The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-05-03
DENbY'S WARNING
BASED ON FACTS
PROPAGANDISTS OF SovlETISM,
COMMUNISM AND ANARCHY
ARE TRULY DANGEROUS.
GOVERNMENT ON THE ALERT
Bureau Of Investigation of Department
of Justice Asks More Money, ard
Every Traitor and Agent of Destruc-
tion Objects.
BY EDWARD B. CLARE

Westinghouse did not take Secre-
terry Denby's recent warning to the
men of the navy to guard themselves
ashore and afioat from the preaching
of sovietism, communism and anarchy"
to let students of the situation in
Washington know that the United
States is alive with propagandists
bent IN the destruction of decent gov
eminent. OF course, 1t Is known that
w~ell-meaning people will say this is
unbiased alarm, but nevertheless 1t Is
the truth. and mel here know it.
In one of the current appropriation
bills there is a request for an addition
nj sum of money for the use of the bu-
reau of investigation of the Depart
ment Of Justice. Every representative
of every radical organization In the
United States is using his influence to
prevent the granting of the money.
Within an hour Of this writing II
has been said to me that the belief of
some people that there Is pernicious
activity on the part of the radicals.
and that watchfulness and action are
needed to offset 1t, is bunk" The
word quoted Is the word that was used.
The writer knows otherwise. He had
something to do with the looking after
matters Of this kind during the val
and he knows what Is going on today.
Some of the propaganda Is not at all
subtle. 1t Is possible to get evidence
of it in the open at the social gather
ings in the city of Washington. We
have here parlor Reds. in numbers.
Need for WatchfuIness.
Some persons have gone SO far as to
say that we ought to have no intelli-
gence service in the army and navy
Of today, because the United States
government should not engage in the
work Of looking after the activities of
American citizens. Uncle Sam does
not care a whit what the Ordinary
American citizen does, so long as he
keeps within the law. The man, how
ever, who breaches destruction-and
this mans name is multitude--needs
looking after If the people are going to
retain what they have of sane govern
ment.
Men here who know what Is going
on do not blame the Department Of
Justice in the least for asking for ad-
ditional funds to check the active
propagandists in behalf of anarchy.
sovietism and communism, or what
ever you choose to call 1t. Over in
New York city there Is a bunch Of So
called intellectuals who write stuff
which feeds the Imagination of those
who read it. Most Of the writer's were
slackers during the war and those of
them who did not have to serve be-
cause of age, or dependents, wrote
everything they could to injure the
cause Of their country, taking care,
however, to keep just within the limit
of the law. They did not like Jail any
better than they liked their country's
service. :
inteIIectuals Who Are Dangerous.
The officials of the American admin
| istration are alive to this situation.
| There is today in the United States an
active group of propagandists in be-
| half Of communism. These men, in the
main, are fanatics and are willing to
go to any extreme, even n which in
wolves imminent personal danger to
themselves, to carry on their work.
The Americans who help them are IL
different type. They get a certain flat
terry for their "intellectualities." from
what they write and from what they
say, but not one Of them is willing. as
are the foreign agents, to endanger
their heads or their skins through
overt acts. They are none the less
dangerous, however, for they preach
destruction, even If the preaching Is
done in parlors and their m are
printed on the soft-tinted paper of the
feminists.
There is an attempt today by these
persons to plead that nothing should
be done to interfere with freedom of
speech, or freedom of writing. OF
does not want to interfere with any
thing Of this kind if it is proper, but
when the stuff makes for the destruc-
ton of our institutions 1t seems to
Washington officials it Is necessary to
continue to be watchful and doing.
They are still at 1t, and IL n can
get pardon from his readers for so
putting 1t, these preacher-propagan-
dists and parlor Bolshevists are n rot
ten bunch. unworthy of any American
consideration, and 1t might be added
that the intellectually of which they
make boast Is the intellectually of
drivel. Congress is not immune from
the influences of the unspeakables. 1t
may be it will deny the Department of
Justice the additional money asked.
Certain 1t is that every man and wom-
an and every organization In this coun-
try which wished us i'll in war, and
which wishes us i'll in peace,
is endeavoring to do their best to
prevent Uncle Sam from securing the
means to protect himself and his in
situations.
When He Was "Pete" Russell.
Santo Domingo has been some
thing Of n source of anxiety and