The Washington times., 1922-04-23
ssA A ND the villain still pursues
n her"

the heroine who is pursued to the
very brink of the precipice, but
the whole American people. And
II is not a villain. singular number.
II Is an organized host Of villains,
now called Bolshevists, who are
said to be ready TO swoop down,
burn the Capital, blow UP all our
multi,millionaires and make Tro.-
zly and his fellows look as con.
servatiye as Arthur Balfour or
Elihu Root.
1t is terriblei Beware the ides of
Mayl chief Detective Burns has
recently discovered Red Radicalis,n
Recrudescent. He is seeing red. "a
powerful underground movement is
working everywhere" and, he SEN
sstionally cries out: 'It is stronger
now than ever" What causes It?
Mr.. Burns has the answer: "The
Soviet government is responsible
for most OF It and the unempioy.
ment situation adds to It." Chief
Burns runs true to form. Period
ically somebody in the Department
OF Justice sees red and magniftes
the usual lawbreaking in times of
stress into some sort of consplr-
Rcy with a big name.
THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN.
The scare manages to stay on
until the periodical talk of gov
ernment economically adminis-
tered" dies away, as 1t usually does
toward the close OF Congress. The
new members OF Congress and a
new Administration usually come
TO Washington with zeal for econ
oIpy crusaders against waste, ami
mated with a purpose to bring the
country back to a time when a
Watch Dog of the Treasury was
the only man in Washington who
was sure of contempt and ostra-
oism. The only virtue which is
never forgiven in Washington is
they do not call 1t a virtue. Here
the man who Holmanizes public
expenditure is regarded as guilty
of the vice which Is the only un-,
forgivable sin.
BOLSHEyIsTS BEHIND TREE.
OF course. when William J.
tr-ax
conceals a Bolshevik, who can
disprove IL? II there were only a
few, the country would look to
the Secret Service men TO nab
= them and hurl them in Jail. But
n there are myriads. who can ex-
pect these vigilant officers to be
able to cope with thousands, may
hap millions? Mr.. Burns is not
the only Department of Justice
officer who has thrown scares into
en- unsuspecting public by sending
out statements that make timid
people afraid to stick their heads
out from cover after dark. 1t has
happened before. and scores have
been apprehended instead of hun
dreds OF thousands Latterly, with
talk about the prevalence of ReIs
abroad and conspiracy TO burn
down the Capital and mako the
streets run red with blood, how
many have been discovered with
bombs or poison gas or INIT
There are too many and too much
diligence cannot be employed in
hunting them down and punish
ing them to the full extent of the
law. But one swallow does not
make a summer and a few hun
dred criminals and desenerates
and anarchists at large do not con.
stitute q wholesale conspiracy
which endsngers the Life Of the
republic
when I am tcid that this -'un-
ssrsround movement In working
sverywhers.- my impulse born Of
many former such Sensational
uttersnoss n 10 sayr
Ratsi
ANCIENT MAIDEN LADIES.
In former times, when there
existed ancient maiden ladies, the
favortts joke was to tan how
every night before retiring these
ancient maiden ladies' would stcop
and carefully look under every
bed 70 zee II a man could be
found, and how relieved they
were when their search found no
male hiding beneath the stats.
Today IL seems that the favorits
amusement of washington Off
cialdom In 10 sravely announce
that under the bed, smuggling
closely beside the lsres and PEN
ases of our homes, are muititudes
of Bolshoviki, ready. upon a given
signal, 70 rise and destroy tho
palladium of cur democratic in
stitutions. To read the proclsma-
tions OF dire destruction which
this host Of Boishevists ara plan
ming 10 pull off one would think
that the country stands on the