To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
Compare those two statements: "Communist teachers not dangerous," and "Communist teachers do not present a threat to our universities today." There is a world of difference in meaning. But to the fatigued newspaper headline writer, they merely count differently.
Believe it or not, many people seem to subsist on headlines alone. When, on February 12, the first quotation was emblazoned on the front page of the CRIMSON with my name attached, several of my friends (who should know better) were horrified, "Do you really believe that Communist teachers are not dangerous?"
That is why I would like to point out the twisted meaning which was given by the headline and to repeat that in testifying against the Barnes Bill, I was not defending communism but was merely opposing a specific bill which I believe to be poorly conceived and dangerous. S. Douglass Cater, Jr. '46 JFA
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