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Show Rather Bold Talk The average politician is very careful not to say anything which might offend a large group. Senator Carter Glass, Virginia Democrat, is r.ot an ordinal y politician. Recognized Rec-ognized as one of the" leading minds in framing the Federal Reserve Re-serve Act during the Wilson Administration, Ad-ministration, he was one ot the few Democrats who voted against one of 1'itsident Roosevelt's recent fiscal ireasures. On the matter of pensions this fiery Virginia newspaper news-paper man talks out just as plainly. plain-ly. Not long ago he said: "I voted against the Bonus and I never cast a vote of which I was prouder. I had two boys in the front-line trenches, one of them being nearly killed. I had a nephew there who was gassed so badly that he will never recover. I had a sister in a hospital in France and two daughters in the hospitals here to relieve trained nurses. I would not want ever to speak to one of them again if they would join in the raid upon the Federal Treasury made by people who have never suffered any disability and thousands of them who got better treatment, better clothing, better food, better disciplipe after they went into the service. When he comes out of the combat without with-out wounds, without disability, a veteran has no right to raid the Treasury perpetually because he was called into the contest called in under draft, too, when it was a question of being shot here or shoi at abroad." |