Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1946 — Page 10

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United CHICAGO, June 6.—!

need say a word to Insure the payment of a soldier bonus by rich

Illinois where the budget runs near $775,000,000 a year.

Spokesmen for the Mr. Wilson

Chicago Council of Labor Veterans|further threatened to pitch tents on the{should be paid by the federal govgovernor's mansion lawn to oversee ernment.

IMinois Spearheads First Assault Wave| in Aimed at Capturing Service Vote; Taxpayers to Be the Losers.

By LYLE C. WILSON iF Press Staff Correspondent Illinois politicians of both parties are storming

the bonus beach heads today to capture the veteran vote. There are about 1,000,000 former service men and women in this state. Taxpayers will be the only casualties in this bloody engagement. Politicians dispute only how the bonus shall be financed. They all favor something for the boys. The veterans and their organizations scarcely

developments during the bonus special session.

. x = Politicians of smaller, less wealthy states will be alarmed by Illinois developments. The little fellows say their states cannot afford to keep up with Illinois Jones's on the bonus. More than a score of governors, met last week in Oklahoma City as .their 38th annual conference, agreed the states should stay out of the bonus business. Even Governor Edward Martin of big Pennsylvania insisted any veterans’ compensation

‘| tion whether the veterans shall help

(Lyle C. Wilson, United Press ashington bureau manager, is touring the nation surveying public’ opinion. Today he writes from Chicago about the veterans’ bonus.) ,

necesarily indorsing a bonus. They were just passing the responsibility.

o » » EDITORIAL writers analyze the political bonus dispute as a ques-

to pay for most of their own bonus now as they get it or whether their children should pay for it. That is a bald statement of the issue which divides the Republicans, led by Governor Dwight H, Green, and the Democrats, led by Chicago’s aging Mayor Edward Kelly. Either way veterans would receive an average gratuity of $392.50. It has been estimated that the average to navy veterans would be $410; to army veterans $375. Bonus pald would be at the rate of $10 monthly for domestic and $15 monthly for foreign service. Service connected death would be worth $900. Overalicost would be $385,000,000. There are some lone voices urging that immediate housing is a more urgent matter for veterans than a few hundred dollars of

These men were not

legislature State Senator A. L. Morovitz (D.) Chicago, a marine veteran, challenged the bonus pleaders.

lems,” he said. “I am afraid we are thinking not about the next generation but about the next ’election.” Mr. Morovitz probably had something there; Chicago and Cook county this week voted on a $175,000,000 bond issue, of which $115,000,000 was for municipal improvements. That bond issue and the fact he comes up for re-election next spring apparently have much to do with shaping Mayor Kelly's ideas on how the bonus should be financed. - » ~ GOVERNOR GREEN is in office until 1948 but the Republicans have an enormous national, state and local stake in next November's general elections. With his own bond issue and political future in mind, Mayor Kelly and the Democrats argue there should be no special taxes to pay bonus costs. They propose, first, to divert $125,000,000 from Governor Green's fat state treasury surplus which the governor zealously guards. The remaining $260,000,000 would be paid

epee oe CR HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ri oliticians Hunt 'Bonus Gold AT A PREVIOUS sesison of the

“There are more important prob-|

turns from the existing 2 per cent Illinois sales tax. That would raise between $25,000,000 and $27,000,000 a year to service the bonus indebtedness.

. ” 1 J . THE REPUBLICANS counter with this plan: They would increase the cigaret tax from two to three cents per package to raise about $7,500,000. A 10 per cent tax on movie admissions would get them another $5,000,000. The parimutuel horse players would contribute $8,000,000 to $9, 000,000 in a direct tax to be paid by the bettors themselves. The remainder would be withdrawn from the general state fund, but at a rate of $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 a year instead of in a lump sum, as the Democrats propose. ‘. ~ f J THOSE .TAX increases make Mayor Kelly shiver. Chicagoans may like a bonus but they will not like the taxes proposed. If might go hard with the mayor when election time comes next spring. American Legion Commander John Stelle has suggested a 10 per cent tax on hotel rooms, Soft drink manufacturers suffered the screaming meemies on hearing a suggestion that their products be taxed. “It would be tapping the kiddies

spending money.

by earmarking 25 per cent of re-

piggy banks,” they exclaimed.

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OPTIMISTS TO HEAR TIMES EXECUTIVE

Donald Hoover, assistant to the editor of The Indianapolis Times, will speak at the Optimist club luncheon meeting at 12:15 p. m. tomorrow at the Severin hotel. A former colonel in the army counter-intelligence service, Mr. Hoover will speak on “It's Our Business.”

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