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Show THERE'S NO FOOL LIKE- SECRETARY ANDREW MELLON raises his nands j in horror when it is suggested that Bills Jones, ex-dough-1 boy, receive his $952 back pay from world war service now instead of 20 years from now. But Secretary Mellon okays without an instant's hesitation a tax refund of $15,205,343 to tlia United States Steel corporation. ' j Jack Thompson, ex-sailor, will have to wait his full 20 years to cash his war service compensation certificate, but Swift & Co., Chicago meat packers, get their $7,088,-922 $7,088,-922 tax refund right away. John D. Rockefeller won't have to wait, either. Uncle Sam is in a big hurry to help out Jolin D. with a tax refund of $443,406. Millions for corporations and the nation's richest-individuals. richest-individuals. But for the thousands of war veterans who got $32 a month while the profiteers were piling up hoards of gold nothing, if Mr. Mellon has his way. Mr. Mellon says the ex-soldier boys don't know how to spend their money. Well, we don't know whether Mr. Mellon is right or not, but we do kuow of a grec.t many ex-scldier boys in Sanpete valley who would buy clothes and food with that money if they could get it this winter. It is their mcney. They earned it with the risk of their lives. There's no fool like a rich official. |