250 Join The Independence League in Opening Canvass

In the hour and a half beginning canvass during the evening meal yesterday, over 250 undergraduates joined the American Independence League, pledged to "unify American youth in its determination to keep out of the European war."

The campaign that began in four of the seven Houses and in the Freshman Union last night will be continued today and tomorrow.

"The greatest single obstacle which this league must combat is an irrational and fatalistic way of thinking that is startlingly prevalent in America now," a spokesman for the group asserted. "Mass emotionalism can be checked," he said, "if the crucial issues are presented, as they arise, in a clear-cut and sensible fashion."