The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-14

their families.
The S6,597,000 due Mar
ion County World War vet
Grams already is spent-at
least in dreams and on pa
per - although the United
States Senate has not
passed the bonus measure
and despite the fact that
both houses of Congress
may be compelled to rush
the measure through a Sec
ond time over a possible
presidential veto.
Stop the first five war veterans
you meet and put the question to
them, What are you going to do
with your bonus money!" and
you'll find four out OF five of them
have the money spent even If it's
only to pay off bills that have &C
cumulated.
4 S for the fifth man he may be
4 n c. o. Harrison, 1910 w. 18th
st, a barber at % Kentucky-av,
who still believes in the old adage
Don't count your chickens before
they hatch"
my bonus will probably go like
the first half I received in 'dribs'
and 'dribs' to pay bills" says Mr..
Harrison as he bore down on his
razor in broad sweeping of laGher
from the face of a customer.
The canny Mr.. Harrison is RI
vailed by William Strang, 35, $40
E. Ohio-st, who, admitting to Hoo
sier nativity, declares that the
bonus money will cause him to
shake the clay of White River
from his shoes and find him using
his overseas bounty of $181 to pur-
chase an acre of land in the hills
of Arkansas.
lust a fuzzy-faced boy of 10
- when he entered the Army,
Bill" Strang served his six
months Glitch" overseas, as he
says, Gust long enough to say
hello and good-by to the made
moiselles OF France"
Married, he's fought the Bat
tie of Depression, first as a plum
Der and steam filter, and now as
= checker on a Works Progress
Administration project on White
River.
Plumbing went to pot" and
Strang's job did, too. He tied
on to the relief rolls and now has
a $13.75 weekly job which he says
"just about keeps a man starv-
ing for living"
Bonus! When you say that
smile--at Strang! For he smiles
as he sees in the money he'll get
a way to independence in having
his own acre of ground in the
Arkansas hills to raise chickens
and things"
"THE next time I use a pick
l. and shovel I'm going to do
it raising something for myself.
The first half of my bonus money
kept us in groceries for a year."
he said.
Nor has his "back-to- the-farm"
movement embittered him against
the present Washington Admin
istration.
You don't bite the hand that's
feeding you," he said.
Trucks, laden with river silt
trundled noisily past him. and his
"so-long" was "see me in Ar
kansas"
Two miles away in a white
painted room at 730 E. Washing
ton-st doctor tapped the chest
of Glen Holt, Atlanta, Ind, pros
pective Navy recruit, and took his
blood pressure.
THE doctors own blood pres
i sure has risen with each
successive headline in newspapers
telling of the bonus action in Con-
gress.
mo fur coats, automobile or
radio-that's out when / get my
bonus," says the doctor, Lieut.. H.
D. Templeton, medical officer of
the Indianapolis Navy recruiting
station.
"Of course" hedged Lieut.. Tenn
pleton, ''the will is strong but the
flesh is weak"
But with this admission ie was
quick to say that his bonus is
a little nest-egg that my wife
and I have been looking forward
to as aiding in the education of
our boy, Mccormack, IL, and our
girl, Cynthia Jane, 9.
WE haven't gotten to the
w point where we've studied
all my 5onus papers and figured