Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1932, Page 10

GENERALS DEBATE PAYING BONUS NOW Butler Calls It Just and Fair, While 0’Ryan Holds It Is Wasteful. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 17.—Imme- diate payment of the bonus was advo- | cated as a just and fair claim of vet- erans and was opposed as ‘“extrava- gantly wasteful” in a radio “debate” to- day between Gen. Smedley D. Butler and Gen. John F. O'Ryan Gen. Butler, re- tired Marine offi- cer, speaking over a National Broad- casting Co. _net- work from Wash- ington, declared “the veterans will get their back pay g because their cliim is just and because the American peo- ple always play fair.” He criticized thase who were op- posed to immediate payment of the bonus, naming in par- i r the 1 nal Economy League. “We remember that war costs money Gen. Butler said. “Our people are find- ing that out and some day they will be more careful about war. It is the same Tory class now shouting the loud- est which made millions out of the war and now doesn't want to pay for it.” Gen. O'Rvan. Compares Expense Increases. “The Department of Agriculture. in- cluding that great success, the Farm Board, in 1927 cost over $156.000.000. in 1932 over $488.- 000,000, 2n increase of 210 per cent.” Gen. Butler said. “Out post office deficit in 1927 was $27.000.000 and 1n 1932, $195,000,000. an increase of 614 per cent. The Treasury Depart- ment in 1927 cost $115,000.000, and 2,01 106 per cent, while curing this_period e cost of vet- an fdministration sed by 23 per cent only.” O'Ryan, wartime commander of the 27th Division of the A. E. F., spoke from New York and outlined his rea- sons for opposing immediate payment of the bonus. Gen. Butler. der pressure of veterans | the company, in an effort to reconcile | it any re- q ividuai need for the money. Well-to-Do Get Bonus. “The law gives the same bonus to the well-to-do and the men with good Jjobs as is provided for those in real need. For every one in real need of this help, there are three to five others who have no real basis for accepting 1 was, _therefore it ., vitallv unfair and tended to lower orth of military serv- y in war. Therefore. d. Gen. O'Ryan added that “25 cents of every dollar of Government revenue now goes to the veterans in one form or another, and the people cannot go on with it.” Heads Another Sugar Firm. SAN FRANCISCO, September 17 (#) —Frank E. Sullivan, whose resignation as head of the Western Sugar Refining Co. was announced Wednesday, has been appointed president al general man- ager of the California & Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation. | IN SASKATCHEWAN Law Forbids Cut In Pay by Lincoln Mayor and Council By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Nebr., September 17. —Mayor Frank Zehrung and his four colleagues on the City Council would like a salary cut, but they can’t have one. In fact, they had already de- cided to take a 5 per cent vol- untary reduction when City At- torney Max Kier mformed them such action was contrary to State law. He explained that salaries of such officlals are fixed by charter and can be changed only by charter amendment. Any other policy, he sald, would be contrary to public policy. |CROP AREAS RECOVER | Editor Declares Province Has Staged 90 Per Cent Comeback | in Year. | By the Associated Press. | . WINNIPEG, September 17.—W. L. | Mactavish, editor of the Winnipeg Tribune, who has made a survey’ of | conditions in Saskatchewan. says in the Tribune today that Saskatchewan | has staged a 90 per cent comeback in one year, and the big crop areas of | the province represent substantial buy-i ing power thi The Tribun cle. from Regina. reacs, in pa * Last year the government had to find $18.000,000 for relief. This year $1,000,000 will be ample. “This Spring 8,000,000 acres were sceded with wheat supplied by the | government. Next Spring requirements will not exceed 100,000 bushels. “Last year 57,000 familles required relief. year there will be 9.000 families “Ninety r cent of the farmers of the province will be able this year to pay current year's taxes, repay the government for seed, binder twine and binder repairs: pay all expense of the year’s work and have enough moncy left to live until next harvest and do next Spring's seeding without &s- sistance * * *.” GOVERNOR OFFERS AID T0 END STRIKE OF 1,000 By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C., September 17.— Gov. C. Max Gardner stepped forward | personally today for the second time in recent weeks as conciliator in an at- tempt to end a labor strike in North Carolina The Governor held conferences at High Point this afternoon with leaders of 1000 strikers of the Thomasville Chair Co. and T. A. Finch, owner of idle workers and mill officials. The employes struck August 25 in ! protest agxmsl a wage cut. Why Pay More? 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