BOLSHEVIST WORK AMONG CHILDREN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16406, 3 April 1919, Page 6

BOLSHEVIST WORK AMONG CHILDREN.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS TO SPREAD SOCIALIST DOCTRINES. NEW YORK. The spread of Bolshevist and anarchistic propaganda in the form of pamphlets distributed among school children was denounced by Dr. Calvin V. Campbell, a teacher in the Commercial High School, who told an audience at the West Side Y.M.C.A. that a campaign to encourage the thought of revolt was being waged among boys and girls of the United States. He added that it was not a self-supporting undertaking, as the pamphlets which he had found in the possession of a number of high school boys could not he produced at the low prices which they paid for them, and that it was quite evident that there was somewhere a fund set aside for such purposes. He called insidious one booklet entitled “The Bolsheviki and the Soviets,” said to have been written by Arthur Rhys Williams and published by the Rand School of Social Science; also one said to have been written by Nicolai Lenine, the Bolshevist Premier, and called “A Letter to the American Workingman.” This was believed to be .issued by the Socialist Publication Society of Brooklyn. Dr. Campbell explained that his attention had been called to this propaganda by the surprising questions asked him by some of his pupils, and by the surprising way in which they took for granted situations that did not exist. He charged that Socialists were attempting to seize and turn the thoughts of boys and girls.* who were inexperienced in practical matters, and that they maintained Sunday schools for the purpose. He added that the words they used so nimbly, such as “proletariat,” “bourgeoisie,” “plutocrat,” etc., had a lure for the children, who took pride in nsing them without understanding what they wore talking about. That this spread of radicalism in the schools is to bo checked has, however, been announced by Dr. John L. Tildsley, associate superintendent of schools. Just what method will be followed has not been decided upon yet, but it Is understood that officials of the Board of Education have already taken steps to eliminate Bolshevist and Socialist propaganda from the schools. Dr. Tildslcy advocates the introduction of a course of economics which would prove to the school boys and girls the falsity of much that they are now reading.