The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-26
Gideon PlaniSh
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THE STORY: Gideon Planlsh,
 'treshman at Adelbert College In
 l9l0, is refused membership on
 the upperclassman debating team.
 In revenge, he and Hatch Hewitt
 start Socialist Society.
 III
 The dean of Adelbert College saic teebly, You againp'
 Gid's expression declared thai they were old and helpful friends; that he was fond of this aged pal and glad to give him new vigor and ideas.
 "Yes, sir. I thought you ought to know that I have founded a secret Socialist club"
 "Wellp"
 T just thought, if 1t was forbid den to have revolutionary clubs, I'd better report 1t, SO 1t would be okay, Gosh, guess 1t must be awful un- usual to have secret juntas in Adel- ' bert"
 "No, not unusual; Q little annoy- Ing, perhaps, but not unusual. But it is somewhat rare for the chief instigator to come in and inform us"
 Would you like me to wind up the club, Dean? I'd be glad to, if you'd let me in on the course in Forensics. And in the circum- stances, I guess I'd have to be taken Into the debating society, too"
 "Please-go-awayl"
 Well, sir, you'll remember I warned you"
 Upon Gids suggestion, the Social ist League challenged the college debating society to e discussion of the government ownership of rail- roads, and that official body accept- ed, with the notion of having @ practice match before the classic annual contest with the great Uni- verslty of Winnemae.
 As he was often to do in his later career as Q professional promoter of ideas, Old nearly convinced himself of the truth of his own crusade. He was deciding to go out and national i2e all rails, he was beginning to be- lieve he had invented colleetivism, when the catastrophe struck them.
 On October 2nd, they had the news that the plant of the Los An- geleS Times, which had been war ring with union labor, had been blown up, with nineteen deaths, And the Adelbert Socialist League blew up with 1t.
 The League now had nine rnem- bers Most of them would have preferred to meet dramatically at Hatch's stable, in conspiratorial darkness, but they were up against reality. They weren't merely defy. Ing God and the House of Morgan now: they were In danger of get- ting demerits from the dean. The executive committee gathered in e corner of the Y. M. c. A. lounge at three o'clock on 6 bright afternoon.
 Gid panted. "Meancometorder Lissen, Comrades, think We bet. ter get the hell out of this Socialist club, or turn It into 6 literary society"
 You're going to lay down and take it2 You mean you don't dare to face the ruling class and defy em when there's something to defy 'en about2" demanded Hatch.
 Not at all Wen call our liter ary society the Walt Whitman League. That's defiant enough for alybodyl Whitman never went to collegei" explained Old. There's nobody wants to hammer tyranny more than do, but this isn't the time for it."
 Thrt was the death Of the Adel- bert Socialist League, and for the funeral there were no hymns. no flowers, and only such exhibits Of Christian resignation as were pro- vided by Francis Tyne,
 On the day after the decease of the Socialist League, Gid sought out the secretary of the college debating society, reminded him that it had been announced on oil bulletin boards that the society would de- bate with the Socialists, who had blown up the Times. personally, and suggested that the only way out of such Q perilous connection would be for the debating society to elect Old a member. Then, he might pos. sibly think about killing of and generally disowning the League.
 The debating society met, in haste. changed It's constitution so that freshmen might be admitted, elected old, and thanked him for soFnething-they weren't quite sure what-that he had done to save Adelbertan oratory from shame. Late in the spring he was actually on the debating team which invad. ed and conquered Erasmus College: and the fame of Gideon Planish promised to be as firmly established In the glorious annals of the college aS that of Old Pug. for eleven years the baseball mascot. Erasmus College was in Eastern Ohio, and Gid had never been 50 far East-almoSt into New York Statei
 With his associate debaters, in- very large junior who sang Ifafid Of1nrA i1 nakAfa9, ha feauafad