Show t IA Washington Daybook WASHINGTON Jan 29 T 29 T w o o 0 armies of or the unemployed already have marched on the capital this winter winter win win- ter and there probably will be more There is is in fact no telling how many such movements may develop as congress con can gross cress begins to take up measures for unemployment relief The situation is likely to become painful here if the habit becomes too prevalent The city and its police have adopted a policy of welcoming feeding reeding and barracking the marchers but how long this policy would be continued in the face of repeated 1 visits Is speculative The men I in the Father Cox jobless march received received re re- re- re nowhere near the attention and service accorded th the 1500 original I nursed communist-nursed hunger marchers marchers march march- ers of a month before Generally and comparatively speaking the town was polite but somewhat bored S Lately there have been advance reports reports re re- re ports of ot another hunger march early In February by the same singing sing sing- ing yelling radical crew that came here in December its numbers to be augmented by as many of the unemployed unemployed as can be Induced to come Although It seems only fitting that the he the smug and prosperous District of ot Columbia should hand out soup and sandwiches to visiting unfortunates question doubtless will be raised as asto asto asto to how many receptions a single group of at demonstrators has coming comingo to o it in the same season In the case of this particular r group the chances are bright that the marchers will be bemore bemore bemore more militant and the police less pa pa- tient lent Nevertheless the publicity pass pass- of these marches to Washing ton present a strong temptation not only to the agitators and the rattlebrained rattle rattle- brained but also to such honest serious son seri ous social welfare workers as Father Cox The two marches to date proba bly have done little toward swaying congress but the more thousands stream into town for tor that purpose the more likely is that sort of ot thing to have effect cUed Demonstrators arrive quicker in these days than in the General Coxey period because there are good roads automobiles and trucks Nevertheless Nevertheless Never Never- one misses the rather spectacular spec spec- habit of at stealing railroad trains which the jobless armies of the acquired In some towns you never knew whether the next incoming ing lag train would be old Number 77 bearing your Aunt Minnie or some purloined fast express carrying a few hundred hungry men who would pile ot off and demand chow Sometimes when a jobless army had no train the authorities would help them filch one in order to get the boys bos out of town The Father Cox boys from Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh and vicinity made more of an impression here than the hunger marchers because they were quiet and demonstratively patriotic Whereas Where as the latter were belligerent and included in in- eluded a large proportion of professional prates Ional malcontents the Pennsyl Pennsyl- had many artisans and white- white collar men in the raI ranks s They looked like real American voters which was why Senator Jim Davis of Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania vanla fell feU all over himself In an effort to please why several Pennsylvania congressmen were attentive and possibly possibly pos pOSe sibly why even President Hoover received re rc- re- re Father Cox whereas he had ignored ig nored the jeering radicals 9 io a. Nevertheless all jobless marchers in so far as any legislation likely to pass congress is concerned are alike aUke in delivering demands as radical as those of General Coxey who came 38 years ears ago with the motto Peace on earth good will vill toward men but death to Interest bearing bonds The radical marchers of December demanded demanded de do- prompt cash relief with wilh for tor everyone everone and unemployment insurance insurance in in- which would fully tully replace wages And the mild Father Cox asked not only a public works relief bond Issue immediate federal relief appropriations and enough loan money more billions to reestablish the farmer but also a 60 per cent surtax on big Incomes and anda a 3 70 per cent inheritance tax |