Faculty Drops Plan For Stevenson Endorsement

Plans for a full page newspaper endorsement of Gov. Adlai Stevenson by up to 300 Faculty members were cancelled last night.

Leaders of the group decided to forego the plan "in view of the changed political situation." Less than a third of the $3,000 necessary to run the advertisement in the Boston Globe had been raised.

The decision coincided with a statewide shift in the strategy of Stevenson backers, according to Max Shoolman '41, one of the originators of the ad plan.

Defection to Ike

Shoolman said Globe advertisements from now to the end of the campaign will concentrate on combatting the influence of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) on the state's large Catholic population. "Professional politicians are very worried about the effect of McCarthy's speech and the defection to Ike in what is normally Democratic territory," Shoolman said.

As a result, Stevenson backers are giving endorsements by prominent Catholic laymen priority over the professors' statement.

No Time for Rewriting

Seymour E. Harris, professor of Economics, and leader in the drive for funds for the advertisement, said last night that the money contributed would be returned to the endorsers in the University and other Boston area faculties. "We could have raised enough money, but we would have had to rewrite the advertisement, and we did not have time for that," Harris stated.