Peace Day

P: In New York City last week 30,000 students at Columbia, New York University, Brooklyn College, Barnard, Hunter, many another college and high school observed National Peace Day by quitting their classes to demonstrate against War, Fascism, Big Navies and William Randolph Hearst.

P: At the University of California at Los Angeles 1,500 students gathered, in a vacant lot off the campus, watched pacifist speakers and antipacifist hog-callers try to outshout each other. A few miles away, at Los Angeles Junior College, 25 peace demonstrators mounted the library steps, started to harangue a few hundred followers. College officers first tried to drown them out by roaring into microphones of the campus public address system. Next Director Roscoe

P: Ingalls stationed himself in front of the speakers, blew a tin whistle until he was red in the face. Unavailing, he advanced on the library with a burly "Red squad" of policemen. When the students swarmed around them, the flustered policemen swung nightsticks, knocked out two girl., students. Finally Director Ingalls turned on the sprinkler system, cleared the campus in two minutes.

P: At the University of Chicago, 300 pacifist students thought they would climax a mass meeting in Mandel Hall by parading around the Midway. They paraded one block before a tiny band of students blocked their way, called them Communists (see p. 30), pelted them with eggs and stink bombs. Routing their adversaries, the pacifists chanted the Oxford peace oath: "We refuse to bear arms for our country in time of war."

P: At the University of North Carolina, lively little President Frank Porter Graham spurred on his 1,000 pacifists with a hearty: "Go to it! I'm all for you !"

P: At the University of Michigan, pacifists wished they had not had all their fun a week early when they hanged William Randolph Hearst in effigy, with speeches by "Arthur Fuzzbrain" and "Marion Navies."

P: At the Michigan State College of Agriculture, six pacifist leaders, including the pastor of the Unitarian Church of Ann Arbor, were tossed into the Cedar River. C. In Philadelphia, thanks to the support of the Board of Education and University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas Sovereign Gates, attendance at high school and college meetings reached 30,000, with more Quakers than Communists in evidence.

P: At Harvard, earnest pacifists were overrun by "The Michael Mullins Chowder & Marching Club," a nebulous society dedicated to confounding all who take themselves seriously. Chowder Marchers goose-stepped through Harvard Square with swastikas, steel helmets, real machine guns. At the end of Peace Day student pacifist leaders loudly called it a complete success. Pacifists had been egged in Chicago, sprinkled in Los Angeles, laughed down at Harvard, ignored throughout much of the South and Midwest. But big turnouts in the East, despite a chilly rain, had raised the number of demonstrators almost to the 150,000 which Peace Day leaders had predicted.

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