The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-14
Professional Patriots
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their pompous titles, engage IN occupations con-
genial to their lingo iacljnatjons at attractive
salaries.
professional Patriots" is edited By Norman
Hapgood from material assembled by Sidney
Ho10ord and John Hedrley.
when you hear a man tryn' to dscredit Uncle Sam,
that's Boshevism.
when you hear man castin' discredt the sim
certify of Washington and Lincoln, that's Boshevism
because those two the cornerstone Of patriotic
faith.
"When you hear man dstortn' misquotin, mis-
construin Constitution that's Bolshevsm--cause
that Instrument is the sOundest thing it's the greatest
safeguard of human liberty evolved from the ex
perience of or directly by the wisdom of man."
And of course the inevitable appeal to womanhood.
This by Virginia Terhune Van der Water in League
leaflet:
"Boshevsm and Americanism cannot exist in the
land. Our fight is not yet over. One has
been We facing another that must
fight with all strength Of win and purpose. It is
the fight Of Americanism against Boshevism.
Can women, whose men helped win the World War,
hesitate to say on which side they stand?"
The National Association for Constitutional Govern
ment with which are associated the Hon. James NJ
Beck and the Hon. David Jayne HILL has issued num-
Der of pamphlets, among which Confessions of
Erstwhie Parlour Socialist" by Hermine Schwed
former lecturer for the Better America Federation and
other professional patriotic bodies, and 'The Enemy
Within Our Gates: Boshevism's Assault Upon Ameri-
Government by the Rev. Dr. Henry Campbell
Black. In the latter appear such paragraphs this:
Boshevsts are the hyenas that sink upon the heels
Of the dogs of Wise and patriotic put
themselves guard; they do not parley with hyenas
under soft Marmorean skies"
DR.. Black describes Bolshevsm as not so much "a
crime of political philosophy as a career of crime.
1t is the enemy of the human race" ut is organized
anarchy and crime In pleading for stricter espon-
age acts and immigration laws he says "For what shall
it profit to have all the of the world if in
the end we blow up in one grand bo3Shevk bust?"
And of course, Whatever do let US not procras-
innate. The poison is in veins Let make haste
to eject and to fortfy ourselves against the plague
No less weighty than the American Constitutional
Association is the recently launched 1925 United
States Flag Association with public officials cardinals
rabbs bishops and educators as its sponsors It ac-
claims itself "The Great American Patriotic Society"
Its purpose is to put across" the American flag as
representative Of the institutions (which have given
the best Government earth and in only century and
half made this country the greatest and most pros
porous nation in the world"
In appealing to employers form Circles in their
factories booklet of the Association says the name
might be for example "The John Smith Co. Circle of
Buffalo" "The First National Bank Circle of SYRIA
cuse." These circles to promote locally 'he basic
aim of the United States Flag Association
act and ultimately destroy the nsdious forces sinister
influences, and disturbing elements which, in these
days of discord and divided counsels working and
spreading to divide the unity of American citizenship
and finally undermine the Republic"
And further:
an organizing Flag Circle the firm would be doing
its bit to help counterfeit these growing forces and in
fuences which carry disregard not only for property
rights but also for personal liberty"
What these detrimental influences and forces"
which the association says constitute the for its
existence They explained in this footnote:
As Of the several evidences of the rate at which
one Of these forces Communism, is growing in this
Country may be remarked that in 1920 Eugene Debs
the Sociastc Communist Presidential candidate poed
about 100000 votes At the Last Presidential election
(1s20) the Communist Presidential candidate William
2. Foster received something like 100000 votes The
Communists Of the Country eaed over the progress
thus made and confidently predicting in their pub
LEGATIONS and otherwise that at the Presidential
election 1929 they will poll between 100000 and s.
100000 votes"*
frank exhibit is pamphlet prepared by the Better
America Federation in 1923 which it hoped to circulate
in the public schools, but which the California school
authorities declined to permit It entitled America
IS Calling to the Students in Her High Schools and
Colleges" It in effect appeal against socialism
and public ownership, and warned students that
IF these groups Of free thinkers liberals in America
succeed in materially changing Constitution sub
stituting other kline o. government, there viii be
profit to worry about in business Maintenance of
the Constitution Of the United States the highest form
much Of an education"
Most of the literature Of the Better America Fedora
ton carries sensational title, such "The Red Men
ace" "The World Endangered" "The Eenemy is Mob
ized" STRIKES not the American Way" America on
Guard"
The American Constitutional Association, combining
its efforts to West Virginia, battles particularly with
pamphlets preserve the flair name Of the state" It's
West Virginia Wake Up" aimed at New York
ministers and lawyers interested in free speech who had