^TALLER . LA SKA.___CARL RASMUSSEN, ELITOH. _
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\ POST WAR PLANS SHOULD COMMENCE NOW.
Just ) )w long this war will last is a rather difficult question to
answer just yet, but all must admit that it will end some time and when
it does conditions will change so fast that it will be hard to antici
pate just what will happen from day to day. However certain conditions
will rerrin very much as they are in any evmt. The writer can see
things that are happening in this war that are almost identical with
those of the Last war and post-war will probably find the sameconditicos
that we had after the last v/ar.
In 19!! 3 we hfcar^ the same cry by the conservative gentry who had
well filled meftey bags an'5 who were constantly grabbing more, that we
hear so much now,ie; "The country will be bankrupt when the war is over
and our childrens' childrens' children will still be paying for this
war in a hundrfed years from now" but much to our surprize, within l ive
years after the war was over, the U.S. Government had collected such
Immense funds by the collection of the same kind of taxes that we are
paying now, that the lawmakers provided for the repayment of about four
billion -’ollara of the said funds in the form of rebates to large tax
payers whom thJjpy claimed had overpaid during the -v/ar, and then f•• rwave
many millions to the foreign powers who had borrowed it during the war.
S it wr. snt so, bad for a limited section of our population-.
But fit tne same time many of the Veterans of the war anf especlnly
a large number of disabled men who were so anxious to get out of tie
army after the Armistice,that they sometimes bid certain injuries incurre
during service, until they got out and their health finally broke down,
were forced beg for charity and engage in such humble work, as having
ts peddle apples on the street corners of our lar0e cities.
It to 5k seveijal years to get enough attention from Congress and the
citizenry at large to correct this condition anr’ during the meantime,
thousands of Veterans and their famalies suffered as a result of the
neglect and carelessness of the people of the country that they had.
served so well. The Soldiers Bonus was only a makeshift affair that was
provided to forestall a mere efficient system of reward for the service.1
given by these men to their country.
Now we are facing another post-war peri .d and we hope that plans will
be made for a'better system that will be worked out to enable thes
men to get back into civil life withoutunnessary hardship and that wil1
recognize the ffcct that their service is worthy of the cost.
The liatanuska Valley c'-uld absorb a considerable number of thes man
and it is too bad that the Community is so badly divided by partizen an
selfish attitudes of a considerable number of cur influential citizens
who should take the lead and organize a movement to provide the best
that ern be devised to help in this matter. We are beginning to wonder
if this Valley will always have to be so badly disorganized,that it has
never been able to make any definite plans for the future, will the old
system of "Tog «*,at dog" have to continue indefin.itely. Arc we so self
centered and selfish that we would even prevent worthy Veterans and othe)
worthy persons from locating and trying to make a living in the Valley.
It will be Interesting to see what is done about and when.