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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT November 13, 1970 Page 5 Mount Vernon Internal security had the SDS pegged accurately almost from the moment it rose up like, a officers little white lamb with claws sticking out from under its sheepskin. But security officers could not persuade college administrators (with a few notable exceptions) to believe them. The administrators would not accept the warning of J. Edgar Hoover, either. So the reason for the success of SDS in making war on college campuses boils down to the hard fact that college administrators would not make the effort to study Communist tactics and strategy for themselves and refused to listen to the people who had. HOW THE SDS MOUSE BECAME AN SDS LION America. It was the League for Industrial Democracy which gave birth to the Students for a Democratic Society. Here is the way LID described it in one of its pam- phlets: In 1962 the Executive Committee (of LID) voted to change the name of the Leagues student affiliate to the Students for a Democratic Society. The SDS is now the largest intercollegiate society on the American campus and, under the secretaryship of C. Clark Kissinger, is doing yeoman service in the field of civil rights, peace, academic freedom and community organization of the poor. . . . The formal launching of SDS took place at Port n "Port Huron, Michigan, in 1962 and the Huron Statement was issued which constituted the original constitution of the new organization. A massive drive was immediately mounted for the purpose of getting SDS accepted on all major college and university campuses. All factions of the New Left were invited to work through this latest vehicle of participatory democracy. Students on the various campuses pushing SDS pointed out that each chapter would be allowed to do its own thing, that there would be no outside influence dominating the local chapter and that SDS would give students an opportunity to get involved and thereby strengthen the grassroots of American Democracy. The strategy worked. Soon SDS was loasting of some 350 chapters on major campuses all over the nation. was outlawed in most of Europe, Marx decided to use a more subtle method of taking over existing society ies. He called it Democratic Socialism. The idea was to get people to voluntarily give up many of their basic freedoms and property rights by voting for a strong socialized government which would take over the farms, factories and public utilities and compel the people to operate them in the public interest. Marx promised that this form of collectivized socialism would be ever so much more efficient than and prian open society where profit, vate initiative prevailed. Marxs Democratic Socialism first gained support in Europe and then came to the United States in 1905. Marxs followers asked for a hearing on the major university campuses and succeeded in organizing a great many chapters of what became known as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. This name was later changed to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID). By 1930 nearly all of those who subsequently became prominent as members of the Socialist Party, the IWTV or the Communist Party, USA, had received their initial Marxist training in the League for Industrial Democracy. To maintain its facade of respectability, LID avoided the taint of openly advocating violent revolution but firmly adhered to the line that the Government should own or control all farms, factories and utilities. LID received much of its recent financial support through the efforts of Walter Reuth er. President of the United Auto Workers, who, in his school in younger days, had written from his training the Soviet Union, "Carry on the fight for a Soviet George Washington. Originally it was his brothers home and at the age of 15, George moved into it; then when he was 21, he inherited it. At this same lime, came a call to join the kings colonial army fighting the French and Indians. Wlien Washington re- turned, he brought Martha, his new bride, with him. They enjoyed many guests both travelers and neighbors - and neighbors were considered anyone within a daysjourney. LID TURNS SDS LOOSE TO ASSUME NEW ROLE free-enterpri- se The home needed enlarging, repairs, and beautification. George had plans to place large columns along the front from the roof to the ground. It was 1773 when the new wings began construction, but excessive taxations of the Suddenly, on October 4, 1965, Paul Booth, who was serving at that time as national secretary of SDS, announced, that for tax reasons, SDS would promptly separate itself from the League of Industrial Democracy. He said this was necessary because SDS had educational organitranscended from a zation to a political activist group. It would be extremely interesting to know the identity of those persons who gave the order to pull SDS away from the LID so that the new assignment SDS was about to receive would not damage the respectable image of LID. In any event, it was clearly behind the scenes evident that some power-cente- r was calling the shots which LID and all other Marxist groups supported and obeyed. It was further evident that unless the chapter leaders on each campus had been carefully groomed for their new role, this sudden shift from peaceful tactics to violence would never have succeeded as smoothly as it did. tax-exem- pt king hindered many building projects. By 1775, the colonists asked Washington to lead the colonial cause against the unjust oppressions of the king. for a second time, Washington rode away from Mount Vernon, but with dearer attachments than before. Although Washington was away, the glow of the hearth fires and the warm hospitality of the household continued to greet and (Continued on page 6) (Continued on page 6) OzflaaJEOQDD C 3 QttEftfls Qsbebsq fimS) dfesa Selection GfcBO to fisfil Fifteen miles from Washington D.C. stands the impressive building of Mount Vernon, which was the home and now the tomb of well-know- The Students for Democratic Society started out (as did the Communist Party, USA) as a branch of socialism. 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