Evening star., 1933-10-04
BONUS PROPOSALS
KILLED BY LEGION
Committee Votes Down Pay.
ment Resolutions Sub.
mitted by 5 States.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, October 4.-The Amer
lation today voted down resolutions
submitted to it by five States asking
immediate payment OF the bonus.
The proposals had been previously
rejected by the Subcommittee on Adj
justed Compensation and the subcom-
mittees vote came before the Legisla-
ton Committee accompanied by a
minority report compiled by Represent
ative Wright Patman OF Texas
Whether Patman, having lost two
rounds in his fight to obtain Legion
support of campaign for immediate
bonus payment in the event of currency
imitation. would carry his effort to the
convention floor was not indicated.
The Legislation Committee later ap-
proved resolution urging that Con-
sress provide for waving interest on
loans made or to be made on adjusted
compensation certificates.
johnson Urges Patriotism.
LegionnaireS were called upon today
by their national commander. Louis
A. johnson, to adopt a policy on vet
Grams relief that would consider the
taxpayer as well as the disabled ex-
soldier.
johnson spoke before the opening
business session. He reviewed events
leading up to passage Of the national
economy act in Congress last March,
which cut s300,O 100000 a year from vet
erans benefits, and said the reduction
resulted in some part because of ex-
travagance in previous legislation.
The national commander said some
OF the earlier laws imposed injustices
upon the Government which should
nave been removed, not only in the
interest Of the taxpayer. but in the
interests of our own honestly disabled
comrades
Miami Chosen for 1894.
The Legion selected Miami Fla, for
Its 1884 convention.
The Legion acted today to strengthen
Its regulations against participation in
politics by its officials A scattering
OF Legion delegates to their fifteenth
annual national convention voted al
most unanimously in favor of a reso-
luton providing for amendment of the
constitution of the ex-service mems
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Passage of the resolution recalled
action started within the last year for
revocation Of the New Mexico State De-
partment's charter for political activity
The resolution was read before the
meeting by L. A. Greene of South Da-
kota, chairman Of the Legion Commit
tee on Constitutional Amendments.
Most Critical Period.
I'll,
said the Legion never had faced a
more critical IL months.
we were subjected to the most
merciless and most untruthful cam
paign Of SANDER that ever beset an
association of American veterans" he
said What few shreds of criticism
our enemies could honestly bring
against us were magnified and distorted
to a degree that made even them
malicious falsehoods
1T almost became a fad to throw
mud at the uniform OF the American
soldier"
Under the economy act, johnson
said the economy knife was applied
ruthlessly to even the most pitiful
classes of battle-scarred veterans"
We remember that while others en-
barked upon a campaign of bitter at
tacks upon the new Federal admins
tration, the American Legion refused
to follow that read, knowing that it
would lead to disaster, and, by dis
playing patriotism and grit. won back
for the disabled large portion of what
they had lost
by doing that we won back at the
same time the respect and confidence
Of the American people and OF the
American press.
The decision must be yours in this
convention whether we shall continue
to travel that right road, the road that
places love Of country above all else,
and thereby march on to still greater
glories, or whether We shall retrace
our steps and follow the road Of reck-
lessness and extravaganza that will
surely lead us, and those comrades who