Evening star., 1928-08-02
ATTACKS DIPLOMA
: MILL PROSECUTOR
Representative Charges Miss
Pearl Mccall With "Self-
Exploitation"

Championing the cause Of Potomac
and Research Universities. Representa-
tive John NJ Nelson. Republican. OF
Wisconsin has launched a bitter attack
uDon Miss Pearl Mccall, assistant
United States attorney for the District
Of Columbia, because OF her activity III
trying To clean up the diploma mill
scandal in the National Capital The
attack is contained III extended remarks
ruhlished in the Confessional Record,
Representative Nelson became in
censed with Miss Mccall during the
hearings before the House District COM
raittee on the So-called diploma mill
bill The House. as a formality. gave
him permission TO extend his remarks
In the Record" and these remarks,
which were never made in the House.
are now being mailed throughout the
country. together With lengthy euiogy
Of Research University and its or
ganizer. and laudatory letters from
many persons who had taken the cor
respondence course.
Charges Gross Official Misconduct.
Representative Nelson charges Miss
Mccall with gross official misconduct,
refers to her as misguided and over
Jealous and seeking self-exploitation.
Following are some extracts from Mf.
Nelson s eNtP9lSlOIa u lGIttai hS oAa AttN
subject Of Higher Education III the
District of Columbia:
We learned how she had gotten her
appointment by political pressure. OF
her being on the pay roll year without
doing anything. of her being lacked up
for her inactivity and OF her utter m
couneten - as a lawyer in the trial OF
cases, and of her using this diploma
mill propaganda as a smoke screen Tor
self-exploitation. One does not have TO
cross the Atlantic Ocean in an alrplane
TO seek notoriety. Sometimes 1t is done
even in Congress. bat it is a vicious
thing in the Department Of Justice and
should be stopped by the courts
Had this misguided and overzealous
sDecial assistant obeyed the plain, wise
end mandatory provision Of the code
itself, which provides that II anv VIOLA
tion of charter rights occur. on COM
rlaint the district attorney shall pro-
ceed BY writ of quo warranto and such
schools permanently enjoined. all of this
harm which has been done to the cause
OF higher education in the city OF WASH
tngton generally and to Potomac and
Research Universities in particular
might have been avoided.
Holds Superiors Responsible.
what should be done with this
special assistant United States at
torney who has wrought all this mis-
chief and is guilty of such gross official
misconduct is matter that I have con-
sidered with much care. / regret the
necessity to say deliberately that were
she more than an inferior appointee,
would unhesitatingly impeach her on
my responsibility as Representative IN
Congress. but as she is not an impeach-
able officer under the Constitution, /
can do no more than hold her superiors
responsible SO far as they shall condone
her official misconduct.
If there were any so-called diploma
mills in the District of Columbia they
were of 50 vague and shadowy charac-
Ter that they largely vanished when
sought for them"
Miss NJ Pearl Mccall. assistant U.
S. attorney. who has been engaged in
the prosecution of alleged diploma mills
before the grand jury and has been
advocating the passage Of an act OF
Congress against them. declared today
that she has only done her duty as
she saw it and shall continue along
the same lines.
United States Attorney Rover had no
comment to make on the attack of the
representative on Miss Mccall, but de-
ciared he has the utmost confidence in
the ability and integrity Of Miss Nc
Call"