The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-13
FLAGS OF REDS I STILL FLOATING
 IN ALL BUDAPEST

Budapest. June 12--(Correspon-
 Alence of The Associated Press)-
 This red city" still faunts it's color
 scheme arranged for the May day
 celebrations. The communists nave
 hoisted the rcd banner on the castle
 which Is the headquarters of Bela-
 Kun. the big chief of the soviet. Red
 bunting also waves from the Hotel
 HunEaria, where the food is hoardcd ieand where the ministers have seuues-
 wered themselves with a bodyguard ,aof red soldiers. Ii Is there where 1t 'ds affirmed they keep their most
 tprized hostages in durance vile.
 it A brave show is still made of keep 'tnS up the government, with much
 rAashing to and fro ot ministerial au- brtomobiles. There have been more
 arrests since the counter revolution itists succeeded in blowing up a big ,srnunition factory at Ersebitfalva,
 snear here.
 ,t Tho cost of painting the city red"
 hfor the May day celebrations was
 oat first estimated at twelve million
 hcrowrs but today the supplementary s,,information is forthcoming that the iired bunting used in such profusion
 was only paper war cloth" which
 proved a failure for other purposes.
 .So 1t 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
 ltrouble in Rumania through revolu-
 tionary agents who handle enormous
 Nsums of money; but also within the 5ecountry wild efforts arc being made o'to secure adherents. Printing presses
 1re working overtime turning ou. oBolshevist posters of the weirdest otkind. Of course they curse cap xItalism and call upon all to become seoToros' or red soldiers.
 All bare walls including church fronts, are plastered over with the udeclaration Mem Mem Soha" (No.
 No. never) which is the slogan for n the refusal to abandon the national te soil to the Rumanian and tho Czech.
 The Press Bureau Is also active. T. N is sending out reports signed with 1 tho nnmes of foreign correspondents ', to forged articles. or else 1t rewrites W any copy submitted for censorship. n, Much ingenuity is shown in several new Bolshevist magazines illustrated h. with comic pictures and jokes of the at proletariat at the expense of the o hated bourgeosie. One magazine . yv which bears the name of the month IT in which it appears shows a fat land tI lord, or rather an ex-landlord, com c munins with snail.
 =, "Ah, lucky beasti" he snarls. {, thou hast still gotten thy house on ~ thy back.
 :. The magazine even dares to cari- cature little Bela Kun with his thick i, cverhanging lips, sometimes likened :. to a bulldog.
 The result of such propaganda f., l questionable, Judging by the actions
 of three communists with whom The Associated Press correspondent rode in a train. They lo11ed in their com fortable seats, while n humble wom- an. with a newborn baby in her arms. stood in the corridor for fully sX hours. These three men were all the time devourirg Bolshevik lit crature but 1t never occurred to their | humanitarianisrn to give up a seat to the tired woman. They evidently | knew diversity but it had not taught them charity.
 | All this propaganda work gives employment to a large number of s persons. and there are special train ing schools for apt candidates. Re- |S cently. A group of young men speak ing several languages. went to the Foreign Office to seek employment and were told that the only work that was open was to act locally as spies or 10 go to Bucharest, Vienna or Paris and carry on propaganda work there. This is in contradiction to the promise made by the minister's to the Americans that they would not attempt to disseminate their ideas abroad if they were left alone at l home.
 Among the original converts who have been converted back again ara the men of the ironworkers' union who have formed a secret guard of fourteen thousand members to pro- 2 bourEeoisie be attempted
 Two women of American origin hIarcella Lind Jellinek a singer. and Mrs. Isidore C. Shasza (formerly Mary wase-man of New Yorlx) who is related to the Seligman banking family, have filled their houses with homeless friends as to escape the "communizing' of their apartments. Count Apponyfs house is quite fill- cd. After he left. his personal clothes and the family linen was re- quisitioned to the last stitch despite the protests of his daughters who had remained behind with a German governess. When the latter made a complaint to the local red guard commissioner. he denied any respon-
 sibility for the requisition.
 In many cases red guards are just
 plain thievee-they enter houses and take what they fancy, and the So- viet is unable to control the Iusts and passions which its propaganda has stirred up. It is, nevertheless true that there many decent fellows among the red guards, whosa reputa- ! ton must suffer from the black
 shcep.