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Show A SAD SPECTACLE The shooting down of a defenseless man and the gassing gas-sing and bombing of women and children in Washington by federal troops was a scene such as one might expect ex-pect to witness in Russia or pre-war Germany, but not in the United States. Even though the bonus army drive was an ill-advised expedition, expedi-tion, with little chance of accomplishing its objective, the men, and especially the women and children, who had no other horr.,23 than the squalid tents in which they lived in Washnigton, had certain cer-tain rights which should have been, but were not, respected. re-spected. The statements of the administration, after they saw their mistake, that the men were largely communists commun-ists and revolutionists, are not borne out by facts, although al-though the treatment accorded ac-corded them would make a Red out of most anyone. Who would call the child that died as a result of the-gas the-gas attack, a Red? Or the former soldier, William Hushka, who was killed? His war record will compare with any. Coming to this country j from Russia when a small toy, he enlisted at the age of 17 in the United States army and served overseas, being t wounded three times, each j time returning to his outfit! after his wounds had heal-' ed. That such a man would j be shot down by troops under un-der the same flag with which ! he fought is hard to com- prehend. The irony of the whole i thing is that after shooting him in cold blood when he merely asked for what he, at least, thought was owing him, the government interred inter-red him with full military honors in Arlington national cemetery, beside the nation's na-tion's heroes. |