The headline, "Vassar Cooperating," is an appetizer potent enough to make any Yale breakfast tasty. If you add to that juicy morsel the piece de resistance of an immediate cash bonus disbursement for all persons under thirty-six, this being the reading period surprise of the Great White Father, and then dump both sweet essences into the arms of full-blooded Yale men, any Bolshevist will admit that you've got the makings of a dirty-bourgeois bombshell.

To a greater or less degree that is what happened here yesterday. Campus opinion was unanimous in its approval of the program of "The Veterans of Future Wars," organized at Princeton to get a bonus for the youth of the country. The economic aspect of the plan came in for particular praise. No one could deny that the granting of the bonus would aid Mr. Hopkins to get rid of that embarrassing "wad" he is trying to dispose of, and as young 'uns are notoriously good spenders, the effect on the depression would be incalculable. As for the justice of the demands, the organization's statement that "the most deserving bloc of veterans has always been killed off by the end of the war" was unanswerable; and its plan to pay the bonus before the war was equally logical. Considered in their entirety, the claims were not exorbitant. They were, moreover, a definite proof of the unrest that is sweeping the nation's campi.

We cannot but feel, however, that the "Association of Gold Star Mothers" got the dirty end of that Princeton stick. They get shipped to Europe "to view the green fields where their sons shall some day lie" while we stay home and enjoy our boni at Savin Rock. Inasmuch as Mr. Brisbane assures us that the next war will be a Japanese invasion, we see no reason why the Vassar heroines cannot get "teary around the eyes" looking at the green fields adjacent to New Haven.

In retrospect, we feel that although some fraction of the recipients of the recent bonus deserved all that the government could give them and many, perhaps, even more than was finally allotted, nevertheless, it is true that some ridicule is healthy and necessary for good government. --Yale Daily News