The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-20
Professional Patriots
Continued from yesterday

All the patrrioteering bodies hope to penetrate
the schools, colleges, and uniUersities IN their
d,iUe against Reds" The bulk of their ktera-
tire is aimed IN this direction and is calculated
to produce correct attitudes" toUard the con-
StitutiOn and the history of the repubIic.
But the Russian conspiracy resulted in preventing
fueoil tanks at strategic points,, and on, from be-
ing used for the benefit of the navy.
Then in Mr. Marvin's text under the heading "Schem-
Win Their Desires" this But the incident
played up as it was because it came with the magic
scandal, accomplished what the original project
Of the scheme expected it would accomplish. The
strategic play of Zinoveff success"
What is the conceivable purpose of publishing such
fluff?
In connection with Mr. Marvin's articles the Army
and Navy Journal essay contest the essays deal
ing with "the most effective remedy against pacifst
propaganda The announcement of this essay contest
contained the statement that 'the Army and Navy
Journal will furnish the information upon which the
essays may be based Mr. Marvin signed this
ment.
InterReatiOns and Connections With Other Agencies.
It is perhaps to be expected that men active in
promoting their personal conceptions of patriotism
should work with and all organizations that express
their bias 1nterockng direcorates therefore COM
mon. They prove nothing but community of interest,
but since the professional patriots continually hur
ling the charges of nterlong directorates against the
they attack 1t interesting note now
well they themselves know how to the system The
late president of the National Civic Federation
the executive committee of the American Defense So
ciey, and vceversa not ex-officio but just because
Mr.. Alton B. Parker and Mr.. Elon H. Hooker were
such earnest and substantial citizens. The late Louis
A. Coolidge protested against the child labor amend
ment both head of the Welfare Department of the
Civic Federation and president of the Sentnes of the
Republic
The societies all respond in about the same fashion
and at the time any threat to their conceptions
of patriotism-whether the occasion is movement to
recognize Russia push the child labor amendment
1t is natural community Of interest The interlocking
drecorates effects, not causes union of forces
is sometimes attempted in the RED cleanup week"
attempted in 1924 But the whole there is organ
lied cooperation
Lack of unity in this work has prompted efforts at
federation several occasionsone by the American
Legion in 1924 in calling general conference in Wash
ington, ostensibly Amercanization, which to
nothng and another by the Allied Patriotic Societies.
paper organization with real backing
The Woman Patriot has repeatedly urged closer CO.
operation, but with little effect The Better America
Federation in Los Angeles evidently works closely with
the national agencies distributing the Defense Society
and security League pamphlets and the attack the
Y W. c. A. radical issued by the National Founders
Association.
They all lean on each other and use the pamphlet
literature well their Confidential nforma
ton. For example, the National Clay Products In
dusries Association reports that it cooperates with
thirty distinctly civic and patriotic organizations
many of which do correate their own efforts
our files have become sort of clearing house for
practically everything that they ISSUE"
Relations to Government Officials and Departments.
But far more significant than any relations between
themselves is the relation of these organizations to gov
eminent officials. The extent to which they get
confidential information in secret service fl,n, their
influence in promoting prosecutions "Red raj H." and
their Indictment to narrow chauvinsm in public of
ficers-all are important in shaping public policy. On
the other hand public officials have made use Of them
for their political purposes quoting their alleged
facts to justify repressve or anti-red
scare.
The story Of these connections is too long to more
than sketch 1t told in detail in the Senatorial hear
ings on the Department Of Justice in 1924 and the
resolution to impeach Attorney General Daugherty It
also came out in the investigation by Senate Commit
tee OF Acknowledgement Pamers red raids in 1920 This
investigation which followed charges OF illegal practices
made by twelve eminent lawyers brought out the fol-
lowing facts about the patrioteering organizations
FIRST they had to confidential files Of the
Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice
during the regime Of William j. Burns as chief, and
used that material to spread that propaganda and de-
fame many citizens;
ITO Be Continued)