II Death and Despair

THE papers recently carried the news that 12,000 men and women held a meeting in New York to express their sympathy with the principles of Soviet Russia. The "feature" of the meeting was the address made by a fourteen-year-old boy who pleaded that "we all must stand together to bring about the reign of Communism in our country; we all must do our duty to that end." The newspaper reported that the vast audience, though skeptical when the child began, applauded rapturously when he outdistanced his elders in his prefervid pleas for the early dawn of American Communism.