The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-06-14
Bolshevists of Budapest
Spend Money Lavishly on Their
Propaganda and Cypress the
People


city still haunts its color scheme ar
ranged for the May day celebrations.
The communists have hoisted the red
banner on the castle which is lhe
headouarters of Bela-Kun, the Dig
chief of the soviet. Red bunting also
waves from the Hotel llungaria'
where the food is boarded and where
the ministers have Sequestered item
selves with a bodyguard OF red SOL
diers. 1t is there where it is at
fjrmed they keep their most priced
hostages in durance vile.
! A brave show is still made Of keep
ing up the government, with much
dashing 10 and fro Of ministerial au-
|tonobiles There have been more ar
rests since the counter revolution1sts
succeeded in blowing up big munl-
ton factory at Ersebitfalva, near here
The cost OF painting the city red
for the May day celebrations was at
first estimated at twelve million
crowns but today the supplementary
information is forthcoming that the
red bunting used in such profus:on
was only paper war cloth which
proved a failure for other purposes.
So it was dyed red and hung up as
it came cheaper than paint.
Feverish activity is going on to win
! converts to communism by stirring up
trouble in Rumania through revolu-
tionary# agents who handle enormous
sums of money; but also within the
country wild efforts are being made
to secure adherents. Printing presses
are working over time turning out
Bolshevist posters Of the Welrdest
kind. OF course they curse capital
ism and call upon all to become
''voros' or red soldiers.
All bare walls including church
fronts, are plastered over with the
declaration Mem Mem Soha" (No,
| No. Never) which is the slogan for
the refusal TO abandon the nationai
soil to the Rumanian and the Czecn'
The Press Bureau is also active II
is sending out reports signed with
the names of foreign correspondents
to forged articles. or else it rewrItes
anv copy submitted for censorship.
Much ingenuity is shown i'm several
new BolShevist magazines illustrated
with comic pictures and jokes OF tne
proletariat at the expense OF the ha-
ted bourgeoisie. One magazine which
bears the name OF months in which
il appears shows q fat landlord, or
rather an eX-landlord, communlns
with a snail.
.Ah, lucky beast" he snarls, thou
hast still gotten thy house on thy
back
The magazine even dares to carl
cature little Bella Kun with his thick
overhanging lips. sometimes likened
to bulldog.
The result Of such propaganda l.
questionable, judging by the actions
of three communists with whom The
Associated Press correspondent rode
in a train They lolled in their COM
Portable seats, while a humble wo-
man. with a newborn baby in hei
1 arms, stood in the corridor for fully
six hours These three men were al
the time devouring Bolshevik litera-
ture but it never occurred to their
lhumanitarianism to give up seat t.
the tired woman. They evidently knew
adversely but it had not taught then
charity.
All this propaganda work gives en-
ployment to a large numbe OF per-
sons and there are special training
schools for apt candidates. Recently
a group of young men speaking sever
al languages went TO the Foreign Of
fee TO seek employment, and they
were told that the only work that was
open was 10 act locally as spies Or tc
go to Bucharest. Vienna or Paris and
carry on propaganda work there.
This is in contradiction to the prom
ise made by the ministers to the
Americans that they would not at
tempt 10 disseminate their ideas
abroad if they were left alone at
home.
Among the original converts who
have been converted back again are
the men Of the ironworkers union
who have formed n secret guard OF
fourteen thousand members to pro-
tect Budapest if q massacre OF the
I bonrgeoiSie be attempted.
| Two women Of American origin,
Marcel!a Lind .IelIinek, a singer, and
| Mrs Isidore c. ShasZa, formerly
Mary Wassernan of New Yor') who
is related TO the Seligman banking
family, have filled their homes with
homeless friends so rs to escape the
"communizing' of their apartments.
Count Apponyi's house is quite fill
ed. After he left. his personal clothes
and the family linen was reqWSitlon-
ed 10 The last stitch despite The pro-
tests Of his daughters who had re-
NAMED behind with a German gov
eIness When the latter made com
plant TO the local red Guard commits
sioncr, he denied any responsibility
for the requisition.
In many cases red guards are just
plain thieves-they enter houses and
take what they fancy. and the Soviet
| is unable 10 control the luSts and
passions which IFS propaganda has
stirred up. It is. nevertheless. true
that there are many decent fellows
among the red guards. whose reputa-