The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-29
THE NEW HAVEN RIOT

 wishes plague upon both houses The Union frankly, and length charges that the well known in New Haven number hours that trouble being arranged The Union very distinctly imposes the provocaton upon members the student body It takes Yale News sharply 10 task because it followed its usual custom in shifting the blame the students"
 The JournalCourer of which Col Osborne is editor cudes that justification the outbreak not rey, absent There then, provocation The Union the disagreement only the quantity O provocation
 But the Journal Courier has srewdor idea of the vrulence demonstration, of its would show In dosing it's interesting discussion it
 "The irresistible both the students of gallant 1O2nd regiment victimized by false rmors grossly exaggerated the one hand and by mscev interpretation the and tradition which should have been allowed to die generation ago"
 It is natural in condition where many individuals involved and where feeling strong that local and public should seek middle in describing the riot, its and its consequences
 Mayor Fitzgerald not less diplomatic than the newspa pers excepting The Unon which speak frankly The mayor attributes the riots to BosheVl influences but tele- graphs Mayor Knsea of Hartford asking him to keep I'D Hartford when it reported they are coming to participate in further rotng
 From all this guarded and apologetc discussion it is easy withdraw, the truth least what is thought be the truth by New Haven editors and New Havens
 insuted soldiers They booed the parade in which soldiers appeared Students hssed the band of the iO2nd, at Polls, Monday night
 day newspapers printed stories saying that there would be meeting of soldiers the streets naming the place.
 An automobile went about city carrying sign "AlI service remember to meet at Bennett fountain at o'clock tonight" Says The Union:-
 The chief grievance against Union to be that notice of the impending riot stated that Plans been gather at a This absolute truth information this effect had already been widely issem mated before the Union printed it.'
 There no secret preparations They soldiers The soldiers were going to fountain action soldiers did mob assembled New Havens great est riot followed.
 Eighteen hours laer that is to say after riot is over mystifed this hour says it is not pos sb fix responsibility for the outbreak explain why the police failed to stop it.
 fO The place soldiers yctmized by exaggerated and the town and gown tradition.
 exaggerated has been explained The tradition of town and not be familiar to body.
 Before the there fight which amounted 10 riot between students police and townspeope The ati tude of hostility then existing has been carried through more than fifty years
 the student body boys, those who to col leg who of professors members of the faculty known feeling contempt hostil iy expressed this ephet has been expanded for than century, apparently with little attempt upon the part faculty Yale to bring about tolerant attitude
 Students have many occasions disturbed public as sembage especially the theatres They have shown hos ty toward the parades and other affairs conducted by the townspeope and they have conducted long feud with the police.
 It is easy to why there early police why the printed stories of the sembag soldiers how everybody understood hours in ad that something going to happen that this something that going to happen would teach Yale students to keep places and keep civil tongues in their heads and that everybody did nothing to prevent
 The town and gown had to such a point that pretty nearly everybody in New Haven outside the college infuence glad that something about to happen.
 why the soldiers assembled without hindrance; why they joined by crowd of townspeople why police n terference delayed or ineffective?
 culmination of long period of minor dis agreements the legitimate product of many provoca 
 affair disgracefuI, but inevitable The past is The outbreak is Presently the guard which patrols the streets will be withdrawn Haven and the University must keep living to- gether.
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