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ee ee please in regard to such things. ° On May 19, 1949, Dr. J. B. Matthews, interrog for the State's Seditious Activities .Investigation Co of the State of Illinois, testified before a hearing h that body at Soringfield, Illinois. During his testimony: Dr. Matthews quoted from a document which he identified as .a7@ second year course in a three year sequence in the Social: Science dated September 1948, published by the University of Chicago’ Press and entitled "Social 3ciences II-Syllabus and Selected Readings; Volume I", Matthews testified: "I wish to read a section o i and ask you to note carefully as I read to determine whether a or not you think this is pro-Communist indoctrination. Suote: Whatever one may think of the over-all rightness or... wrongness of the Soviet Union, the Social Scientists cannot bu approve the soundness of the social activism it encourages in individuals. A member of the Communist Party in the USSR is. expected to be active politically, culturely, and in his t d union. As a result, these individuals undertake responsibil for helping, through their active social participation, build or to operate some small- part of the social. structu This social activism spread beyond Party members, although the Party remains the instigating nucleus. As a result, something over half of the entire adult population of the city of Moscow for instance, is estimated to be actively engaged in some for of this socially integrative work. Children of our Boy Scout age begin to learn habits of socially directed participation; in the Young ‘Pioneer Organization, while in the late teens] and early twenties, the. Consumoles (Jr. party members): .ig undertake such work in earnest. Underlying such activism the two assumptions that is bar for.a-culture to allo participants to become socially lost’ in the shuffle. anc human being has somewhere within him an active or a pot interest in something, which, if shared with others, wi both him and the culture stronger. To a student of Ameri care Living any such organized effort to. build a,neighborh rs city,-or a-collective. farm, socially around the- common inte} of individuals, stands out in sharp. contr