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...Editor this letter is sent to you with the deepest and sincerest thanks for what you have said in behalf of the Bonus Army-the World War Veterans-there is a saying no one has ever returned from Heaven or Hell to tell us how either place is managed. The Heaven part I'll agree is true-but I'll debate with anyone "about no one ever returning from Hell" as I believe those who returned from (no mans land) and other war fronts of the World War really returned from Hell. And if those boys who were...
...wish you to know that the easiest job I have ever done was when I played host for my fellow townsmen when I invited the Bonus Army here, as I have often said I invited the officers and God sent the Army, well I and many others of this city are still thanking God for sending us the Army. We of Johnstown have now partly paid our debt to those who sent us help at a time when we needed it. that time was May 31, 1889 when we were visited with the flood that caused some...
...have 2,500 ft. of motion pictures which I am endeavoring to have Floyd Gibbons syncronize for me to release on the screen, called- ''The Beginning of a New America, or the man that Hoover forgot, taken from the siege of the Capitol. It shows the Bonus Army from the beginning to the end-it happened I was financing the taking of a picture to raise money to furnish the food for the Army over the winter, when the eviction came. My pictures show the burning of American flags-and the burning was not done by the Bonus...
...Soldier Bonus remained last week the question most voters most wanted Governor Roosevelt to answer. While waiting for him to speak out people were told to reread carefully an interview he gave the North America Newspaper Alliance last April. Said he then: "I don't see how, as a matter of practical sense, a government running behind $2,000,000,000 annually can consider the anticipation of Bonus payments until it has a balanced Budget, not only on paper but with a surplus of cash in the Treasury...
...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...