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Show souins courts mm Chamberlain Declares They Are Making Bolshevists of Young Americans. NKW TOnK, March ' " Describing certain -courts-martial sentences in the American army its "things that make Bol.'dieviki of our your. men," United Stateu Senator George K. Chamboiiair., chairman of the nenale. committee on military affair:!, .sharply criticised courts-inartlal courts-inartlal procedure in an address before tile Tj'nitt'd League of America here today. Referring to lonfr sentences which had bron imposed for slight Infractions of the hiIms. Senator Chamberlain s;iid tiiat "these boys know that an injustice has been, done them and it will not increase their respect for the government." "I ham found hoys of 17. and lb, not. yet mature," ho continued, "sent away for loan tei-rns in prison, some of Them because be-cause tliey wcro absent without leave lumieslck youths who left, to sav t,ood-by 10 tie -if mothers or p.-rhaps a last word with their sweethearts. 1'Mve days away led one of them to be sentenced tor forty J 'senator Chamberlain urpfcd a better trealment of tlie relurnine. soldier and asked every business man to re-employ in'-n who ftave up their positions to enter en-ter the service, ir they were physically capalile of doins the work. The fpiestion of unemployment, he asserted, was largely large-ly up to Hie business man for settlement. settle-ment. , , . , Senator Chamberlain severely criticised what lie described as American unpre-pareilnoss unpre-pareilnoss in the war. and asked whether postwar unprepnrcdness against the menace men-ace of radical labor and Bolshevism was solnf.' to be allowed to continue. "There is no place in this country," the senator said, "for the Bolshevist, the anarchist an-archist or the hyphenated American. Out w-est we put them on a train every once in a while and hint none too gently that they may seek a more congenial clime elsewhere, and I think this treatment would apply in New York as well ns- m the west." Mayor Georgo 1. Baker of Portland, Ore., another speaker, also warned against the spread of Bolshevism and other ext remely radical doctrines. "In the vest we have always felt secure tnat a state of true democracy existed." ho said, "but there has crept In - an organization thai: is trying to undermine the constitution constitu-tion and the freedom of democracy." Ho said that the mayors attending the TVashlnKton conference last week agreed that thero was a serious underground current in motion to net control of interests inter-ests which would jeopardize every dollar invested in business in '.he country. "These men." he continued, "are work-ins? work-ins? secretly in small groups, and unless the country wakes up and meets labor with cards on the table they will grradual-1 grradual-1 y mix with the radical elements and create cre-ate a situation that can scarcely be overestimated." |