FROM A CHILD THOU HAST KNOWN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
“ A Message from the Editor"
The revolution has started!
by Samuel H. Sutherland A t long last it is beginning to dawn on the consciousness of a vast company of Americans that actually there is an organized attempt 1within our land and in certain governmental circles to overthrow the government of the United States and to replace it with another form of government based upon an ideology wholly contrary to that which we have known and cherished. Much abuse has been leveled at those citizens who, it was said, saw Communists lurking behind every tree and telephone post, ready to take over the country. But now it is becoming increasingly evident to everyone that there are those who, if not Communists themselves, are one with them in their purpose to disrupt and destroy America. It is frightening to realize the extent to which their influence has reached. While sometimes it is difficult to classify these individuals, the end results of their ide ology are very apparent. A few years ago, academicians in our great universities deplored the riots which had occurred on the campuses, but refused to face up to the realities. Instead of taking decisive action, they temporized with statements such as: “ These are good boys at heart who are trying to tell us something, and we would do well to listen to what they have to say.” Actually it was soon all too clear that the rioters had nothing to say that was in the least worth listening to. They simply decried the establishment, demanding that it be abolished al though they had nothing of a constructive nature with which to replace it. They readily accepted the benefits of the affluence of the society created by the establishment; they enjoyed the physical facilities of the great universities the establishment had constructed; they basked in the liberties which the establishment had set up within the con stitution and by-laws which protected them while they carried on their demonstrations. In other words, these militants clutched everything the establishment had provided and then proceeded to lash into it and to try to wipe it out that they might govern everything and everybody according to their own terms. Now the academicians are changing their tune. Some opposed the howling mob at San Francisco State College two or three years ago. More are beginning to speak out against the anarchists at the Uni versity of California at Berkeley. Recently a greater number condemned in no uncertain terms the mob action at the University of California
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