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must be taken to protect civilization from
the sweep of Boshevsm"
In discussing the problem of provision
ing the peoples of Central and Eastern
Europe in an interview with The Associ-
ated Press Herbert C. Hoover, recently
appointed director of Allied food relief
in liberated, enemy and neutral coun-
tries, said
Food worth $1,000, 100000 must be i'm
ported into Europe to provide against &C.
tual needs between now and July /, and the
financing Of the project is stupendous
task
Liberated territories will be fed first,
but much of this territory has no other
government than that Of scattered munich
palitics, it has no credit, and is unable to
pay for food.
POLAND, Armenia, Czecho Slovakia, and
the Jugo-Slav Republic are in this condi-
ton, as we'll assmany other suffering sec
tons. Most OF the necessary food must
come from the United States, ard repre-
sentatives of that government are confer
ring with those of the Allied Powers as
W H'edHS lOr paying Tor TINS 1000.
Mr.. Hoover announced that German
ships, totalling about 100000 tons, will
be used in carrying food supplies to Eu-
rope. He said that the most difficult
part of the problem was provisioning the
liberated territories, where over 125, OOO,-
600 people await with eager hopes relief
from the United States.
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3. The Red rebellion at Berlin, engi-
neered and evidently supported by the
Bolsheviki, seems to make headway
Since Wednesday terrific street battles
are being fought between the troops of
the Ebert government and the Boshe-
wiki, led by Liebknecht and, apparently,
Karl Radek, the Russian emissary. Hun
dreds of dead litter the streets, cables
say.
4. According to reports from Polish
sources, the Ukrainian drive against
Lemberg is being supported by the Boil
sheviki
: S. Severe outbreaks of a Bolshevik
character are being reported from Buda-
pest, the Magyar capital.
The. Bolshevik movement westward is
war of conquest, pure and simple. The
Germans have tried to impose their ku-
tur on unwilling peoples by the force of
arms; now the Bolsheviki attempt to
enforce proletarian dictatorship at the
point of the bayonet on peoples equally
unwilling.
"With Colt for King and Father
land" was the inscription on the helmets
of the Prussian barbarians; the Russian
savages might adopt the slogan for their
own use in a slightly modified form,
thus: "With the devil for Trotzky and
anarchy" In this war of conquest the
Bolsheviki prove traitors to the lofty
principles they professed before gaining
ascendancy. Did they not claim the
principle of self-determination as their
own invention and programme? AS "The
New York Evening Sun" points out edi-
torially:
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danger which the neighborhood of Poland
represents to them. At the moment when.
despite all assertions to the contrary. Lieb-
knecht grows every day stronger and more
menacing, Poland is for Germany peril
no less social than national.
an any case Europe's interest is evident
to save Poland, and, in order to save it. to
strengthen the hand Of its government For
Rolshevism is not a force that can be
checked with ease. To-day it is at Minsk,
perhaps tomorrow at Wilma. When it shall
have triumphed at Warsaw and Cracow, can
it be prevented from reaching Berlin and
Vienna? And then what will become of all
Of us, Allies and neutras aike?"
The necessity of erecting a barrier
against the westward spread of Bolshe-
vlsm finds general recognition The idea
that the new Poland should be made
into the first line of defence offers itself
naturally, determined as it is by geog-
raphy as we'll as recent historical devel-
opment A statement by Ignace Jan
Paderewski, the Polish artist-statesman,
who recently arrived on Polish soil, sum-
marizes this idea in the following:
"Thc inevitable result of Bolshevism will
be return to the barbaric era in Russia
and Eastern Central Europe. If Poland is
not helped to create barrier against it,
then liberty and justice do not exist. I'm
happily, the Allies are disguised with the
idea of more war, even though it be in their
own defence, in their own interest," for the
preservation of civilization. 1t would be
possible for the Allies to loan us a
hundred staff officers for training purposes
and sell us military supplies, clothing and
shoes to help fit out our army, since we
have the men"
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War?

ton, and 1t has already begun to operate !,
Germany upon very serious scale. NOTHING
could be more calculated in that country IN
Illustrate the appearance of an authentic
government with which peace might be con-
cuded.
There are arguments both for military
and economic pressure. But one must be
chosen and the other abjured, on the pcn-
atty OF giving the empire of chaos a most
menacIng extension. 1t is an option that
cannot be deferred until the peace confer
ence has finished its labors tidal wavo
OF Russo-Gcrman Bolshevism sweeping over
Europe might give more embarrassment n
Pa1s than the escape of Napoleon did at
Vienna"
But the question arises, Is it mt
already too late? The events in Central
and Eastern Europe show no inclination
whatever to wait until the Western
statesmen have made up their minds. AT
the time of writing the balance of the
struggle at the German capital seems 10
SWING IN favor Of the Red faction. and
the moderate government of Ebert an
pears TO have put up its last desperate
fight "The New York Globe reports
from Paris, under Thursdays date;
THE Ebert Scheidemann government in
Germany has been overturned, the Extrem-
lists having gained the upper hand in Ber-
I'm after sanguinary fighting, according to
the latest German advices received here.
new revolutionary government has
been proclaimed, composed of independent
Socialists
"a part Of the government troops are re-
ported to have gone over to the rebels and
the Spartacans now hold the principal
points in Berlin
Civil war is spreading to other parts of
Germany, the advces Indicate and parts Of
the Rhenish provinces and Bavaria are now
reported to be involved"
dispatch from Amsterdam. printed
IN The New York Evening Sun" said.
Thursday afternoon:
German Foreign Minister Brockdora
Rantzau has threatened to resign unless
order is restored, according to Berlin dis
patch, filed on Tuesday night and received
by the Handelsblad' to-day.
"He notified the government that the
Spartacides had seized his Office and that
he and his staff had been forced to sus-
pend work
There were more than hundred casual
ties, chiefly Spartacides, in the street fight
ing on Tuesday night, the dispatch said
Government troops drove the revolutionists
from the railway stations and railway head
quarters in Potsdam and Anhalt by the use
Of artillery.
"The Spartacides. according to the dis
patch, captured the imperial printing works
and 100000, marks in currency
"Ihe government has been practically i'm
prisoned in the Imperial Chancelery
which, however, the Spartacides have been
unable to capture"
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1t was limited by Federal agents, the
paper says that in New York and vicn-
lty alone there are about 100000 Boil
shevk sympathizers. A large number Of
special agents are engaged in compiling
as full a list of professional Bolsheviki
as possible, it was said.
What the ideas, plans and sentiments
OF the American Bolsheviki are need
by no means to be ferreted out by agents
of the Federal government. The Boil
shevik leaders and their sympathizers
themselves come forward to relate in a
manner of self-conscious boasting things
that in the average citizens ears may
sound rather like dangerous and fan
tastic admissions.
Thus, the existence in American cities
of large number of soviets and the
plan to organize more was announced
in an interview with "The New York
World" by Dr. Frederick A. Blossom,
editor Of "The Labor Leader" the Of
fetal organ of the I. w. w. On January
S "The World" reported:
"Dr. Frederick A. Blossom, editor of The
Labor Defender official organ of the l. w.
W., declared yesterday that the Bolshevik
elements are forming services secretly in
cities through the United States He added
that there are $4,000 members in Canada,
all Of whose names on list in posses
sion Of the Canadian government, and that
III Mexico and South America Bolshcvism is
particularly active
Although most of the sovets are &C.
cret they are in communication with Trotz-
ky and Lenine,' DR.. Blossom said. 1T is
their intention to unite ill sovicts on the
Western hemisphere. A secret soviet is
now in this city, while others are located in
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Paterson. The
organizations hero and central councils
formed on soviet basis, and the delegates
are subject to recall. Only delegates of in
dustry are accepted in thcsc councils"
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1.-The situation is one of extreme ur-
gency, for foodstuffs must be placed in
certain localities within the next fifteen to
thirty days if human life and order are
to be preserved. l, therefore, request that
you should ask Congress to make available
to me an immediate appropriation Of $780,
100000 for the broad purpose Of providing
foodstuifs and other urgent supplies, for
the transportation distribution and admin
istration thereof to such population Of
Europe, outside CT Germany, as may be
determined upon by me from time to time
as necessary"
The trend of comment in American
newspapers, on the Presidents request
was that the relief sent to the furnishing
European countries is to be considered as
an lnvestment,s as sort of insurance
premium against the spread of Bolshe-
vlsm. At the same time the magnificent
role devolving upon the American ma
ton, that Of saving the peoples of Eu-
rope from starvation after it has saved
them from Kaiserism, was pointed out
by THE Philadelphia Public LEDGER"
which said editorially:
America, of all the great powers which
nave participated III the war, is the best
aole TO give immediate aid in material and
service, and our people will not grudge
further sacrifices in a cause that appeals
TO the great heart of humanity and which
is vita! element in the measures which
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a NOIHER great battle is on. The
Y allied democratic nations of the
4 "A world, triumphant above the
scattered ruins of Kaiserism,
have to face another, still deadlier, more
ruthless, more insidious enemy: Boil
shevlsm 1t is no longer a question of
stamping out the Bolshevik menace
the Bolsheviki themselves have started
in to stamp out democracy from the
world. There seems no choice left. The
invasion of Mid Europe by the Red
Guards has begun, and it may not be
long before the 'battle line of freedom"
stretching from the North Sea to the
Mediterranean, will have to bear the on
slaught of the maddened millions from
the East.
This forecast springs by no means
from an exaggerated pessimism Last
weeks cables from Europe indicate that
the realization of the Bolshevik peril, not
as more or less localized issue of Soviet
Russia and the adjoining lands, and
otherwise a mere vague collective term
for class unrest and theoretical ex-
tremism, but~as a powerful movement
organized and equipped for armed ag-
erosion and expansion, has the minds of
European statesmen in its grip. 1t may
be that the peace conference, gathered
to settle the accounts of the last Arma-
geddon, will soon have to transform into
council of war to prepare the plans for
the next
The Paris correspondent of "The New
fork Times" summarizes the sentiment
there as follows:
I'm we'll Informed circles here the feeling
grows daily stronger that Bolshevism is one
OF the greatest dangers with which the
Allied conference must cope. The mass Of
the public does not yet realize the full ex-
tent of the danger, the newspapers avoid
alarming news the one hand and on the
other are over-ready to feature exaggerated
stories emphasizing tie utter disorganiza-
ton and ruin of the Bolshevist regime in
Russia.
Jet those who know the secrets of the
gods in Paris no longer disguise their alarm
at the course of events in Europe. Holland,
Spain and Switzerland are seriously menaced
by labor troubles. Stockholm is overtly
the headquarters of the Bolshevist propa-
ganda, whose funds amount to millions of
dollars as result of unprncpled specula-
ton by henchmen of Lenine and Trotzkv
on the ruble exchange and in Russian oil
and other industrial shares whose variations
they can influence at will
Even in France, England and Italy there
are disquieting symptoms whereof the dis
satisfaction over the decentralization onos
ton is not the sole manifestation. In Ger
many the spartacists grow daily more dan
serous, powerful and daring, and while the
lilies are hairsplitting over the conference
procedure and the exact significance Of the
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The statesman of the TWEEN
tleth might adapt the saying to pres
ent-day conditions thus: "Bolsheyism
marches on an empty stomach" Or, to
phrase it more picturesquely and i'm
pressively: "The Bosheviki march on
the empty stomachs of other people"
The cables from Europe show that the
food problem is rapidly becoming the
paramount issue of the Old World.
towering high above petty political d.
visions and nationalistic controversies.
AS the Paris correspondent of "The New
York Times writes:
We'll informed and thoughtful men here
are no longer anxious about the war as
waged between August, 1914, and Novem
Der, 1918, but are deeply concerned lest
hunger and need in the poorer classes
should foment unrest and upset the social
order.
american officials understand the con-
ditons to the last pound of food that
can De brought to Europe and distributed
and are working night and day to CEN
trallze effort on these grim realities. If
the gravity Of the economic problem can
be brought home to the Allied councils
and action in the peace conference speeded
up the impending dangers may be averted."
That the intimate relationship between
hunger and anarchy has penetrated the
minds Of the worlds leaders is testified
to by President Wilson's appeal to Con-
gress for an appropriation of $10O,0OO,-
600 wherewith to provide food for the
starving populations of Central and
Eastern Europe.
"The high mission of the American
people to find a remedy for starvation
and absolute anarchy renders it neces-
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sky, IAN understood Russian, who speaks
English with difficulty" Russian cloak
makers, seamen, dockworkers and dra-
matte societies are said to be included
IN this soviet, with an aggregate men,
bership of about 5000 people, repre-
sented by forty delegates.
The convention of the Anne IAN Boil
sheviki was opened at the Aanhattan
Lyceum on Tuesday, with Brailovsly in
the chair. The following account of the
session is given by "The World":
"Most of the 200 delegates were young
men, some with long hair, some with short,
and all apparently deeply impressed with
their own Importance in solving the prob
lens Of the world.
"On the first part of the programme was
the roll call of de egates when each. as his
name called, arose from the little
tables about which they were placed in
groups of three FOUR and told who he
represented There was a group from
Seattle, representative of the Let's, of
Philadelphia, man who said he represented
Ontario, Canada; one who said he spoke
Tor 1000 workers of Bridgeport, repre-
sentative of the anarchists of New York
and others from San Francisco, Chicago, st.
Louis, Baltimore and scores of other cities
in the United States and Canada.
I'm all, it was said, that there were
11S delegates, representing 100 organiza-
tIons in the United States, with total men,
bership of 33,777 The purpose of the meet
ing. as explained by Brailovsky, was to pro-
test against foreign Intervention in Russia,
to bring about Che uniication of workers in
the United States, to discuss means for
spreading the doctrine of the sovets and to
arrange for such Russians, as wished to do
so, to return to their native land"
Prominent among the Bolshevix leaders
IN the United States are Gregory Vein
stein and Nicholas Hourwich, editors of
"Novy Mir New York Socialist daily
printed in the Russian language. Both
were associated with Leon Irotzky dur
ing his stay in New York, prior 10 the
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sary that we should undertake the most
liberal assistance to those destitute re-
gions,' the President cabed from Paris
to Secretary of the Treasury Glass.
The Presidents communication, trans
mitted at once by Secretary Glass to
Swagar Sherley, chairman of the APP
preparations Committee of the House,
pointed out that
Extended investigation and considera-
ton Of food situations in certain parts of
Europe disclose that especially the urban
populations in certain areas are not only
facing absolute starvation during the COM
ing winter, but that many of these peo-
pie are unable to find Immediately re-
sources with which to purchase their food.
"These regions have been so subjected
10 destruction by war, not only of their
foodstuffs, but Of their financial resources
and their power Of production and export,
that they are utterly incapable of finding
any resources that be converted into
international exchange for food purchase.
While the Secretary Of the Treasury can
accept obligations of certain governments,
and through these measures their situa-
tons can be cared for temporarily there
are still other areas through eastern and
southern Europe where such arrangements
cannot be made This applies more par
ticularly to the liberated peoples of Aus
tra, Turkey, Poland and western Russia.
In these countries freedom and government
Will slowly emerge from chaos and REQUIRE
our every assistance.
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The World" quotes Department of
Justice agents as saying that the
surprising thing about the Bolshevik
methods of expansion is the open way
IN which the campaign is being carried
on There have been secret meetings,
but these were mostly of the leaders
only. They have taken place in east side
garrets and Bronx apartment houses,
and what has taken place there has
been a good deal of mystery. "The
World" continues:
but these have been followed by all sorts
OF open neutrality-suspicious. sometimes
called as Mooney defence meetings. some
times as in behalf of so-called political
prisoners, and again for the avowed purpose
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o. protesting against the presence of United
states troops in Russia. But in most of
them the doctrines of Bolshevism have been
preached SO subtly AS to leave the preacher
Just outside the pale Of the law.
officials said that literally thousands of
tons of cleverly worded Boshevik literature
mad been distributed in the United States
and that there was not an evening when
there were not from one to six Bolshevik
meetings in New York City"
New York City, "The Worldo re-
ports, has its soviet already, with head
quarters in Fifteenth Street. west Of
Third Avenue. The Soviet has an official
publication called workman and PENS
ant" and edited by Alexander Rrailov.
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trlbutors, or prospective contributors. John
Reed, Edward MacAlpine Gregory Vein
stein and DR.. Scott Nearing, and is re-
garded as part of a movement to weld to-
gether the various radical elements of the
country"
In the fight against the spread of Boil
shevism the Federal government has no
more loyal supporter than American
labor, according to Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation of
Labor. "The New York Times says,
on January 8:
samuel Gompers. president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, declared last
hlght that American organized labor will
hght the spread of Bolshevism with every
energy at It's command. Mr.. Gompcrs made
the statement on the eve of his departure
Tor faris to attend the International Labor
conference, to be held during the sessions
Oh the peace ENJOYS.
boishevism,' Mr.. Gompers said is as
great an attempt to disrupt the trade unions
as 1t is to overturn the government of the
United States He added that victory over
TINS menace was assured. however. because
" the sane Americanism of the American
Federation of Labor
The Social Democratic League. in
cluding the pro-war Socialists under the
leadership of Charles E. Russell and viii
liam f. Walling, has issued an appeal
TO all Socialists of the country to oppose
with all their might the doctrines of i'm
perlaiism on The one side. and the spread
on bolshevism on the other Imperial
ISM and Bolshevism, according to this
appeal, are the two great enemies that
threaten democracy to-day.
The United States government is re-
ported to plan general roundup and de-
portation of all alien 'reds." The de-
partmcnts of Labor and Justice, the re-
port says, are cooperating in listing all
bolsheviti and Bo'shsvik sympathizers
in the country. 81
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league of nations the Bolshevist flood rolls
steadily westward across Poland"
The different phases of the Bolshevik
general offensive, spreading from the
Baltic to the Danube, in the course of
last week, can be gathered under the
following headings:
]. The capture by the Red forces of
Riga, capital of Lettonia and principal
Baltic port, has been reported.
2. Fierce fighting is in progress be-
tween the Bolsheviki and Polish forces
for the possession of Wilma, the Lithua-
MAN capital.
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MA THILE the Bolsheviki of Russia
w are spreading westward into
Poland, Lithuania, Galicia

! IlILC CUe bOiSneVlkl OF Russia
NV are spreading westward into
Poland, Lithuania, Galicia
and Germany their we'll
known gospel of freedom and brotherly
love with the aid of the bayonet and the
torch, their little brethren in the United
States are pulling themselves together
to hasten the outbreak Of the great re-
volt which is to transform this country
into another proletarian paradise of the
approved LenineTrotzky pattern. Two
events in the course Of the last twelve
days, served to attract public attention
to the acuteness of the Bolshevik con-
tagion in our midst One was the bomb
outrage at Philadelphia, on December 80.
the other the convention of American
soviets at the Manhattan Lyceum in
New York. which opened its sessions on
Tuesday, January7.
The Associated Press reported on De-
cember 81 that on the preceding evening
three shrapnel shells, loaded with nitro
glycerin or INT, had exploded in front
Of the homes Of Justice Robert Won
Noschzisker, Of the Pennsylvania Su-
preme Court; Ernest E. ,Trigg, president
Of the Philadelphia Chamber Of Com
mercc, and William B. Mills, acting su-
perintendent of the city police. No life
was lost, but considerable property dam
age was wrought by the explosion. Cir
culars, found on the scenes of the out
RACES, admonished "the cxploiters,
judges, policemen, priests and soldiers"
of the coming overthrow of the capital
istic order of society.
The investigation started jointly by
the Philadelphia police and the Federal
authorities pointed to the menace of
country-wide anarchist plot, and on the
following Friday warning was received
by the New York police that attempts
similar to those in Philadelphia may be
made against life ard property Of New
York officials and PROMINENT citizens.
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An editorial in 'sThe London Oh

An editorial in "The London OBJ
server" seizes upon the same thought:
"The Allies are in some danger of pre-
cipitating in Germany what they should
most wish to avoid They are perfectly
entitled to insist upon the disbandment of
the army. They are also perfectly entitled
to maintain the full right of blockade. But
simultaneously to empty millions of men
into civilian life and to exclude the raw
materials which alone can give them en-
ployment is the most rapid process for
making Bolshevsts that has been dis
covered.
Acknowledgement and Bolshevism soon
establish vicious circle of mutual stimua-