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in town. He called the ministers up on the telephone and asked them to tell their congregations that General Glassford was in town. He called on the pastors of the Catholic churches and told them that General Glassford was in town representing the Department of Labor, and that we were going to correct things, going to do something about it. He called on the local farmers exchanges to let them know that General Glassford was in town.

I don't know that his name was so well known, that they had heard anything about the Bonus Army, but he explained who he was. I think that General Glassford coming from Washington for the Department of Labor was sufficiently impressive. He made his own news, his own publicity in local press.

By the end of the week he was very well known over the whole agricultural area. He proceeded to issue a proclamation. He wrote it in red ink on piece of light colored manila paper that he got from some storekeeper. He tacked it up in hundreds of towns. By this time our conciliator had caught up with him and was helping him. He would get a fellow here and a fellow there who could write to help them. The proclamation was written in Spanish and in English. He could speak Spanish, which I didn't know when I hired him. He had been in one of the Mexican