Show food and work for everybody chief objective of the administration veterans lobby keeps 1 up pressure by EARL GODWIN TA SUING T ON congress washington cheered Roose roosevelt veli lustily as lie he mounted the rostrum of 0 the house the first president in history who has personally read a veto message it Is 13 customary these days for a president to read general messages on the state of the union a custom started by george washington discontinued by jefferson arid and revived by wilson but not until franklin roosevelt went to the capitol to explain why he must return the bonus bill unsigned has a president ever done such a thing tu in person they have always written out the message and sent it up lup by messen messenger er to be read by one of the clerks congress cheered him I 1 say so did the crowds which lined the file streets and met him on the plaza of the capitol there mere acre more people out to see him go to the capitol than have greeted him since inauguration day yes congress cheered him cheered him tor for ills his personality and his courage in going there to tell veterans that they could not have what they wanted yet within half an hour after he had read the message the house which bad cheered him voted to pass the bonus over his veto 24 hours later the senate voted to sustain him and between the amo houses the patman bonus bill falls fails yet that does not end the matter the veterans lobby strongest pressure group vie me have today immediately starts out to pass some other bonus bill through this or some succeeding congress roosevelt vetoed the bonus bill because he was morally certain he be should do so liell he believes elleves the bonus Is not due until 1915 that he be should not discriminate in favor ot of any one group of people that the greenbacks green backs with which corig congress ress proposed to pay the bonus would constitute inflation lie ile sees the pres present en t emergency depression and all as one line large problem and explains that tb tace e are certain things filings to ibe be done first ie e roarn in aln thing being to feed the hun bun arv and get gent wark for the jobless in cli clipping pling any and all veterans who are in distress lut I 1 ut for w weeks eks the widespread act er ernei nii lobby lifts has been filling the walls mails the ar and the telegraph offices offices with insi inar tent demands to pass the bonus bill tid nd pay it now the veterans the amt Amii i ican legion and the veterans of 0 fore it 11 wars have completely dominated leir house houge of df representatives that group croul Is in the position where they will cheet roosevelt Koo sevelt support him in polities politics ind vote against him on oa the bonu largely because otherwise they fear ol il feat beat at the hands of the veterans in ili ilip i lip next election and roose nelt elt it lr elf knows that he is facing a tough r wd when he goes contrary to their isacs i 0 0 0 ROG GIVES REASONS of cou iii 1 I Roosevel ts task was not merely t tr filk to the veterans he was telling nil all america just what ills his reasons fortu for turning ining down the bonus dm demands n ile he had to tell the people eople that what t a large number of them wanted was not noi the best thin thing tor for them after all roosevelt argued that the bonus Is not now adte chiy because the original legislation for payment in 1913 1945 that to pay it now nov would involve boic than the present value of the certificates the proposal is unjust lie he argued because this government has haq taken bucel lent care of the wounded and disabled that needy veterans are now taken care of on bellef re lef and that cash payments to them alone would sing single e them thela out oat as a specially privileged reged class of depression victims while in the case of other veterans it would distribute cash without regard to need roosevelt was positive against the greenback method of paying the ie bonus the argument of senator mcafoos McA doos that these greenbacks green backs would not hurt the count rys credit was smashed by the president once open the gate to this type of ED money oney he be said and other organized lobbies would rush in and demand the same kind of money for some other project ile he was strongest in his argument against inflation but kindly and sympathetic ile he strove to convince the file bonus advocates that they were mistaken rathor rather than anything else it was plain to see that he was talking straight from the heart hearl what will his bonus veto do to him politically there can be no doubt it has tremendous possibilities it may drag along and become an ominous threat to in the next campaign but that Is more than a year olt off there Is strength for roosevelt among the millions the new deal has liel helped ped the men ud and women who have been fed the millions million whose faring fann and homes have been baked the other either millions who ho believe with roose belt elf that ae the bonus should not ile be paid now the in millions illions who are wedded to the japa idea of a X ne deal in and government and who want wa nt roosevelt again to continue the plaus plans he lias already started so there can be no na definite agreement as to what part the bonus will 1 play in the next neit campaign it is 14 carta certainly anly true thaile abat K the campagna camp agn Is an old d tr IL I L deft like hie RIO nikl nn art cid billip Reli till lean that inest of C tin tilt et rans would mould diw for rather than for the 1 0 1 tilt tilt no one knows kimt file next year viii bring forth in the way any of men inen arid issues the bonus may have been forgotten in another six months SPREADING THE THC NEWS this government makes it easy for people to find out what Is xan kalns kilns on in this administration in ha helped get the news by putting trained new newspaper paper men lit in the government to get the facts and help spread thorn them roosevelt talks directly to newspaper correspondents twice a week eck answering questions and discussing w liny any subject put up to him it if he has the knowledge obviously roosevelt Is not going to give away any military or diplomatic secrets to foreign countries by publishing them broadcast so once in a whale lie he tells ills his newspaper friends something of oft the record for their information only not to be printed but simply to be frank with them this Is new dew at the white bouse this frati frankness liness Is being abeln twisted into something ulterior by the opposition I 1 to 0 the new deal it Is charged that ill the newspaper paper men who are arc employed by the government to dig out th the e facts are arc not telling truths but are spreading kropa propaganda adda it Is charged that roosevelt dodges questions or refuses to answer thern them frankly that Is a falsehood which scores of 0 newspaper men who deal with roosevelt resent bitterly WATCHING THE republicans washington awaits the outcome 0 of a republican RepublIC 1111 gathering in springfield ill june 1011 10 11 to adopt principles for the next campaign the idea came from liberal republicans in the gilld west vrest but the reactionaries appear to be swarming to keep the party from being liberal the reactionaries have haic apparently edthe presidential boom of 0 gov GOT alt M london landon of kansas who might have hae been a strong contender at springfield eastern republicans public ans dont want landon or any other progressive their play Is to set the G 0 P in atlon motion toward a headon collision with erera thing the new deal stands tor for anil and take it from me that Is exactly what the alie new deal wants a clear division in the country for and against this nd administration mInIstration there will however be many republicans public ans at th the e springfield meeting definitely favoring some ot of the new deal policies you may read of senator arthur capper of kansas attending the meeting lie ile favors the new dehls deals agricultural policies his defense of the AAA equals anything secretary of agriculture wallace has uttered the springfield aprin sprin afield meeting too will follow a recent gathering of about farmers at peoria who gave the AAA as strong a boost as the farm army which canie to washington a few days ago the fact that some of the democratic leaders here are opposed to the AAA makes a queer situation democratic senator harry byrd of virginia hai bai been attacking the AAA with all hla his might and his position causes mark Sull iian staunch republican journalist to nominate dominate senator byrd as pros candidate on the republican ticket sullivan Is s one of herbert hoovers overs best friends too and ills his recommendation ommen dation of a vir virginia enla democrat for the republican standard bearer Is an amazing political development it will be taken seriously too humorous as that may seem by some ot of the republicans public ans and indicates the precarious condition in which the file republican party finds itself nor Is that all there Is talk of al smith again ills friend charles C bellinger of new york Is starting another smith S ml ali for president boom and has more than signatures in new york too progressive and pro new IN deal mayor laguardia Is rallying men arid and women of 0 progressive tendencies tend enles to get together on a set 0 of principles while in wisconsin the la Fol lettes just celebrated the first anniversary of their new progressive Progress ite pa party ty there Is a bond of sympathy between the wisconsin progressives Progress ives and this administration wisconsin has put forward the first statewide state wide practical program of public works and has received federal approval tor for something like ot of wa work rk relief possibly roosevelt will say something interesting to the progressives Progress ives it ho he speaks to t the e young democratic clubs of america which convenes in milwaukee wis in august republicans here are steadfastly building up a campaign machine which they believe will defeat roosevelt so far there Is no practical indication that they will in tact fact the latest survey by a republican expert roger W babson well known analyst of 0 public affairs shows roosevelt a winner in 1936 0 western newspaper union |