The Topeka state journal., 1922-01-28
Tone of Communications Are
Even More Violent.
NO TRACE OF AUTHORSHIP
A. NJ. Rock Says 1t Is "PIOt
Against Workers"
Insists That He Is a "Real Red
Red' Now.

Members of the Washburn college
faculty and student body whose lives
were threatened by anonymous letters
are still receiving communications,
even more violent in tone, from the
same unknown source. The persist
cnce of the attack, Notwithstanding
the serious illness of two persons
which has resulted from worry over
these letters, has wholly dispelled the
theory that they might constitute a
student prank.
While Investigation has proceeded
quietly, the authorities say they have
no trace of the authorship of the let
ters.
A, NJ. Rock, president of the Work
ers' Study club, sought an interview
with the college authorities in which
he denied any knowledge of the au-
thorship of the letters.
Rock admitted that he had secretly
left communist propaganda on the
front porch of the house where two
young women students lived. He said
he had adopted this method because
he thought it was against the law to
mail literature or circulate it openly.
Il probably violated the law" he
said, "but I have done nothing con-
trary to my conscience. Go ahead,
suppose you can send me to the peni-
tentiary if you want to. This whole
business is a plot against the work
ers."
Rock was assured that the college
authorities were only seeking to stop
the flood of anonymous threats, as a
duty to the students under their care,
and were not intending to prosecute
anyone for any other purpose
Social Revolution Coming.
Tho no one believes the Workers
Study club is a party to any plot
against the peace of Washburn col
lege. it's existence is political fact
which ought to interest the assembling
candidates for governor.
The members of the Workers Study
club, according to one of the students
who visited its meetings, believe that
a great social revolution is coming,
and are trying to fit themselves by
study for positions of leadership under
the proletarian regime. The students
bore out Rocks statement that the
members represented various points o.
view, and that On4y few OF them
called themselves direct acttonists."
The meetings, they said, are largely
taken up with historical and philo-
sophicaI discussion, and are quiet and
orderly.
Rock said it was difficult to define
his own political beliefs because they
change so rapidly. Pressed for more
definite statement, he said:
We'll, I'm what you would call a
Red, I guess"
Asked for a further explanation, he
sail:
Il used to vote for Debs, but I
wouldn't do that any more. He's too
yellow for me. I'm what you would
call a real red Red
In further explanation of his creed,
Rock called himself a Communist.
u believe in the soviet form of
government" he said. Il believe IN
the dictatorship of the proletariat.
WE'LL am a political follower of
Lenine and Trotzky."
Asked to define the proletariat, -
Rock declared that a proletarian is
one who has no property
do you sympathize with the kill
ing of thousands of people which
Lenine and Trotzky have brought
about in Russia" he was asked.
mo, think that is regrettable-de-
plorable."
Rock Secs Conspiracy.
Rock added that the leaders of the
"capitalistic" governments of the
world had caused the death of 90
600 600 men in the World war, a vast
" greater number than Lenine and
Trotzky had killed.
Repeatedly Rock declared that
there was a conspiracy against him,
and suggested that the letters were
pTODdDlg MLAlLtn ny SOlH6 ele4ily Ol
the Workers Study club who hoped 10
incriminate him or some of its other
members.
He was assured that the college
had no desire to throw suspicion on
him if he were innocent, and that no
one had made any charges against
him. One person suggested that Rock
would have less trouble if he gu [
posing as a hero and martyr, and con
Quoted himself like any other good
citizen.
Il am hero" ne replied. 'I have
always been hero-ever since 1 was
a boy"
Rock said he had no wish to be an
ordinary good citizen, that the So
called good citizens were nothing but
a flock of sheep.
THE heroes and martyrs are the
persons who force progress on the
world" he said.
Rock has a wife and a family of
several children. He is a horticul-
turalist, ne said. but is finding it hard
to get work, and depends principally
on the milk of one COW, which he
owns to support his family.
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