Evening star., 1934-11-29
PARTIAL PAYMENT.
Of B0NUSS SCORNED
Advocates of Veterans Aid
Now Reject Compromise
Suggested.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
While high officials Of the Roose-
velt administration brandished a big
stick labeled taxes" in an effort to
curb the bonus drive, advocates Of
full and immediate payment surged
forward today with the slogan, No
compromise"
Though administration leaders have
expressed the belief that such a drive
can be blocked the contest now get
ting up full steam leaves a wide mar
gin of uncertainty as to how large the
expenditures of the next Congress
will be.
A suggestion put forward here yes
terday, apparently with the tentative
approval of President Roosevelt. would
tie in directly with the question Of
relief funds. The proposal, made by
Chairman Harrison of the Senate
Finance Committee, was that needy
veterans get their bonus Immediately
and-to that extent at least-be
taken off relief rolls.
BeIgrano Hits Compromise.
A suggestion that such compromise
offers are an admission of defeat came
from Frank H. Belgrano, jr.. national
commander of the American Legion,
which is on record for full payment.
Declaring there is no compromise
to make" he said at Indianapolis:
LAS regards these suggested COM
promises, it is not the side which feels
that its cause is just that comes for
ward with offers of an armistice It
invariably is the side that knows its
cause is lost"
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho, said he had given some thought
to such compromise, but concluded
it was "impracticable." Also, he said,
1T reduces the soldier to the status
Of dependent before the Government
pays him, which is not very agree
able thing to do"
Blunt warnings have come from
several administration quarters in re-
cent days that cashing the bonus,
involving more than $4,000 900 900,
will require additional taxes. 1t is
felt in some circles that the compro-
mise might necessitate new taxes also.
but the amount has not been esti-
mated.
Relief Farley Called.
Relief, another paramount problem
with great bearing on Government
finances. will be threshed out in a
week end conference at Warm Springs,
Ga, by the President. Harry L. Hop
kins, relief administrator; Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau and Rex
ford G. Tugwell, Undersecretary of
Agriculture.
The meeting was considered of vast
Importance. To it Hopkins is expected
to carry a major scheme involving a
sharp swing away from month-to-
month doles. Under this plan desti-
tute but deserving families would get
lump-sum loans considered large
enough to put them on their feet.
Then there will be the problems of
industry. Although President Roose-
velt has just made it plain that he
favors large-scale efforts to clear
slums and build rural housing, the
details have not been worked out.
Already the Federal Emergency Re-
lief Administration has tentatively
approved the building of so rural
industrial communities A principal
idea of such communities is to enable
workers to have two possible sources
of livelihood II manufacturing and
small farm plots. The Government
possibly may appeal to industry to
extend its activities to these small
towns.
Observers feel that an upshot of
the Warm Springs conference may be
a move to co ordinate the F. E. R. A. S
housing works with the Subsistence
Homesteads Division of the Public
Works Administration, headed by Sec
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