The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
OPEN WAR ON
 FRATERNITIES
NON-SOCIETY PUPILS AT NEW HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL BEGIN CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY
 THEIR INFLUENCE.
Fight on For Elections For Class Off, f1cers-To Take Matter Before
 Board of Education.

New Haven, Nov. 19-The non-so- ciety committee at High School. which is determined to .eois-erate the influence of fraternities in the High School life will appear before the Board of Educa ton next Friday night nation Of that society element in the scholastic and athletic life of the High School.
 president of the class. is working tooth and nail to secure the election of their candidates at the annual class elections The following appeal has been sent out by Abraham Goldberg in behalf of their side of the olse: .'Non-society classmates of 1913 ganized behind your non- fraternity candidate. Let us deal 9 fatal blow to that avaricious monster, so-calied
 secret society Let ls rise to the the
 privileged body of our High School, a body. which in it's greed. has been
 gobb1ing up all the privileges of 2
 publicly paid High School. United
 we shall march under the beating Of drums and waving of banners to a
 triumphant victory. with justice as
 insfiea jus l Of the S Secret % societiea si has driven us to revolt. Let US fight the issue with the spirit of yore- Pray. classmates, are we so narrow minded
  eged kind to dominate the majority of students? O spirit of democracy. l wi:ither have you flown?
 solid bodies: let them summon an army of a Napoleon; let them array in their battlet lines heroes of old. let of trickery they have used hitherto; I let the secret societies have all these tadvantages. butzas long ass their ban ner spells injustice and undemocratic 1aT- <.ir n les SO will t7jfv astrous defeats
 For too long have the secret so- cieties been subversiye of the princd- pies Of democracy; too long have they conducted themselves selfishly towards the interests of the school; too long have they been basfng compensation
 been stirring up strife and dissen- i sions; too long have they been produc- tive of jea1ousies and contention l among. the pupils. Come, classmates these evils and to defend the honor of our school.
 stand solidiy behind your non-so- i ciety candidate. Let us live to the 1 spirit of Washington and Lincoln. an6 i let us have in our High School a gov ernment Of the students, by the stu dents, and for the students"
 The non-society members, who com prise about three-f0urths of the class claim that throughout the sehoo
 course the fraternities have gobblet up every honor in the athletic ffelt i and in. class offices, too often to tht 1 detriment of the High School stand ard They Sclaim that the repeated l losses of the High School team for thu I past three years ir1-t1ae Interscholastit l League. has been due to the poor ath l Ietic material on the High Schoo I team a teams selected for the ad11eT l ence of it's members to secret society | VOWS and pledges. not for it's athletic I orowess.
 I The case is instanced by the non ,Seafx l ing the honor because he refused tt l make a deal with the society mem berS. The frats sent their delegatt to the prospective candidate, thel l claim promising their support, if hV I would but join the fraternity in. ques I tion-4 He refused and the honor wen. I to a society member. This interfer ence with elections is claimed Nby non Il society members to be prejudicial t class spirit and scholarship