The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-18
ANGEL HAILED
FOR ATTACK ON
COMMUNISM

NEW HAVEN, June IS.
Praise for his courageous at
tack on Communism and Fas.
cism is pouring in upon Presi-
dent James Rowland Angel, OF
Yale University, from the stu
dent body, the faculty and from
many parts of the nation.
DR. Angel devoted much Of
his baccalaureate address on
Sunday to a scathing arraign'
ment of the brutality" of COM
munism. denouncing it's "Orien.
tai cruelty" and "unSpeakable
punishment" of diSsenters.
At the same time the head
OF the great American univer.
sity warned against the perils
Of faSciSm. in which the "indi-
vidual exists for the state and
not the state for the individ-
ual."
Praises Democracy
DR.. Angel found in democ.
racy larger and more signifi.
cant values" than in any other
form of ordered society. and
continued in part is follows:
Russian Communism. osten-
sibly the child Of the social
economics of Marx. is the bitter
enemy of all religion, and yet 1t
involves a distorted ethics which
has been accepted with an es-
sentially fanatical fervor.
It has been everywhere pro.
mulgated as a cult for the relief
of the oppressed and the de-
struction of the oppressor. 1t has
thus appealed to the deep seated
human instinct of sympathy for
the under dog.
Its disciples maintain that
only in accordance with it's pro.
visions can each worker be as.
sured of sustenance and reason
able comfort without the eX-
ploitation Of other workers.
Conscience Undisturbed
Once its crucial premise is
granted, that because of it's al.
legedly peculiar social function
only the proletariat should be
allowed to flourish, all the rest
follows with more or less logical
cogency.
To divide the fruits of agricul.
ture and industry among the
laborers, to crush any competing
class, employing ruthless brutal.
1ty If necessary to achieve this
end-all this and innumerable
other equally repellent social
corollaries ensue forthwith.
The Communist conscience is
apparently nowise disturbed by
the fact that. q. small self-ap-
pointed fraction Of the popula.
ton exercises autocratic control,
determines what promotes and
what retards national interest,
determines who shall live, be ed.
ucated and multiply, and who
shall be exiled, starved and ster-
ilized.
It Is almost a work of super
erogation to point out the conse.
quences of this system for the
higher spiritual qualities Of hui
mainly.
Its cruelty is oriental and its
political philosophy is dogmatic
and intolerant. Only those in
agreement can be heard, and to
dissent is to invite exile at the
best and unSpeakable punish
ment at the worst. Brutality is
of it's essence, and its most en-.
thusiastic advocates regard as
contemplate weaklings those
who demur to such barbarism.
The Medicis could have taught
these gentry little.
Fascism Hit
Over against Communism, as
another self-proclaimed pan.
acea for the Ills of nations,
stands FaScisrn, which appears
much more like the rank and
file of earlier Evolutionary
movements.
Absolutism, whether as mon.
archy, or Communism, or
Fascism, may work in the sense
that it will provide an organized
society in which some measure
of instant safety and comfort
may be assured to the mass of
men: but how long and how ef-
fectively it can do even this is
open to doubt, and meantime
there always remains to be as
sesSed its essential justice and
wisdom, and still more the sum
total of it's effect upon the souls
Of its citizens.