The heralded demonstration against a German man-o'-war run off by Boston communists and their contingent of sympathizers from Harvard and M.I.T., according schedule. However the battle of the navy yard, like most Red rallies, was pretty much a deed loss, hostilities having ceased without the respective prestiges of the demonstrators, Herr Hitler or the Charlestown police being raised or lowered appreciably in public esteem.

Just what specific grievance the Charlestown agitators and their collegiate stooges were actually demonstrating against is a subject still shrouded in the dust of City Square, but the idea seems to have been that the denting or the sleek gray sides of the "Karlsruhe" and the possible laying out of a few sons of the Fatherland by well-placed brick-bats would be a peculiarly suitable method of getting Herr Hitler to do something. That supposedly intelligent students of two of the country's leading educational institutions should affiliate themselves with a demonstration that is certain to awake no popular sympathy, seems remarkable to us, when so many avenues of propaganda and organized protest are open to them and would have proved vastly more effective in gaining public sentiment for their cause.

The Charlestown affair was just one more example of the aimless and poorly conducted demonstrations which a certain number of students in any institution can always be led into supporting. The fact that the participants in Thursday's brawl did not distinguish the particular bone they proposed to pick with the cruiser's crew, although we presume it had something to do with the curbing of personal liberty in Germany, reduced their fracas to the ignominy of childish "bull" baiting. The astuteness of the police in parking their pistols and resorting to skull crunching left their opponents without even the satisfaction of claiming a martyr to the cause. And finally, the unprecedented appearance of a sizeable body of Harvard men who came on the scene with the avowed purpose of beating up their fellow students denied the young agitators of even the solace of toleration by their associates. It was an uneventful day for the forces of anti-Fascism. --The Dartmouth