mer....

"Catch them young! That's it. But how? In lots of ways. Get them
coming our way. Let them lose their fear of us. Have them come to a
dance and find out that we are human. It surprises them sometimes.
When they realize that, they are partly won.

"Educating the young to Socialism is a matter of 'indirect' action
rather than 'direct' action. It would be the height of folly to try
to cram Karl Marx down these new young throats. That will come in
time. Start them on something easier, something less drastic. Sugar
coat your bitter pills a little."

It is possible, in conformity with this last suggestion, that after the
parade of Socialist children of New York City, on May Day, 1913, they
were to be treated, as we are informed in "The Call" on the same day, to
a feast of ice cream and cake and a series of thrilling moving pictures
of the struggles between the police and the strikers at Lawrence and
Little Falls.

With this short diversion, we shall return to the article in "The Call"
of March 30, 1913, which goes on to say that "the young people should
be gradually educated to rebellion and revolution. Songs will help.
Plays will help. Casual talk here and there will aid. It must soak in.
You can't flood them with stuff in two days. Rebels that are made in two
days may stick in a crisis, but I don't believe they will."

It certainly is interesting to read "Lesson 24," taken from the
"Socialist Primer," a little book which a man named Klein has prepared
for the use of children attending the Socialist Sunday schools:

"Here is a man with a gun; he is in the troop. You see he has a
nice suit on. Does he work? No, the man with the gun does no work.
His work is to shoot men who do work. Is it nice to shoot men?
Would you like to shoot a man? This man eats, drinks, wears
clothes, but does no work. Do you think that is nice? Yes, this is
nice for the fat man, but bad for the thin; so he owns the man with
the gun. When the thin man will have the law on his side, there
will be no more men with guns. Who makes the gun? The man who
works. Who makes the nice suit? The man who works. Who gets shot
with the gun? The man who works. Who gets the bad clothes? The man
who works. Is this right? No, this is wrong!"

In "The Call," New York, April 17, 1919, there appeared the following
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