t1On resolution
at Detroit as an alibi for opposing
payment Of the other half of the
bonus"
The American Legion went to
Detroit 100 per cent for payment.
but 1t seems the lame ducks in
the organization took charge.
owing to the fact that the bonus
votes were traded for beer votes.
Wright Patman, congressman
from Texas, and a disabled World
war veteran who attended the con
vention at Detroit, said, There
was political wire pulling by Han
ford McNider and Colonel Roose-
welt, past commanders Of the
legion, and the delegates indirect
ly were promised by Mr.. Hoover
that if they would lay off the
bonus" he would give them beer.
See plain Talk" January and
February numbers.
The politicians surely did not
expect the rank and file of three
and half million veterans to sup
port the resolution at Detroit. The
politicians surely do not expect
the rank and file of the organiza-
ton to support a convention that
will compromise their bonus for
3 per cent beer. All e~x-Service men
are in favor of an immediate cash
payment of the bonus" and mil
lions have signed blanks furnished
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars
in favor of cash payment. Thou
sands of votes are being sent into
Washington by the v. F. w.
Legion posts throughout the
country are sending kilograms to
their representatives at Washing
ton, regardless of the convention
at Detroit. Ex-service organiza-
tions are doing all they can to
establish employment. They are
doing all they can for relief of the
needy. Unemployment is Mr..
Hoover'S problem as we'll as the
American Legion, V. F. w. and
other service organizations.
Commander Stevens Of the
legion is touring the country try
ing to establish employment bu-
reaus to put a million men to
work. The press is lauding bis eff
forts, but he has not said anything
about cash payments. If there is
any ~ex-Service man who is out of
employment, he should walk down
North Meridian street ir Indian
aroliS and gaze upon that fourteen
million dollar war memorial and
be content to wait until 1945 for
the $50, which will be paid to him
for his bonus after interest has
been deducted.
j. L. KENNEDY, A. E. F, v. F. W