The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-03-05

everything got better. Perhaps he
now is letting his desires have just
a little influence on his pronucia-
mentos. Citizen-News.
The present Democratic congress
did not treat the Democratic pres
ident in very brotherly way re-
Gently when it passed the bonus
bill. This congress first passed the
bill and then submitted it to the
president for his signature. He We
toed it, as they know he would.
Then they passed it again and
made 1t law without his signature.
If they had, when they passed the
bill, provided a way whereby the
large sum of money entailed was
to be raised, they would have
shown a spirit of cooperation, but
when they omitted to point out how
the money was to be raised, as if it
were none of their business, and
threw the whole think into his lap,
as if they were not concerned, 1t
can hardly be called a brotherly
act.-The Glenwood Herald.
How Many Want Cash?
On June Is, the United States
Treasury can be called upon to
pay out $2,5OO,OOO,OOO in cash. This
is the amount of money required to
redeem the baby bonds ordered
paid to veterans by congress, over
President Roosevelt's brief, aggres-
sive veto message. How many vet
Grams will actually take the cash,
and forego the per cent COM
pound interest they will be paid if
they hold their bonds until 1945, is
a burning question.
A still more burning question Is,
where will the money come from?
Congress passed the bonus-but
left it up to the executive branch
to find the wherewithal.
The President does not want to
issue printing-press money. Nor
does he want to pay off the bonus
by issuing another bond issue.
Many think that he will ask Con-
gress to create new taxes to bear
the cost. In an election year, new
taxes strike fear into the hearts of
all officials running for reelection.
Some fireworks are to be expected.
A survey made by the American
Legion to determine what veterans
will do with their new money is
interesting. Thirty-four per cent
will go for investments and savings
or be held in uncashed bonds.
Twenty-six per cent of the money
will go for homes, farms and
equipment and twenty-three and
one-half per cent for old debts. Per-
sonal expenditures will take about
eleven and one-half percent, and
new automobiles, five per cent
Mahnomen Pioneer.
About The WPA
AS a mater of fact the WPA Is
not supposed to bring prosperity
by spending, states Lawrence Ross
man in the Grand Rapids Herald
Review. That theory has been
abandoned for a long time. The
people who work on WPA projects
get mighty little money. Things are
figured out so that they are given
but the direst necessities. WPA
wages cannot build homes or buy
automobiles. If America wants
those things it must get the money
from those who are employed in
industry. Very few people who are
on WPA wish to be there. They
wish to work where there is an
opportunity to do for themselves
and children what other people do
for themselves and their children.
There is no reason for anyone to
fool himself on the facts. Govern
ment spending is simply passing
money around from one pocket to
the other. Agriculture and indus
try create wealth. The more that
agriculture and industry can pro-
duce the greater the demand for
more production.
The public works of the nation
can never be the foundation of
prosperity. The WPA is evidence
of the desire of a great nation to
care for it's people in their time of
need. That is all that it ever can
be. Victor Christgau ought not to
tell the public anything else.
The WPA does not support the
public. The public supports the
WPA.-Eveleth Clarion.