Dyed in Red

The National Security League announced yesterday that it would attempt to offset the influence of Socialist societies among college students and make a particular effort to counteract the influence of the Intercollegiate Liberal League, recently organized at Harvard by undergraduate representatives from twenty-seven colleges and universities.

"The Socialists are striking at the foundation of Americanism when they attempt to implant their Utoplan theories in the immature minds of the young men and young women in the colleges and universities of America," said Charles D. Orth, President of the National Security League, "Institutions of learning are established primarily for the dissemination of knowledge, which is acquaintance with fact and not with theory.

"Our colleges do not exist for the purpose of allowing political parties to carry on propaganda for adherents to their ranks--which is the ultimate objective of the so-called 'Liberals' and the latest camouflages adopted by this branch of Socialist endeavor.

"The traditional role of our colleges and universities has been that of cradle of Americanism and Nationalism. One of the apostles of maudlinism stated at the Harvard meeting that 'the revolution will be longer delayed in America than anywhere else.' At last the National Security with whom it can agree, that is, partially. The revolution will be delayed in American--but indefinitely. The American people are not fools, and will never exchange their freedom and essential prosperity for theoretical visions of Socialism, whose only exemplification has been in Russia, where the not result has been shown to be bloody autocracy and terrorism, economic collapse and intolerable misery for all the people--particularly the prolebariat who are proclaimed as the heirs of all the blossings of socialism.

"The National Security League will try to establish a branch in every college and university in the country in which the Intercollegiate Socialist Society or the new Intercollegiate Liberal League is working, openly or surreptitiously. This plan was applied by us with great success previous to and during the war. We believe the poison can be best counteracted by millitant patrlotic organizatins of the loyal students not yet affected."--New York Times.