To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

If you have room in your columns for the following point of view on the Bonus Question, I will much appreciate it if you will put it in.

Pay back the ex-service man is what we hear on all sides. Let's pay him and then have done with him. This is not the attitude we should take. Instead, would it not be much better to make the ex-service man feel that our gratitude towards him is permanent rather than ephemeral, as would be the case if he were paid merely a bonus.

Money cannot repay all the sufferings and hardships that the ex-service man has endured; but good-will and gratitude can, to a very large extent. The logical way to express this gratitude and make it permanent is to do for the ex-service man the identical service he did for us. He fought overseas to save the people at home from slavery, poverty, and distress; why cannot we, now in turn, fight for a Government Ex-Service Man Employment Bureau which will save the ex-service man from slavery, poverty, and distress by giving him work or finding work for him if he happens to be unemployed.

What a man dreads most is to be out of a job. As there are usually more men than jobs, the greatest service we can do the ex-service man is to make it utterly impossible for him to be out of a job. This would undoubtedly be of much greater value to him than the handing out indiscriminately to rich and poor ex-service man alike a few hundred dollars. By one method the entire future of the ex-service man is provided for, and he will appreciate it; by the other method only a few weeks are provided for, and he will forget it. Yours truly.   L. B. NONNIN '20

February 15, 1992.