The Indianapolis times., 1930-08-02
Fred Marvin Bobs Up Again

The stirring of the anti-red pool by the Flsn IN
vestigating committee and the like has brought 70
the surface much buried wreckage Even FREQ r.
Marvin erstwhile car Of the now defunct Key Men
of America, has bobbed into public view again.
A couple of years ago Marvin was the Paul Revere
Of the scare-mongers. AS head of the Key Men he
got out daily data sheets which described the efforts
of Professor John Dewey, President Nelson of Smith
college Norman Thomas Harry F. Ward, Felix Frank
furter and others to overthrow the American system OF
government and the Christian code Of morals and to
install Communism in shirts and women. He shrleked
daily that Washington was in immediate danger OF
occupation by Muscovite huskies
He got case of especially high blood pressure
when Roska Schwimmer, the unspeakable humani-
tartan and nternationalist, applied for citizenship
Here was woman who refused to kill even under
public orders Marvin denounced her as Bolshevik
agent ard German spy
He had become rather careless of his language,
since most of those whom he had accused of serving
Jointly Haus Hoorn and Moscow had laughed off his
shafts But since Madame Schwimmer could not be a
citizen, she had plenty of time her hands and she
called" Marvin Arthur Garfield Hays took her case
and they got Judgment against Marvin of $4,000 for
libel The Judgment was upheld on appeal.
Thereupon Marin discontinued his daily data sheets
and left the country temporarily at the mercy of
Stains undercover men in Columbia university, Union
Theological seminary, Harvard law school and the
womens colleges He next founded the so-called New
York City Chamber of Commerce to combat the reds,
but his sucker-list was apparently not large,
alarmed or generous as that which kept alive the
Key Men of America, Inc. Then he started the
American Coalition of which he now is secretary. But
it never seems to have come out of eclipse.
The anti-red furry in the last weeks, however ap-
pears have reassured Marvin He back to life
and addressed the contact camp of the Seventy eighth
division at Sea Grt N j. Facing the officers, he ex-
pressed his great satisfaction at being with them
In this day of jazz and jamboree pomp and prohbi-
tion frivolities and fraities is good to have
who think Of government"
He tranSfxed his audience with documentary evil
dence that since 1890 Communists have been trying
to break down system of government and our
national deferses. He told them that world peace
very simple problem. Communism is the only factor
which threatens world tranquility.
We wonder if Marvin can not be accused of little
red propaganda himself. Here he was addressing a
group of men, all dressed up for fighting and nowhere
to CO. and telling them that only the Communists can
give us anything to fight about in the world. If we
don't have Communists, why soldiers?
The chief trouble with his assurance that if we
want good scrap we must breed reds, is the fact
that they do not seem to make such headway in
stirring up fight. Here they have been boring away
for forty years, and yet our government never was
stronger our national defenses more elaborate:
The reds were not even able to make any progress
last winter when industrial conditions were very bad
and when we were deprived of Marvns daily bulletins
from the front line trenches.