THE NATIONAL ECONOMY LEAGUE

The National Economy League deserves the support of the Harvard community that it is endeavoring to reach through the newly announced undergraduate push committee. In fact, the chief obstacle that remains to be overcome is the average student's reluctance to 'sign away his life' in the way of giving his name to the League's feeless membership lists.

The need for economy in government is a belief accepted by taxpayers everywhere. The Economy League attempts to provide non-partisan opposition to various outstanding governmental wastes, notably the overbearing amounts of bonus and other payments made to war veterans of other than deserving character. Opponents of the League argue that if its leaders obtain a significant number of voter's names and support, that even the deserved payments to veterans will be cut off. Such a contention is answered by the statements made by the League's representative advisory council under the heading of specific objectives. It is only right that the support of war veterans and dependents whose condition is actually the result of war service, and not of post war accident, should continue. The League's aim is to stop the mass of payments now being made to numbers of men who, eager to obtain a slice of the governmental melon, have carved out a nitch for themselves that is entirely without justification.

To adopt a laissez-faire attitude in the question, and to withhold support of the League is to provide the muddy streams of graft with further substance. Already the League has organized itself in good shape under responsible leadership; economy itself is a non-partisan issue. In supporting the League students will be give further strength to a sound movement that merits their cooperation.