The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-06-07
BY FRED EDWARDS

BY FRED EDWARDS
Now it's Tommy this, an Tommy
that, an
Tommy. wait outside;
But it's especial train for Atkins"
when the troopers on the
tide,
The troopship's on the tide,
my boys, the troopship's on
the tide,
o it's especial train for Atkins"
when the troopers OH the
tide.
- Barrack Room Ballads
The revolt in congress last week
which threatened the Roosevelt
economic program was caused by
thousands Of protests and reports
from all over the United States re-
garding the operation Of the Econ
omy Act, and its regulations as af-
fecting American Veterans of all
wars, which was defined by vet
Grams as arbitrary, without founda-
ton in fact or medical science,
and contravened all concepts Of
justice in it's effects on disabled
war veterans, deprived them Of
their. vested rights. and shifted the
care Of these veterans from the
back Of the federal income tax
payers to the already overloaded
back of the small home owner, and
the owner Of real estate, and was
a vicious assault on patriotism,
because it tended to create be-
lief that a fair reward for a dis
~ ,1tA 1n
pinness were impaired in the SER
the hill to the poorhouse.
It appears that in passing the
Economy Bill that congress relied
upon the veterans plank in the
democratic platform:
We advocate the full measure
Of justice and generosity for all
war veterans who have suffered
disability or disease caused by
or resulting from actual service
in time Of war and for their de-
pendents.
Too Much Hoover
All the trouble of the new ad-
lninistration is laid by it's critics to
its efforts to continue the balance
the-budget program of the Hoover
administration. In the opinion OF
such critics the new deal is being
wrecked and undermined by reac.
tionary forces in the official family
of the chief executive.
Congress suddenly woke up to
the fact that the Economy Bill
was. a Frankenstein that had not
been counted upon and each day
brought plentiful proof that some.
thing had gone wrong In the work
- L. vtofA 80 10
Instead Of protecting service-con.
scores off the rolls, put other
scores out Of the hospitals, and
still hundreds more out of the SOL
diers homes, who had no means
homes or money, and who had to
be taken care of by welfare and
charity bodies.
First the protests came in from
the vets themselves, then from
taxpayers, and after municipalities
clubs, benevolent societies. organi.
zations and then from state legis.
1ators. Senators and Representatives
were soon recipients of hundreds
OF resolutions, memorials, etc., and
then the mail became a deluge
Congress so had positive proof thai
the Economy Bill was causing
more devastation than all the RESI-
of the acts passed since the new
administration took office.
The Bill in Action
Investigating this alleged New
Deal, the veterans came to the con.
clusion that the chief reason fol
the creation of the Economy Bill
was to make 1t better possible fol
the administration to pay the in.
Aak 20 ~ IL ~
J. p. Morgan and others. The
administration was faced with the
Mutation where it had to cut either
the interest on bonds, held by great
financial interests or the payments
! % the veterans. and 1t chose the
veterans, who had to bear the
bruut Of the tax reduction.
A case in point of the workout
u the regulations of the bill IL that
o. . veteran who on October Is
1913. with six comrades were oc.
cuuyiuk Z shell hole In the Argonne
~ German shell exploded, killing
HI aix comrades and severely
~rouuding him. He had very ex.
<ounfvo and unsightly wounds and
~rrex with muscle destruction Of
- left arm, shoulder and back
xS16orInx his left side useless fol
10y. He was drawing SCI Q
<non<h for this disability. After
3u1T I. according to his new rating
x11 nausion would be IS q month
TES 4 . fair sample OF how the
E1x ratings Gork out in case o1
orrx1ce connected disabilities.
10 Seek Injunc11on
T1nIked Spanish War Veterans In
b fcur dny state convention at
stockton. California last week
adopted 4 resolution nm .,,, q 2