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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your editorial of March, 10 about the soldier bonus was an insult to the American soldier. We, I say we, for I have two years' service behind me, did give freely and were proud to give when there was need. Now, when the emergency is past we do not ask charity; we desire justice.

During the war those who built camps and worked on Government contracts were highly paid and the people of the United States were glad to pay them. We, who had to endure the hardships and face the dangers received every month about one half or even one-quarter of what these were receiving weekly. Many of us gave up good positions to enter the

service and have not been able to regain these. Others of us had our education interrupted and now have difficulty in trying to keep up with our studies, to say nothing of earning our expenses.

And yet, we are mercenary. How easily the American people forget! Three years ago we were the "Crusaders of Democracy." Today we are the "robbers of the Treasury," and "Mercenary."

When I returned from France, after twenty-two months overseas, I came upon an orgy of profiteering that made the French, whom I had considered the original profiteers, seem mild. The sixty dollar bonus which the Magnanimous Congress allowed me hardly sufficed to pay for a cheap suit of clothes. When I tried to obtain work I found the exempted were holding the good positions. I had to be satisfied with what they did not want. And now, because I, with my former comrades, ask justice, I am mercenary.

I would suggest that the editorial department of the CRIMSON confine its efforts to finding what is wrong with the Harvard spirit and rectifying that rather than trying to rob the American service man of his just due.  FRANCIS T. BAXTER 1E.S. March 11, 1921