"D- own,town!>~ S·.. oClaI-Ism E. W. Dykes A Farmer Fights for Freedom (~y Peterman Toward a lLabor Government Donald R. Richberg How much would you contribute for a socialistic U. S. A. ? Not a nickel, you'd say. light and power companies, with money from But you are helping to pay for one more step­ millions of investors, have built the greatest elec­ pingstone toward a socialistic America every time tric industry in the world. the federal government builds an electric power That way is still a better way to build. plant that business stands ready to build. • It gets the job done quickly and efficiently. There are persuasive groups of people who want • It doesn't use your tax money. to push government farther and farther into the electric business. They are encouraging govern­ • It's why Americans today enjoy far more low- ment to keep on building new power plants-with price electricity than people anywhere else. your tax dollars. Since Anlerica's Electric Light and Power Com­ All that spending of tax money by government panies* are ready, willing and able to provide is not necessary. plenty of power, isn't it wasteful of tax dollars "'YOU ARE THERE"­ For there is a better way to produce electricity's CBS television ­ for government to try to do the same job? The witness history's benefits for Americans. government way leads straight downhill to a great events It's simply the way the hundreds of electric federal electric power monopoly ... and socialism. *Names on reqtle8t from this magazine THB A Monthly New Names For A secondary, but important, function of the FREEMAN is to offer a medium of expression reeman Libe,·tarians to embryonic writers who have something of interest to contribute. Since the advent of the New Deal (an Americanized version of Fabian Editor FRANK CHODOROV socialism), the mass circulation media in this Managing Editor MABEL WOOD country have virtually closed their columns to Business Manager IVAN R. BIERLY opposition articles. For this they can hardly be blamed; their business is to sell paper at so much a pound and advertising space at so much per line. They must give the masses what they believe the masses want, if they are Contents JUNE 1955 VOL. 5, NO. 12 to maintain their mass circulation business; and there is no doubt that the promises of Editorials socialism, reiterated by the propaganda ma­ chine of the government, have made it popu­ Freedom Isn't Cheap 501 lar and dulled the public mind to the verities S:gending Money 502 of freedom. The President Resists 502 Under the circumstances, those who aspired Political Polio 503 to be professional writers were compelled by Profits and Profits 503 economic necessity to fall in with the social­ istic trend; the editors wanted nothing else. Articles Those who could not stomach that trend had "Downtown" Socialism E. W. DYKES 504 to abandon the writing field. As a resuU, the The Age of Un-Reason NATHANIEL BRANDEN 506 skill that writing requires was not developed Fore! STERLING MORTON 508 by those convinced that freedom is best. Want to Be a Bee? REV. IRVING E. HOWARD 511 As far as its limited space permits, the Distrust Thy Neighbor as Thyself ANDRE VISSON 513 FREEMAN hopes to offset this deficiency. To A Farmer Fights for Freedom CY PETERMAN 515 do a good job of developing writers, a dozen The Double Standard in Education publications spelling out the story of freedom, ANTHONY T. BOUSCAREN 518 in its various phases, are needed. Toward a Labor Government DONALD R. RICHBERG 520 In the meantime, we offer in this issue three World Trade War OSCAR W. COOLEY 522 articles by writers who are new to the trade: A Prediction for America THOMAS B. MACAULAY 523 NATHANIEL BRANDEN, doing graduate work in Why Do It Yourself? F. R. BUCKLEY 524 I Left Government Service EDWARD R. VINSON 526 psychology at New York University. STERLING MORTON, chairman of the board of Books the Morton Salt Company, Chicago. E. w. DYKES, an architect of Ca'nton, Ohio. A Reviewer's Notebook JOHN CHAMBERLAIN 529 Others we are pleased to add to our con­ Untying Knots in Nothing E. MERRILL ROOT 531 tributors: Anti-IMarxist Guide HELEN CARTIER 531 REV. IRVING E. HOWARD is associated with the Invited Attack JOHN T. FLYNN 532 Christian Freedom Foundation, Inc. Labor Monopolies BETTINA BIEN 532 Honestly Partisan RUSSELL KIRK 533 ANTHONY T. BOUSCAREN is an associate pro­ Behind the Mask IRENE CORBALLY KUHN 534 fessor in the Department of Political Science, Competition Does It DEAN RUSSELL 534 Marquette University. A European's View H. C. FURSTENWALDE 535 DONALD R. RICHBERG is the well-known national Well Worth Reading 536 authority on labor legislation. ANDRE VISSON is a roving editor for the Washington, D. FRANK C. HANIGHEN 509 c. Reader's Digest, specializing in international Readers Also Write ; 498 affairs. EDWARD R. VINSON is now in the D.A.'s office in Dallas, Texas. His articles have appeared in the American Legion Magazine, American Weekly, Christian Herald. The FREEMAN is published monthly at Orange, Conn., by The Irvington Press, Inc., Irvington-an-Hudson, N.Y. Copyri.ghted in the United ~tat~s, 19~5, by ~he Irvington Press, Inc., Leonard E. Read, Preslde.nt; Fred Rogers Falrchl1d, Ylce Presldent; Claude Robinson, Secretary; Lawrence Fertig, Treasurer; Henry Hazhtt and Leo Wiolman. 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Articles signed with a name or initials do not necessarily the FREEMAN makes no difference. represent the opinion of the editors. Printed in U.S.A. by Wilson H. Lee Co., Orange, Conn. him over the coals for "carrying water on both shoulders." ..• Also, I was about to write you folks -elader-i suggesting that you sic one of your wrITe' good reviewers on Walter Lippmann's a so shrewdly disguised line of baloney. R Either you folks are really alert, or ... and an inexpensive way, in­ else the old libertarian mental telepa­ Governor Lee of Utah deed, by which you can take part thy is at work; in any event, Frank in the battle against collectivist In the article on Bracken Lee (April) S. Meyer in his revie,w of the book propaganda is by distributing your writer stated that he was in (May) ha.s exposed the intellectual FREEMAN reprints. favor of the handing over by Lee of dishonesty of the "liberals" once again. the State Teacher Training schools to Good work. Order a supply to send and give the Mormon Church. Has not one of Houston, Tex. HENRY C. YOUNG to friends, neighbors and thought­ the basic principles of American free­ leaders in your community. dom been the separation of church and state? Has not a'nother of the "Why Teach Freedom?" basic freedoms been a free school sys­ If I were to accept the hypothesis in GUARANTEIEING YOUR INCOME telu? ... your May editorial, I, too, would ask (May 1955) How can you, who claim to pub­ the same question: "Why Teach Free­ Is the guaranteed annual wage lish only that which is pro liberty, dom?" The editorial says that no "So­ the answer to /lsecurity/l for the come out for a deed which is a step cialist" is sincere. And if, by chance, workingman? F. A. Harper's for a state church? I am well aware he is sincere, he is not rational. With penetrating analysis of some of the fact that the majority of the this I cannot agree. /lifs" in the UAW's current drive. residents of Utah are of the Mormon Men are all alike in one respect: faith, but there are other denomina­ they act, or refrain from acting pur­ TO SAVE THE CONSTITUTION tions represented in that state.... posively, in the hope of improving their (March 1955) Stony Brook, N. Y. ROBERT KNECHT situation. Their choice of means may The former president of the be wro'ng ones, but the fact remains American Bar Association points Frank Hughes' fine article on Gov­ that all men strive to improve their out the dangers of "treaty law" ernor Bracken Lee did three things to situation, as they see it, with as little to U.S. sovereignty-and what me. It made my mouth- water, it effort as possible. And here lies the we can do about it. brought a tear to my eyes and made answer to your question. Teachers me wistfully dream of-;-and then, should explain the laws of human ac­ RAILWAYS IN THE RED profoundly pray to God for-more tion and the science of economics (April 1955) statesmen like Bracken Lee and more which show why the free market is What happens when the govern­ writers and reporters like Frank the best way for men to a1ttain their ment takes over your company Hughes.