Show The Borah Bonus rp TEE HE trouble with Senator Borah's soldier settlement bill is that it presupposes that the soldiers all want to be farmers Its Ita provisions are no doubt excellent for all tho the very large contingent who wish to devote their energies to the tho reclamation of land and establishment of farms fanus The plan of permitting loans for the acquisition of land hand and financing improvements is excellent and would prove a godsend to those whose inclinations lie in that direction Itis It-is a great constructive step stepin in the i hi- hi Terest r f l r l 1 4 1 4 Ho b. b nn n. n hb v. v u nuLU needs lee vast ast development de in agriculture and food ethic tion on Yet there hundreds of are of the servi service e men nien ien whose education and training and predilections a are e Tn in other fields of endeavor endeavor mechanical mechanical or scientific or orji ji 1 the crafts or or- arts and arts and the bill takes no account of these Is it possible the senator proposes to enact another another another an an- other conscription act and draft all the boys into tho the agricultural gt cultural service ce making farmers out of them whether the they will or no 7 M An instance in m in point is the case of or a Salt Lake boy who is striving to o become a mechanical engineer He huft a 3 position of a d diy day y and joined the army After l. l two iwo o years years' ears service the most part of it overseas he returned re- re returned re turned to find himself in debt Unable to secure his former ormer employment he is now working for 85 a month ut he has no desire desir to change chancre hi his chosen vocation He still wants to be a mechanical engineer A cash bonus or additional compensation would enable him Mm to p pay y off his debt and get a n little start along the road he ll luis has S chosen for forbis his bis life lifes life's 78 work I H This This case is only typical of hundreds of others in this state tate The land settlement legislation is a wise and andr r and much needed be beneficence Hundreds of young fellows will vill be bc glad to avail th themselves of its adVantages ad- ad Vantages But the tile aims nims and objects of the authors of tb the idea of adjusted compensation to the men who served in in the war will ill not be attain attained cd until a broader st statesmanship states states- tes- tes m manship takes cognizance of a full complement of the vocational needs needs' of our young manhood I |