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MARCHERS DEFIANT
ON ORDER TO LEAVE
Leaders Declare They Will,
Stay Here Until Con
gress Acts.
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numbers to overawe Congress and force
passage of bonus legislation was not to
be tolerated by the Congress Itself or
by the country'.
Harrison Opposes Bill.
Opinions expressed by other Senators
were to the effect that the soldiers’
bonus bill would have far more difficulty
in obtaining approval in the Senate
than in the House, if it ever leaches
the Senate. Senator Pat Harrison of
Mississippi, ranking Democratic member
of the Finance Committee, reiterated
his declaration of opposition to the
passage of bonus legislation at this time,
when the Federal Treasury is facing a
huge deficit, and when new and heavy
tax levies are just being placed on the
people to meet this deficit and balance
the budget.
While the advance units were per
fecting an organization under single
leadership at a joint parley last night,
the police made preparations to meet
any emergency. All days off and an
naul leave of policemen were canceled
by special order, effectiv tomorrow. The
order will hold until the marchers have
demobilized and departed.
A split in leadership of the forces
threatened solidarity, according to in
dications yesterday. Although Com
munist leaders were claiming credit for
organizing the march, other leaders re
pudiated radicalism and disavowed af
filiation with the Workers' Ex-Service
Men's League or the National Pro
visional Bonus March Committee, red
organizations.
Lumberjack Is Leader.
Under the organization effected at
the conference last night, temporary
leadership was assumed by George Al
man. Oregon lumberjack, whose dele
gation was the first to entrench here.
Alman is acting In the absence of Wal
ter W. Waters of Portland. Oreg.. who
Is 111 with a nervous breakdown.
The unification of the forces, which
are now in four camps in the southwest
and southeast, was effected at a meet
ing of a legislative committee formed
earl'er in the day by representatives of
the various groups. The committee has
17 member's and is to act as a "steering
committpe" on all matters of policy.
This committee will formulate an inten
sive drive to get votes for the Patman I
bill
Serving direetly under the commander '
In chief will be the leaders at the con
centration points—A F. Taylor of Port
land. Eighth and I streets southeast,
where the Oregon delegation is quar
tered: Elmer Jensen of Salt Lake City. I
who is in charge of the groups at '
Twelfth and D streets southwest and ,
Seventh and L streets southwest, and'
M T. Thomas of Camden. N. J., head 1
Of the Anacostia ramp, where 1.000 vet
erans are billeted.
Glassford Delivers Edict.
The edict of the Commissioners, de
cided upon at a conference ypsterdav
afternoon with Gen. Glassford.’ was de- !
ltvered to Acting "Commander in chief' j
Alman by the police superintendent, i
who replied that the veterans were I
determined to "stay here until the bonus
bill is passed.”
"The situation is becoming acute— j
both as respects food and money,” |
Glassford told Alman. "and we can!
keep these establishments open only ;
until June 8 There are no funds to!
carry you any fuither. The Health De- j
parrment Is clamoring Jot us to close up :
these places.
What I intend to do is to turn' *i 1
you with trucks and supplies on
morning of June 9 and transport you
out of town not more than 50 miles
and arrange with the Governors of the
surrounding States to pick you up where
we leave you.”
“You realize that by the 8th of June
there will be a hell of a lot of men
here, don't you Mr. Glassford?" Alman
retorted.
Asks for Co-Operation.
"Sure I do. But I want your co
operation and the co-operation of your
men toward getting all of you out of
town. If you won't go. I'm not mak
ing any threats. I shall simply close
up these quarters and discontinue fur
nishing food. The people of the Dis
trict no longer feel they should feed
you men."
"Well. I don't feel they should either,”
Alman broke in.
"And you understand. I hope, that
there is no feeling of antagonism on
my part, that what I am telling you
comes in a friendly vein.”
"I understand your attitude and the
attitude of the Government so far. and
I shall give you the answer of the
men as soon as I can.” i
"WpII.” concluded Glassford, "there :
are four reasons why I shall have to
request that you leave the District:
First, lack of food: second, lack of
money; third, bad sanitary conditions;
fourth, and least of all, putting me on
a pretty hot spot.”
Chief “lender Fire.”
The chief of police explained that he 1
was "under fire" because of the assist- i
ance he had thus far rendered the job- I
less veterans.
Alman later told newspaper men:
"We came here to stay until the bonus !
bill is passed, and Gen. Glassford, nor ]
anybody else, is going to run us out of i
town.”
His lieutenants were equally as em- ;
phatic when advised of the turn of
affairs.
"The Government w on't see us starve," !
aaid Taylor on behalf of the Oregon
delegation
"They fed us in 1917 and 1918, and
they ran do it again." chimed In an
other member of the group.
"Propaganda," was the terse dismissal j
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WitH the Bonus Expeditionary Forces in the Capital
of Jenson, who spoke for his two
sections.
"It's only a rumor as far as I'm con
cerned: I've heard nothing official,"
said Thomas at AnacusUu.
This attitude was reaffirmed by the
Legislative Committee alien It met last
niglit in the Oregon quarters at Eighth
and I streets southeast, and it was in
this connection that the cognizance
was taken of the statement of Emanuel
Levin of New York, chairman ot the
Workers' ex-servicemen's League's Na
tional Provisional Bonus Match Com
mittee, that the veterans Would be will
ing to leave here June 9 after a bonus
parade the preceding day.
I.evtai la Repudiated.
A formal statement Issued tlirough
a Publicity Committee appointed by the
veterans' leadeis said:
"Mr. Levin is nol a member of the
Bonus Expeditionary Forces and is not
authorized to speak for them. The
B. E. F. is organized for one purpose,
that of pressing for passage of the
bonus bill, and have emphatically de
clared their intention of remaining
here until that purpose Is accom
plished.
That is still the position of the B
E F. Mr. Levin, if he speaks for any
one. speaks only for those in his own
organization and none of those in the
B. E F."
Members of the Legislative Commit
tee chosen last night are. Harold B.
Foulkrod. Philadelphia, chairman: W.
C. Cox. Portland, vice chairman: William
Keyser, West Virginia; M. Bernstein,
Ohio' R. W. Tomlinson. California; J.
T. Angelo, M C. Schafle. George
Thompson. M T. Thomas and Thomas
Kelly, all of New Jersey; George Klein
holtz, A. F. Taylor and George Allen of
Oregon; J. B Jeck. jr.. and Arthur H.
Milton of Illinois, and Elmer Jensen,
Utah.
Billets Are Overcrowded.
The uptown billets are crowded, and
some of the overflow also is being cared
for in Anacostia. Health Orticer Wil
liam C. fowler has advised the Police
Department to evacuate these old build
ings as soon as possible, or at least re
duce by 50 per cent the number of
veterans being housed. Capt William
G. Stott, police properly officer, who is
in charge of the veterans commissary,
has announced he intends to send half
the men to Anacostia
One barracks building was virtually
completed at Anacostia yesterday, and
late in the day material was received
on the grounds for another. A shed
like type of structure, without any walls,
is being built. Each will take rare of
about 350 men. whose "beds" are ticking
filled with straw.
Those not quartered under the sheds
are sleeping out on the field. The only
covering is that brought by the men
themselves, as Gen. Glassford has been
unable to obtain blankets.
The "army" Is getting two meals a
day. The Jersey delegation brought its
own commissary truck, which is sup
plying their food. Some of the men also
are eating at restaurants. A complaint
that those who are being put to work
building the "barracks" are not receiv
ing sufficient food was made to Glass
ford last night by Alman. who said they
required more than the men who are
doing nothing all day.
Approximately 600 men came in dur
ing the 24 hours ending last night, the
major part of whom were contained in
the Chicago delegation which walked
here from Baltimore.
One Jerseyite, Albert S. Cloud, of Ber
lin. arrived yesterday morning witii his
wife and four small children. Last
night a delegation of 25 disabled from
Erie. Pa., arrived on a truck which car
ried a hand organ on which one of
the members v.as busily grinding out
the "Miserere" as the vehicle rambled
down the street.
A new wrinkle in laenuncauon
was introduced by the Erie delegation,
which carried a. letter of credentials
from the mayor, the State Representa
tive and the assistant director of parks
and public properties of Erie.
"The bearers of this note.” said
Mayor James P. Rossiter's letter, "a
group of ex-service men. are on their
wav to Wasiiington in the interest of
the bonus. I wish them every success
in their efforts.
"Mr. Eldred Wagner, commander of
D. A. V., No. 7, of this city, is in
charge. I believe you will find these
boys of the highest type and will so
conduct themselves as to reflect credit
to themselves and to the city which
they represent.”
Confer With Officials.
While commanders of the veteran de
tachments early yesterday were placing
their camps in order in various sections
of the city, Levin and Samuel J. Stem
bar were conferring with Federal and
District officials in an effort to work
out some plans for the demonstration
preceding the presentation of the de
mands for the full payment of the
bonus.
They called on Vice President Curtis
and were assured by him that lie had
no objections to the staging of wliat
the league leaders called "The Third
Big Parade" on Wednesday provided
the marchers upheld police parade
regulations.
The Vice President warned them
against unwarranted displaying of
placards, and a promise was given him
that only placards demanding the
bonus payment would be displayed.
The parade would be led by an
American flag, the leaders assured Mr.
Curtis, and would be composed only of
war veterans. A formal application
was then filed with David Lynn, archi
tect of the Capitol, for a permit to
march within the Capitol grounds.
Previously Police Chief Glassford said
he liad granted the league permission
to parade the veterans through the
District.
Levin and Stembar left the Capitol
shortly before noon to confer with
Gen. Glassford. At his office they
were Informed that congressional as
sistance had been refused and that
there would be food for the veterans
only until tomorrow and that if ether
detachments arrived in the meantime
there would be food for about a day.
Leaving headquarters the league
leaders asserted that the food short
age announcement had "provoked a
serious and dangerous situation." Fol
lowing a consultation with other mem
&
SOME of the scenes enacted yesterday as the ‘ bonus marchers" dug in, deter
mined to wait out Congress in their demands for immediate cash payment.
Top left: A Chicago delegation which arrived on foot from Baltimore.
Top right: Workers laboring on tin* temporary shelter in the Anacostia
Parkway. Left center: A bonus marcher helping a mate take a batli in
a barrel at the Anacostia camp. Right center: Members of the New Jersey
contingent picked to make a plea before New Jersey and Pennsylvania members
of Congress lor support oi the bonus. Lett to light: Howard W’. Raines. Joseph
Tarasewies and William Appleton. Lower: A veteran arrives at the Anacostia
camp with his family. Front, left to light: Verna Cloud. 11; Albert Cloud. 8
and Curtis Cloud. 6. Back row. left to light: Mrs. Mary E. Cloud. Mrs. Russell
Edwards and Albert S. Cloud, holding liis youngest, Orace, 2. Star Staff Photos.
bers of the Bonus March Committee
of the league. Levin and Stembar an
nounced that tile league Would provide
food lor an unlimited stay in the
Capital. They said they wired the
New York headquarters of the league
and was a sur. d by officials there food
would be forthcoming from all sections
of the United States immediately.
Another conference was held with
Police Chief G’assford, who immediate
ly went to the District Building lor a
meeting with District officials, which
resulted in the agreement readied lor
the District to feed tile veterans
through Thursday morning and tj fur
nish them sufficient rations for their
march homeward.
Recall Telegrams for Food.
Levin and Stembar after being noti
fied by Glass ford of the Commissioners
action said they recalled the telegrams
for food.
“We were determined.” they asserted,
"that this move for ftuced evacuation
of the veterans would not interfere
with the major objective that brought
the rank and file of the veterans to
Washington, namely, to discuss collec
tively the various problems facing the
veterans anil presenting to Congress the
demands lor the immediate payment
of our back wages, the bonus.
"Tlie retreat by authorities from the
policy of starvation and forced evacua
tion of the veterans has eased tlie
situation particularly on tlie food ques
tion.
"The Federal Government must now
assist in the housing problem that
faces our delegations. The Federal
Government can very easily supply
necessary tentage and other housing
facilities. This would be less expen
sive and would involve less waste than
the present method of constructing
temporary floorless sheds.
"The men should be concentrated
in a centrally located sectit' u on either
Federal or District property. Both the
Federal and District authorities should
co-ordinate their efforts and resources
toward this end. ‘ »ie reason for this
is that it would materially facilitate
the carrying cut of the program of
bonu irehers within the short
est possible time.
"The threats, intimidations and in
terference with the marchers en oute
will interfere seriously and handicap
the rank and file of the veterans from
carrying out our program. The au
thorities in Washington and in States
through which the marchers are new
passing should give every assistance to
the veterans to reach here on time for
the June 8 parade.”
While not committing themselves u1
to whether they would co-operate with
the authorities in leaving Washington
Thursday morning, the league leaders
declared that by tile food agreement
their committee would be able to "get
down to working out details of plans
for presenting the demands to Con
gress."
They said they were not pleased with
the reported announcement by Repre
sentative Patman. Democrat, of Texas
that he expected Ills bill for the full
payment of tile veterans' service certifi
cate to be introduced in the House on
June 111. However, they said they be
lieved this could be adjusted by con
ferring wtili congressional leaders.
Commenting on the veterans’ de
mand. Levin and Stembar said:
“It must be clearly understood that
this historic Nation-wide demonstra
tion is not merely a manifestation of
file demands of a special group. The
veteran is only expressing the deep de
termination of the millions of unem
ployed hungry and starving masses
throughout the country and is part of
the general sentiment of the masses of
workers for unemployment insurance.
This demonstration will give the rank
and file of the veterans and the other
workers experience and courage to work
out themselves the best methods of
meeting the serious situation that fares
all of us.
"This reaction of the veterans is a
protest against the old method of pro
fessional and individual lobbying, po
litical horse trading and officer-con
trolled opinion of the rank and file.
Our committee points out that this new
method of mass delegations and dem
onstrations has already resulted in the
presenting of a bill which will elimi
nate the two-year restriction clause in
the adjusted service compensation law."
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Petition Signers
List of 11") Representative?
in f a\or ot 1 orcmg
Vote oil Buliu*.
Following la the list ol the 145 Rep
resentatives »1jo signed the petition to
tone a record vote in the House on the
soldiers' bonus:
Alabama (5) —Hill. Jeffers, Patterson,
Allgood. Alnion. Democrats.
Arkansas «7 •— Driver. Miller, Fuller.
Wingo, Ragon. Glover, Parks, Demo
crats.
California <5) -Englebriglit. Welch.
Craii. Curry. Swing. Republicans.
Connecticut 111 Tierney, Democrat.
Florida (1> Greene. Democrat.
Geoigia (2; - Vinson, Lankford.
Democrats.
Illinois (12) Kelly. Beam. Sabath,
Dieterich. Schuetz* Kunz. Major. Karch,
Arnold. Parsons, Keller, Democrats.
Reid. Republican.
Indiana (2i Larrabee, Griswold.
Democrats.
Iowa (1) Campbell. Republican.
Kentucky (3) Vinson. May, Demo
crats. Fmlcy. Republican.
Louisiana (8i Fernandez. Maloney.
Montei. Sandlin. Wilson. Kemp, De
Kouen. Overton. Democrats.
Maryland (1) Palmisauo. Democrat.
Massachusetts 14 > -GruntieUi, Cou
neiy. Douglass, McCormaok. Democrats.
Michigan (3)—Parson, Wolcott,
James; Republicans.
Minnesota (4 > Christgau. Maas, Sel
vig. Republicaiis. Kvale. Farm Labor.
Mississippi 15) Rankin. Doxey, Bus
by. Hall, Ellzey. Democrats.
Montana ill Evans. Democrat.
Nebraska ill Howard. Democrat.
New Hampshire 11 • Rogers, Demo
crat.
New Jersey (41 Wolverton, Seger,
Hartley. Republican. Auf der Heide,
Democrat.
N. w Mexico (11 Chavez. Democrat.
New York (13i Brunner, Lindsay,
Cullen. Black. Somers. Delaney. Carley.
Rudd. Brail. Kennedy, Gavagan, Fitz
patrick, Mead. Democrats.
North Dakota 11 > Sinclair, Republi
can.
Ohio (71 Harlan. Kniffin. Polk. Un
derwood, West, Sweeny, Crosser, Demo
crats.
Oklahoma 181 Disney, Hastings.
Cartwright. McKeuwn, Swank, Joiinson.
McClintic, Democrats. Garber, Repub
lican.
Oregon (11—Butler, Republican.
Pennsylvania (5) Golder. Connolly,
Turpin. Erk, Republicans. Boland.
Democrat.
Rhode Island (11—Condon, Democrat.
South Carolina (51—Hare, Dominick,
McSwuin. Gasque, Fulmer, Democrats.
Tennessee 191— McReynolds. Mitchell.
Davis, Eslick. Browning. Cooper. Crump,
Democrats. Lovette, Taylor, Republi
cans.
Texas (131—Patman. Dies, Sanders,
Johnson. Briggs, Garrett. Mansfield,
Buchanan. Cross, Williams. Thomason,
Blanton. Jones. Democrats.
Virginia ill -Fiannagan, Democrat.
Washington (2)—Hill, Democrat.
Horr, Republican.
Wisconsin < 71—Amlie. K a d 1 n g,
Schafer, Withrow. Boileau, Schneider.
Peavey, Republicans.
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CUSVilDAND. Ohio. June 4 The
Cleveland division of the "bonus ex
peditionary forte' was stalled here to
night in its di-to-Wa. hington drive. j
The cause was lack of 1 r: i;.sport. '
There Was not even a one-maligned
41) homines et 8 cheveaux" in sight fur
the nearly 1 ,U(JU veterans lrom Cleve
land. Toledo Detroit and other points
who staited as tarl> as last Thursday
for the National Capital.
Scveit! hundred cf them started
man lung toward the city limits late ;
tonight
Two hundred policemen followed the i
veterans clcs'ly a* they Uft tiltir camp,
near the Pennsylvania Railroad yards I
Police officials sold if tile men turn Lack I
or rctu.se to go on tlie leaders will be i
arrested.
Apparently the last hope of the
veleians vanished early today when a
"detail'' made a desptlate effort to re
take the roundhouse ot the Ptimsyl
\ai:’a Railroad and w as repulsed bv
flailing polite clubs
At least one veteran was seriously
clubbed ai.d another was knocked
Ulie. Iiiciou>
Other Marchers on Way.
CANTON. Ohio. June 4 (/Pi A tense '
situation was relieved here late today
when 8U bonus marchers, camped along
the Pennsylvania Railroad right of way.
accepted an oiler of a moving company
to transport them to Salem, Ohio, about
JO miles southeast of here, in two vans.
PITTSBURGH, June 4 <Ao With
mingled leelings, Pittsburgh awaits the
arrival of regiments of bonus "march
ers," while 3tto policemen and more
than half a hundred detectives keep
guard.
CHICAGO. June 4 (4>) Two hundred
and thirty war veterans from the Pacific
Coast were joined by 1*U recruits from
Chicago today and spent the night in
a South Sale park, while their leaders
sought transportation to Washington.
Another 50 bonus seekers tell Decatur.
Ill , by train and a motor truck
cavalcade of 150 others was being or
ganized Another detachment plans to
leave Canton. Ill, tomorrow .
87 Pass 'through Kaleigh.
RALtlGH. N. C.. June 4 (4*).—A
band ol veteians bound fur Washington
passed through Raleigh loilignt oil a
Seaboard freight train, police reported.
There were 67 ol them. They boarded
the train at Jacksonville. Plu , railroad
officials said, and have not been mo
lested.
BLACKSBURG, S C . June 4 UPl.
Approximately 1 Jo Ceuigiu and South
Carolina bonus marchers stranded here
when the Southern Railway sidetracked
a freight train they were riding, left
tonight by tiuck for Charlotte, N. C.
ABERDEEN. S. Dak.. Julie 4 (/Ph—
Thirty men. including some ex-service
men. comprising Hie Seattle unit of
tlie "blue-shirt" army, arrived in Aber
deen today in freight cats.
DALLAS. Tex., June 4 (JPV—Follow
ing a bannered slogan. "Hell. Heaven or
Washington." several hundred World
War Veterans paraded through down
town streets here today.
The parade was preliminary to de
parture of the veterans at daybreak
tomorrow for Washington.
KANSAS CITY, June 4 LPt.—Unem
ployed World War veterans of Missouri
and Kansas bloke camp here lute to
day to Join the throngs of ex-service
men moving upon Washington with a
demand for cash payment of adjusted
compensation certificates.
NEWARK. N. J.. June 4 UP.—Under
the watchful eyes of more than 300
railroad and Newark police, t Ire New
York bonus marchers some 700 in
number -bivouacked restlessly tonight
in the neighborhood of the Waverly
freight yards of the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
Once this afternoon and again to
night, the “army" vainly asked rail
road officials to provide free transpor
tation to Washington.
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scores of Army camps 15 years ago, are
asserting themselves In this helpless
huddle.
Fall Into Formation.
The veterans are falling almost auto- !
maticully Into some sort of military
formation. It once was held up to
them as the sine qua non of safety in
the tremendous physical bewilderment
of battle. They are turning to it in
this still greater mental bewilderment.
Then Uncle Sam was the dependable,
unfailing source of food, clothing,
shelter, ammunition and reinforce
ments. The old mental habit is re
asserting itself. They seam unable to
understand that now. in this mure diffi
cult war with intangibles. Uncle Sam
may himself be as. helpless as them
selves. They want prosperity restored.
The bonus is only part of it. They
can't understand why tne National
Government, which used to be so all
poweriul, can't work miracles now as
then.
So the Army of Bewilderment - per
haps only the first regiments of it is
digging in under the shadow of the Cap
itol dome. Its leaders assert vehemently
that it will hold those trenches down
back of the Navy Yard until something
hoppens. Some say they will quit when
the bonus is paid. Some say they will
quit when prosperity is restored.
Economics, it appears from conversa
tions wilti ttie men. is a somewhat more
complnated subject than military tac
tics.
"Uncle Sam better take rare of us,”
said one husky fellow. “The more of
us get sick, the more it's going to coat
the Government, because it has to send
the sick men to the hospital."
Cost Rests on District.
“We're going to stay until we get the
bonus ” declared another. "So the Gov
ernment would save money by paving it
right away and getting us out ot here."
It was explained to the men that, at
present at least, it wasn't Costing "Unde
Sam” a cent. It was the hard-pressed
citizens ot the District ot Columbia who
must provide the necessities (if lite for
tins large indigent addition to its pop
ulation.
"Wei!, just the same, the Government
ought to par ips." was the only answer.
“Didn't we fight for it?"
They aie patriotic, and proud of It.
Tile flag waves conspicuously over the
shed they are erecting on the field.
They are not. going to "stand for any
reds " The standing orders are that
a "red." once he Is discovered in their
ranke, is to be tried by a kangaroA
court, lashed at a whipping post and
driven out of camp
’ Red " unfortunately, appears to be
a Word Which covers a good deal ot
territory with these veterans it means
about anything the individual using it
doesn't, like. A group who were dis
cussing v.hat dire penalties they would
inflict on anybody vvitii "red" tendencies
(slight in tile ranks, were asked Pi de
fine just wiiat they had In mind.
"Red" Definitions Differ.
"A Red." said one. "is a guy that
would run up some other flag over the
American flag."
"A Red." said another, “doesn’t want
folks to have tlie light to Work."
T il tell you vvliat a Red is,” broke
In a third. "He's a lellow that grouches
about things and tries to get two or
three fellows sole at the way the leadeis
are doing things."
Still another believed that a “Red”
was a member of the Communist In
ternational or any of its affiliated or
ganizations and took the lather liberal
position that a man's political philoso
phy made no difference so long as lie
ntted into tlie organization and worked
loyally to secure tile bonus.
The majority of the men back of the
Navy Yard are from Camden, N. J.
Their leader, a thin, wiry, excitable
little man who wears on his shirt a
Distinguished Service Cross and a Vic
tory Meoal, is Joe Angelo. He served
in tile Tank Corps during the war and
was cited for exceptional bravery out
side the call of duty. Apparently this
Camden contingent just gathered au
tomatically and set out. There were
two meetings of unemployed veterans
and then they all serined fit “just get
together" one morning.
Kiikrd Out Some Rums.
^ just said 'fall in'," says Angelo,
"and we started. On the way we had
to ktek out some bums. I walked most
of the way here, and I'm tijing to get
some order into the outfit.' We want
the bonus, and we want conditions re
stored the way they used to be."
Many of the Camden war veterans
are in desperate straits, Joe Angelo
said. The Week before starting he
helped bury a hungry veteran alive, he
•says. They put him in a coffin and
covered it with four feet of earth, but
left a funnel over his iace protruding
to the surface, so lie could get air.
Then they advertised the stunt anti
folks paid to look through the funnel
at a man in his grace, Joe arid the
fellow cvho was buried drew straws to
determine which should be the victim.
Joe won and stayed on the outside.
"Things are pretty bad." he says,
“when you have to bury fellows alive to
get money."
As great a contrast imaginable from
the energetic, nervous Joe Angelo is
George Alman of Washington State,
who lias succeeded to the position of
commander in thief of this motley
army. lit* came over from the barracks
of the Oregon marchers yesterday
morning to acquaint the New Jersey
men with the disciplinary policies which
have been adopted. He Is a bronzed,
phlegmatic, soft-spoken Westerner, who
never raises his voice and tries to apply
calm reason to every situation which
arises.
Another Gives Pep Talk.
Still another type Is represented by
Bill Keyser of Cleveland, who came
over to give the new arrivals a pep
talk a man with a good flow of words
and a ready answer to all arguments.
The men were taking It easy yester
day. Four or five at a time worked on
the barracks construction with the
slender supply of tools available. The
rest lay around In such patches of
shade as they could find. Some slept.
Some talked excitedly. Some talked
calmly and In low voices. Overhead
was the almost continuous drowsy hum
of passing airplanes from the nearby
flying fields. The scene was not vast
ly different from that of an Arrr.y
cantonment in its first stages in 1917,
with handfuls of drartees or National
Guardsmen in civilian clothes begin
ning to come in and not knowing what
to do with themselves.
These men are wailing for some
body to give orders lor somebody they
can lean upon. They want a leader.
They are willing to follow anybody who
Inspires them with confidence that he
can get them the bonus by any legiti
mate means.
Police Prove Friendly.
Their best friends have been the
policemen. A pol.ce car took four or
five who reported on sick call to a
Marine barracks doctor tills morning
and then brought them back with in
structions for Joe Angelo that they be
allowed to re t in the .shade all day
anil be mad" to take their medicine.
A police man who had been In the A.
E. F. himself drove into th*- camp with
a couple of bottles of an Arm;, cure
all which some consider the eomrr
stone of all military medicine and
whose Junction is to prevent ra*hr
than cure .sickness. Half tire camp
availed its.lt of this medicant.
Reports that this army of bewilder
ment is associated in any wav w.th the
"reds’’ arouse the ire of the men. It
probably can be said safely that very
few, if any in the ranks are in any sense
’’red,’’ insofar as the term refers to
any describable political philosophy.
Quite to the contrary, it appears from
casual conversations, very fe w of them
have any political philosophies at all
other than the conviction that the
Government ought to do something."
They appear sincere in their convic
tion. The distress ba . k home has em
bittered them. It seems perhaps the
observation is of some psychological in
terest that a sort of depress! >n par
tem Is spreading all over the country.
For example:
"Just to show you how bad things
are in Portland." said an Oregon vet
eran. "a little girl m one of the public
school* fainted away the other day.
When she was brought to she told the
teacher she wasn't sick, but that it
hadn’t been her turn to eat that morn
ing.”
"You folks in Washington haven’t any
idea of thing in Camden." said a New
Jersey veteran. ' Why. just the other
dav a girl fainted in the school room.
Afterward she told the teacher that
the family ate by turns, and that her
turn wouldn't come until tomorrow.”
Similar Incident Here.
And just the other day The Star re
porter was assured by a school teacher
uf an exactly similar incident that hap
pened last week In one of the public
schools of the District of Columbia
A depression folk lore appears to be
spreading over the land. But thn ob
vious pattern nature of the c<-r.rral
story does not render it any the less a
true symbolic statement applicable any
where. nor does it make it any the less
pitiful.
This morning the veterans are plan
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cured the services of a Washington min
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new war. Nor does it make much dif
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very dear Idea of the nature of the vic
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just as earnest.
And they are beginning to realize—it
seems to have been rather hard for
them to arrive at the realization—that
they aie, to all intents and purposes,
subsisting on the charity of poor people
with plenty of problems of their own—
the worried citizens of the District of
Columbia. They are beginning to ap
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not Uncle Sam. But they came here
for a victory and they do not intend
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