The daily morning oasis., 1920-07-18

controlling motives in all social conditions and who
as Christians wish to promote ell sound movements
looking toward characterization of industry and sO3-
ialzation of life" 81. 4.
For Dean Ladd's connection with the league and
the attention given by the sch,ol to radical ideas
and speakers it became subject to unfavorable COM
ment in Middletown and vicinity 1t was criticised
as "a center of radical socialism, Hostile comment
culnnated in December last after an address deliver
ed at the school by Mr.. Wilif I'd HUMPHREYS, when
it was branded "a spawning ps e for Bolshevik pre-
paganda." Mr.. HUMPHREYS W2s Y. M. G. A.
worker, who, after returning from Russia, had the
into whiel the cusC 81. Ii cneAyp vbgkqj&qjq
audacity to tell people of conditions he them in
Soviet Russia, in contravention Of INSTRUMENTATION
published in American newspapers, finding it's way
even before Congressional investigating committees
evdence" of the utter and abhofrent degradation
into which the people had plunged upon loss of their
car and aristorcracv. Accusation of Bolshevism
BROUGHT upon the school much injurious publicity:
and to quiet the agitation Doctor Iadd asked nves
tigation by committee IF the schools trustees. Of
the trustees are hsiness men" pillars Of Tho
church who separate "Church' and "CEristianity"
from "business"
After six months investis otion the committee
have published their report, which eastern maya
zine Of the very highest literary rank characterizes
zone of the classics of contemporary heresy hunt
ing in America" 1t is perhaps he most Illuminating
dOcumt MT to which prevailing suspicion among edu-
Gated and we'll to do people of the unorthodox think
ing in politics and economics has given birth.
The committee very serious minded and they
intended to conduct discriminating inquiry rend
ering verdict upon facts. But the way they mix
facts and theory is startling t" say the least. They
"conclude" that Mr.. HUMPHREYS yves not Boshevk
propaganda" but they "are satisfied that it would
have been much better had the lecture not been given
at Berkeley, and HUMPHREYS should not have been
allowed to use the platform there" However mas
no nodh oor Of Smith
sar, Simmons, Clark and other neiehboring insttu
tons "no apology is required fer his appearance at
Berkeley which should not be required at those other
places where his lecture SENS to have been received
without dissent" Thus in respect to the Hum
nhrics lecture they exonorate the school from the
charge Of "a spawning Mace for Bolshevik nropa-
randa" hut chide it's management for admitting to
its platform speaker who was in the habit Of address
sing "radical groups" whose lectures seem TO have
been "rnore or less arolocv for q defence
of the Soviet government" They assr.e that man
who addressed radical groups" or gave lectures
which told things about Russia as he had seen them
should be disqualified from speaking TO young men
studying for Christian clergymen.
On the whole the committee are included to be-
little the HUMPHREYS incident. It is dismissed as
merely g symptom of general tendency to radicalism
which they consider baeful and the chief object of
the report is to expose and denounce. Yet their
posture and admonitons are not indiscriminate They
relieve the school from all imputation of radcasm
Bolshevism, or what not.
But it is in treating the connection of Dean Ladd
with the Church League for Industrial Democracy
that the committee found the richest opportunity to
betray their belief upon relations beween Christian
ty and industry, and the way in which they accept
the Devine precepts of the Sermon the Mountwith
reservations" radical and suh"ersve as President
Wilson claims those reservations certain senators
would put into the League of Nations. After quot
ing the platform of the Church League for Industrial
hoCh
graph of this editorial, the committee say: eve
of the opinion that there be objection to such
aplatform from the standpoint Of Christianity, far
as it involved applications of the principles of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. Those principles hold the
solution of social and industrial problems if they
could lie freely and fully applied In the preser+
state Of the public mind and from the standpoint IF
the citizen of the world whether he calls himself
Chrstian or not, we thing it unwise, however, for
members of the faculty of the Berkeley Divinity