The Washington times., 1924-05-16
WAR ON WAR is.
DECLARED by
STUDENTS
Chicago Colleges Split in Fac
tions by Invasion Of
{ Pacifisn.
BY CARL w. HARRIS.
international News Service.

CHICAGO, ILL.,. May 16.-PacIflsm
has reared its head in Chicago.
Schools and colleges are split
into bitter factions: dissension IL
threatened in churches; indignation
meetings are called by members of
The American Legion ana other
patriotic organizations; action by
the police and Federal authorities
IL being demanded to deal with a
threat to overrun the Nation with
IN anti-war sentiment fostercd by
little groups Of the cognoscentia In
colleges, churches, and clubs.
It is openly boasted by members
Of the pacifist groups here that
recent outbursts OF pacifist sent1.
ment are not the expression of q
small group of idealists, but rather
part Of a worldwide student move
ment which had it's origin in the
anti conventional Wandervogel
group, which proved such power
ful factor in Germany.
Twenty thousand college men
and women in the United States
already are enrolled in 1.-THE Ma.
tional Student Forum OF America "
IL the claim Of leaders Of the move
ment here. 1.-THE ordinary Ameri-
can has no idea Of how our move
ment has spread In this country"
William Bernhart, pacifist leader,
declared. "It Is running like Wild
eire throughout the student tudies
Gil over the United States"
Plan City Groups.
The National Student Forum, be
declared, already IL planning the
establishment Of student groups"
In the large Industrial cities Of the
country. Gary, Ind, and Pitts.
burgh, Pa, have been under con.
alteration as places for the intro
duction Of such groups, he said.
These groups, he explained, will
work in the industries, learning
the conditions under which tina
workers live and will devote their
spare time to reorganizing their
city's social order In accordance
with the forums creed Of econom.
les. Workers, Of course, will be
taken in as members of the group,
he added.
The pacifist movement here was
6rst brought sharply to public at.
tention in March, when persons at
tending meeting in the First
Methodist Church Of Evanston, at
which Brent Dow Atkinson, convicted
draft dodger, spoke. At that time
the meeting almost broke UP in a
riot when several Of the people
became violently opposed to the
an American flag be unfurled ON
the platform.
Counter Moves Made.
The call against pacifism was i'm
mediately talaen up throughout Ev-
anston. Chicago ana the surround
ing territory. Others took up
cudgels for the organization. Coun-
ter meetings were called to protest
against the pacifist movement.
At Northwestern University q
number Of students became out
spoken in their support for the
forum. Church and school heads
held consultations over the situation
and promised disciplinary measures
against the ringleaders.
Orville Robert Hirsh, a conscien.
ttous objector during the war, came
quickly to the fore as a leader in
the pacifist movement and flung
into the teeth Of, the body's adver-
saries the statement that those who
signed the pledge not to fight for
their country under any circum-
stances will keep that pledge II Il
costs them their liberty or life"
Four hundred students in st.
Cyril's College here soon after unani.
n %aA
Ing students in all and any institu-
stions who subscribed to pledges Of
disloyalty to their country in time
Of war"
This was quickly followed by a
movement at Northwestern Univer-
eity whereby all students were asked
70 sign pledges Of allegiance to thcir
country. The signing Of the pledges
became q momentous affair. There
were demonstrations threatening
violence to those who would no.
sign on the dotted line.
Orzanize Children.
Conditions were not in the least
Rettered when reports came from st.
Louis that the pacifiSts, or 1.-THE
National Student Forum of Amer.
Sea-" had started q Junior organixa.
ton among school children and fac.
tory girls In that city. The organ
tiers declared q hundred or 40 had
already applied for membership,
Meanwhile, Bishop Thomas Mich
olson, Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, declared he was Not a paci-
fist, nor was In sympathy with
pacifist schemes to use the churches
70 forward their schemes. Bishop
Nicholson told committee Of past
commanders Of the American Legion
who called to ask IT, he sanctioned,
or the church approved, the speak,
ing Of Atkinson, the convicted draft
dodger, before the Epworth League
in the Evanston Church.