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Into Jefferson City, Mo. last week surged a motorcade of 350 Missouri veterans demanding a special session of the legislature to vote them a $400 cash bonus. When they reached the ornate capitol, square-chinned Governor Phil M. Donnelly invited them inside, sat them down on the hard marble floor. Then he gave them a piece of his mind...
...Took a position opposed in general to a World War II bonus "at this time," and refused to support pensions for World War I, vetcrans 50 years...
Boston's own Faneuil Hall, where last spring a mob of 500 raging, stomping veterans asserted their claim to an extra $900 windfall, was the scene of one of the earliest and most vociferous bonus rallies. Since then the question of bonuses has been an issue in almost every state or national veterans' organization. Happily, there has been no indication that a majority of veterans feel a bonus is desirable. While the VFW has announced itself as favoring the bonus, the new but active AVC is definitely in the opposition, and the American Legion, so far non-committal nationally...
Many, perhaps a majority of veterans, realize that the supposed benefits of a bonus are dubious indeed. Few families and few wage earners are not closely tied to one or more veterans; and the astronomic sums necessary to give each veteran even a few hundred dollars would have to be taken in taxes from the families or relatives of ex-servicemen. Veteran groups, anxious to serve the nation as well as themselves, have decided that their efforts can be most advantageously directed toward securing a sufficiency of low cost housing or suppressing the current inflationary boom. These too have been...
...their sacrifices is by assuring them a free and prosperous nation in which to live and work. The mentally and physically sound veteran asks no more than a fair opportunity to reach the position in American society for which his talents qualify him. If self-seeking "grabbers," like the bonus marchers from the Ozarks, persist in their demands, many conscientious ex-servicemen may be shamed into renouncing the title "veteran" for a simple, less exclusive "citizen...