APPEARANCES DECEPTIVE

Now a superficial examination would give the impression that Dartmouth is a very hotbed of radicalism. The Dartmouth and the Junto, to all appearances, are permanently enlisted in the cause. The local chapter of the brand new American Student Union is shouldering in among the older campus organizations and making quite a mark for itself already. This spring Hanover will witness its second Youth Congress and its second Student Strike against War. Last December the College hailed the Players' inspired presentation of Waiting for Lefty with great enthusiasm.

A steady stream of radical speakers files in and out of Hanover, each commanding an interested audience. The campus is saturated with the phrases and the ideas of the radicals. But a deeper examination will only prove the old truism that appearances are often deceptive, or specifically that an enthusiastic, loud-voiced minority can out- talk a large, tolerant majority.

Here are a few facts to back up our statement. Last spring in the senior balloting the graduating class expressed its preference for fascism over communism in the proportion of eight to three. This proportion is apt to have changed some this year after the recent dubious showing of fascist dictators in international affairs, but a more recent proof is furnished by the presidential preference poll held on the campus this winter, in which more than half of those voting lined up behind the G. O. P. itself, with the Socialists and Third Party- ists trailing woefully behind the Democrats.