The same attempt to swing existing educational institutions to the support of the atheism and materialism of the I. W. W. and Bolshevism, is shown in the movement in the Episcopal Church of which the nominal leader is the Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell. He is at the head of St. Stephen's College at Annandale, where so many young ministers of the Episcopal Church receive university education. The head of the department of economics is the Rev. Lyford P. Edwards, an able expositor of Socialism and member of the Socialist Party. He gives courses at the College on the I. W. W., on Syndicalism, Socialism and Bolshevism. As a Socialist who was selected to represent this party in the Episcopal Church at last year's Convention in England, he teaches these movements to the young Episcopalians sympathetically.

What the President, Dr. Bell himself, thinks, can be judged from his book, "Right and Wrong after the War." He here bases the whole history and character of civilization on what he calls the two great "Urges," the Hunger Urge and the Sex Urge, which we have in common with the animal kingdom. He accepts, in other words, the lowest form of the Karl Marx materialistic. conception of history, in which there is absolutely no place for a God in the evolution of the universe. Logically this is inescapable atheism. As a corollary he states two fundamental articles of faith: (1) that private property should be absolutely abolished, and (2) that interest on invested property, rents, savings, etc., is robbery. He also condemns, as the Bolsheviki do, the present institution of the family, which he regards as a purely sexual relation, except insofar as it subserves the raising of the young.

In a sermon delivered on May 23, 1920, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Dr. Bell announced his sympathy with the revolutionary element of labor which demands the abolishing of the wage system and the communistic assumption of control. He states that the New Social Order is here and must be accepted. He says, "The world has already determined that the change shall be, and the real question is now whether it shall be by orderly, decent, law-abiding methods or brought about by blood and ironby working-class revolution or by common sense." He favors, as a matter of course, internationalism as against national patriotism.

The campaign to weed out from the ranks of our school teachers any disloyal element, calls attention to certain extraordinary expressions of opinion by members of the New York Local of the

American Federation of Teachers, which is affiliated with the Amer ican Federation of Labor. Its organ is the "American Teacher," which in its May-June issue of 1918, page 105, in connection with running an exchange advertisement of the "Liberator," which is a self-confessed organ of Bolshevism, I. W. W.ism and revolutionary Communism by violence, takes occasion to praise the "Liberator," to state that its editors "now support the Government," and to condemn, implicitly, any attack on them. On another page (108) the revolutionary industrial theory is expressed that the children in the schools must be taught to demand industrial democracy and this is defined as a condition in which "it is by the people who do the work that the hours of labor, the conditions of employment and the definition of property is to be made. It is by them the captains of industry are to be chosen, and chosen to be the servants, not masters."

Is this the doctrine we wish taught to our children?

The attitude of the New York Board of Education toward radical teaching in the schools is well expressed by Dr. John L. Tildsley, associate superintendent of schools of New York, as quoted in the American Labor Year Book, 1919-20, page 89, from a statement made by him April 26, 1919:

"No person who adheres to the Marxian program, the program of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party in this country, should be allowed to become a teacher in the public school system, and if discovered to be a teacher, should be compelled to sever his connection with the school system, for it is impossible for such a person to carry out the purpose of the public schools as set forth by Commissioner Finegan, that the public school of any country should be the expression of the country's ideals, the purpose of its institutions, and the philosophy of its life and government."

A typical example of such teaching was the case of Benjamin Glassberg, New York high school teacher, who was discharged by the Board of Education on May 29, 1919, after being charged with supporting Bolshevism. That the accusation was accurate was shown by a subsequent open connection with the Rand School as a teacher of revolutionary Socialist doctrines.

Other prominent cases are those of Sadie Ginsberg, probationary teacher in the New York public schools; of three teachers in the DeWitt Clinton High School; of Miss Alice Wood, of the Washington, D. C., high school; of B. H. Mattingly, of the

Poughkeepsie schools, and of Mary McDowell, of the Brooklyn public schools, who were dismissed in 1918 and 1919.

On the whole, it may be safely said that our public schocl system is comparatively free from the taint of revolutionary teaching.

The American Labor Year Books of 1916 and of 1919-1920 give accounts of the invasion of Academic Freedom, as it calls it, through the dismissal or disciplining of a number of professorз and instructors on account of their socialistic teachings or sentiments. Among these is Arthur W. Calhoun, whose letter was published above, who was dismissed in 1915 from Maryville College, Tennessee, from the professorship of economics, the probable cause being economic radicalism. The case of Prof. Scott Nearing is treated in detail, including his dismissal from the University of Pennsylvania, and then from the University of Toledo in 1915-16. Other cases mentioned are the dismissal of W. C. Fisher, professor of economics at Wesleyan; of A. E. Morse, professor of economics at Marietta College; of G. B. L. Arner, instructor in economics at Dartmouth, and so forth. Dr. H. W. L. Dana was dismissed from the faculty of Columbia University in October, 1917, on account of his pacifist activities. This was followed by the withdrawal from Columbia faculty of Professors Charles A. Beard and Henry R. Mussey, both of whom became active in radical teachings, especially in connection with the new School for Social Research.

It was in 1905 that there was organized in New York the InterCollegiate Socialist Society, "for the purpose of promoting an intelligent interest in Socialism among college men and women, graduates and under-graduates." It was in charge of a group selected to represent the largest possible number of universities and colleges in different parts of the country, all alumni taking an active interest in Socialism, and who could promote it among the students and faculties. It developed shortly into open advocacy of, instead of merely interest in, Socialism. Chapters were established in a large number of colleges and universities, cities and towns. It founded a quarterly which became a monthly magazine, called the "Socialist Review." It arranges to send lecturers on tours to various institutions, where it also organizes conferences, discussions and conventions. It also publishes pamphlets and books, and directs in a systematic way, the Socialist propaganda among students and graduates, collaborating with

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the socialistically inclined members of the faculties. tary of the society, Mr. Harry W. Laidler, has recently published "Socialism in Thought and Action," which is an able review of the tenets and history of Socialism, well adapted for text-book use in colleges and universities. It is a work of propaganda.

In the American Labor Year Book for 1916 (p. 157) a list of alumni chapters is given as existing in Buffalo, Central California, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, Schenectady, Seattle, St. Louis, Springfield, Washington and Wilkesbarre.

It also lists under-graduate chapters in the following institutions: Albion; Amherst; Bernard; Bates; Beloit; Berkeley Divinity; Brown, Cal.; Carnegie Institute of Technology; Chicago; Cincinnati; City College, N. Y.; Clark; Colorado; Columbia; Cornell; Dartmouth; East Tennessee Normal; Emory and Henry; George Washington; Grinnell; Hamline; Harvard; Howard; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Iowa State; John Marshall Law; JohnsHopkins; Kansas Agricultural; LaCrosse Normal; Los Angeles Osteopathic; Nast Technology; Miami; Michigan; Middle Tennessee Normal; Minnesota; Nevada; New York; New York Dental; New York Law; North Carolina; North Dakota; Oberlin; Ohio State; Ohio Wesleyan; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; Princeton; Radcliffe; Randolph; Macon; Richmond; Rutgers; Simmons; Simpson; South Carolina; Springfield; Syracuse; Temple; Trinity; Union Theological; Utah; Valparaiso; Vassar; Virginia; Washington, Wash.; Washington-Jefferson; Washington and Lee; Wisconsin; Yale.

The Year Book states that "in 1915-1916 John Spargo, Rose Pastor Stokes and Harry W. Laidler spoke in 120 colleges before over 30,000 students and 12,000 others. They addressed some eighty economic and other classes and spoke before over a score of entire college bodies."

A so-called Bureau of Industrial Research, established at West 23d street, New York City, describes itself as being "organized to promote sound human relationships in industry." In addition to the courses in employment adininistration, the bureau offers expert industrial counsel and technical assistance to employers and trade union executives. Its research department maintains a library of current information covering the field of industrial relations, from which it is prepared to supply documentary and statistical data at moderate cost to individuals, corporations, labor organizations and the press.

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