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...felt that the first of these will stand out. It was not generally agreed whether the President would definitely support the tax plan of Secretary Mellon (TIME, Nov. 19) or favor tax reduction in such general terms as would permit of compromise. A soldiers' bonus and participation in the World Court are likely to be lightly passed over if not completely ignored...
...That a bonus would be bad for business and would react to the disadvantage of every citizen including the ex-service men, draining the Treasury of several millions a year for two or three generations...
...That the majority of ex-service men do not want a bonus. Edward L. Allen, National Director of the Ex-Service Men's Anti-Bonus League, wrote to Representative Green: "There are approximately 3,700,000 ex-service men in the country. But a few more than 400,000 of them are members of the American Legion. If the ex-service men were in immediate need, if they were even demanding assistance at some future date, is it not indeed strange that they have so carefully refrained from becoming identified with an organization that devotes its energies to bonus...
...Federal Bonus...
...called into service, 2,348,655 benefited by state bonuses. Arizona, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma are the only states which defeated bonus measures. Bonuses are pending the vote of the people in Colorado, Montana, Pennsylvania...