Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-05 | Page 4 | A Washington Daybook

j J JIA IA Washington Daybook 5 By RODNEY DUTCHER I W WASHINGTON June 5 News s News that loans loan to veterans on their bonus certificates certificates certificates have now exceeded a bUlion billion bit bil lion dollars interesting as it Is for tor forthe forthe the reason that the demand for tor loans has been so much greater than anyone anyone any any- one ono expected la Is even more so ro in the light of persistent reports that a strong movement will develop In I fa favor favor fa- fa avor a- a vor of forgiving the loans altogether The demand is expected to be heard at the American Legion convention in Detroit Detroit- next September and al although iii- iii though most Legion leaders presumably presumably presumably ably will wUl oppose it there 1 is bound t to td tobe be some rome support In congress and there is 15 always the possibility that rank and file fHe sentiment will run away with the more conservative officers of veteran organizations If the forgiveness movement makes progress the most optimistic thought for its sponsors Is that congress has always given gUen veterans what they wanted sooner or later The principal principal principal pal dampening factor will be the huge treasury deficit No one expects forgiveness for for- ness by the next congress which for I however is likely to pass a widows widow's pension bill If and when veterans' veterans loans are forgiven the total Q oj them probably will have exceeded 1500 S. S Rumors that the Republicans would hire the radio team of Amos and Andy to campaign for President Ident Hoover Hoover Hoo Boo ver vet in 1932 have been current for tor several weeks but the Republican command certainly has no such plan at this thi time Conservative c politicians worrying plenty about 1932 believe It would be bea a dangerous experiment and might prove ruinous General agreement Is that it will be safer to try to warn and admonish the voters than to try to kid them Into voting the Republican can ticket Among the government hero now a bright h haa 1 found are George Washington j John Adams Thomas Jefferson Madison Ison James Jame Monroe Andrew James Jackson William H. H Harrison John Tyler James Buchanan u Simpson Grant Chester Arthur iambi jamin Harrison William MCKInley Theodore Roosevelt and anti Herbert t Hoover Hoover Is SS a captain In th the army Roosevelt governor S of Por Porto Potto Rico Grant director of public ings and arid parks park and the rest arc to be found among the chemists clerks guards messengers other and The same authority reports Zachary Taylor James K Poi Polk drew Johns Johnson n and Woodrow Wilson are aLso L to be found in the local tele ide phone directory 9 Invited to the big Red Cross G. G Gold en Jubilee fiftieth anniversary here one Washington editor r. r turned his ticket with word that ha hi didn't think he would enjoy tl the f fOOd and decorations because so many tC eo- eo pie were starving S S 95 Congressman David J. J Lc of Maryland returned to congre if ar ter about 20 years ears probably will b the foremost LatIn Lathi scholar a and th the hardest working student In th the n not nen house howe During his previous ser h he learned French so that he might authorities for an exhaustive ate study preparatory to a n. speech on ration to the house When his bUt hij ta to create the parcel post was up a and they were about to divide ai an hours hour time between sides Speaker Jim Jin Mann announced that there w was wu only one man on either side who knew anything about parcel post and he might as well have all the time So Lewis had the whole time