Fascist philosophy has invaded even the churches of the United States, it was learned yesterday. A number of Fascist “intellectuals” have expressed their conceptions of the American political trends form the hall of St. Mark’s Church in the Bouwerie on Tenth street, west of Second avenue, and it is understood all talks have been in Nazi flavor.
Speakers invited by the rector, William Norman Guthrie, were: Royal Scott Gulden, leader of the bitterly anti-Semitic Order of ’76; Miss Mabel Orgelman, officer of the Silver Legion, which, under the direction of William Dudley Pelley, is of equally militant anti-Jewish; James C. Camp, editor of the Fascist organ, the Awakener; and Viola Ilma, author of “And Now Youth.”
Commenting on the matter, Dr. Guthrie’s secretary remarked that the speakers had been invited as those most eligible to take part in a symposium on youth.
PROGRAM QUESTIONS DEMOCRACY
The printed program, dated April 22, introduces the topics with an editorial dissertation on the problems of modern youth, in which the following statements appear:
“Alas, we have not suffered enough to forego the absurd dream that we were having Lincoln’s ideal in operation. Of course, government by the people has not yet happened on a large scale. So far we have had ambitious autocrats claiming to be benevolent or ear-to-the-ground demagogues, led and lobby-controlled ‘representatives.’ It’s still a hope, if not altogether forlorn: ‘Government of the people, for the people, by the people.’
“But since the town meeting … we have had no government by the people, and now, with our vast scale mass production society, that is quite beyond practical devices hitherto evolved.
“Yet youth is here. Youth demands creative revolution-right off, adequate, and sufficiently new ideal aspects to ensure its enthusiasm.
“Ah, but the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Preamble to the Constitution are a great inheritance …. However obsolete their language; the spirit of them is still very much alive and life-giving, even to youngsters.”
“So we ask the ‘Bureau of Youth,’ and the ‘Silver Legion’ to give us some idea of what they propose as solution to the greatest of all American problems:-Our young citizen in relation to the old economic order.”
OUTLINE FASCIST PLANS
Then followed four addresses outlining to approximately eighty persons who composed the audience the various Fascist plans for a remodelled country.
Viola Ilma was first with an address, “Is Educated Youth Bankrupt###” She stressed the hardships faced by college graduates in a world which offers too much employment to the few and too little to the masses.
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