Friedrich Assails Motives Of Barnes Bill Supporters

Proponents of the Barnes Bill "are interested in self-advertising and not so much in an anti-Communist campaign," Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, charged yesterday.

The motives of the bill's supporters would prove the subject of an "onlight ening" investigation, Professor Friedrich declared, adding that the constitutionality of the proposed measure could well bear seratiny.

Labelling himself "a student of propaganda," he lamented the fact that most "ordinary citizens" have little idea of the proposed legislation's content except that "Barnes wants to drive Communists out of Massachusetts."

Professor Friedrich declared that the bill "is not only worthless in combatting Comunism" but even contributes to the spread of the doctrine, by limiting the value of criticism levelled at it. This thought control, he declared, makes the bill pro-Communist.

He feared the loss of the antiseptic power of criticism if the measure were enacted into law, and said that students would realize that opinions expressed in the classroom were not free but dictated.