Arizona republican., 1921-08-16
Census Of Radicals SholUs Big Decrease (Cnntfl.nad frnrn Pa1a n
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midable. If there are but 310,000 Reds in this country then but one person in each 350-or about a third of one per cent-are Red. In fact the actual percentage runs a little higher. There are something more than 105,000,000 men. women and children in the United States. but the 310.000 Reds are all men and women. The children have not been included, because it is absurd to call a child Red who is not yet old enough to cut its own steak at table. But it is to be remembered that the children of Reds are very apt to grow up Red.
 Children Easily Influenced
 Some months ago some interesting statistics were uncovered as to the number of children in certain red toned school districts in some of the eastern cities who professed Red ten- cts. The totals were surprising. But they were invariably cut down as soon as the teachers in the affected districts began to show the young sters the other side of the story.
 The Reds left on the rolls-the 310,- 900 referred to-are. for the most part of foreign birth. By far the greater part came from the countries once held under Russian dominion. It would be hard to quarrel with them for their detestation of the former Russian government. Nor is it hard to understand that they transferred their hate and fear of their old gov ernment to all governments. The evidence is rather strong, too, that Americans did little to aid them to a comprehension of the difference be- States and that of Little Russia. They were given work. when there was work to give. Little attention was paid to their housing. their edu : cation, or the conditions under which they worked.
 Most Reds Are Ignorant
 Consequently they were competed into national bodies in the communi- ties in which they gathered. Perhaps majority of the 310.000 classified Reds are ignorant folk who are preyed upon by intelligent agitators of foreign and native birth. No' must the Reds be confused with members of the various minority parties which registered votes at the | last general election. They voted in 1 protest against existing conditions :, but a Red is Red. He believes in | changing conditions by violence Lit | tie by little the American born seems to be leaving the Reds. He may have l whooped a good deal of nonsense ir | that wave of radicalism that followed the technical end of the war. But he l Is getting over it.
 One of those whose business it is | to keep watch and ward on the Reds thinks this has been an entirely nat 1 ural development. During the wal l ard immediately after it there was | plenty of work at wages hitherto un- | dreamed of. The man who wished could work a week and then loaf a week, with more money in his pock. ] cts than he were had before. Wher he loafed he was apt to listen to the agitator. By and by he became some thing of an agitator himself. But when work began to tighten up and l wages began to drop he discovered 1 that more days work were needed il he were to maintain the standard oi | living to which he had become ac- customed.
 Employer a Big Factor
 Then the employer took a hand. | said the assessor quoted. If he Iouii employ but 50 men as against the '; he employed formerly it was onl, | natural that he should select goot workmen so far as possible. H. wanted men who could be relied ol to work full days and full weeks
 Nor did he want men who woul, spend their time trying to persuad' other men that the way to get thei rights was to set fire to the factory
 Radicals who had been admitted t Russia returned with depressing re | ports. Not all of them were con
 vinced that the Red idea had beer
 wrong, but most of them admitted
 that it did not work. More and nor it came home to the American -borl workingman that the way to get hi