Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-10-31

Althogh the sons that Wauseon has
10 De piouu OF because Oh tneIr SER
wees to the country IN these times
OF stress and STRAIN is donald I.
Nanb~rsn, Lieutenant d. Y. Van
BurelI low on the staff OF Mai Gen.
Leonard Wood. DonaId didn't go to
tlalhns camp when war was declar-
cd wltn Germany, there were reasons
why ne snouid not; one of them was
Master ttIram NanBuren. But thai
dad not hinder Donald VanBuen from
serving mis- country in a manner as
vltany important 10 the nation as
was the service which called our men
overseas; he threw himselr into the
work OF one OF the principal organi-
zations cooperating with the Depart
menC of Justice and the u. S. Secret
Service to meet, check, route out and
punish the subtle propaganda OF pro-
geransm with which our country
was beng injected and wnos1 wot6
was resulting Ia the DESTRUCTION ri
lives. and property here and impor-
tant information and help to the
enemy overseas. Mr.. VanBuren was
a chief operator in mis- home city,
CleveiaHa, and che value If his worN
and that of his associates, in that
city cannot be overestimated.
1he next step was into the service
Ct the Army as an intelligence officer
and ultimate assignment to duty in
Chicago: 1t has been strenuous duty
from that time to this and it seems
tnat The end rs not yet.
We have been reading in the daily
papers some hints, of the work 1t.
Van Buren has been doing and some
thing of the work which has been ac-
complished. The Washington Star
OF october oath, casts some light up
on his activities. 1t. VanBdren ap-
peared as a witness before the Senate
Committee investigating the Steea
Strike at Gary, Indiana. The follow
ing extracts from his testimony are
interesting, not only because they
come from one of our Wauseon boys
but also because Of the possible light
they throw upon the primary causes
of the industrial and economic tur-
moil in which we find ourselves at
present:
"Our first interest in Gary" said
1t. VanRuren,, "came when Chief OF
Police Forb4s came to Chicago II, IN
that city last spring with a request
for machine guns and military in
tervention. He tod rs the reds
were planning to parade May and
start a revolution.
Two names were given us as those
of leaders Of the anarchist club at
Gary, Ivancff and DeGeorge. They
were Russians or Austrians. De-
George was a chemist and we learned
later that he was operating near the
Aetna explosive works, outside of
Gary, where gun cotton was, avail
able from the wastes outside the mill.
A report was made to the Depart
ment Of Justice, but so far as the
witness knew there had been no pro-
secution. The two men have LETT
Gary. 1t. VanBuren said that since
the military Intervention no one has
even sustained a black eye in Gary
ave found in Gary after military
occupation there tremenduous guam
titles Of red literature. The bible
%. the rel, the anarchist and the
bolshevist is the manifesto of the
communist party of Russia put out
AZ what is known as the third inter
national meeting at Moscow in March
Many thousand copies of this were IN
Gary"
Lieutenant VanBuren read extracts
from a booklet seized at Gary. \
urged revolution upon workers in all
lands in the name Of the conquerine
proletariat of Russia, and said opeT
combat was the only road to the red
ress of alleged grievances
"All the radicals of the country
are centering upon the propaganda OF
Lenine and Trotsky. call your at
tention to the fact that it was print
ed in Chicago by the Arbiter Zeitun!
Publishing Company, which is signlh
can't"
Asked by Senator Kenyon If thu
stuff was going through the mails
III. VanBuren answered, "Oh yes.
The Senator opined that std bette
be stopped if .ouf government ism
to become impotent."
Senator Phipps asked if there wer
anv organizations in Gary whic
supported this program and Ii
VanBuren answered; 'yes, have
list Of them"