Sabine Labels McCarthy ‘Judas’
By Bill Gurney
Emerald Managing Editor
"I am not. now a Communist. I
liuvo never been a Communist.”
With these words the dean of Ore
pon s school of Journalism launched
Wednesday night Into a biting in
dictment of Joe McCarthy and all
he stands for.
The speaker, Gordon A. Sabine,
called McCarthy a "Judas to de
mocracy. ... He has double-crossed
our nation in time of need.”
Addressing the annual Emerald
banquet in the Student Union,
Sabine said he was lashing out
against McCarthy and what he
called mccarthyism (with a lower
case 'm') because: “...I believe it
the duty of every American to
fight the abuse of the power of the
people and the abuse of the free
dom of thought and speech and the
press.”
The objective press has made the
present McCarthy, Sabine de
clared. A fetish for telling noth
ing but the "very plain self-evident
truth" has created distortion in
the minds of readers, he said.
The man McCarthy isn’t as im
portant as the “general episode in
American life called mccarthyism,”
Sabine said. The man is not a
cause but a result of uneasiness
caused by our frustrated post-war
hopes for security and peace.
“We now feel cheated, and ready
to strike out against real or
imagined enemies,'’ Sabine de
clared.
McCarthy offered a simple solu
tion: Get rid of Communism. He
is the self-appointed leader of U.
S. anti-communist forces. Thus,
Sabine said “... if you’re the tiniest
bit against him, you therefore, and
with no further evidence of proof
... you are for the Communists,
and should be eliminated.
Sabine said that journalism and
journalists will rid this nation of
McCarthy and this chapter of mc
carthyism, and after him, the next.
The youthful dean began with a
long recital of McCarthy’s career,
which he called “A sordid record of
disregard for the bastions of fair
play and justice on which this na
tion of liberty was built.’’
He cited such parts of McCar
thy’s career as his hunt for Com
muniats in the state department:
"He took some anoient, warmed
"»ver figures . . . and represented
them as his own discovery ... the
record clearly indicatew»he has in
troduced nothing new (in the fight
against Communists) ... and in
truth has hurt democracy- much
more than he has helped it by
using Communist-type tactics him
self."
In explaining McCarthy as a re
sult of the state of the American
mind, Sabine said:
“There always will be a fearful
unthinking audience that will be
ready to accept suoh twisted, dis
torted reasoning as this.”
“Demagogues are a part of life,”
he said, and "If it hadn't been Joe,
it would have been someone else."
Mccarthyism fosters abuses of
two rights, he said:
(1) Of the right of congression
al immunity, through which Mc
Carthy has shamelessly conducted
“trials outside of the courts," and
has “named himself both judge
and prosecutor.”
(2) Of the right of free speech
and free press.
In charging the objective press
with creating McCarthy, Sabine
said:
“When McCarthy made good
copyy and good headlines by riding
offin all directions at once against
Communists,’’ he got the usual
straight-news coverage, no matter
how wild the charge,” Sabine said.
“What mattered it if the edito
rial pages (told) how preposterous
was this pretender. . . . The eggs
were scrambled, and who can un
scramble eggs?” he asked.
Sabine told of a new trend to
ward interpretation and back
ground in coverage of McCarthy
by such papers as the New York
Times and Milwaukee Journal.
“This sort of reporting all the
dimensions of the newsw we used
to think dangerous. Today the lack
of it creates the danger ” said
Sabine.
He listed the names of many
people and publications McCarthy
has denounced because they are un
friendly to him, including the Port
land Oregonian.
“The Chicago Tribune, a Mc
Cormick tool,” was cited by Sabine
aa one paper that supports Mc
Carthy.
The dean told of McCarthy hear
ings that were “virtually inquisi
tions against a newspaper editor
(James Wechsler of the New York
Post).
He told of Register-Guard Edi
tor William Tugman's denuncia
tion of McCarthy and his methods.
Sabine warned journalism stu
dents in the audience that the dan
ger of rnccarthyism reqquires that
they do five things:
11) Be aware of the power of
the press—a power that can "make
monsters as well as move moun
tains.’’
(2) Know their history, so they
can put into context rnccarthyism
and similar “character assassina
tion drives.”
13) Refrain from becoming pan
icky in times like these, for “fear
and panic combine to produce a
sickbed from which America might
not be able to rise.”
(4) Never let down their guards
against men like McCarthy.
15) Fight to increase the respect
of the public for the press.
Emerald Staff,
Awards Named
Wednesday Night
Announcement of the Emerald
staff positions for the coming year
was made by new Emerald Editor
A1 Karr Wednesday evening at
the annual Emerald banquet held
in the Student Union. Karr was
selected editor by the Student Pub
lications Board four weeks ago.
Bill Gurney and Elsie Schiller
wore named associate editors, and
Kitty Eraser anti Laura Sturges
were appointed editorial assistants.
Jackie Warded will serve as man
aging editor, and Joe Gardner will
be news editor. Sam Vahey will
continue as sports editor.
Assisting Miss Warded will be
Len Calvert and Bob Patterson,
assistant managing editors. Gard
ner's assistants are to be Sally
Ryan, Gordon Rice and Dorothy
Her, assistant news editors, and
Anne Ritchey, feature editor.
Other new staff positions in
clude: Paul Keefe, chief makeup
editor; Dave Averill, chief desk
editor and Anne Hid, chief night
editor.
Awards Presented
Larry Lavelle, former Emerald
sports editor, received the Turn
bull-Had award as the outstanding
senior member of the Emerald
staff. The T. Neil Taylor award
for the outstanding thesis in J482
went to Donna Pastrouich. Second
and third place winners were Mrs.
LaVaun Maier and Bid Frye.
Four awards were also made by
Sigma Delta Chi, national men’s
journalistic fraternity. The schol
arship awards went to Mrs. Maier
and Jim Haycox, while the achieve
ment award was presented to Lar
ry Hobart. Len Calvert was nafried
outstanding sophomore in jour
nalism, and Sam Vahey, outstand
ing freshman in journalism.
Scholarships Given
Theta Sigma Phi, national wom
en's journalism honorary, named
Jackie Warded and Laura Sturges
outstanding sophomore women ir
journalism ,and Sally Ryan anc
Anne Hill, outstanding freshmar
women in journalism. Pat Gihlea
was tapped for membership in the
honorary at the banquet.
The Time magazine book awards
for highest scores in a current
events quiz sponsored by that
magazine went to Averill, Karr,
Hobart and Haycox. I
The Hillsboro Argus scholarship
was presented to Miss Schiller, and
the Myrtle Creek Mail scholarship
went to Jerry Harrell.
Correction
Jerry Olson, sophomore in chem
istry, received one of the Traffic
Court scholarships awarded at the
Mortar Board Ball. The Emerald
previously reported that the award
was given to Dennis Olson.
Law Student Files
Motion on Hearing
A motion to postpone the hear
ing of the contested graduate stu
j dent amendment until fall term
has been filed with the ASUO con
j stitution committee, according to
K. J. O’Connell, professor of law
■ and chairman of the constitution
i committee.
Toby McCarroll, first year law
student, filed the letter with O'
Connell Wednesday afternoon. Mc
Car roll’s reasons for requesting
the postponement of the hearing
were:
1. It is an important decision.
2. There is not time for both
sides to prepare adequate cases
for the hearing because of finals.
O'Connell stated that he would
have no comment on the motion to
postpone the hearing until he could
contact the other members of the
constitution committee.
Mrs. Helen Jackson Frye. ASUO 1
vice-president, who is in charge
of elections, stated Wednesday aft
ernoon that she will attend the
hearings cn the contested amend
ment as a representative of the J
election committee and to give any
factual information that the com
mittee might request.
“I believe that those contesting
the elections have a good point in
their charge that the amendment
printed in the Emerald and the one
printed on the ballot are different,”
Mrs. Frye stated. “Those contest
ing the election appear to be quite
sincere because they are not con
testing the entire election but just;
the part they believe violates the
i constitution,” she added.
NAACP I
Labeled '
The faculty senate wont on re
"a mistake" action by the Studei
recognition to a campus chapt
for the Advancement of Colors
Senate action on the matter <
of a report submitted by a senat<
studying the policies of SAC n
New Senate Sets
Meeting Tonight
First meeting of the 1953-54
ASUO senate will be held tonight
at 6:30 in the Student Union, ac
cording to Tom Wrightson, ASUO
president.
Included in the senate agenda
are the following items:
• Election of senate secretary,
parliamentarian and sergeant-at
arms:
• Insurance committee report;
• Selection of Yell King;
• Northwest Federation of Col
legiate Leaders;
• Student activities evaluation
committee report.
Petitions for Yell King are due
at 5 p.m. today in the ASUO of
fice, SU 304, Wrightson said.
TROMBONIST FEATURED
Band Set for Tonight's Concert
UO Concert Band
The University concert band will
be presented in their final concert
of the year tonight in the Student
Union ballroom at 8:J5.
Directed by Robert Vagner, as
sociate professor of music, and as
sistant conductor Ira Lee, instruc
tor in brass, the band has perform
ed In every part cf Oregon, as well
as in California and Washington.
Special features of tonight’s pro
gram will be two student arrange
ments, written by Richard Rams
dell and Gerald Paine, both grad
uate students in the school of mu
sic. Ramsdell’s arrangement of
David’s “Concertino” will be play
ed by tromtior.Lt Raoul: Maddox,
with a band accompaniment.
Paine’s arrangement is of “Es
cales,” by Ibert.
Also included in the program
will be Mozart’s overture, “The
Impressario,” Jacob’s “Music for a
Festival,” which was commission
ed by the Arts Council for the Fes
tival of Britain in 1951, and a
group of selected marches.
Decision
Mistake'
:ord \\ ednesday as considering
it Affairs committee in refusing
:r of the National Association
1 People.
:ame in the form of acceptance
: sub-committee which has been
garding recognition of student
organizations. The report was read
to the senate by R. T. Ellickson,
head of the physics department and
associate dean of the graduate
school, who served as chairman of
the sub-committee.
Interests Damaged
The report read in part: “... we
(the senate sub-committee) feel
that the Student Affairs Committee
should have some discretion in the
recognition of student organiza
tions, but that recognition should
be given to any student group which,
seems to represent a legitimate
student interest ancTwhich does not
threaten, by its existence, to dam
age the best interests of the Uni
versity. Therefore, we believe that
the Student Affairs Committee
made a mistake in refusing recog
nition to the NAACP. It is con
ceivable, and even likely that the
Committee damaged the best in
terests of the University far more
by refusing to recognize the group
than the group would have done if
it had been recognized.”
Policy ‘Restrictive’
The recognition policy found in
the rules of SAC is: “It is not the
policy of the Committee to approve
the establishment of any local or
ganization which derives its char
ter from, or is responsible or sub
ordinate to, a national organization
not primarily educational in nature
or which is foreign to campus life.”
The Ellikson report stated “it
is significant that this statement
was adopted after recognition of
that organization (NAACP) was
refused.” The sub-committee “does
not recommend so restrictive a
policy,” continued the report.
Recognition of NAACP was
originally refused about a year ago.
Certain items in the group’s con
stitution were listed as a basis for
rejection. On Feb. 19, 1953, th#
group repetitioned to SAC with
changes made in the constitution.
The vote for recognition failed for
lack of a majority. The vote was
three to three with two abstain
ing. No motion to recognize
NAACP was made at a subsequent
meeting of SAC.
'Brigadoon' Tickets
May Be Available
Due to last minute cancella
tions there may be a few tickets
available for tonight’s special
performance of “Brigadoon.”
Tickets may be obtained by call
ing the University Theater box
office.