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Show TWO PACTS Two facts before the American people are worthy of consideration at this time. First, this is the year for holding congressional elections for returning return-ing some of our solons to Washington Washing-ton and leaving others at home to repent re-pent of their shortcomings. Second, congress has suddenly ' "ome to life on the subject of a jldier bonus law. Nearly five years after the close of the wan. when all other nations have enacted readjusted compensa-'1 tion legislation in favor of thalr p--:-servic men, we are still at sea. haggling and scrapping over ways and means, with thousands and thousands of veterans destitute and out of employment. If congress ever intends to do jus! ice to these men it should be done now, when they are still alive and most need it. It would be only an insult to their memory to pay it to their descend-en;s descend-en;s after they are dead and gone. It would seem that congress has one eye on the approaching elections ami the other on the American Legion Le-gion vote, but even that Is better than the uttter callousness that has existed heretofore. |