Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 44, DeMotte, Jasper County, 15 September 1944 — NEW DEAL RECORD [ARTICLE]

NEW DEAL RECORD

The 11-year record of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal administration in dealing with veterans of World War I and their dependents holds forth no promise of favorable action by him during a fourth term. His many pronouncements of opposition to veterans’ aid during the early years of his administration, when the number of veterans was small as compared to the added 11 million now in uniform, cannot be offset by his fireside chat statement of July 29, 1943. In the 74th Congress the New Deal President VETOED four veterans* aid measures. From March 4, 1933, to the present time the New Deal President has VETOED no less than eighteen veterans’ benefit bills. Here is what he told the American Legion in October, 1933: “No person, because he wore a uniform, must thereafter be placed in a special class of beneficiaries over and above all other citizens. The fact of wearing a uniform does not mean that he can demand and receive a benefit which no other citizen receives. “It does not mean that because .a person served in the defense of his country, performed a basic obligation of citizenship, he should receive a pension from his government.”

Only sixteen days after he took office the first time, he signed a so-called “economy bill” which slashed 450 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from veterans aid payments. He said then: “I am wholly and unequivocally opposed to the principle of the general service pension.” But the fourth term candidate said, in his fireside chat, July 29, 1943: “I have assured our men in the armed forces that the American people would not let them down.” On his can anybody have confidence in the New Deal candidate’s PROMISES now? VOTE REPUBLICAN.