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...Gorin's book is a good introduction to the manual of that new great youth movement, the V. F. W. In concise and unlabored prose Mr. Gorin explains the motives of the organization which he founded and the highly logical methods through which their ends may be achieved. The bonus for the Veterans of Future Wars is payable now, he explains. "There is no sense in going to war, as every true veteran of the last few years will tell you, unless there is some provision for living in idleness at the expense of the government for the rest...
...read this manifesto in the Daily Princetonian. Members of Terrace Club, upper-class eating sodality, were not so puzzled. The dank midwinter in semi-isolated Princeton is a tedious time. Between long games of Monopoly and billiards and work on an honors thesis about Machiavelli, Senior Lewis Jefferson Gorin, a small, grave Terrace member, had fallen to brooding about the way his elders and betters run the world. In the midst of these reveries, Congress had voted to cash the soldiers' Bonus in full ten years before it was due (TIME...
...premature Bonus payment was to become national policy, pondered Senior Gorin, why not pay "veterans" before they were even called to the colors? It would be a particularly happy circumstance for those who would not come back from the war to collect. Into his sardonic scheme he let a club-mate, Thomas Riggs Jr. The pair formed the Veterans of Future Wars, rented office space on Nassau Street, issued their manifesto. By last week the Veterans of Future Wars idea was rampaging over the nation's campuses...
...Neither Gorin's father, a Louisville, Ky., tobacco merchant, nor Riggs's, a onetime Governor of Alaska, entered any objection to their offsprings' activity. Princeton's William Starr Myers, official Historian of the Republican Party, solemnly pronounced the scheme "a very constructive movement." At Columbia the Spectator launched a Bonus campaign. At Chicago undergraduates promptly set up "Fort Dearborn Post No. 1," declared: "We will make the world safe for hypocrisy!" At Vassar an auxiliary called "Association of Gold Star Mothers of Future Veterans" (later changed under public pressure to "Home Fire Division") demanded free transportation...