The Good Investigator

Like his fellow educators, Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, 49, president of the City College of New York, has had to contend with wild and sweeping accusations from Congressmen and others that U.S. school and college faculties are riddled with Communists. But last week, speaking to the Atlantic City assembly of the United Church Women he cautioned his colleagues not to dismiss every accusation as wild, sweeping and groundless. This, he said, is to use the same "smear" tactics they condemn in their enemies.

Gallagher's example of an honest investigator is Indiana's Senator William E. Jenner, head of the Senate's Subcommittee on Internal Security. Said Educator Gallagher: "[Jenner] has thus far adhered to democratic procedures in seeking to uncover Communism. He has shown a meticulous regard for the rights of the innocent and has preserved the anonymity of many persons interrogated in closed session, but found not to be subversive." "Certain other" committees, Gallagher added, "do not have full regard for the truth and hide the subversive effect of their own unsubstantiated attacks on education and religious freedom." But this is no reason, said Gallagher, for harassed educators to tar Jenner's committee with the dirty brush used to counterattack Joe McCarthy. He concluded: "Where we find honesty and integrity coupled with high principles and sound operations, with an absence of headline-seeking and a genuine desire to strengthen free institutions, let us say so."

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