Show VASSAR GIRLS AS SO SOCIALISTS Socialist Socials Leaders Hope They Tey Will Wi Lure Capital to Their Side Poughkeepsie N. N T. T May My IB Jacob 18 Jacob Klein and tim the other leaders of ot the so socialist socialist so- so organization In this city dream that they will wi soon have havo the biggest local In the tho country partly party because a a general strike of ot a all tho the laborers In i Poughkeepsie and tho the nearby towns tows Is Ie threatened but principally because so socialism socialism so- so has crept Into Vassar Vasar college The socialist leaders hope the strike wil will drive labor Jabor Into their ranks and that Vassar will wJ lure lura In capital or at least lenat the sons of ot capital For the tho ambition of ot every evory young man Fo in tn is to bo be chummy with a n. y on yV Vassar V n rth gIrl u. u and about r tho JK last hut person orson on onIs Is tho the young man or ju UI But Dut that may moy all bo ho changed when the tho young u women n make mako o speeches on tho tha h 1 street Q corners connors r They havo attends attended I ono one open air open meeting this thi and andon andon on Sunday night tho the Vassar group croup IB is to togo togo togo go in a body to Kleins Klein's house on Fox street whore Flan Plan of the senior sentor class ls Is isto to preside at a general mooting meeting of ot the socialists of the tho olt city Socialists i Flan FInn lann I. I I Flan as everybody in the senior class calls her Is Miss Iss Flanagan who Is to get her bachelors bachelor's degree next month and then devote her time to the tho cause cause Dorothy Clark Clarl and Alce Alice Choney Cheney of ot the tho senior class will wi be at the tho to Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day night meeting All Al told tol there are 13 Vassar students and two members of the tho 1 faculty who have havo declared their allegiance to socialism but they thoy cannot cannot cannot can can- not organize without violating the traditions and unwritten laws of the college Some Some of the 18 1 socialists aro are In the party because they havo read Karl Marx and believe beleve what t he wrote Some Borne are socialists because Flan Is They Thoy are the tho freshmen and sophomores The They also wear their hair the wa way Flan Plan does and if It sho she had gone in for basketball baa baa- Instead of ot socialism they would have followed her hor just the same Th Their lr Socialism n a J Fad nd of ot the tho Vassar Vassar Vassar Vas Vas- 1 am afraid said one sar teachers who Is a. a n socialist that the socialism of most mot college girls hero here and elsewhere is emotional and only a fad I came to It I through being a revolutionist and atheist after aCer comIng coming com corn ing lag out of at tho the outgrown Puritanical ro- ro belief of New England I have belet known n kno what It I is to wash dishes for tor a living and to wait walt on table in a hot hotel l restaurant I am not a mere mero parlor socialist t. t Sometimes I am al almost almost al- al most mOlt afraid of or the parlor socialists who hove have e never known the grinding drudgery er of ot hard labor at starvation wages I refer to such men as Robert Hunter and J. J Phelps Stokes hat Would fuld Che They Do Dot The Tho ranks of socialism must be bo re recruited recruited re- re from the tho working classes and anti their motive is self sel Suppose we WC should have havo in this country countr a revolution revolution revo revo- lution or an election in which a socialist social social- 1st victory would mean revolution re In that case would woul not the self interest sel of such leaders as Mr Hunter and Mr Stokes cause them to waver In leading where the tho Interests of ot tho the masses masse would be best Perhaps I misjudge mis- mis judge them After Ater m my dishwashing and restaurant restaurant rant work I went to Mount Holyoke where I got my bachelors bachelor's degree Then I went vent to tu Ann Arbor It I was that hat 1 I was a revolutionist Tho The ma ma- manner in which a visiting r tram front Harvard treat treated c history prepared me mo for Cor socialism and unc when In n m my senior year I read Karl kari Marx oIa Iwas I Iwas Iwas was convinced |