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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

It is clear the writer of Saturday's communication aimed his criticism at the liberals in this University, particularly those who chided the authors of recent effusions on the subject of deported aliens. Has it occurred to the gentlemen that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia.

No man has the right to assume that the only alternatives are radicalism and ultra conservatism, and that those who refuse to swallow either of these dogmas are in immediate danger of "falling off backwards" from the fence upon which our friend has conveniently placed them. We are confident that the liberals will share in the "wedding feast" to as great an extent as the "oil-bearing" conservatives. Today, true Americanism consists not in ridicule and vituperation, but in sincere striving for the co-operation of the elements that constitute American society.  IRVING ROSENBLOOM '23.  HENRY J. FRIENDLY '23