etter also mentions E.
C. Hayes, who is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois,
President Grose of DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, and E. A.
Ross, professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin and Advisory
Editor of the American Journal of Sociology. The "Beals" mentioned in
the letter, says Mr. Clum, "was formerly a university professor and old
friend of Calhoun's. He is now openly advocating Bolshevism." Toward the
end of the letter, Calhoun says: "Greencastle is too small to do much
with the co-op." This "co-op" is the Tri-State Co-operative Society of
Pittsburg, and, says Mr. Clum, "the society's business is the production
and distribution of vicious 'red' propaganda." Calhoun is or was one of
its directors.

The letter, copied from a fac-simile of the original in volume 4, number
1, of "The Iowa Magazine," Davenport, Iowa, is as follows:

"55 E. Norwich Av., Columbus, O., _July 29._

"Dear Zeuch:--

"I think I accept all you say about the condition of the
proletariat and the impossibility of the immediate revolution. But
I am less interested in the verbiage of the Left Wing than in the
idea of keeping ultimates everlastingly in the center of attention
to the exclusion of mere puttering reforms. One of the things that
will hasten the revolution is to spread the notion that it _can_
come soon. If the Left Wing adopts impossibilist methods of
campaign, I shall stand aloof, but if they push for Confiscation,
Equality of Economic Status, and the speedy elimination of class
privilege, and keep their heads, I shall go with them rather than
the yellows.

"If Gras is doing what he says and I am doing what he says, he is
right in saying that he is doing the better job. I wonder, however,
how many of his students draw the 'necessary' conclusions: and I
wonder whether I do all my students' thinking for them.

"Ellery is feeling at Columbus and also at Illinois. I had a letter
from Hayes about him.

"I have accepted the professorship of Sociology at De Pauw
University. The job pays $2200 this year with assurance of $2400 if
I stay a second year. The president has been here three times and
had long interviews with me. Besides we have written a lot. I told
him I belong to the radical Socialists. I expounded my general
principles on all important points. He knows also o