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Franklin d'Olier, commander of the American Legion, has taken a highly commendable stand on the question of the proposed national bonus to former service men. "All the Legion asks," he told the House Ways and Means Committee, "is as liberal treatment as is consistent with the welfare of the country," and he went on to declare that the great majority of the men who served in the war want no bonus at the expense of the public good, but they do insist that relief legislation be passed to insure that disabled men will no longer be objects of charity...
...would result from this plan in that with two contests in succession, although they might only last about half an hour longer than one game under the former system, more people would consider it worth while to come out to the Stadium, thus increasing the gate receipts and the bonus that would be granted to the visiting teams...
...convincing power of his first statements. He says that a lack of common sense was shown in suggesting that our obligation to the American soldier ceased at the signing of the peace ternls. If we pay a man a fair salary while he works for us, give him a bonus when he leaves, and then hunt up a job for him, we certainly are treating him squarely...
...Such a bonus would insure a subsistence for the newly discharged solider; would be an incentive for the newly established man to save, and for the more fortunate one an opportunity to put into practice his philanthropic ideas regarding the care of a soldier's dependents. R. S. FLINN...
...public hearing on the bill now pending in the legislature concerning a $100 bonus for discharged Massachusetts soldiers will be held in the Senate Chamber at the State House at 11 o'clock this morning. The difficulty in question is the fact that men who served in the S. A. T. C. are not included in the bill in its present form. Undergraduates of the Undergraduates of the University or any others who were members of the S. A. T. C. will be given an opportunity to protest at this hearing. Opponents of the bill have asserted that it discriminates...