NOV E M B E R 3. 1 9 5 2 25 ¢ Herbert. ltoover's,·Memoirs JohnCllamberlain God and Woman at Vassar Nancy Jane Fe/le,rs The Crime of Alpheus Ray Oliver Carlson Once Britons Owned Their Farms George Winder photograph by d'Arazien MANPOWER and KNOWLEDGE. • • two principal ingredients of J&l steel MEN make steel. No mistake about it, muscle and brains This particular discussion was not for the purpose of are used a-plenty in the myriad processes from ore to ingot exchanging knowledge about steel, though that is done, too, to finished products of Controlled Quality J&L SteeL at the proper times. These men, under the guidance of a In the old days steel was as good or as bad as the iron~ skilled conference leader, have come together to learn how master's skill. Now, because improved equipment and to help solve the human problems that come up on the technical knowledge have taken out guesswork, you get job every day. uniform performance from J&L steel, order after order, day It is only one of the groups of J&L men who meet after day. But there's more to steel-making than machines regularly to learn more about economics, human relations, and technical knowledge. And there's more to a man than and whytheJ &L managementdoes things in a particularway. muscle and brains. This sharing of knowledge and experience, understandin~, J&L's management knows that. That's why these J&L and teamwork among steelmen-is just one of the activities supervisors who have come right off their jobs in the mills going on behind the J&L trademark, all directed toward one are meeting. end-better steel for you. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORPDRATIDN PITTSBURGH 3D, PA. THE A. Fortnightly Our Contributors For MISS NANCY JANE FELLERS (Earlham '52), au­ thor of "God and Woman at Vassar," is the Individualists daughter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Bonner F. reeman Fellers. General Fellers ended his army career in 1946 as secretary-general of the Allied Coun­ cil for Japan. Since 1947 he has been assistant Editors JOliN CHAMBE.RLAIN DAVIS FORREST to the chainnan of the Republican National Conlmittee, writing on military affairs for Managing Editor SUZANNE LA FOLLETTE magazines, including the Free'fnan. All this is by way of saying that Miss Nancy Jane in­ Business Manager KURT M. LASSEN herits her father's aptitudes and adheres to his allegiances, a phenomenon not too usual these days. The daughter of another famous man is represented in this issue, MISS BETSEY BARTON, .daughter of the elninent author, col­ umnist and advertising agency executive, Bruce Contents VOL. 3, NO.3 NOVEMBER 3, 1952 Barton. l\1iss Barton, who herself conquered the physical handicaps resulting from a fearful motor car accident, reviews "Karen," which Editorials tells how the gallant I{illilea family overcame The Fortnight. .................................... .. 77 nlany of the handicaps which cerebral palsy A Common-Sense View of the Election ~ ......... .. 79 had visited upon their daughter. Boo to a Pumpkin... .............................. .. 80 OLIVER CARLSON reported for the Freeman A New View of Hoover. ........................... .. 81 (July 30, 1951) the upheaval in Pasadena in- Strange Case of Mr. Wu 82 cident to the dismissal of Superintendent of Guilt by Association ....... .. 82 Schools Willard Goslin. The echoes of that con­ troversy still reverberate through the school­ Articles houses, the PTAs, the teachers' colleges and the "liberal" press. The present article presents the God and Woman at Vassar NANCY JANE FELLERS 83 other side of the shield, and this likewise from STEl~LING Most Politely MORTON 86 California. A veteran contributor to maga­ The Crime of Alpheus Ray OLIVER CARLSON 87 zines, Mr. Carlson has lectured to adult educa­ Once They Owned Their Farms GEORGE WINDER 91 tion groups and taught non-fiction and radio UN': Haven for Traitors? ALICE WIDENER 94 writing.... STERLING MORTON, chairman of the Morton Salt Company of Chicago, learned Books something of the writing trade as one of the A Reviewer's Notebook JOHN CHAMBERLAIN 98 editors of Princeton's Nassau Literary Maga­ The Omnipotent Fools HELEN WOODWARD 99 zine. His "Story of a Shirt" appeared in the Freeman of last February 1l. Miss Carson's First HENRY BESTON 100 GEORGE S. SCHUYLER, GEORGE WINDER, the Brit­ A Distorting Lens GEORGl~ S. SCHUYLER 101 ish farmer and economist, and ALICE WIDENER Cry of Victory BETSEY BARTON 102 have recently been identified in this column and Strong-Man Ruse MIL,TON EDELMAN 102 are favorably known to Freeman readers. Brief Mention 103 LLOYD MAYER, author of the poem, "Prayer For the Future," is a former magazine editor and Poems has written for the magazines, radio and TV. Prayer for the Future LLOYD MAYER 89 .-'oreign Trends Among Ourselves Depression Expected CANDIDE 90 A California subscriber, whose name shall hereafter be blessed in this sanctum, has set Arts and Entertainments WILLIAM S. SCHLAMM 97 a precedent which we offer for emulation to all other subscribers. This gentlenlan, finding Letters ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•• 1.1 105 'no Freemans on the newsstand in his downtown Los Angeles office building, ordered ten copies delivered each issue to his newsdealer and is underwriting the bill. 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Having pondered the prob­ Communists were using the truce talks as a cover lems of his ailing ward for a year or so, Sir Hubert for a formidable buildup of forces in Korea, Sec­ came up with the reassuring promise that the so­ retary Acheson went before the UN on October 16 cialized British coal industry might reach the coal and said that the enemy had been stopped. But, he output of 1937 some time in 1960-provided the added, the Communists refused to accept reason­ government authorized him to invest the bagatelle able terms for an armistice (in other words, they of a billion pounds sterling. don't know when they're licked); therefore troops The noisy Fabian argument for socializing the must be trained and committed, and food, clothing British coal industry, you will recall, was the al­ and money provided, to the end that the aggressors leged inefficiency and mismanagement of its pri­ may be taught to know when they have had enough. vate owners (may they rest in peace). It is beyond Ironically, with the exception of Mr. Austin and his us why it should take that industry, now that it is colleagues, the only delegation among Acheson's socialistically transfigured, another eight years and listeners who may be expected to respond with a about three billion dollars to match the mediocre major effort were the Russians; and their object, performance of 1937. But then, we have never of course, will be to teach their fellow members really understood socialistic economics. that aggression does pay.