Communication

(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In the CRIMSON'S timely exhortation some days ago to maintain more carefully collegiate neutrality it was urged that "it is the duty of every member of the University to err on the side of understatement rather than of excess and agitation." The CRIMSON'S attitude is proper, but this point needs both emphasis and a somewhat clearer formulation, for the benefit of certain members of our body academic who appear to have needed it not. What the University wants, and what America desires, and what the world needs is not mere "understatement and restraint"; the desideratum is that prejudice and passion be understated and restrained, and still more that the facts be stated and lib- erated. Let those whose privilege it is to be possessed of pertinent facts about the situation express them boldly and publish them abroad for our enlightenment; but let those of us whose misfortune it is to harbor only blind and unreasoned opinions (and vague illusions as to how American sympathies ought to run and why, etc.), assume that humility implied in "understatement and restraint." Only when we can know the hard facts can we direct our sympathies with justice and our humanitarian endeavors with profit.  N. J. SILBERLING 1G