The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-28
RAND SCHOOL MAY
LOSE ITS CHARTER
fsTake Over State and Meet
Militia, Propaganda Stirs
Lusk Committee.
REDS CLAIM A BISHOP
Seized Letter Says the Right
Rev. w. NJ. Brown of Ohio
Is a BOlshevist.

there Is only one thing to do. Take
pver the State. Are you ready to meet
tne militia when the powers Of the
State ard the courts are against your"
This sort of propaganda. sent out by
The Rand school OF Social Science to
kroups of extreme radicals and would
lie radicals throughout the country. has
caused the Lusk legislative committee
10 investigate Bolshevism to take steps
booking TO the cancellation OF the char
iar of the institution. 1t was learned
hitter the reading into the committees
record Mt the hearing in the City Hall
Yesterday of the indictment of Scott
Nearing and the American Socialist 30
tiety (the Rand School for the cir
tailauon of his alleged article called
THE Great Madness that the Attorney
General is carefully looking into the
Possibility of suppressing this medium
Tor the culture and dissemination OF
Extreme radicalism throughout the coun-
fry. Nearing was acquitted, but the
seciety was fined $4,000.
- The sentence quoted appeared in sew
eral letters written by ID. Il. Berenberg,
official head OF the correspondence de-
partment. of the Rand School. leading
Chairman Lusk to form the opinion that
the school was circulating this radical
doctrine by means of a form letter.
- Methodist Bishop Accused.
copy OF the New York Communist,
,cfficial organ of the Left Wing Socialists.
With which the Hand School has been
shown TO have sympathetic connections,
contained an article saying that they
hoped to conquer the capitalistic class
with as little bloodshed as possible"
This copy was taken in the raid on the
Rand School.
A long memorandum on the necessity
: for bringing the negroes of the country
into the Socialist fold, also taken in the
raid, was read into the record. IT de-
veloped the theory that the capitalists
would use the negroes to prevent the
Socialists from taking possession OF the
Government. and outlined a plan for In
terestlng that class Of citizens In extremist
doctrines.
In a letter found in the Rand School
files the direct statement was made that
a bishop of the Episcopal Church-the
Right Rev. William NJ. Brown Of Gallon,
ohio-was not only a Socialist. but a
Bolshevist as well.
: Bishop William Montgomery Brown
was head Of the Arkansas diocese OF
the Protestant Episcopal Church from
1900 until 1912. when he resigned be-
cause of Ill health. He Is author Of
several books. including The Church for
Americans" THE Crucial Race Ques-
ton" and THE Level Plan for Church
Unions"
It developed that the Rand School, in
addition to circulating extremist litera-
ture, was active in sending speakers,
some of them under conviction OF sedi-
ticn and violation of the espionage law.
throughout the country, Professor Scott
Nearing. It seems, was in the "capi-
talistic class of such speakers. He got
as much as 500 for single lecture,
and in one month. according to the
check book stubs of the Rand outfit,
received $3.50. which Archibald E. Stew
enson. assistant counsel. remarked was
probably more than twice what he had
received as an associate professor in
the University of Pennsylvania before
he started to devote all his time to help
ing the proletariat.
On the other hand Algernon Lee,
scheduled to speak for IS per. indicating
leader OF the Socialist Aldermen was
his position as nearer a proletariat
~ After the committee had adjourned its
public hearings until Tuesday. July s, in
= order that Mr.. Steenson and the investi-
gators may have a chance to analyze
the mass of evidence taken in the vari-
Gus raids Chairman Lusk said. speaking
q OF the developments of the day:
- THE activities In which ignorant
people throughout the country are ap-
pealed TO to overthrow this Government
. by armed violence and bloodshed must
and will be stopped. 1 consider It of
greatest importance to have discovered
that the Rand School, with its many con-
nections all over the country. has been
sending out letters asking people II they
are prepared to resist the militia, also
that they have an elaborate plan for
carrying out their propaganda among
negroes. For two years the Rand School
has been advocating armed preparedness
20 overthrow the Government"
q Samuel A. Berger. Deputy Attorney
General, has learned that the American
Socialist Society received Incorporation
papers from the Supreme Court Justice
OGorman in 1901. The Rand School
operates under this charter. 1t was in
1s1S that the indictments against Near
ing and the Rand School were found In
the Federal Court here. They were
charged with "wilfully. knowingly and
feloniously attempting to cause insubor-
dination, disloyalty. mutiny and refusal
Of duty in the military and naval forces
OF the United States" by circulating his
views In opposition to the draft law.
PfOo sent 10 uOEteVas
:, The record in this case has been OBJ
talned by Deputy Attorney General Ber-
ger and he is studying II with care pre-
iiminary TO seeing what can be done
toward having the official status of the
Rand School taken away.
q After the society had been fined So. 900
1t sent out a number OF appeals for
funds to meet this drain on its re-
sources, along with duns to those who
owed 1t money for literature Marked
IN pencil on a copy of letter to s.
sNuorteva of the Soviet Mission. asking
him TO send in $500. was this state
ment: Mrs. Raymond Robins paid
SIS. leaving a balance OF S3S2." Mr..
Nuorteva replied that the bill evidently
referred to copies of the Soviet at
Work" which had been ordered by
him. but they had been paid for. he de-
1eiared. by the persons to whom they had
been sent
X Tho letter asserting that a Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church was one
OF the most earnest of the radicals was
Addressed TO Scott Nearing on the let
torhead OF the Department OF Organiza-
ZION and Propaganda. the Socialist
Party OF the United States. sos West
aadison street, Chicago. ILL.," 1t was
round In Mr.. Berenberg's files In the
Rand school and as read into the record
follows:
NJ i'EAR CoMRADE: Some time arm '
wrote you about a visit to Blehop Will
tam ID. Brown. who resides at Gallon
ONO Bishop Brown is a member OF the
socialist party Bishop of the Eplsco-
pal Church and hereto OF the raddest
nue. Your visit to his Residence was