iven by a Socialist
Sunday school of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn:

"Sunday School Gives Concert in Brownsville

"The annual entertainment and concert of the Brownsville Socialist
Sunday school will take place tomorrow evening at the Brownsville
Labor Lyceum. The capitalist press has lately discovered that there
are Socialist Sunday schools in the city. They even send their
reporters to discover what awful things Socialist children are
taught there. The American Defence Society has just undertaken a
vigorous nation-wide fight against Bolshevism in general and
Socialist Sunday schools in particular. All school children and the
parochial schools are to be enlisted in this glorious work. The
Protestant churches, not to be outdone, are also organizing to save
the children from Socialism. The growth of the Socialist schools is
throwing fear into the hearts of the capitalists. Brownsville
parents can do no better than to help make this school, now one of
the largest in the country, even better and stronger than it is. A
splendid musical program has been arranged and, in addition, the
children will sing, dance and recite. Tickets may be bought at the
Lyceum."

Every parent will understand the subtle, insidious poison of rebellion
against parental authority and guidance instilled into young minds by
such items as the following, from the "New York Call" of July 16, 1919:

"Independence is one of the finest qualities of youth. In an
inspiring postal card to her mother (copies of which might well be
put into the hands of young children everywhere), Hilda Stydocker,
14, of 3 Washington Avenue, West Orange, states that she is going
to 'earn her own living and take care of herself.' Previously
gossip had been circulated to the effect that Hilda had been
kidnapped."

In a previous issue of "The Call," April 4, 1919, part of a speech given
by H. B. Shaen, president of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union, is
quoted:

"It is a question of great moment," President Shaen said yesterday.
"It must be dealt with drastically, effectively and immediately.
Bolshevism is a greater menace than we like to believe. The
proposed establishment of 3,000 so-called Socialist schools in this
city will be a blow at religion, at government, at decency. It
might be a fatal error to underestimate