Evening star., 1936-07-23

murder to its activities. And the
perennial Ku-Klux Khan.
Mrs. A. Tellian, who operates from
q candy store on First avenue, New
York, is the American correspondent,
according to DR.. Birkhead, Of Julius
Streichers Der Stuermer" She gets
out 1.-THE American Bulletin" and
"The Irish Outpost" the latter aimed
at persliading the Irish in this country
to buy from Irish merchants and not
from Jewish.
In Washington are the Allied Patri-
otic Societies, and in Kansas is Rev.
Gerald Winrod, who heads the De-
tenders of the Christian Faith. There
are a good many clergymen in these
organizations. Rev. Ralph z. Monner
of Houston, Tex, is busy organizing
the Federation of Ten Million, whose
objective is to get 10,000,000 Southern
ers lined up against communism on
the ground that 1t is a Jewish con-
spiracy to destroy the Christian faith.
Lots OF Others.
The Friends of the New Germany
is now the German American League.
1t is, of course, also anti-Semitic. The
ton distributes an anti-Semitic PAM
phlet called "Zionism," which origi-
mated with the Militant and Christian
Patriots Of London. Add to these the
Paul Revere Society, the National In
dependence Union (both of Kansas
the knights of the Grand Forest (St.
Paul. the League Against Communism
California;, the Loyal Aryan Chris
tians California;, and the Right
Cause Publishing Co. of Chicago
which gets out The American Gem
tile" And add the Silver Shirts,
headed by William Dudley Pelley, who
once was dead for several minutes, and
for slitk-paper magazines described
his experience in heaven. Also add
the United Guards of America, whose
headquarters are in Baltimore, and
the Brotherhood Builders Of Business
Of Chicago. Also in Chicago is the
German American Economy Alliance,
and in Milwaukee the Ernest Groener
Publicity Bureau.
Some organizations are not openly
anti-Semitic and have men on their
boards of directors who would be
much surprised to learn of some of
the activities which they are under
writing
Such is the League for Constitu-
tional Government of New York,
which. when Investigated by DR.. Birk-
head presented him with copies of
the British pamphlet on "Zionism,"
and with the notorious and exploded
Protocols of the Elders of Zion.''
Red Baiters Busy.
There are two such independent
red-baiters who manage to make a
pretty successful career out of expos
ing as fomenters of the red menace
nearly everybody in Who's Who"
Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling is perhaps
the most conspicuous. Mrs. Dilling
is the author of the Red Network"
Her influence is by no means neg
ligible. Although she did me the
doubtful honor to leave me out of her
! book, was not surprised some months
ago in California to have lecture,
which I had been scheduled to make,
threatened with cancellation on the
ground that Mrs. Dilling had let it
be known that I was a Communist
and a pacifist. I pointed out face
tiously to my host that it was quite
impossible TO be both, and that Mrs.
Dilling would do we'll to keep her
categories clear. But to Mrs. Dilling,
Communists, pacifists, New Dealers.
liberals and a large proportion of
bishops and college presidents are all
birds of feather.
Sit down with a bushel basketful of
the literature of these people and
soon you are convinced that you are
in a lunatic asylum. Unfortunately
there are forms of lunacy which seem
10 have an epidemic nature. One re-
members that nothing that these peo-
pie say is more fantastic than some
of the beliefs which have become the
basis of a modern stage. peopled By
a highly intelligent population. This
| literature, widely disseminated be-
comes the source of a vast whisper
ing campaign. 1t spreads the miaSma
Of hatred and confusion.
Issues Become Lost.
Gradually, under the influence of
! this kind Of propaganda, the issues
themselves come TO be lost Whether
We want an extension Of the powers of
the state, and if SO. how. and in what
direction, becomes degraded into the
| question of whether the Presidents
name is really Roosevelt, or actually
Rosenfeld. The radicals stupidity re-
ply in kind and label everybody who
! does not agree with them "FasciSts."
! Posing as guardians Of the ConSti-
tuition and as patriots, these people
lay an AK at the fundamental tenetS of
our Constitution and make the very
word patriotic anathema TO any up
! right and generous mind.
For the purpose of creating their
menace, they blanket as Communists
men to whom the idea of communism
is repugnant in the extreme, but who
become tongue tied in argument
against it, out of fear of aligning
themselves with the forces of race
hatred and stupidity. Screaming
against alien influences, they them
selves import from abroad ideas. lit
erature, influences and prejudices
which have no place on Anerican soil
! until finally the honest man no longer
/ knows what if anything, it means to
/ be an American.
II is time for patriots to insist that
patriotism is not the last refuge of a
scoundrel, nor the monopoly of the
| ignorant. prejudiced and fanatic.