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Bungling Of Yets Administration
Will Cost Taxpayers $50 Million
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
NEA Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON ( NEA ) Administrative bungling and congres
sional delay will cost the U. S. taxpayer at least $50,000,000 worth
of savings in the veterans' training and education program this year.
Early last spring Veterans Ad
ministration 'told Congress it
could save the Treasury more
than $100,000,000 if it had the
power to keep veterans out of
courses which It called "avoca
tional and recreational." Con
gress waited until late this sum
mer to give VA that power. VA
officials had plenty of assurances
beforehand that the bill giving
it to them would be passed. But
when it was passed and signel
by the President on Aug. 24, they
checks, it became obvious that
It wasn't until Sept. 15 that
VA could announce that it had
figured out how to admininter
its new authority. But by that
time, after a series of blunders
which almost gypped an estimat
ed 15.000 veterans out of tuition
and several months' subsistence
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VA could not get the law opera
ting until next semester. It had
to postpone enforcing the mea
sure until Nov. 1.
The $50,000,000 estimate of
what all this foolishness will cost
the taxpayer is really conserva
tive. It is based on the fact that
most colleges and schools oper
ate on a two-semester basis. With
VA unable to use its new power
to keep vets out of recreational
and avocational courses until the
second semester of this year, at
least half of the estimated $100,
000,000 savings can't be made.
Years' Savings Lost
There is a Jot more to It then
that. Delaying the enforcement
of the new law opened the gate
for all veterans to get starred in
many courses now, which might
not be available to them later.
And once they are started
those courses, or types of train
ing, they can continue on for one.
two or three years, until they
are finished. So possible savings
which the law seeks to make
have actually been lost for sev
eral years.
And this result Is already ap
parent Since VA announced the
postponement, schools all over
the country report that thousands
of veterans have suddenly decid
ed to enroll now while there is
no question of getting in under
the GI training program who
otherwise might have waited a
year or two.
The most important section of
the law in this connection is not
the one which will keep veterans
out of dance courses, bartending
schools, and the like. There has
come to be pretty general agree
ment that that type of training
was not the intention of the CI
bill. The section Involved limits
further training to all vets who
have either Interrupted a course
or who have completed one phase
of a course.
Fuss Is Unexpected
VA's position is that if a vet
eran dropped a course or chang
ed one, he shouldn't be eligible
for any more training unless he
can prove beyond any doubt that
any more courses will lead di
rectly to a Job. And the 'same
applies to a vet who might have
finished one phase of training
and wants to take advanced
training with the credits he has
left.
Announcing on Sept. 15 that as
of Sept. 12 the rigid restrictions
on GI training would go Into ef
fect was the blunder which final
ly forced VA to abandon enforc
ing the restrictions until the next
semester. The retroactive an
nouncement found the estimated
15,000 veterans who would be af
fected already enrolled for the
term.
VA officials admitted that they
were aware that a great number
of veta would get caught short
by the poorly timed announce
ment. But they thought that the
inconvenience and loss of money
to them would be worth the sav
ings to the Treasury that could
be made by getting the restric
tions In force for this emester.
They didn't anticipate that il
would kick up such a fuss.
Most U. S. educators have
fought the whole VA theory of
limiting GI training. Ther were
glad to be able to use the ad
ministrative errors of VA as a
means of getting the regulations
postponed a semester.
On the Oregon trail, pioneon
lived on roses and rose hips when
their food supplies failed.
In colonial times, the branches
of the witch hazel shrub served
as divining rods in searching for
water and ores.
Guaranrt For American
Investment Abroad OKd
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. tfy
Legislation to guarantee U. &
private investments abroad un
der President Truman's "point
four" program was approved on
Wednesday by the House Banking
committee.
The legislation, already okayed
hy a Senate committee, Is de
signed to encourage private en
terprise to take part in the Pres
ident's plan to help underde
veloped areas.
Guarantees were spelled out
by the House group to assure:
1. Convertibility of profits In
to U.t S. dollars . to protect In
vestors against blocked returns in
foreign currency.
2. Compensation, In dollars,
for loss resulting from expropri
ations, confiscation or seizure by
foreign nations.
One of the oldest pictures of a
rose in existence is found in the
Byzantine manuscript of Pedan
lus Dloscorlde's notebook, writ
ten In the first century after
Christ, and shows a pink Galllca
rose.
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Sntinkla fruit llorrallr with autar and with a
llttla sratrd oranae rind and fulra. Dor with
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and arraa polnta tncethrr orwr fruit. Plara in
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oranae eauca.
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canned plums mar ha need.
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HIGH SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL
TOMORROW NIGHT 8:00 P.M.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
FINLAY FIELD
Admission
1.50 Reserved Seats
1.00 Oen. Admission
lie Students
(with
Stud.nt Body Card)
2Se Children
(Under 12)
Prices Include tax
Hey Kids! Win a
In the Interest of fire prevention week, PENNEY'S
are sponsoring a letter contest open to any student
In Douglas County from junior high school age down
through the grades.
Letters should be taken to Pennoy's any time before
next Monday evening, October 10. The letters will be
Judged and the prize letters will he on display in
Penney's Kire Prevention window display next week.
Fire Chief William E. "Dutch" Mills and two of his
assistants in the fire department will Judge the
letters.
Entries should not he longer than 300 words.
Suggested topics are: defective chimneys and flues;
lightning; sparks on roof; gasoline and petroleum
products; matches and smoking; spontaneous igni
tion; stoves, furnaces and pipes, and hot ashes and
coals. These are only suggested topics . , . and r
other topic may be chosen.
Win one of these cash prizes
First prite ....
Second prizt
$5.00
$3.00
and 14 additional prizes
of $1.00 each.
Hi
Rules of the contest
1. All Douglas County students from Junior High
school down through the grade schools are
eligible to enter.
2. Entries must be 300 words or less.
S. Entries must be brought to Penney's store before
5:30 p.m. Monday, October 10.
Penneyb