Communist Party seized in recent raids has resulted
in evidence indicating that each of the teachers is a member of
that organization....
"Superintendent of Schools Ettinger revoked the license, yesterday,
of Sonia Ginsberg, a teacher in School No. 170 in Brooklyn, who
admitted she would like to see the United States Government
displaced by one similar to the Bolshevist regime in Russia. Miss
Ginsberg, born in Russia, was naturalized as a citizen last June."
For many years the Intercollegiate Socialist Society has been winning
college and university students to the doctrines of the Social
Revolution through the medium of the various branches that it
establishes in such institutions. The Intercollegiate Socialist Society
sometime ago had, in the different colleges and universities of our
country, between 60 and 70 chapters, or Socialist local societies, with
Socialist libraries, and lecturers in frequent attendance. Every year
chapter-delegates are sent to an intercollegiate convention from nearly
all the important American universities, including Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Columbia, Barnard, Amherst, Brown, Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, and Chicago. Even Vassar, which had 86
members in the first year in which the Intercollegiate was organized, is
included in the long list. Harry W. Laidler, organizer of the Socialist
chapters and secretary of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, claims
that all the universities now throw open their large assembly rooms for
addresses by the visiting lecturers, give quarters in the college
buildings to the Socialist chapters, and permit the use of the college
publications in the dissemination of propagandist literature, if it is
written by bona fide students.
We shall reproduce a letter which shows what is going on in our colleges
and universities. The identification of the writer, person addressed,
and others mentioned in the letter, is made on the authority of Mr.
Woodworth Clum, of the Greater Iowa Association, Davenport, Iowa.
The letter was written July 29, 1919, by Arthur W. Calhoun, then
instructor in sociology and political economy at Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio. It was written to Professor Zeuch, then instructor at
the University of Minnesota, now an instructor at Cornell University.
"Gras," mentioned in the letter, is Professor N. S. B. Gras, a member of
the Faculty of the University of Minnesota. The l
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