 A measure of the Red Scare price that Mather would pay for his activism is reflected in the April 4, 1949, issue of "Life" magazine.In an article subsection titled "Dupes and Fellow Travelers Dress Up Communist Fronts", Mather is pictured among 50 prominent academics, scientists, clergy and writers, including Albert Einstein, Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman, Langston Hughes, Norman Mailer and fellow Harvard professors, F.O.Matthiessen, Corliss Lamont and Ralph Barton Perry.