Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1919 — END CAME AT 3:30 THIS AFTERNOON [ARTICLE]

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H. E, Parkinsou died at his home on north Van Rensselaer street this afternoon at 3:30, SMALL CHANCE OF THE BONUS BILL PASSING. Every man who has been in the service has given some thought to the subject of the bonus for the service man. Many of the men think that the bonus should not be granted while others declare themselves for it. Approximately 500 • Indianapolis men, discharged soldiers and sailors, most of whom had service overseas, have joined in a petition which has been presented to the Indiana senators asking that bills pending before congress to give the soldiers a bonus of one year’s pay for their service 'be passed forthwith. These soldiers have also indicated that they do not regard the LaneMondell land bill ds adequate to compensate them for their services •nd they ask the bonus bill as a substitute. The year’s bonus idea has been taken up by the Hearst papers throughout the country, which are agitating the thing with considerable emphasis, even to the point of moving picture propaganda. But inasmuch as such a measure has no chance of passage, principally because it would cost upward of $2,000,000,000, which the government could never pay without another bond issue, and this is being prayerfully avoided by 'the administration, the Hearst papers are doing a great deal of harm, it is asserted, by their useless agitation and are arousing the expectations of the discharged soldiers for something which they can not hope to get.