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s i Several years ago, because of the eâ€"mred <= oâ€"â€"â€" â€"activities of aâ€"certain "Red"clique, , Ravinia acquired the nickname "Red . 6: Ravinia" in neighboring <communâ€" __This challenge can not pass unanâ€" swered. The patriotic citizenship must arouse itself to meet this orâ€" ganized campaign. which is threatâ€" __ening ‘the security of our general welfare. The call of duty to the ~Ameérican Legion is clear.~ ~â€"~ â€" vinia will accept it in the light in which it is presented, and that rather than criticize the writer for the â€"name "Red. Ravinia" they will investigate the facts and take such action as will clear our fair comâ€" munity of such a stigma.. £ Dumaresq Spencer Post No. 145 AMERICANISM COMMITTEE, of the American Legion Dept. of Illinois. _â€" â€" By P. E. Cole, Chairman. ities. It is interesting to note in â€" Comâ€"| of them began to call it after the Carl Haessler spoke at the Raâ€"| munist literature that criminal vioâ€"| Russian revolution, as more imporâ€" vinia Woman‘s club April 13 in favor|lence is always promoted and exâ€"| tant than any specially ordained of Communism and violent Red revâ€"|cused under a cloak of supposed | way of achieving it .â€". . Where the olution in America. His audience| martyrdom. Negroes are urged to|commandant used spies and propaâ€" was composed of well.dressed woâ€"|fight theirâ€"white "oppressors," who| ganda the politicals did likewise mert who enjoy the comfortable lly have freed them and given| with better effect. In a few months homes, great new inventions, and| them jobs and opportunities| they had the roughneck ordinary educational benefits of churgh and | than in Africa. Mooney is the| military convict tatooing red flags school which the American "capitalâ€"| Anarchfst convictedâ€"of bombing the|instead of the, national emblem on istie"â€"system has fostered as never | 1917 paredness Day Parade. at| their arms and chests. In some before in the world‘s history.: To|SBan Francisco, when many were| weeks more they had them rejectâ€" be sure,â€" Haessler is a past master|killed and injured. Toâ€"the Communâ€"|ing every chance to shorten their at the art: of revolutionary propa=| ists,â€"Mooney is "framed" _ byâ€" his| terms by reinstatement with the col. Carl Haessler spoke at the Raâ€" vinia Woman‘s club April 13 in favor of Communism and violent Red revâ€" olution in America. His audience was composed of well.dressed woâ€" Dilling. The article is self explanâ€" __Most of these we believe are sponâ€" sored by a minority group at the expense of the majority whom we feel are 100 per cent Americans, but unaware of the menace which threatens our country. We believe in the intelligence of our people. in our midst, we publish the article "Red Ravinia" by. Mrs. Albert W. tional one rather than militant. At edge of what has been transpiring gion through its columns in the local newspapers to pass on â€"to the people such articles as come to their attention.regarding s ubv ersive along the north shore. tators and Communistic forces, not having at heart the future welfare of the United States have combined in a concerted effort to break down the Naturalization laws, abolish means of National Defense and bring about social disorders where every conscience is a law unto itself. They have hurled a challenge to every Liberty loving, law abiding citizen and believer in ethical religâ€" ion as they work by day and by night in the furtherance of schemes weaken and destroy a National spirit in America. speakers and unpatriotic meetings LEGION SPONSORS | RAVINIA ARTICLE Article by the Americanism comâ€" mittee of the American Legion. Dear Readers: : Committee Requests Reprintâ€" ing of Article by Mrs. Alâ€" bert W. Dillon It is the desire of the Ameri Professional Pacifist, radical agiâ€" trust tNnat "RED RAVINIA" ie mimaty t n n .evidently, to his appearance. pathies were with Communism. He said Communism is inevitable and we had only to choose between "dragging along" for several genâ€" erations or "having it over with" by quick, violent revolution. ~He decepâ€" death.â€"would be very material.to_this generation. However, as Haessler‘s appearance is harmle®# and appealâ€" ing, the ladies applauded him enâ€" thusiastically; they had "listened," tively compared this proposed revoâ€" lution with our own Revolutionary war for independence (as Communâ€" ists always do). He nonchalantly observed that while revolutions unâ€" doubtedly "pull down houses," many of these need pulling down anyway, and ~while they undoubtedly. kill people, all of these would have to die later anyway, so that, after a few generations this vialence beâ€" comes immaterial. He omitted to say. that property destruction and Haessler‘s introductory remarks were that, while he was not a memâ€" ber of the club (laughter), he felt that he had taken part in its Alife through his wife; who had acted as program chairman, secretary of the board, etc., for over ten years. After and property, and for putting these under state control (control by state political machines being purer, supâ€" ganda. His own account of how he{‘ and a few others incited the strike | of 3,200 fellow prisoners in Leavenâ€" worth penitentiary â€" demonstrates practical ability which no doubt helped him to <secure his present position as Chicago head of the C o m m u n i s t ic propaganda newsâ€" gathering agency, The Federated Press. . club members have had in tryitig to { prison, are clearly set forth in his combat "Red" influence in Ravinia,|article describing the strike incited "history tells Communists" that vioâ€" lence is necessary, and that his symâ€" a revolution of terror and confiscaâ€" tion as smoothly as though he were offering his listeners a charming posedly, than private. control). .. He said that while the Socialist and Communist. â€" systems were interâ€" changeable, . Socialists think they startled deer beseeching its captors for mercy, which is so appealing to the mother instinct. He told the ladies he wanted to avoid offending anyone, and apologetically asked that his propaganda â€" be reâ€" garded as an academic question (not a question of life and death to all of us). By all the subtle arts of inâ€" direction and innuendo he proposed most of them séemed to accept it the difficulty patriotic citizens and In appearance, Haessler is harmâ€" less, even effeminate, and before the Woman‘s club he employed to perâ€" feetionâ€"the manner of a sweet THE PRESS Haessler served twentyâ€"six months in Leavenworth and Alcatraz prisâ€" ons (between June, 1918, and Auâ€" gust, 1920), for refusal to serve the United States during the World war. he was one. This article appeared on earth to its knees. But those who scabbed will remember the surgâ€" occasion _proved favorable, revoluâ€"| R.‘ _all/ _You are all for_the. tionary action. . . . The politicals as | old 1776 Revolution but against this a rule had no conscience so far as|new revolution." Communists deâ€" means of furtheringâ€"their main purâ€"{light in making itâ€"appear that our pose was concerned. They deemed | Revolutionary war for independence Socialism, or Communism, as many | and the second Russian, or Bolsheâ€" of them began to call it after the|vik, revolution, as well as the proâ€" Russian revolution, as more imporâ€"| posed international "Red" â€"revoluâ€" tant than any specially ordained |tion, are all similar. ‘They are not way of achieving it .â€". . Where the|similar. Our Revolutionary war of commandant used spies and propaâ€"| 1776 was to establish only the right ganda the politicals did likewise| 6f this nation to govern itself. The with better effect. In a few months | first Russian revolution which overâ€" they had the roughneck ordinary|threw the Czar in February, 1917, military convict tatooing red flags | form.ed the Kerensky government, instead of the, national emblem on patterned somewhat after our own their arms and chests. In some s «/ weeks more they had them rejectâ€" and wasâ€" a revolution concerning ing every chance to shorten their only Russia. The U. ‘S. was the terms by reinstatement with the colâ€"| first nation to officially recognize an interesting experiment in the solâ€" idarity of mobilizing and directing mass discontent. A small but highly conscious body of prisoners led the great majority almost without the knowledge of anybody but the leadâ€" ers and their opponents, the miliâ€" tary command of the prison. This small body of leaders were the poliâ€" tical objectors to the Wilson war . . . Their purpose was general revâ€" olutionary propaganda, and, if the "capitalistic oppressors," and freeâ€" ing him is a popular Communist cause. Freeing the Scottsboro negâ€" roes convicted of raping two white girls is another Communist enthusâ€" iasm. Patriotic citizens of Ravinia speak with despair and indignation of their futile efforts to combat "Red" influences in Ravinia and of the persistence required to keep the United States flag displayed there. As soon as a "Ravinia Red" is reâ€" proached for disloyalty to America, he or she at once assumes the marâ€" tyr role, giving the role of "oppresâ€" sor" to the patriotic person, who is then referred to slightingly as a "hundredâ€"perâ€"center," "a narrowâ€" minded D. A. R.," or a "super paâ€" triot." To praise the American Leâ€" gion in "Red Ravinia" society circles, would be the social faux pas inexâ€" cusable. (issue of January, 1927), and is enâ€" titled "The Fort Leavenworth Genâ€" eral Strike of Prisonersâ€" an exâ€" periment in the radical guidance of mass discontent." It says in part: "Not every convict took part in the general strike that brought the War ing of overwheliming cooperative acâ€" tion that all but engulfed them." (He tells how the 500 out of the 3,â€" 700 prisoners who did not join were afraid to return to their cells for fear of the strikers:)~â€""How was this feeling brought about? â€" It is No one in Ravinia has ever acâ€" cused Brent Dow Allinson of being a "super patriot." He is the infamâ€" ous slacker who refused to serve his country in the World war and, like Haessler, is a penitentiary alumnus, His mother is an active member of the Ravinia Woman‘s club. and his activities while confined in * 9+ 99 boro negroâ€"rapists and says: "Lindâ€" bergh shaking hands with the czars of the underworld in the frantic efâ€" fort to get back his ‘chubby, golâ€" denâ€"hairedâ€"son‘â€"doesn‘t give a damn for the nine terrified little dark skinned Scottsboro lads . . . Lindâ€" ors." (He describes the riots in which arms. were broken, teeth knocked out, and prisoners "bruised to a jelly") "That night the comâ€" mandant surrendered. The men then returged to work. Their strike had been successful beyond their dreams. . . . The political prisoners had not produced the mob but they had supplied the direction for it. The two factors cooperated in a neat little revolutionary experiment behind the walls and under the guns of Fort Leavenworth. When the tide of events produces similar conâ€" ditions on a national scale, it may be that men of ‘national caliber will be ready to carry out a similar exâ€" perimént on national and internaâ€" tional lines." bergh, the ideal of American boyâ€" hood, never . made a move to see that â€"Mother Mooney got her son back during the entire fifteen years of his legal kidnaping." â€" After Haessler‘s talk at the Raâ€" vinia Woman‘s club, one of the "Red Ravinians" said to a friend of mine who has the honor, which I have not, of being a D. A. R. memâ€" ber; "I don‘t understand you D. A. Kis sister Gertrude as being then in cations of "shop nuclei," or revoluâ€" tionary units in shops. The April, 1932, issue of that startling Comâ€" munist paper, the "Labor Defender," bears an article by her entitled "In Blue Blood Kentucky," <In it, she ridicules the "capitalistic‘ Lindâ€" In 1922, Haessler became managâ€" ing editor of the Federated Press, which is described in the U. S. Govâ€" ernment Fish committee report on Communism (2290). The Communâ€" ist party of America considers the Federated Press its own press serâ€" vice "organization, and upwards â€"of 200 papers in the Soviet Union Teleâ€" graph Agency. Louis P. Lochner is European director and has an ofâ€" fice in Berlin where he is in close touch with the International Propaâ€" ganda Bureau of the Communist Internationale of Moscow. the secret Communist "Party Organâ€" munist papersâ€" have been doing ever since the kidnaping. She upholds Gertrude Haessler writes not only Haessler, whileâ€"lecturing A 99 THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1932 66 Aug uS this throw . the Ame erecting place of ernment guiding hide his ists and tect the conflict apparen ment ir per cen the Am of whic er‘s H Chicag ler gay the Go munist cago a of the of Reli; in han sue of er" an defines tending ilizatio world |: efforts iet sym ah, La] ernmen of ou and vi like an Repub cow." As | 65): final o revolu ship o betwe stirrin in fore strike be ath itantly and fi govern and. o They muynit the eight about Bolsh gover diate a dict letari; Czar‘s prope