Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1922-12-22
RADICALS MENACE COUNTRY.
Chancellor MacGOwn Gives Warning at
Mems Club Meetins--Real Americans
Needed i'm Office.

Chancellor MacGOwn Gives Warning at
Mems Club Meetins--Real Americans
Needed in 0ffce.
You men must get out to the poll
and get to the primaries and see thai
true. red-blooded Americans are put into
office if you want to save this countr,
from falling into the hands of the rad
cal element" Chancellor G. S. MacGown
of the American International College
at Springfield, Mass, declared Wpdnes-
day night in an energetic appeal to the
Mems club of the Baptist church.
viii American institutions with
stand the attacks which are being mad
upon them todayY This was the topic
of the chancellor's brief and fiery talk.
and unless Americans conduct them
selves as Americans and, adhering t.
the gospel of liberty, treat Immigrant,
to this country as they should be treated
the answer would appear to be no." &C.
cording to Chancellor MacGown.
Early in his talk the speaker quoted
from the words found on the bronze tab
let at the Statue Of Liberty in New
York harbor. This message extends q
big-hearted welcome to all foreigners and
holds out promises of what they may ex-
pect to find i'll this land. Are we Living
up to this invitation the speaker
asked.
In answer, Chancellor MacGowu
pointed out the disappointment which
Italians. Russiuns, i'6ies ana peoples o.
other nationalities feel when on reachina
New York from Ellis Island they are
fieeccd of their worldly goods. subjected
to insult and given false ideas. 1t l.
then that they become fitting pupils fo'
radical teachers and subsequently be
come members of those groups who's
avowed purpose is to pull down tn
American flag and plant in its place a
dirty red banner"
The chancellor astounded his audiencr
with the statement that there are %.
papers printed in foreign tongues in tie
United States for the purpose of putting
over radical program. Further than
that, there are 279 papers pouring in
regularly from Europe and containing
similar propaganda. In the congestc'
districts of our large cities these foreigu
ers who come to this country to becom
Americans read only their own tongue
and hear their own tongue; therefor
they are good fertile seed for radica
propaganda. In our larger cities ther
are as many groups of radical organize
tons as there are Sunday schools, anj
they meet on Sundays, too, and ar
teaching the foreigners to overthrow on
government through mass uprising
which is the hotbcd of sedtion. In tina
city also it is reported that 10000 case
of liquor are coming in daily, and liquo
goes hand in hand with radicalism.
The gospel of sedition is spreading t
all nationalities colored people are be
ing taught the principles. and the see,
lands on fertile soil in the minds Of tn,
immigrants.
According TO the figures of the las
OIL ION, Lao
than half OF the voters of the countr,
go to the polls. The people are afraid
to vote.-or they don't want to vote
Put you'll find every radical there tn
speaker added ION election day. Why
it is even penetrating congress. 1t is /
fact that many congressman previous
election receive Il QUESTIONABLE and OF
the answers depend whether the radica
vote will be swung TO the candidate o
not"
The speaker said he was disappointed
in the women. For years. he said, the
fought for the right to vote and nov
that they have it they don't use it, 1t i
on the women of the nation, in Chancel
lor MacGown's opinion, that the futur
largely will depend, and he regretted
that they do not exercise their votinl
rights as they should.
The institution which the chancellor
ncauS trains lOfelgn-DOfn persons III
Americanzation. The belief in this
school is that only persons having com
mand of the languages of the immigrant
can cope with the situation, and so.
after teaching civics and American doc
trines to its students, the school send
them out to work among people of THEN
own nationalities to straighten out un.
fortunate warped ideas of life in Amer
lea and make the indictments good
American citizens. Education is re-
garded by Chancellor MacGown as the
solution of the problem.
There were about 30 men present NJ
the meeting, which was the usual
monthly affair of the church clpb. En-
nest " Barre, president of the club
presided. The meeting was somewhat
late in starting due TO the delay of the
train on which Chancellor MacGown
came to Brattleboro.
The church orchestra Mayed several
selections and Dickinson Tinker rendered
four violin solos. After Chancellor Mac
Gowns talk the men present had the OPP
p0rtunity of meeting him and discussed
further with him some of the serious
phases of the radical situation in Amer
lea. Refreshments were served by n
pnmmittaa nf man from, tbo ol,th aoaicf al