Difficulties which have developed in the way of cooperation between the colleges and universities and the workers educational movement are discussed at some length by Herbert Feis of the University of Kansas in an article in "School and Society." The suspicion of some of the leaders in workers organizations that the universities would use any opportunity to teach conservatism rather than to encourage independent thinking is balanced by the assumption in many academic circles that the movement is "merely a subordinate branch of radical activities." The result is a deadlock and failure to make available facilities of the colleges which might rapidly advance the intellectual training for wage-earners. "However," says Mr. Feis, "the fundamental bent . . . is, in my opinion, toward cooperation."

The situation which he describes, while probably inevitable, is almost certainly temporary. Its correction will lie in the demonstration of the character of the workers' educational movement. Any educational initiative developed by a class group in the specific interest of its own members would have to undergo a like period of scrutiny and suspension of judgment. In addition there is the fact that the workers' educational movement, desirable and praiseworthy as it is in itself, was most actively undertaken by some of the labor unions which were best known to the public for extremist theories and tactics.

It rests with the workers' groups to show that their classes are established for the impartial teaching and investigation of truth and not as schools for propagandists. As it becomes clear that they are really intended to disseminate knowledge among persons whose opportunities to acquire education are pitifully limited, the cooperation of the colleges will be assured. Some have already evinced their readiness to aid. It is inconceivable that an American college would refuse any practicable assistance to students desiring self-improvement because they come from among wage-earners. --New York Evening Post.