SEEK TO ORGANIZE HARVARD SOCIALISTS

In a dingy little room, up one flight, at 64 Pemberton Square, Boston, are the headquarters for a new campaign to spread among the college youth of America the principles of socialism. Here the enthusiastic leaders of the Young People's Socialist League direct the educational drive which is already reaching into many colleges and high schools throughout the country.

Several Harvard Socialists are connected with the League and it is rumored that plans are under way to establish a branch, or "circle" of the Y. P. S. L. at the University. So far, however, Greater Boston has had only one circle, which includes members of many colleges for both men and women in this district, as the individual college circles are yet to he organized.

In other parts of the country, however, the movement is much stronger. New York City alone has 12 circles and the total membership in the League numbers over 1,000 students, covering territory from coast to coast. The society is not altogether revolutionary in its principles, for according to Arne J. Parker, of Fitchburg, it "believes in a gradual evolution by a process of education rather than in radical methods to attain the ultimate goal of socialism. We are in no sense in sympathy with communistic or other ultra-radical ideas."

When a CRIMSON reporter asked the secretary of the organization if she knew about the Student Liberal Club at the University, she replied. "Yes, and we hope that the circle may be established at Harvard through the efforts of some of its members, or through members of the LaFollette-Wheeler Club who are sympathetic with our aims. It's all pioneer work in America, you know, though the Socialist Youth International with which we are connected, has established itself firmly in Europe, and in England."

The Y. P. S. L. has invited Upton Sinclair, noted Radical, to speak in Boston on February 17. Mr. Sinclair has added to his fame by the publications of the "Goose Step" which contains a seathing criticism of Harvard and "The Goslings" which accomplishes the same purpose in regard to High Schools. He will speak here on the subject matter contained in these two books in order to aid the college and high school students in the League to carry on their propaganda.