The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-04-09

tons to Socialism. President Eliot hel}
that Socialism attacked private ow
ership Of all property and the mo
atty Of the home; to answer hi
Morderwell put together the first
the Harvard Socialist pamphlets III
der the title Of Socialism and Pr
vate Property" It has just been j.
sued.
In the Boston alumni chapter, form
ed II months ago, TO- of the first I
| join were Vida D. Scudder, Emf
Balch, Sue Ainslie, and Mary Daley
the four wellesley teachers who az
peared at Lawrence and then had s
them Miss Helen Keller, Radcliffe, 190>
also became member.
There are two men of foreign brit
conspicuous among the undergradu
ate chapters. Alex. Trachtenbers
president Of the Yale chapter, is {
Russian and carries medal awardef
to him for conspicuous bravery in tn
president of the chapter at Clark Uni
versity. is a Japanese, but unlike HI.
Russian associate, he can boast ne
war record.
At Yale, the policy of the chapte-
has been to afford welcome for out
side visitors and to guarantee through
previous advertising, a hearing for al
apply. In carrying out this policy tn
Yale chapter has heard within recen'
months Prof. Irving Fisher, agains
Socialism; Morris Hilluit, against Fish
er; Victor L. Berger, John Spargo
Prof. Vida u. Scudder Of Wellesley INC
Mayor Lunn of Schenectady.
At Princeton the work of organizing
the local chapter fell upon John Tenn.
pie Graves, Jr., and a letter from Mr.
Graves to the Intercollegiate secre-
tary states that he expects within g
month to start in Princeton a Social
list newspaper. The Princeton chap
ter has been active only for Sly
months. but in that time it has neld
two public meetings and has gained
the sympathy of a similar organiza
ton formed among the members OF
the faculty.
In the Middle West there are Is uni
versities with Socialist chapters; ir
New York eight, including Cornell
Rochester, Colgate, Barnard. the Col
lego of the City Of New York. New
York University, the Union Theolog-
ical Seminary. and the New York
Dental College.
Sometimes the college boys perpe-
trate jokes even in their Socialist eff
forts. AT the University of Michigan
Debs polled 1872 votes at a stray ball
lot for President. Next day cards In
persons were wanted to attend the
next Socialist chapter meeting. The
University Of California local claims
large credit for electing a Socialist
Mayor Of Berkeley, Cal, the uniyer-
sity's home town. Here are the col
leges in which the Socialist chapters
furnish delegates to the intercollegiate
body and receive the 5000 or more
sent out annually from this
city as a propaganda work:
Amherst, Baker, Barnard, Brown,
California, Chicago, Clark, Colgate, c..
c.. N. Y, Columbia, Connecticut Agri-
cultural, Cornell. Depauw, Harvard,
Kansas. Marietta, Meadville Theologi-
cal, Michigan, Missouri, Morris Pratt,
New York Dental, Oberlin, Ohio State,
Oklahoma, Am. Sch. Osteopathy, Penn
Princeton, Rochester, Spring
field, Stanford, Swarthwore, Union
Washington (Mo.), u. of
Washington, Wesleyan Wisconsin,
Yale -
The New York Alumni Chapter, as
is entirely fitting, furnishes most of
the propaganda doctrine and the
leading speakers for the locals To the
New York chapter Chicago Universe
ty and Washington, in Missouri, con-
Robert w. Bruere, and Vas
sar Mrs. Bruere, both writers and in
vestigators Of conditions among the
poor; VaSSar contributed also MIS-
Marion B. Cothren, president of the
Civitas club of Brooklyn; Violet Pike
and Eliza beth butcher; Stanford the
two Irwin brothers. Will and Wallace.
whose names have just been added
to. the roll; Harvard. w. E. B. Du
Bots, a negro and editor of The Crisis;
the. Rev. John Haynes Holmes, presi-
dent of the Liberal club, and II. d.
a relative of James Rus
sell Lowell; Chicago, Mrs. Charles Ed
ward Russell; Cornell, Miss Florence
Kelley, and Bryn Mawr. Mrs. Simon
Flexner, and Miss Dorothy Strauss
Take the word of Secretary Ladder
for it, and the one great advantage,
from his standpoint, in the college
is that it will bring young
law students in touch with viewpoints
that will prevent them, should they
afterward become noted lawyers and
Judges, from advocating or ANNOUNCE
ing decisions which, while capable Of
within the letter of the
law, take no account of the social and
economic consequences thereby inf1ict-
ed upon the community. Mr.. Laid
'er points with pride to the possibility
that President Eliot's grandson, for in
stance, will never so long as he lives
repeat his grandfather's sentiment
that "the great American scab is the
glory of the country because he stands
Cor the freedom to labor where one