Show BONUS ARMY AIMY FACTS there has been a great deal of comment naturally and some confusion of the facts by the expelling of the remnant of the army of so called bonus marchers barchers mar chers from the district of columbia recently most of the newspapers of the country presented the facts clearly and fairly but some confusion has resulted from the attempts of one or two chain newspaper systems to make political capital out of the incident and to distort the facts so as to give the impression that there was bloodshed and undue severity in the military operation As a matter of fact the only casualties resulted from the resisting of the attempt of police to remove the bonus forces from property along pennsylvania avenue in washington on which the government was ready to commence building and which the marchers barchers mar chers f refused to vacate president hoover did not resort to the use of federal t troops until informed by the heads of the district government that the situation was out of the control of the civil authorities and that rioting and further loss of life might result if the situation was not controlled after the soldiers took charge not a single man was injured nobody was shot and nobody was lurl hurt the soldiers did not set fire to the shacks of the mar archers chers this was done by the men who were abandoning the camp aud and firing done afterward was to complete the work of removing the half ruined shacks which remained there never has bas deen and cannot now be any doubt about the overwhelming sympathy of the american people of all creeds and parties with the world war veterans and their troubles if it were possible for the government to now complete the deferred payments to the soldiers without ruining the entire credit of the nation and promoting further economic stringency which would affect all including the veterans themselves there is little doubt that this would be done and done promptly in the world war the losses of the american army while serious and deplorable were but a fraction of the losses of the other nations on both sides of the struggle and yet this year the united states is perhaps paying more annually in veteran relief than all of the other nations which were in the war combined and uncle sam will continue to take care of those who suffered as a result of the war so longas there is a dollar to be raised for the purpose the Y yellow and pink newspapers and the and pinker politicians politician who try to give the impression that uncle sam is not grateful and is not doing his bit are rendering no service either to the nation or to the veterans themselves the great majority of the veterans who came to washington during the so called bonus march were patriotic law abiding citizens many of them left following the adjournment of congress the remnant became the prey of communist and radical leaders whose chief purpose was not to help the veterans or their cause iut but to stir up trouble for the people ale of the united states that was the real source of the trouble in washington recently if it would be possible to punish these radical leaders none of them war veterans themselves and the demagogic politicians who encouraged and inspired the ill fated bonus ronus march in misrepresenting the he facts to the marching veterans 98 per cent of the people of the united states would throw their their hats in the air and give a shout of approval it is a pit pity Y however that the innocent must suffer to further the designs of those who have as their object either selfish political aggrandizement or the creation of revolution in the united states |