Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-06-22

Society Grows

NEW YORK, June 21.-(Special)-
That the work of the intercollegiate
Socialist Society has this year far out
stripped in value and Influence that Of
any previous season. is the assertion
of DR.. Harry w. Ladder, its Organizing
Secretary. in his report Of the season.
work Just issued. The report declare
that the Society has conducted NOR
extensive trips than ever before among
the institutions of higher learning.
East and West From November to
April inclusive Rose Pastor Stokes.
John Spargo and Harry w. Ladder Wis
tied 100 colleges, addressed over $4,000
students. spoke before % entire college
bodies and lectured in 80 economic and
other classes. Dozens of other lectures
were arranged by the various college
Chapters.
The South was also opened up this
Spring for the first time to the work
of the Society as result of the trip
of the Organizing Secretary through
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Tennessee. Eight Chap
ters were formed in these states.
Many colleges. never before reached,
have come within the l. s. S. fold. dur
versities Of Iowa, North and South
Carolina. Virginia and Nevada, Trinity.
Dartmouth. Berkeley Divinity Rutgers,
John Hopkins. Reloit. Grinnell Iowa
State. Simpson. Reed, Washington and
Lee, Emory and Henry, Randolph Ma
con and East and Middle Tennessee
Normal Schools. Chapters in several
other colleges have been reorganized.
although some Chapters. on account Of
our inability to reach them, have tenn
porarily lapsed. There are at present
70 undergraduate and 16 alumni Chap
tiers of the Society. Vassar has the
largest dues paying membership. In
Berkeley Divinity School every student
Is member of the Socialist Study
group. Yale, Harvard. Princeton, Col
umbia, Barnard c. c. N. Y, Chicago,
Colorado. Michigan and Ohio State are
among the others that have this year
reported a particularly active season.
The year has, as we'll. recorded, as a
distinctly new departure, a summer
! conference. held last Labor Day. So
successful was this conference that il
seems likely to be the first of Ions
series to be held under our auspices
The season has likewise yielded the
first real results of the research work
I begun by several of our members. Most
/ important of these has been the ex'
ceedingly valuable source book on the
international Socialist movement. "Tht
| Socialism Of Today" the most compre'
hensive book on the movement print
ed in any language, (Henry Holt
Co..) The two pamphlets published al
supplements of The Intercollegiate So
cialist, who Gets Americas Wealth,
and Income and Inheritance Taxes,
by william English Walling. are alst
a part of the research work.
On September 1928. the Society II
planning to hold its Second Annua
Summer Conference in Sherwood For
est, near Washington. D. c. The sub
Il lect of the conference will be "Socia
Preparedness-Natio and Interna
uonal" Among the speakers will b.
Senator Henri Lafontaine of Belgium
winner Of the Nobel Peace Prize: Franz
P. Walsh, Chairman Of the Commits
on Industrial Relations; Morris Hill
quit, John Spargo. Prof Jacob b. Hol
lander OF John Hopkins, Meyer Lon
don, Prof Walter Rauschenbusch. VIII
Ham English Walling. Oswald g. VII
lard (probably). J. q. Phelps Stokes
VIM. n. Johnston. DIR. Helen R. Sum
ner, Jessie W. Hughan. DR.. James I
Warbasse. Arthur E. Holder, Darwi
J. Maserole. Rev. Richard W. Ho9us
Juliet s. Poyntz and Others.
The headquarters Of the Society
at 10 Fifth Avenue. N. 7. City.