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Show ABOVE THE Hullabaloo By LYTLE HULL Already Underground THE argument that suppression of the Communist party would ' drive it underground is not convincing. con-vincing. Communists In this country coun-try have long since gone under-jround. under-jround. A tew "front men" like Browder and Poster keep themselves in the limelight: Good camouflage, behind which the great mass of these subversives can work secretly. Even the House un-American activities ac-tivities committee has been unable to force confessions of party membership mem-bership out of well-known carriers of the Red plague. We couldn't drive the party further underground under-ground unless we buried it in the bowels of perdition," where it belongs. be-longs. There is nothing written in our Constitution which is intended to make us unresisting prey to enemies of our country and of our persons. Communists are undeniably both they would destroy the people'sgov-ernment people'sgov-ernment and turn the nation over to a foreign ruler. They would take the lives of all who stood in their way as they have always done right through the history of these under-world under-world uprisings, and there is no imaginable reason why they would not do it here. Their ranks are recruited re-cruited from a pretty low order. "It is un-American to forbid freedom of speech!" Why then cannot one harangue from soap boxes against other races and religions which make up this nation? If we prevent that and we rightly right-ly do why is it un-American to forbid these creatures from publicly advocating the stifling of our freedom free-dom and the destruction of masses of our citizens? That is what it amounts to! Some of us boast no communist movement could be successful here where so many of our nationals own property. On November 6 and 7, 1917 an infinitesimal but determined group of men seized the Russian government; packed the convention, and ratified their own acts. It is true that such revolutions occur when a nation is laboring under un-der some great stress. But they could not occur even then if there were no revolutionists and there would be none if we made their party illegal, and upheld the law rigidly. The F. B. I. can be just as ?fTicient ns the RussLui tccict po-ice. po-ice. if iiece-:ary, and without the 'ter's hrui"iifv. |