Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-06-12
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A brave show; is still made Of keep
Ing up the government. with much
dashing to and fro Of ministerial auto
mobiles. There have been more r.
rests. since the counter revolutionists
succeeded ! n:.blowing UP q big NUM-
ton factory at Ersebitfala, 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
FED bunting used ina such %profusion
was only paper war cloth, which
proved a failure for other purposes.
So twas 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-
ltionary agents who handle enormous
sums OF money; but also within the
.lcountry wild efforts are being made to
secure adherents' Printing. presses
bare working overtime turning. out
OF cours they curse capitalism and
call upon all to become "voros" or
| red soldiers. *-
All bare walls including church
fronts, are .plastered over with the
declaration Mem Mem: SohaY emo,
no, never) which is the slogan for the
refusal to abandon the national. soil
to the Rumanian and, the Czech.
The press bureau is also active. It
is. sending out reports signed with the
names of foreign correspondents to
| copy submitted for censorship. Much
ingenuity is shown in several new
tBolshevist magazines illustrated with
comic pictures and jokes of the prole-
tariat at the expense Of the hated
bourgeoisie. One magazine which
bears the name of the month in which
it appears shows a fat landlord, or
rather a n ex-landlord, communing
with a snail.
"Ah, lucky beast" he snarls. thou
hast still gotten thy house on thy
back. ~. \
The magazine even dares to carica-
ture little Bella Kun, with This thick
overhanging lips, sometimes likened
to a bulldog.
The result Of such propaganda is
questionable. judging by. the actions
of three communists with whom the
Associated Press correspondent rode
Portable seats, while a humble womanS
with a newborn baby in her arms,
! stood in. the corridor for fully six
hours. These three men were all the
time devouring. Bolshevik literature,
but 1t never occurred to their humans
tarianism to give up a seat to a tired
woman. They evidently knew advers-
ity but it had not taught them charity.
All this propaganda work gives an
ployment to a large number of per-
sons, and there are special training
schools for apt candidates. Recently
a group of young men speaking sew
eral languages wen to the foreign Of
fee to seek employment. and they
were told that the only work that was
open was to act locally as spies or to
go to Bucharest, Vienna or Paris and
carry on propaganda work there.
This is in contradiction to the promise
made by the ministers to the Ameri-
cans that they would not attempt to
disseminate. their ideas abroad IL they
were left alone at home.
Among the original converts who
have been converted back again are
the men of the iron workers union
who have formed a secret guard Of
fourteen thousand members to pro.
tect Budapest If a massacre Of the
bourgeoisie be attempted.
The wome Of American origin,
Marcella Lind Jellinek, q singer, and
Mrs. Isidore c.. Shasza formerly Mary
Wasserman OF New York; WHO III sffssss'
lated to the seligman banking family,
have flled their houses with homeless