The Hearst Press is currently engaged in one of its periodic Red-hunts, this time against schoolteachers and college professors. Other Red-fearers up & down the land are urging passage of a Federal antisedition bill, a bill to bar Communist publications from the mails, a bill to re-establish an anti-Red secret service section of the Department of Justice.
Last week in Manhattan a group of gentlemen denounced Mr. Hearst's "campaign of terrorism" as a "particularly vicious and insidious form of propaganda."* As to the anti-Red bills, said these gentlemen, if anything is needed it...