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...vital question of the Soldier Bonus raised recently in your columns, has brought forth strong comment by Mr. Baxter in your issue of March...
Your editorial of March, 10 about the soldier bonus was an insult to the American soldier. We, I say we, for I have two years' service behind me, did give freely and were proud to give when there was need. Now, when the emergency is past we do not ask charity; we desire justice...
When I returned from France, after twenty-two months overseas, I came upon an orgy of profiteering that made the French, whom I had considered the original profiteers, seem mild. The sixty dollar bonus which the Magnanimous Congress allowed me hardly sufficed to pay for a cheap suit of clothes. When I tried to obtain work I found the exempted were holding the good positions. I had to be satisfied with what they did not want. And now, because I, with my former comrades, ask justice, I am mercenary...
...State Board of Education. There too have been all kinds of irrelevant charges of atheism, of Bolshevis, of free love, and the like, levelled at us, and this has had its effect. Finally we have had to increase taxes in order to pay for a soldier's bonus and the increased cost of everything; our industrial program, I might add, has cost only a quarter of a cent an acre and has not been the cause of increased taxation...
...secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships. The trustees regard the additional 50 pounds as a bouns and not as a permanent addition to the scholarship because they cannot be certain either of the value of money in the future or of their own capacity to continue it indefinitely. Nevertheless the bonus will not be withdrawn without adequate notice nor in any case where a candidate has been elected in expectation of receiving it. Out of the 63 men who entered Oxford this fall on Rhodes Scholarships seven were from the University, representing Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Nevada, North Carolina and Wisconsin...