Evening star., 1936-01-24

Although there's every indication that
a bonus veto is imminent. no evidence
OF alarm is apparent in White House
quarters over the political consequences
of such action as far as the President is
concerned The impression is that Mr..
Roosevelt is far more perturbed over the
budgetary aspects Of the bonus payment,
should it be enacted over his protest,
than over any election effects that might
flow from it. AS matter of fact, poll
ticians don't think veto will have any
appreciable influence on Rooseveltlan
fortunes in November. Having achieved
their objective the veterans aren't ex-
pected to be in punitive mood toward
F.. D. R., even if it develops that they
had to win without his approval. They
didn't take it out on Calvin Coolidge
under similar conditions in 1924. The
common guess is that by election time
the bonus as an issue will be as dead
as prohibition It was to remove the
bonus from politics, Senator Pat Harri-
son, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, says, that he advocated
settling it now once for all.
One of the biggest physical jobs that
has ever faced the Treasury will be the
manufacture of the roundly 36.OO0,O0O
$50 bonus bonds (aggregating $1,000, ,OO0,-
OO0), which will prospectively have to be
ready by June Is. The task OF dis
tribution will be an equally tall order.
Names and addresses Of the respective
individual beneficiaries will appear on
the non transferable securities. The
bonds will then be sent. presumably
through the Veterans Administration. to
thousands of post Offices for delivery, to
be cashed there eventually by veterans
who decide not to hold them until 1945
for 3 per cent investment purposes.
Representative Fred Biermann, Demo-
crat, of Iowa, veteran who volunteered
in April 1917, and served until June,
1919, and who voted against the bonus,
states that of the SO House votes against
the bill, 13 were cast by World War
service men, one by World War nurse
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
Republican, of Massachusetts, and two
or three by Spanish American War vet
erans Mrs. Roosevelt's two pals in the
House, Representative Isabella Green
way. Democrat, of Arizona and Repre-
sentative at Large Caroline ODay, DEM
ocrat, of New York, were on opposite
sides of the bonus fence. Mrs. Green
way supported the bill and Mrs. O'Day
opposed it. Senators up for reelection
this year and who were against the
bonus included Republicans Keyes OF
New Hampshire and Hastings Of Dela-
ware. With Glass Of Virginia and Cou-
zens of Michigan, they made up the
foursome of senatorial opponents who
will face the voters of their respective
States in November,
X X X
King Edward VIII has frequently ex-
pressed his fondneSs for American news
papers and newspaper men. To
Yankee scribe he once impaired that
the only criticism he ever had to make
of his treatment by the press of the
United States was the prominence, while
he was Prince of Wales, with which 1t
featured his falls from his horse. The
prince insisted that considering the
amount of time he spent in the saddle
and the hard riding to which he was
addicted. his spills were comparatively
few and always inconsequential.
DR.. Otto Kiep, counselor Of the pre-
Nazi German Embassy at Washington, is
now in the Far East, exploring the
ground for a German trade agreement
with Japan and Manchukuo. His mis-
sion comedies with revived reports OF
German-Japanese military alliance
against the Soviet. Although it's denied
that such q pact has been sealed. in
ternational quarters at Toxic consider 1t
highly probable that NaM-Nipponese
mutual assistance pact" has been the
subject Of discussion. DR.. Kiep has
visited Nanking for the purpose Of ass.u.