To the Rear, March!

Into Jefferson City, Mo. last week surged a motorcade of 350 Missouri veterans demanding a special session of the legislature to vote them a $400 cash bonus. When they reached the ornate capitol, square-chinned Governor Phil M. Donnelly invited them inside, sat them down on the hard marble floor. Then he gave them a piece of his mind:

"You come down here by number and by force, if you please, and expect me to decide a debatable question. . . . We don't have a government of threats or intimidation or of trying to stampede the governor into some proposition your own organizations aren't agreed upon. . . . There is no occasion to call a special session of the legislature and I do not intend to do so."

The abashed bonus seekers packed up their pup tents and silently stole away.

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