Evening star., 1932-07-30
EDITORIAL VIEWS
OF B. E.F. EVICTION
Comment From Typical Pub
locations Regarding Use of
Troops Is Summarized.

on the B. E. F. as summarized by the
Associated Press:
St. Louis. Globe Democrat: mo
other course was possible for the Gov
ernment = to retain is self-respect." !"
Baltimore Sun: "A handful OF for
lorn men F." were the 'insurrection
lists who were to endanger the Nation.
What boSh"
Philadelphia Record: "An explana-
ton which really explains is a
lack of human sympathy on the part
of the President"
Chicago Tribune: Responsibility for
! the B. E F. and its doings lies chiefly
| at the door of men in public lie who
encouraged the making OF unreason-
able demands"
| Chicago Herald and Examiner: For
sheer stupidity President Hoover'S spec
| tacular employment of the military IN
evicting a mere handful Of World War
derelicts is without parallel in Ameri-
can annals"
Lincoln Nebr.. Star: THE natural
| fruit of a deliberate, long continued
policy of political expediencv in which
neither political party is guiltless.
Sacramento, Calf, Union: ANY
| blame attaches to congressman
who led the men to believe their de-
mands might be achieved by concerted
| action.
Lewiston, Me-, Sun: "All the wrong
done by the bonus seekers is petty in
| deed compared with the wrong in
| flicted by President Hoover and
the Democratic Republican Congress"
| Brownsville, Tex. Herald: Congress
men such as Wright Patman OF Texas
should shudder as they realize
a human life has been placed on the
altar of their political ambitions.
Jacksonville, Fla, Journal: whether
| official Washington handled the situa-
tion with the best Of tact is debatable. :"
Toledo, Ohio. News-Bee: There can
be no victor in the clash. All are losers.
Basically the blame rests with vote
seeking politicians"
Portland. Me-, Press Herald: eff there
| is any criticism = it is that measures
J of the kind used on Thursday were not
employed sooner"
Ohio State Journal Columbus /:
President Hoover chose the course
that Lincoln chose, that Presidents
have always chosen"
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The con-
stituted authorities must always be the
judges of how serious the threat of
disorder is. We can only trust that
they were not mistaken"
Omaha. Nebr., World Herald: The
leaders who fomented the march have
much to answer for"
Toledo Blade-"Some (of the nations
of the world will say this new trouble
is one of many we acquired by getting
into a war that was not any of our
business"
Augusta, Me-, Kennebec Journal
Some are now blaming the President
for not sooner ordering the troops to
clean out the obstinate squatters. As
a matter of fact, he acted promptly
when the local authorities at the Ma
tional Capital became unable to deal
effectively with the situation. He did
that which it was his official duty to
do-no more, no less"
Dallas Morning News-"When
horde of hungry and penniless men are
set down in a city where government
has no authority to care for them and
private means cannot, disorder is in
evitable. Comdr Waters admits
that his men got beyond control Only
force could control them. 1t had to
be used"
Boston POst-"When President Hoo
yer declares that radical elements in
the bonus army had engaged in a cam
paign leading to possible violence
against the constituted authority Of the
Nation his word must be accepted. The
further declaration by the Secretary OF
War that fully one-third of the bonus
veterans were drawing disability pay
from the Veterans Bureau shows that
good number of them could not have
been in actual want. 1t Is to be
hoped that the worst is over now. The
whole episode is a painful one"
indianapolis News-"The effect of the
episode will be to warn the country
that the administration will tolerate no
challenge to the full exercise of execu-
tive authority, and that any interference
with the freedom of the people and the
rights of property will be suppressed"
Emporia (Kans.) Gazette-"The prob
lens of this Nation cannot be solved
by collecting mobS in Washington.
There is no question of the patriotism
or the sincerity Of the boys, but they
picked bad way to urge what was at
best a dubious cause. The country is
relieved to know that there at the helm
of this Nation, in this year of crisis,
is hand which has been patient and
which can be firm"
The Salt Lake Telegram-"The march
of the columns on Washington has been
un-American from its first inception.
It carried behind its apparent passive
ness the implication of force to obtain
its ends. The lack of actual violence
during the session of Congress was the
sole redeeming feature"
The Denver Post-"It is the duty Of
the authorities to deal with the matter
as they would deal with any other
movement that challenges and defies
10 ND 1Nn ocTif fa{r rr111
keeping the stupid movement alive
should be shut up for a while"
Seattle TimeS-"After Congress ad-
journed, whatever objective the vet
Grams might have had in their march
to Washington vanished. Most of them
recognized that fact and left the Ma
tiona1 Capital. Those who remained
were menace to health and
sanitation. and served no purpose other
than to offer vain hopes to the radical
groups that unendingly plot against the
American people and their Govern
ment."
Sacramento Bee.-"The responsibility
for the killing of one former soldier and
the wounding of a number of other
persons is not on the Government of
the United States, but on those who
first inspired the bonus march on
Washington, filling their dupes with
false hopes of payment Of the bonus,
and, secondly, on the radical leadership
that prevailed on the former soldiers
to remain in the Capital after Con-
gress had adjourned"
Cheyenne Tribune Leader-"It is re-
grettable that loss of life and other
bloodshed resulted, but the ultimate ef-
feet undoubtedly will be wholesome in
public opinion throughout the Nation,
aroused against liberation Of such i'll
advised movements as the So-called
bonus army'S' march upon the Capitol"
Wichita (Kans.) Eagle-"When the
great majority of the young men who
made up the residue of the bonus army
in Washington and who faced, Thurs
day. the power of Government, mill
tarily expressed. have become old men,
every one of them will long have re-
allied that resistance to Government,
outside orderly processes, is impossible"