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Show DEPORT RADICALS! GERSil URGES: Federal Investigator Says Present Laws Inadequate to Check the Reds. That adoquato deportation laws arc, I necessary to cope with tlie growing men- ace of radicalism, and the passing o: J such legislation is the feasible remedy to . eradicale the Browing poison of Bolshev- i ism In the United States, was the opin- Ion expressed last night by Dave Ger-shon. Ger-shon. special agent for the department of justice. In an address before members of the Wilkes post No. 2 of the American Amer-ican legion at the Commercial club. Mr. Gershon explained that the present i laws can successfully deal wltJS the alien anarchist, and. if necessary, can cause his deportation to his native country. However, he said, the wisest members of the radical alien anarchist group get around the deportation law by taking oui their citizenship papers before identifying identify-ing themselves as radicals, and then., as j citizens of the United States, practice and preach anarchy without fear. Mr. I Gershon said tliat. in his opinion, legislation legisla-tion to cope with this should immediately be passed. "After we have cleaned the country of the alien radicals it will be comparatively easy to deal with the so-called Americans who have become inoculated with thet 'Bolshevist' germ." Mr. Gershon stated. "This move will do much to solve the question, for Americans will come out in the open, while the foreigners hold their meetings in many tongues and therefore are difficult to reach." , Mr. Gershon said the members of the American legion had tile right to demand that adequate laws be passed to protect the United States from extreme radicalism, radical-ism, and urged that the demand should he made He said that few people realised real-ised how quickly and silently the poison I was -spreading. A vivid description of how the city of I San Diego, Cal.. put down an I. VS". W. uprising in 1612 was given by Mr. Gershon Ger-shon during his talk. As a result. Tie said, that city has not been bothered with ' the radical element since. . I " A brief address was also giren by W. H. Gregory, former maior of Infantry I In the Ninety -First division. Hamilton j Gardner, state chairman of the legion. I j read a report of the activities at the j t national convention of the American i legion held recently. Entertainment was furnished from the Pantages theater j through the courtesy of Manager Frank I B. Newman. Refreshments were served. |