Columbia Profs Hit Nixon 'Slush' Fund

Twenty-three Columbia University professors hit at Senator Nixon and his "slush fund" in a prepared statement yesterday.

The professors drew a shap distinction between Senator Nixon's fund and that of Governor Stevenson, and ended by starting that Nixon had "set a vicious example."

"In California," the statement read, "Mr. Nixon's personal knowledge of the men whose pecuniary assistance promoted his political fortunes opened the way to a sense of obligation to private interests.

"In Illinois, on the contrary, the state employees had no personal knowledge whatever of their supplementary compensation; no sense of obligation to anyone; and no feeling that aught but service to the public was responsible for the unexpected, unsolicited and quite impersonal gift."