The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-16
De PAW BESET
BY SOV|ETISM,
SAYS LAWYER
Evans Speech Regarded as
Opening Gun in Drive
to Dust Oman.
.REsENTS BOOK ON SEX
Socialism, Russia ExtoIIed
Beyond All Reason at
School, Is CHARGE.

Shaping pack al charges tQdt
sex, Sovietism and Socialism"
threaten De Paw university, hurled
by William P. Evans, attorney, in an
address Wednesday night, DR.. G,
Bromley Oman, De Paw president
today charged Evans with "misrep-
resentation.
Evans address, given before
De Paw alumni at the Broadway
M. E church, was regarded as the
opening gun in the annual spring
drive to GUST Oman, noted liberal,
from the De Paw presidency.
Evans, however, refused to commit
himself on this viewpoint.
Hint at retaliation is contained
in OXnam's statement that he may
find it necessary to presen a state
ment Of facts that will be sufficient
answer to his (Evans) charges, and
perhaps raise a question as to the
real reason why a little coterie in
indianapolis has consistently sought
to embarrass this university.
"Didn't Hear Statements
II was not present at the Indi-
annapolis alumni meeting and did
not hear the statement made by
Evans, nor have I seen the manu-
script of his address," Oman said.
IF the reports that have reached
me are a fair representation Of his
statement, I can only say that they
give a totally false impression of
the De Paw university lecture pro-
gram, and thoroughly misrepresent
the administration.
Judging from the telephone calls
of the morning, our indianapolis
alumni are incensed because Evans
has so nisrepresented the facts
relative to his alma mater, and has
so forgotten the ordinary proprie-
ties of society. The lecture program
has been we'll balanced"
Evans repeated today that he
merely was charging that the radi
cal economic viewpoint was being
represented on De PAW lecture
platforms to the exclusion of the
conservative.
Duchess, Butler Spoke
"T do know. of course, that the
former Grand Duchess Marie Of
Russia and General Smedley D.
Butler talked at the school," Evans
said. But they did not deal with
the economic problems as did Nor
man Thomas, Maurice Hindus,
Sherwood Eddy and Kirby Page"
The last four named all adhere,
more or less, to the So-called rad
icaI' economic viewpoint. Page is
pacifist, None, however, is a
Bolshevik
But Evans, in his talk, said that
sex, sovietism and socialism are
running the school.
Only Two Socialists
Records of the speakers for the
last three years, under DR.. Oman,
disclose that only two Socialists,
Thomas, the Socialist presidential
candidate in 1928, and Eddy, a re-
cent convert to the Socialist party
after thirty-five years world service
in the Y. M. G. A, were the only
campus speakers to carry that label.
Beyond all reason, in public
meeting and private conference,
Communism, Socialism and Russia
have been extolled," Evans told the
alumni, numbering about $50.
He brought a copy of Eddy's Sex
and Youth" and declared it has
been sold from the platform of
Meharry hall, one of the Oldest of
the De Paw buildings.
Denied at University
This was denied at the university
today and it was asserted that be-
ing an old-time evangelist" Eddy
was accustomed to selling his books
after lecture, but there were but
two copies of Sex and Youth
known to be on the campus.
Evans charged that "there are
things in this book no one should
know" He objected to Oman in
Producing the author "as the man
who in character more nearly APP
preached Jesus Christ than any
man living today"