\ eterans’ Bureau
* Tangle Problem
for President
Plans for Re-Establishing
Agency on Firm Rise to
Confront Harding When
\ a cation Is Over.
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(Continued From Paso One.)
fleeted liis confident satisfaction that
the war veterans' bureau was being
managed with exceptional efficiency.
If the coming investigation shows that
all this was not true and that the
war Veterans’ bureau, instead of be
ing one of the triumphs of Harding's
administration, is one of its failures,
the blow will be as great to Harding’s
public prestige as to his own con
fidence in liis selection of men. As
has been said, his selections for the
management of this bureau were per
sonal in an especial sense.
Dr. -Sawyer Chiefs Aid.
Some of Harding's personal ftp
pointments have caused a good deal of
dismay. Some others of them have
turned out to be among the best he
has made. For example, it is a fact
that the man who appears to have
been most diligent in finding out that
all was not well with the war vet
erans’ bureau and most activo in
urging it on Harding's attention and
bringing about a change was another
of Harding's personal appointments,
namely, Dr. Sawyer. In this and in
f other respects Dr. Sawyer has ac
W quin ,1 an exceptional reputation for
ability and' for the kind of devoted
loyalty to tho president which is ac
companied by sound common sense
and vigilance in behalf of the presi
dent's fortunes.
Also, when criticism is made of the
less happy of Harding’s personal ap
pointments It Is necessary to remem
ber that tho number of them In pro
(► portion to all his appointments has
been small and that such disasters as
have accompanied some of his per
sonal appointments should be bal
anced agJlinst the extraordinary qual
ity of those appointments as to which
Harding went completley nway from
his personal eirclo and chose men for
their ability and standing solely.
Harding chose Hughes to be secretary
of state without having any personal
y relation to him and also against the
determined opposition of many of tho
republican leaders. As to Hoover.
Harding had to more or less force
him down the throats of softie of the
senate. Mellon, when Harding ap
pointed him secretary of the treasury,
was wholly unknown to Harding per
sonally. The appointment, was made
as the fruit of a search for the best
possible man. And today there is not
a man in Washington, not even a
democrat, who fails to take pleasure
in proelaming that Mellon Is a very
great secretary of the treasury. An
other appointment as to which Hard
ing went completely outside the cir
cle of his personal acquaintance was
that of Denby as seefetary of the
navy. Denby was not known to
Harding personally and Harding
chose him largely because John
Weeks recommended Denby on aed
count of the fact that during the war
Denby, although a mature man and
an ex-corngresstnan, had Joined tho
marine corps and in this simple
capacity had done a notable work :n
the like . f building up morale among
tho enlisted men. Still another ap
pointment ns to which Harding went
outside his own personal or political
circle Was that of Henry Wallace as
secretary of agriculture.
' rf s Grievances Real.
One of the unhappy results of the
dissatisfaction with the management
or the war veterans' bureau and of
the feeling of the administration that
t is on the derensive in this respect
is that there is unwillingness on the
Part of many men associated with
k fcthi* work to say publicly .certain
tninsrg ^hich they say privately with
great force. Because of the defects
in the management of the govern
ment's relations to the veterans the
veterans have real grievances. In the
confessed presence of these grievances
it is not possible for pun in the ad
ministration to say some things which
they actually feel. If you talk for
half an hour with any of the officials
whose duties bring them Into contact
with the vocational training for ex sol
diets, with the providing of hospital
facilities and the like, you discover a
deep conviction on th»:r part that in
addition to the things which are done
badly and which give many of the
veterans a real and crying grievance
ILgll also some respects in which
harm is being done to some of the
veterans by too easy-going a policy
ort tho part of the government.
For example, the following story is
told as it rime to the writer, without
knowledge of such qualifications as
might be developed by more Intimate
acquaintance with the facts of this
particular case: A certain rich man
has a son In one of tho large unlwer
siMes. The father, having made his
money, wish-s to be careful not to
deprive his son of tho value of his
r,wn experiences of thrift npd care In
tiie management of money. In that
spirit this wealthy father gives his
son a certain stun per month, and
requires the boy to keep his expendi
tures within that limit. On an occa
when the father Inquired of his
son as to whether his monthly at!-.
Pend was enough, be was amused to
discover that the son s complaint lay
In the fact that two of his fellow
s'adents had more money than he to
' end The two fallow-students were
' - tldlers, who were being eduea'ed
t the government us a part of the
i ot of vocational education, and
Wli were actually being paid by the
n mmeut for their personal cx
1 * --ii.-slil# rably more money than
th" on of the rich father. Among
* ali i ... me rich man's s'at had
to sho o himself and black Ills own
shoes. top the ex soldiers were able to
patronlz- tho college barber, Of
course, there may be circumstances
about this ease* which make It excep
tional anti not typical,
\tinther Case filed.
\s Illustrating another phase of the
same situation, a government official
inspecting a hospital for ex soldiers
asked the doctor In charge how soon
lie woltld be able to cure some of bis
W® I 1 t bark to work In private lift The
doctor replied that he would never
be able to eurs them to the point
where they would he willing to leave
the hospital voluntarily, I.. 'he
nmouqt of money the govei nnn nt was
paying them as rxsoldleis under
’"olrnenl was lust enough to make
them timid about going out of the
4
hospital ami trying to make a begin
ning in Home private occupation.
In the judgment of some of the
government officials, this sort of
tiling is a great disadvantage to the
e.\ soldiers. It Is leading the young
men in a direction away from self
reliance. As one official expressed it:
"The government, by Its management,
is willfully building up among tens
of thousands of young men a most
unhappy spirit, hurtful to themselves
and likely to cause them to have n
most un-American attitude toward
our government.’’
If the coming investigation could be
managed In such a temper as to cover
the whole matter of policy about the
government's relation to the veterans
the result might be permanently use
ful in a constructive sense'. The
a mount of money now being paid out
is by far the largest single item of
government expense, except the item
of interest on the waX debt. The ex
pense for care of the veterans is al
ready much greater than was antici
pated, and those who are closest to the
subject of appropriations say that it
win go on increasing from year to
year, and fear that it is almost im
i sibb to sec the end. Apart from
the money involved, there is doubt as
to the efficacy of some of the train
ing provided, and doubt as to the
adaptation of many of the individual
ex-soldiers to the careers for which
the government is training them.
There is fear, also, that there is be
ing built up in the minds of these
soldiers a spirit of dependence on the
government which will have the un
liappiest. effects on their ability to
make gowd in the world and on their
attitude toward society.
Hines’ Appointment Commended.
Whatever may have been the de
fects in the recent management of
the war veterans’ bureau, there is uni
versal expectation among those most
competent to judge that the manage
ment now in charge will do well.
Harding's appointment ofl l'.rigadier
General Hines to take charge was the
fruit of a search for a man best
quf^ified by training and ability for
this kind of task. Men who have had
contact with General Hines in his
conduct of the various official func
tions he has filled in the past go out
of their xgay to commend him and ex
press enthusiastic confidence in his
ability to handle this extraordinarily
difficult job. Competent officials of
the government say it would lie poa^
sible to save as much as $HKf,000,000
a year in the management of the vet
erans' bureau and at the same time
do all that is now being done for the
ex soldiers and do It more to thesta’is
compensated, so far as it is humanly
What is needed is that every ex-sol
dler who has been disabled should bo
cared for in such a way ns to make
him feel that his sacrifice haa been
compensated, so far ns it Is humanely
possible to do It. And the Important
thing Is that this service should be
given to the ex soldier in such a way
and at such a time as to give him sat
isfaction. What the ex-soldiers com
plain against, and complain ngainst
with a justice that appeals to every
body, is that there is intolerable de
lay in taking up their eases; and luck
of the best management for the hos
pitals and vocational training schools
in which the ex soldiers are cared fur.
Both as to giving hospital care to the
disabled ami ns to providing them with
training to make a livelihood, time Is
I important. In actual practice, delay
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is the great complaint. The ex sol
illots express no grievance against the
provision congress h;uj made for them,
nor do they complain of the amount ;
of money assigned to each. All the
burden of dissatisfaction js charged
against management, against lurk of
prompt efficiency In administration.
Kjcs Set on World Court.
Another aspect of President Hard
ing's course when he returns that is
going to lie watched with putt h in
tentness |s the question whether he
will make ti fight in favor of h!s pro
posal to join the perm inent court for
International Justice or will let it
take Its own way to whatever may he
ils fate without aid from him. The
general judgment is that Harding is
decidedly called upon to fight, nnd<
that if h« fails to fight it will add
fatally itkto to the impression, al
i ■ I^ d ■ ■. ■ > ! v i*’ ■ * lit fr- i
point of \ .ew of Hard,ng*s standing
with the country—the impression that
in his relations **ith congress h** is
too egsy going, too prone to let things
go by default. Competent judges of
public psychology say it is impossible
for a president to make the right kind
of on Smpio* on on the public If be
looks upon his off w* nori ty as that
of (trio wb« r* * rnntetid* They suy
11 h.u if ilaidine * ■ not b*ib n Hn
vently in the <•. urt. he ought not to
love proposed it, and thitf having
propos'd it, end Identified htmself
with it, he should now accept the chal
lenge of those who have set up op
, position to it. ^
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