Red Scares; Ducking

Screamed a headline in the Yale News last week: YALE SEETHING WITH COMMUNISTS --73% RED -- COLLEGE-WIDE POLL FAVORS REVOLUTION.

The elfish News, as Yalemen quickly realized, was burlesquing William Randolph Hearst, but elsewhere in the land Red scares were no laughing matter. In Massachusetts Governor Curley signed a bill requiring every public school teacher to lead her class in a weekly salute to the flag. In Illinois a legislative committee heard Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen repeat his charges that the University of Chicago turned his buxom niece Lucille Norton into a Communist. California's legislature, angered by 18 University of California professors who ventured to protest its anti-radical bill, toyed with another bill which would bring U. of C. to heel by dismissing its Board of Regents.

Wisconsin, home of La Follettes and Progressivism had the week's most newsworthy Red trouble. A legislative committee which set out to hunt Reds at the University of Wisconsin had used up all its expense money on an investigation of free love among the faculty without so much as starting the Red-hunt. Last week the committee was waiting for a new appropriation when a group of undergraduate athletes and fraternity men became annoyed at charges of campus radicalism. Breaking up a meeting of the pinko League for Industrial Democracy one warm, moonlight night, they grabbed the leaders, dragged them down to Lake Mendota. "For God's sake, fellows," remonstrated a professor who happened upon the scene, "think of the University." Plop! Plop! Plop! Into chilly Lake Mendota went three howling Leaguers.

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