The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-08-22

time TO time it has seemed to be n
patriotic duty to point out the fact
the known fact-that many of the la
borers in behalf of peace throughout
the country really are agents of com
munist Russia seeking to disarm the
United States so that the communists.
who are already organized in this
country, can make en- attempt which
they think may be successful to over
throw the existing American democ-
racy.
The organizations which are at work
in behalf of peace, and in whose mem
bership there are many believers in
communism. succeeded in getting n
semiofficial approval for their two
days demonstration in behalf of Law
No More War" Actually, the post
office authorities authorized that in
certain of the Offices of the country,
notably in Boston, a postmark could
be sta; lped upon letters which bears
the slogan. "Law-No More War"
Enemies of Army and Navy.
Admittedly, this subject has been
treated in letters from Washington
prior to this time. but the communists
and their easy American victims are
still keeping everlastingly at their
propaganda. But if efforts are made
by decent Americans TO check the
thing, they may get somewhere. To
the surprise, perhaps, of some good
peace-lovhg Americans, they find that
by joining organizations whose ostensi-
BILE purpose is 10 stop war they in fact
have been helping forward the schemes
of anarchists and worse.
Recently Secretary of the Navy
DENLY said There is a sinister propa-
ganda by societies having their origin
in foreign countries to undermine the
morale of the navy and to ~insinuate
into its personnel elements of disloy-
atty and disorder"
Secretary of War Weeks has been
compelled to issue warnings against
the spread of communism in his de-
VartInent. Mr.. Weeks said: "The
War department has been aware that
the communist program has stressed
the breeding of disloyalty among army
and navy personnel as we'll as among
citizens at large"
The most vindictive American
enemies of the army and navy of the
United States, enemies who desire that
the two great forces for law and order
shall be abolished, are working mainly
through two societies, one which has
a sounding w~ar-prevention title, and
another a title which suggests that its
work is entirely for peace and for free
dom. One of these societies, Is re-
sponsible largely for the pleasing
slogan "Law-No More War" al
though the thing that the society is
trying to do is to abolish the law-en-
forcing power.
Would Save Only "Red" Army.
The American Defense society.
through the director of the Washing
ton bureau of the organization, has
said this concerning the work of sew
eral of the American societies which,
while seemingly working for peace, are
doing those things which might make
for the overthrow of this govern
ment: these people and bodies al
ways are urging the adjustment of
the military forces in all countries ex-
cept in Red Russia.
Never, by any chance, do they adj
vocate any reduction of the Red army,
which is now said by competent Amer
lean observers to be the biggest and
best equipped army on earth. We are
told that the "Law-No More War
movement is international. 1t Is sig
nificant that the news dispatches from
Germany a few days ago announced
that the movement there was openly
fostered by the communists.
Every official of the United States
government. and. presumably, every
citizen of the United States, want no
more war. The authorities, however,
do not believe that peace can be
brought about by laying the United
States d~efenseless TO possible attacks
from communism within its border.