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1 The Red Scare Extends to Goddess. Miss Liberty Suspected by Papers With Lien on U. S. Patriotism. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. CITIZENS of the United States! Our very shores are threat ened. At the key position of entry into this land, in the tnidst of our most strategic harbor, at the ingress into our largest, rich est and most powerful city there is a menacing appa rition. a symbol of our eventual doom. Towering 151 feet high it dominates the entire seascape. It was introduced into this country by a foreign gov ernment. Not an ounce of its ma terial is Ameri can. This figure plainly repre sents the inten tion of foreign ideas to dominate our country. Already, these ideas are corrupting our people. They have even permeated the ranks of the Amer ican Legion. The menace is the God dess of Liberty, who for 50 years, un suspected by the easy-going people of the United.States, has been hold ing aloft in her hand a lighted torch. Citizens! This is the symbol ^>f so cialism! There is room in that torch for a squad of revolutionists to hide. And W P. A. funds have recently been paid to renovate this menace. It has no place here! Let her go back to where she came from! Liberty has become a Red Scare and threatens to rend the ranks of the American Legion. It came about thus: The Americanism Committee of the Legion of New York County was en trusted to get out a 7-minute speech for educative purposes amongst the members of the Legion. Mr. Cyrus Le Bov Baldridge, who served the Stars and Stripes m every major engage ment of the last year of the war to make the world safe for democracy, was assigned to the task. He wrote about a thousand words on what he considered Americanism to be He took his cue from the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Inder idence. He asserted: "Americanism is ex pressed in the determined struggle to achieve democracy, justice and lib erty.” He maintained that democracy means equality of opportunity, and justice means equality of all before the law. Liberty, he said, means op portunity for self-expression and self development. And It means freedom of religious worship, and above all, freedom of speech. He argued that the Americanism ideal presumed that man was on a constant search for truth and therefore must have con tinual access to opportunities for in quiry. He believed that tolerance was an American virtue. It was un-Amer ican to resort to violence, because America opened the channels for the use of persuasion. "Americans.” he aaid. "stand forever opposed to dicta torship by a person or a group.” American patriotism is ‘TOO per cent belief in democracy, justice and lib erty,” and the duty of the patriot was to participate actively in the political life of the Nation for the attainment of these ideals. How Pamphlet Was Distributed. The Willard Straight Post, of which Mr. Baldridge is a member, liked these Ideas and suggested that they be put Into a pamphlet. Mr. Baldridge is an artist and he designed the pamphlet In the colors, red. white and blue. He decorated it with what he thought were some American symbols. Since the committee had little money, the press which printed it and the com pany w’hich furnished the paper con tributed labor and materials. And the pamphlet went out and copies were sent to other posts, and event ually a copy fell into the hands of the chairman of the Americanism Committee for the whole country, H. L. Challlaux. Meanwhile it also came into the hands of a reporter for a group of newspapers who are engaged at this moment in rooting out subversive Influences in this great Nation and discovering the radical influences that are boring from within. Apparently there was a shortage of menaces this particular week until the enterprising reporter discovered the pamphlet. Now, the pamphlet seemed to suggest, in some vague way, that not every partriot must necessarily agree in every detail with every other patriot and that all is not always patriotism that expresses itself in the largest and blackest letters. And being a well-trained sleuth of subversion. It atruck his eye immediately, first, that an eagle appearing on the cover was red; secondly, that the American Le gion emblem was printed in red; third, that the flyleaf displayed the radical symbol of a hand holding a torch; and, fourth, that the paper had ema nated from a Japanese paper concern. All of which was sufficient to prove that we were being undermined by the Erbfeind of California and threatened by revolution. "Haven’t you noticed these things?” asked the reporter. No, his horrified auditors had not notioed. “This pamphlet suggests that there might be two sides to many questions. Is patriotism debatable?” he queried. Of course, it was not, they replied. And, finally, he suggested that if the paper were suppressed the Legion would get a great deal of favorable publicity, and that if it were not So the row was on, and is still on. But it has not gone very well. In the first place, a very large number of people from the New York County Legion got thoroughly sore. They wanted to know who was running the Legion anyway. They yielded to no one in their Americanism, but re mained blindly obdurate to seeing a threat in a torch or in a red eagle. They inquired with asperity whether the boys would rather have had a blue eagle. And some of them had the temerity to suggest that if a defense of freedom of speech were subversive, what was all this row in Washington about the Black committee? And suddenly the Red scare in the Ameri can Legion ceased to appear promi nently in the papers which had been influential in launching it. There is a definite technique in the propaganda of establishing Fascism; that is, in the propaganda of destroy ing republican, representative govern ment. That technique has been de scribed in the most masterly way in the best account of the German revo lution yet printed, in Ernst Glaeser's beautiful novel “The Last Civilian." The technique is to destroy the unity in society by setting one group against another group, one man man against his neighbor. The way to to do that is to cast suspicion upon his patriotism. And to go on doing so until patriotism becomes the mo nopoly of a single group, who then Mhtrench themselves in power to save the people from themselves. When that time comes I suppose we will all sing, “Three cheers for the umph, white and blue.” Copyright. 19S6. New York Tribune. Inc. Harrison’s Brain Trust Crack Recalls His Part in Tariff Bill Senator Broke Down Coalition of Demo crats and Progressives Making Hawley Smoot Act an “Industrial” Measure. BY CARLISLE BARGERON. A statement last night by Senator Pat Harrison pointing out the Tact that the recently acquired Republican brain trust includes three professors who signed a petition in 1930 im ploring President Hoover to veto the Hawley-Smoot tariff act, got observers to reminensclng on how politics was played back in those days. There is general agreement that no man was more responsible for the passage of the bill In the form It was passed than the Senator himself. Indeed, the bill was finally enacted by a margin of two votes, these votes being supplied by Democratic Senators Fletcher and Trammell, and it was an open secret at the time that Majority Leader Watson could get as many Democratic votes as he needed to pass the bill. It was not in the final passage of the bill, however, but the votes that went into the writing of It, that Harrison played such a prominent part. He has been generally credited with responsibility of the progressives losing the control of the bill they seized at the outset and held over the long months of its consideration until just a short while before it was passed, in which time it was virtually rewritten and made an "industrial" rather than an "agricultural” measure. Senator Borah, in the first instance, was responsible for the tariff being opened up. In a moment of panic during the 1938 campaign the Hoover managers sent him a telegram in the Middle West to do something to save them. Borah thereupon announced that one of the first things Hoover would do if elected would be to call a special session of Congress to give agriculture more tariff protection. When Hoover had taken office, Borah insisted that he do this. Republicans from Industrial States, particularly former Senator David I. Reed, plead ed that If the tariff were opened up he and fellow industrialists would be under pressure to get higher Industrial rates. The subject was opened up, how ever, but a coalition of progressives and Democrats was formed and they went through for months writing an “agricultural’’ bill, that is, boosting the agricultural protection and denying Increased Industrial protection. Finally, with only a few weeks left to go. the question of Increased pro tection for dyestuSs came up. Senator Harrison led a bolt of 17 Democrats away from the coalition and wrote the dyestuff rates into the bill. Charges were made at the time that they were acting for their "masters, Raskob and the Du Ponts.” These gentlemen now seem to be the Demo crats’ idea of public enemies, begin ning at No. 1. Broke Down Agreement. This broke the coalition. A few days before the coalition had been broken by four progressives, Senator Nye among them, when they voted for increased rates on an Industrial pro duct in which their States were in terested. But when they realised what this meant to their alignment they changed their votes and explained that although their States stood to profit on this particular Item, they appreciated that It broke down the agreement to write nothing but an "agricultural" bill. After the bolt of Harrison and his Democratic associates on dyestuffs, however, the progressives threw up the sponge and from then on it was a case of trading, in which the two opposing allignments split into numer ous blocks. It was the old question of “you vote for me and I will vote for you.” Senator Harrison last night recalled hat 1,028 economists signed the peti ,ion to Mr. Hoover. Harrison's Statement, “Despite that grave warning, a Re publican Congress proceeded to pass the Smoot-Hawley bill,’’ he said, “and i Republican President signed it. The result was ruinous to American trade, Uthough the Rooeevelt administra tion has since taken long strides for ward in restoring commerce and in dustry. "Now, six years later, we find the Republican National Committee en gaging a ‘brain trust’ in the vain hope that it will help the party regain its lost prestige.” The three professors he named are F. A. Bradford of Lehigh, Ri fus S. Tucker of Columbia, and Niles W. Carpenter of the University of Buffalo. | "Certified” by the American Institute of Refrigeration COLD STORAGE | • VAULTS for furs, garments, trunks of clothing, rugs, tapestries, cur tains, etc., with clean- ! ing, alterations and repairs as may be re quired. SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS FOR SILVERWARE and other valuables. 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