McCormick on Reds

Red-baiting Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, addressed the Advertising Club of New York last week on a subject of much concern to Red-baiters--radicalism in the colleges. He, a Yaleman, said that "pink doctrines" originate in eastern seaboard institutions. Ignoring the paradox, he also said that the "excessive extravagance" of U. S. school and college buildings is "merely imitated after the baronial and palatial halls of Harvard and Yale." Later: "Perhaps I should have included Princeton." Next day Col. McCormick was neatly pinked by genial Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton. Dean Gauss said he knew only one Red and a few Pinks among Princeton's 2,200 undergraduates. Did Col. McCormick advocate that "we compel all undergraduates to live on the same dead level of Spartan simplicity, and abolish inequalities of wealth?" To Dean Gauss that sounded like Communism. "Why deny to the undergraduates the privileges which Col. McCormick enjoys, if he is lucky enough to have any?" And Dean Gauss pointed out that students do not blame current woes upon Reds or Pinks. "They blame the leaders and makers of public opinion who belong to the generation of Col. McCormick."

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