- systematized or smoother-running division in all the League
than that in bad and borderish Philadelphia. The installation in that city was not so large as some. A Swiss watch is not so large as a Big Ben clock, but the latter does not keep any better time and makes much more noise about it.
It being impossible to print all of the Philadelphia report, it is quite in order to give rather a full summary of it, that we may correct the old impression regarding Philadelphia as a place of peace. The tabulated records cover only eleven months, from December 26, 1917, to November, 1918. In that period, 18,275 persons were examined, not counting those who were released in the big slacker raids. In order that the lay reader may have a perfect idea of the many different heads of activity in any one of these great offices, the Philadelphia table is offered in full, precisely as sent in:
Department of Justice Cases.
Alien Enemy Activities.
a. Male 1,575
b. Female 177 1,752
Citizen disloyalties and sedition.
(Espionage Act) 880
Treason 1
Sabotage, bombs, dynamite, defective manufacture of
war material 78
Anti-Military activity, interference with draft, etc 91
Propaganda.
a. Word of mouth 509
b. Printed matter and publications 75 584
Radical organizations.
I. W. W., Peoples' Council, League of Humanity, and
all other radical organizations, including pacifist
and radical "socialists" 377
Bribery, graft, theft, and embezzlement 66
Miscellaneous, including naturalization and jury
panel 350
Impersonation of U. S. or foreign officers 21 371
