New-York tribune., 1919-07-26

TINE Rand School have often Won
Il dered what those three words really
meant. know that in my case had
some rather peculiar ideas of what consti-
tuted that institution when it first began
to get prominent newspaper space short
while ago. Some people understood vaguely
that such a school existed and linked it up
with a group Of scatter Drained individuals
who were not to be taken seriously in any
thing they did. sort Of irresponsible cranks
and dreamy human beings who always
have a vision before them of q little social
istic heaven on earth. Others had the i'm
preston that the school building was a
veritable nest of dangerous characters;
long haired, bespectacled foreigners who
talked in whispers and walked stealthily
around in the dark places planning to turn
loose whole flocks Of bombs on this old town
Of ours Then between these two were all
the different variations that could be con-
jured up by the human mind.
Not Scatter-Brmined
The Rand School, as an institution of te
American Socialist party, is owned and con-
trolled by that organization. The men and
women who arc the main factors and the
moving spirits of this socialist educational
institution are not scatter Drained ndi-
viduals who are not to be taken seriously
On the contrary, they to be taken very,
very seriously Neither are they long
haired, whispering foreigners, which to the
American public generally brings up car
toon vision Of bomb throwers and the like.
No, they are neither Of these. The nominal
head Of the school is graduate of one Of
our finest universities, an exceptionally we'll
read man, who Is also one Of the Socialist
members of the New York City Board Of
Aldermen. Associated with him is an array
Of assistants and co-workers, comrades, as
they like to put 1t, ranging from an ex-
college professor Of American birth down
to the little stenographer in the scho
office, who undoubtedly is Of Jewish ex-
traction
All Of these people are very much
wrapped up in their work, and they are ex-
tremely serious about it. Most Of them
have the idea that some bright day in the
future they will lead large part Of the
wage-earning population of these United
States out Of the darkness Of so-called in
dustrial slavery and poverty into the bright
light Of sort Of Utopian existence, where
every one will love and trust every one else
| Excepting, of course, the bourgeoisie) ac-
cordng to the principle Of the Brotherhood
of Man, and wherein the workers own all
industry and run 1t for their own benefit
exclusively.
Unanimous for Soriet
But that is not all, and this part we must
take most seriously and consider 1t our most
dangerous national menace In order to
make this Utopian plan Of existence posi-
BILE the radicals all agree on one thing
that change in our form Of governm ent
must be brought about They all agree that
the soviet form Of government, as consti-
tuted in Russia under Trotzky and Lenine,
is the only real democratic form of govern
ment in existence. SO consequently that is
what they intend to give America. They
seem to be unanimous that one point
Now there are as many different types Of
radicals as there are days in the week. and
perhaps more. They range from the con-
servative Socialists of the American So
cialist party to the anarchists at the other
extreme, with the different Left Wing and
I. W. w. variations in between All these
different cliques have the Same ultimate
end IN vicw-the overthrow of our present
government for one of soviet form. It ia
merely the means to the end which divides