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Over Bonus City hung the constant threat of pestilence. Flies swarmed. Garbage lay half buried. The men bathed in the Eastern Branch (Potomac), virtually an open sewer. Twenty-three cases of communicable disease were spotted but were lost in the crowd. The air reeked with filthy smells. Eight men were reported to have died. Food was poor. Scabies broke out. Public health officers declared conditions were "frightful." warned of a "terrible epidemic" which might suddenly fan out from the camp across the city and country. A 24-hour quarantine was set up for new arrivals and a special camp with...
...National Republican Club in Manhattan last week Major General James Guthrie Harbord, retired, voiced one popular view when he declared: "Nothing so ominous or so nasty as the Bonus march has been seen since 1916 when organized labor forced through the eight-hour-day railroad law under threat of strike. Not since 1783 has an army of citizens marched on the Capitol with evil in their hearts. . . . Something must be done to curb this movement. Otherwise it will spread and I don't know what may happen...
Presidential elections, threat of war, champion contests in major athletics, any widespread cause of public excitement produces a falling off in the number of suicides...
...wildest acts of self-seeking politicians. In the West the contingents Washington-bound have commandeered trains, interfered with the passage of United States' mail, and forced police to resist them openly. In New York they have stolen a ferry, and intimidated government officials into providing them with transportation. The threat of violence, always only implied, but ever present, has everywhere extorted food and shelter from the communities through which the veterans are passing. As a result of their efforts they are securing a vote in Congress on their pet bill, which calls for payment...
...four-mile race. If the varsity race were reduced from four miles, possibly to two miles, the time and energy spent in preparation would be reduced considerably. Analysis has shown that under proper conditions varsity rowing is not injurious to health, but there is, nevertheless, a constant threat of over-strain. In the past, a number of varsity crew men have expressed their preference for a two-mile race, an equally good criterion of rowing ability and far less exhausting. As it is, three out of the four crews at Red Top do not race the four-mile course...