The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-17

8. Some students believe that their
inability to get both sides Of a con-
troversial question is due to three
things, and that they therefore have a
responsibility to protest against those
things, which are:
a. Protest against) Trustee con-
troll that says what a student may
and may not study. Adopted by
vote of 50.
b. Protest against) Endowment
by great accumuIaticns of capital
when such accumularlons result
from exploitation of the workers.
Adopted by vote of Sc.
C. Protest against) Control
which prevents a faculty member
from expressing his own opinions.
Adopted unanimously.
RACE RELATIONS
CoNCENSUS OF QUESTION: All
races should have equality of oppor-
tunity. At present ,equaiity or op-
portunity does not exist as is evidenc-
ed in some cases by
a. Unequal per capita public ex-
penditure of education
b. Unequal representation in stu
dent affairs.
C. Discrimination against certain
races in athletic opportunity. The situa-
ton should be changed to allow all
races equality of opportunity.
Proposition voted on: What does
equality of opportunity mean?
1. There should be parallel develop
ment Of the races, each race keeping
to itself, yet each assisting the other
in its development. Voted down by
20.
2. There should be complete inter-
mingling Of the races, including social
intermingling. Adopted by u votes.
8. There should be intermingIing in
casual and limited way, but not
complete intermingling (no social in
termingling). Voted down by So.
If the position taken by these "pac-
list" students could be regarded as
rejecting a static condition, the Amer
can Teapot Dome oIigarchy need not
be worried. For the students, with all
their emotionaIism, have here given
one hundred per cent endorsement
of the greatest and most ambitious
scheme that the two-fisted mIlitarists
have ever tried-the League of Ma
tions. Their rebellion against such
evils as unemployment ana racial IN
equalities is as helpless and uncon-
structive as it is obviously sincere.
THE publicity given this comic
/ opera bolshevism is a perfect ex-
ample of how the telescope Of modern
journalism change details into stu
pendous events. By means OF forced
draft news stories and strained edito-
rails, careless remarks have been
turned into utterances pregnant with
impending catastrophe to the respect
able proprietor class of the world. Ir-
ritated youngsters have become the
generals of a world revolution.
Until policy dictated a need for
~ news Of this kind, the phenom-
enon Of pacifism went unnoticed.
Then, by process Of artificial infia-
ton, it was made to assume an impor-
lance and a character entirely differ
emit from its real significance.
nACIFIST feeling among the stu
/ dents of our middle-western uni
versities is not sudden growth. Had
the American newspapers been gen.
timely interested in the state Of public
opinion, they would have found in the
student activities Of the past year am
pie excuse for display Of patriotic
indignation. But such matter as the
attendance of members Of the Young
Workers League at the student con-
ference at Waukegan last June, or the
forcible injection Of pacifist discussion
into the program Of the student con-
ference at Indianapolis during Christ
mas week or the bitter attacks of
Sherwood Eddy, before a body of
students, on the Ku Klux Khan, the