ENEMIES OF SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 5, 6 January 1920, Page 4

ENEMIES OF SOCIETY.

To understand the reason and the necessity for the crusade now being conducted by the American Government against "alien radicals" in the United States, it must be remembered, in the first place, that Anarchism is more highly developed and more self assertive in America than in any other civilised | country. Even before the war there existed in the United States various organisations which engaged systematically in the perpetration of violent crimes with the declared object of bring- ! ing about an industrial revolution and the complete overthrow of the existing social and economic system. During tho war it was an essential feature of proGerman propagandism to play into the hands of these " enemies of society," and jin the industrial turmoil that has followed the war the promoters of a violent ! and destructive social upheaval have found ample scope for their baneful acI tivitics. There seems to be no doubt that the American Secret Service has un- ' earthed a far-reaching conspiracy directed toward the violent subversion 'of law and social peace, and the establishment of a new regime based upon the principles of Russian , Bolshevism, and fully prepared to follow I the lead of Lenin and Trotsky both in theory and practice. But America is not I Russia, and tho "hierarchy of the prole- , tariat" which now dominates Petrograd and Moscow does not commend itself to J the vast majority of the people of the' . United States. As a matter of fact it I has been proved conclusively that thej . most prominent revolutionary agitators in America are aliens who have found refuge there, and who, embittered 'by their past experiences, and possessing l no real interest, material or sentimental, I in the country, are anxious only to destroy everything around them without I a thought beyond, the satisfaction of j their own • thirst for vengeance against j the hated" capitalist ~ and the "bourgeoisie.". ■ Under such conditions it is difficult tew see-'What"bi£her course- Ithe) could take than] the-method it is now adopting. When | men definitely declare war upon .the community around them, there is no political or social or moral reason why. they should be permitted longer to form part of the society that they are striv-l ing to destroy. More especially w'~en those responsible for such incendiary sedition as the Communist and Bolshe-, vist agitators are now preaching -n the United States, are aliens who have, as the phrase goes, "no stake in the country," th*re seems to he no •reasonable excuse for tolerating them or allowing them to inflict themselves upon their 1 peaceful and law-abiding neighbours.] The deportation of such "enemies of; society" is a perfectly legitimate and even necessary means of self-defence, which many other Governments will doubtless employ sooner or later against those whose declared 1 purpose is not to improve the conditions of existence for the mass of mankind, hut simply in un access of maniacal frenzy to bring down ! the whole frame-work of social civilisation in ruins upon their own heads. I

On the occasion of the jubilee of the ["Auckland Star" on Thursday, a special I Supplement' will be issued with the paper. Beyond detailing the growth of the journal from its .unpretentious first issue to its commanding position to-day as the most widely circulated journal in the Dominion, the supplement will contain interesting accounts of many of the outstanding features of Auckland's history over half a century. The whole will form an historical document which everyone should possess. The weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day is as follows: —The indications are for south-east winds, 'moderate to strong prevailing. There is a prospect of fair weather, but weather cloudy to overcast at times. The night Will probably be very cold. The barometer has a rising tendency. Sea moderate. Tides good. A gang of burglars, supposed to be ,'boys, operating in various parts of j Christchurch, has been causing alarm ; among householders during the holiday season. Several residences have been .entered, generally by means of forced i windows, and in some cases, valuable ■booty has been secured. "The other day !a resident of Lin wood saw three boys I acting in a suspicious manner. They were passing in and out of garden gates, and keeping a strict watch in all direc- ! tions. The resident, after eyeing them j closely, waited until they" had gone 1 round to the back of a hbuse whose owner was absent, and then rang up for ! the police. Before the constable had itime to arrive the boys had come out and made off up the street. The resident mounted a bicycle, set off in pur- ; suit, and detained the boys until the arrival of the police. Stolen' property j was found in their possession, including ■ a gold watch, a ring, and a sum ot money, the proceeds of various robberies. Another incident is -the experience of a Riccarton resident. He arrived home about 1.30 a.m. on Friday, vand had just retired to rest when 'he was awakened 'by a loud noise at his back door, as though someone was try-ing-to force it open- He jumped out of ,'bed and set out to reconnoitre, hut unfortunately his wife switched on the electric light, and he was only able to reach the door m time to see two forms disappearing in the darkness across a paddock- at the back of the 'house. John Fawke3, aged 48, a native of Scotland, employed as a labourer at the Hikurangi Linie' Worts, was found dead in a shanty on Waro roekja yesterday. There were no suspicious circumstances. Dr East certified that death was due jto heart failure.

Much speculation was rife on the St Helier's Bay and Kohimaramara wharves this morning as to the nonappearance of the Devonporb Ferry Company's Ngoiro at ate scheduled time. A solution to the mystery was furnished when some minutes later the Eagle came into view round the Orakei Point, and slowly made its way down to St. Heller's Bay. In the course of time it started again on its return journey, and at length managed to reach •Auckland only 20 minutes late. The moods of the passengers as they stepped on to the wharf were various, and better left undescribed. Still ah element of mystery surrounds that telephone number 1290, which was once switched on to Dr. Endletsberger and then switched off again. All Auckland knows that there are approximately 400 names on ithe waiting list for telephonic connections, and the girls in the exchange will say that, so far as they are concerned, 1290 is still on the switchboard. But the fact is that it is a blind number. It has evidently been allotted to nobody, for it is not listed", yet the girls in the exchange say it Is; on the boaxd. And no matter how many j times one may ring this mystical number 1290, the girl will always put him I through, and then end up, if the caller j perseveres long enough, by telling him' she can get no reply. And all this time; that 1290 is disengaged there are 400-odd j people eager to get a telephone. "You must know," said a lady dele-1 gate to the Teachers' Conference, "that smoking is greatly on the increase among girl 3 and women, and that drinking is also on the increase. . I believe that this is partly due to the fact that many girls in the upper classes of our primary schools are not influenced by a womanly woman." The statement brought to his feet a male delegate, who said that he did not think the charge should go forth that the working-«lass girls, the girls trained in the primary; schools, were doing the smoking. It was the girls whose parents were very wealthy and were able to send them to colleges taught by women. "The statement should not go down," he said, "that the girls trained by men in the public schools are the sinners in this respect." The Plunket Shield had been officially handed over to the victorious Auckland, team at Eden Park yesterday afternoon,' and some quite sincere compliments bad! been exchanged, when somebody called for cheers for Mr. D Reese, the Canterbury captain. These were heartily given.' No sooner had the last "hurrah" died, down than a rumbling growl was heard. It emanated from a large and very »»gly bulldog, which had mounted the grandstand in order to be as near the fun as I possible, and was sitting at the feet of ' the speakers. The dog's contribution to I the tribute was greeted with a roar of j laughter. I There is a pronounced shortage ot | copper coinage in Ohristchurch due to ! the world-wide shortage of copper, and | to small shipments of copper coins arriving in the I>oininion during the past few I years. There is, however, a prospect that hefore long the present shortage I will be relieved owing to there being several fairly large shipments of coins lon the water. | ,fc . "Representatives from the New. South Wales' Medical Board recently waited j upon Mr. David Storey, Minister of Piiblic Health, and urged him to deregister certain practitioners of enemy origin, who had been interned for vary- . ing periods during the war. They also I urged deregistration of certain medical i men who do not reside in the State, and •who also are of enemy origin. Mr. Storey replied that the deputation's news were his views, but it was doubtful if deregistration could be effected without an Act of Parliament being passed or an indemnity being given by the Government. He would commnnii cate with the Attorney-General, and I ascertain the exact legal position, and | would communicate with the deputation after he had full information. He considered that those members of the medical profession, especially of German and Austrian origin, should not be permitted to practise in New South Wales. Sister Esther wishes to acknowledge the following contributions to the Christmas Cheer Fund: —Guests of the Grand Hotel, Auckland, £61; Guests of jHincmoa House, Helensville, £5 8/6. A shipment of sugar amounting to 157 tons, brought by the Mokoia to Christchurch on Sunday, -will go a very little way to relieve the acute shortage' from which Canterbury is suffering just now, and will not justify departure from a l somewhat strict system of rationing which Christchurch.City firms have had to follow recently. The manager of one large distributing house assured a "Sun" representative that his firm had orders from clamorous clients for 200 tons, yet the allocation from Auckland for his firm was eight tons, which has to be retailed out among customers. The language 6poken by the people i |of Rarotonga is almost identical withj I'that spoken by the Maoris of New Zealand. It is almost, but not quite. That led to an amusing mistake when the late Colonel Gudgeon first went down to Rarotonga to take over his official duties as Resident Agent. The word in Maori for the human hody is "tinana." The new agent was giving the people a .little homily on the virtues of "health in the home," and impressed on them how essential it was to keep the "tinana" [ clean. A clean "tinana" meant good health, and so on. The natives listened with respect and interest, especially as the newcomer had such a command of the Maori tongue. But gradually a look came over their faces that showed thei Colonel that all was not well. At last they could restrain themselves no longer and burst into a loud shout of laughter, in which the Colonel joined when it was explained to him that in the Rarotongan dialect the "tinana" meant a "pig!" Colonel Gudgeon used to tell this story •with much relish. Among those who arrived by a liner lately the Sydney "Bulletin") was! a young Australian officer and his Eng-;' lish bride, a most matter-of-fact and j frugal little lady. At Suez the wife, while looking over the side, got mixed up with some tackle, and went overboard. The lieutenant immediately sprano- to j the rescue,- and the pair came to the | surface together, the bride in her hero's 1 arms. They were hauled aboard anrd cheers for the boy. The wife was little distressed—until she surveyed her husband's clothes. "I'm so sorry about your suit, William," she said then. "It's ruined, and it was so i nneeessary. Any one of the natives would have rescued mc for a shilling." Essays on gardening ane invfted by advertisement in another column, for which gardening books are offered as prizes. I The Chief Postmaster at Auckland as ' advised that mails dispatched from New Zealand on November 13, via San Francisco, arrived in London on December 22, and mails dispatched on November 24i! via Vancouver, arrived in London on 31st.