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Unable to meet their expenses from monthly Government checks, students attending college under the GI bill are dipping regularly into their savings; and those who have no reserve supply of pretty green stuff to draw upon find they must take term-time jobs. Some men are holding two or three jobs simultaneously...
...that the government increase its contribution to the ex-serviceman's education. They contend that the government has committed itself to a certain course of action and has made guarantees to veterans--guarantees which are not being fulfilled. This argument carries a good deal of validity because whether the GI bill was intended to cover all or only a given percentage of the cost of a college education, it is failing to serve its original purpose...
...this argument for increased allotments slips too easily over the question of whether the benefits of the GI bill were intended to be a bonus or a contract. Morally, the nation owes the veterans nothing. The men who served their country were protecting themselves, their families, their homes, and their future from a detestable fate which threatened every individual soldier. The whole nation fought the war, and those who were best suited for combat were sent into uniform. The representatives of a grateful nation granted certain benefits to veterans, not as a dutiful remuneration, but simply as a gesture...
...That the GI bill was intended to be a freely given bonus is evident from its extensive provisions, which offer aid to almost every veteran--student, home builder, business man, or jobless. The only class that is slighted is the married student with children, who receives the same ninety dollars per month as the married student with no one but his wife to support. A logical case can be advanced for the justness of upping the allotment of GI scholars with children, and in fairness to this group, which was ignored in the original GI bill, such an adjustment should...
Arnold Rivkin 2L, regional vice-chairman of the AVC and chairman of the organization's National Education Committee, said that the conference will be paralleled by simultaneous meetings across the country designed to "find out how the student-veterans themselves feel about the GI Bill...