Evening star., 1939-11-27
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

by JAMES T.. CHINN.
The American Student Union has
been the agency used in spreading
Communism in the colleges and
high schools of the Nation, sub
committee of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities was told
today by Maj. Hampden Wilson, a
Veterans Administration investi-
gator, who lives at 1841 Kilbourne
place NV.
Maj. Wilson, who was loaned"
to the Investigating committee
last March to make spe-
cial checkup on Communism in
the field of education, made the
charge against the Student Union
in a prepared summary of his ac-
tivities which he read to the sub
committee
I'm practically every institution Of
higher learning and in many city
high schools" he declared 1T was
found that the American Student
Union was the agency used in
spreading Communism"
CThe American Student Union
is one of several organizations
making up the American Youth
Congress. The congress has
been addressed by Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and she has said
she did not believe it is Com
munist controlled)
According to Common Report"
Maj. Wilson'S summary said also
that many leaders of teachers
unions in various parts of the coun-
try are, according to common re-
port" trying "zealously" to comply
with instructions issued by the Com
munist party.
THE college chapters of the
teachers unions are found to be
| ardent champions of academic free
! dom and free speech and are in
variably supporting the programs
OF the American Student Union"
he declared They cannot yet
comply with the instruction, Marx
lst-Leninism analysis must be in.
jected into every class largely be-
cause of the fear of exposure
which is cardinal sin to the true
Communist"
Aside from the Student Union,
Maj. Wilson said the Communist
party is using six other movements
to spread its doctrines in educa-
tional institutions. These, he men.
toned, as follows:
l. Establishment of so-called lib
eral clubs both on and off the
campus.
2. Revamping of courses of study
and text books to show the glories
OF Communism as developed in
Russia
3. Organization of movements for
liberalization of regulations, the
characterization of institutions, ad-
vocating more control by students,
free speech and peace strikes.
4. Off-campus wo<k as pickets and
otherwise participating in indus
trial controversies.
5. Inf1ltration of student govern
ment by Communist leaders.
6. Infiltration of parent-teacher
associations.
81 to 5 Per Cent Subversive."
Later, Maj. Wilson estimated that
l to 5 per cent of the faculties of
American colleges and universities
support subversive activities. He said
his estimate was based on gen
eral consensus"
In one of the universities he Wis
tied which he failed to name, he
said he found many letters to stu
dents from Oscar Pfaus. head of the
Fighte-Bund in Hamburg, Germany,
relating to "the great success of the
Hitler movement"
In the Office of university presi-
dent, the investigator said he OBJ
served in magazine four articles
about certain professor who pur-
ported to be a red" and who was
described as giving very valuable
assistance in social work" among
students.
Maj. Wilson also declared Com
munists believed their invasion into
American universities and colleges
should be achieved by fellow trav-
elers" rather than by bona fide
members of the party who might
incur disfavor in the community.
Wilson'S History.
Maj. Wilson was for 20 years head
master of the now defunct Cluster
Springs Academy in Halifax County,
Va.-a school which Representa-
tive Dies. Democrat of Texas, chair
man of the Un-American Commit
tee, attended during his youth After
the school was closed in 1917. Maj.
Wilson served in the Army during
the World War and later joined the
Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
cation which some time afterward
became the Veterans Administra-
ton. He has been an investigator
for the Veterans Administration
since April, 1926.
Maj Wilson was permitted to read
his summary despite long-standing
policy of the committee against such
procedure. Representative Starnes,
Democrat, of Alabama, who con-
Quoted the subcommittee hearing,
ruled, however, summarization was
different from statements prepared
in advance by previous witnesses.
The summary, the witness said,
was based on the result of personal
contacts at more than so institutions
in AZ States.
Information, he said, was pro-
cured from chancellors, deans, de-
partment heads, members of boards