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Freeman53-8B 3.Pdf AUGUST 24, 1953 25¢ WHAT TO CALL YOURSELF Max Eastman Are We Saving Stalin's Heirs? Boris Shuh Economic "Miracle" in Germany Wilhelm Ropke Can Taft Be Replaced? Henry Hazlitt FULL-TIME POWER STEERING A superior feature available only from CHRYSLER CORPORATION Guided by one finger on the steering wheel, a Chrysler-built car slashes through hUb-deep ocean surf-a tough spot for any car to be in-except with full-time power steering. EXPLORING NEW WORLDS IN ENGINEERING When you park, or turn a corner, or drive through skittery sand, you burn up muscular energy. The re­ sult is tension and driving fatigue. Now Chrysler engineers have taken the fatigue out of driving. They've harnessed hydraulic power to do 80% of the steering for youl Steering now is absolutely effort­ less! Your finger tip turns your car wheel with ease, even at a complete standstill. Parking is a look, a turn, a straightening-up, and you're inl What are the superior features of this exclusive Chrysler system? Chrysler's revolutionary power Creative Engineering that brings you the good things first. AChrysler-built De Soto cuts effortless capers in the steering system reports for duty the sand and ocean surf of Daytona Beach, Florida. It demonstrates the handling ease and positive safety control of full­ mOlnent you start your engine. And time power steering, another Chrysler Corporation Hfirst," now available on Imperial, Chrysler and De Soto cars, it stays on the job every minute your engine runs1It responds instantane­ ously - unlike other devices, which arc. The Chrysler systelTI requires exmnple of engineering leadership do not go to work until the driver only three. This means faster, safer that continually, year after year, has applied four or more pounds of steering than you can get with any pats more value and worth into all steering pressure. other available system. Chrysler Corporation cars. This is the only system that en­ The Chrysler system also soaks ables you to drive hour after hour up road shocks. Its hydraulic action without steering-wheel weariness. helps hold your car serenely on So relaxing is Chrysler's all-the-time course- even if you drive over ruts steering that many doctors now are or suffer an unexpected blowout. willing to allow persons to drive who Chrysler scientists, engineers, and before could not stand the exertion. technicians developed and intro­ Even the steering ratio has been duced full-time power steering for greatly reduced. Other mechanisms passenger cars in 1951-again proof require up to five rotations of the that here you get the good things steering \vheel to tum through a full first. This Chrysler "first" is another THE A Fortnightly Our Contributors For MAX EASTMAN has become especially well known Individualists to our readers these past months by his opinions reeman and reminiscences on books, authors, and many other subjects. In this issue he assumes another Editor HENRY HAZLI'IT ofl his· several roles as writer and thinker and Mana.inl Editor FLORENCE NORTON has turned political essayist with a discussion of a peculiar and baffling dilemma of our time and language. WILHELM ROPKE stands high among his col­ leagues both as a scholar and a practical econ­ Contents VOL. 3, No. 24 AUGUST 24, 1953 omist. In addition to his numerous books and lectures, he has found time in recent years to serve as economic consultant to several govern­ Editorials 111ents of Europe and the Middle East. The Fortnight 833 BORIS SHUB, author of The Choice and Since If They Want Peace 835 Stalin, had considerable first-hand experience German Reunion?.................................. 835 fighting the cold war during the Berlin blockade Brazil's Trade Debt................................. 836 when he was political adviser of RIAS, the West Berlin radio station. He is currently en­ gaged in handling radio broadcasts to the Iron Articles Curtain countries. Can Taft Be Replaced? HENRY HAZLITT 837 LE..'O WOLMAN is often referred to as a "labor What to Call yourself MAX EASTMAN 839 economist" because of his extensive work on Economic "Miracle" in Germany WILHELM ROPKE 843 and dealings with trade unions in America. At Are We Saving Stalin's Heirs? BORIS SHUB 847 present he is compiling some of the fruits of this career in a book entitled Half Century of Union Peace Means Monopoly LEO WOLMAN 850 Union Membership. Where Prisoners Are Trusted DON WHARTON 852 DON WHARTON was born and brought up and at­ Books and the Arts tended college in North Carolina, the locale of the amazing experiment in penal reform he A Too Sentimental Journey JAMES BURNHAM 855 describes in "Where Prisoners Are Trusted." The Difference Is Qualitative ROBERT PHELPS 857 JAMES BURNHAM, philosopher, political theorist, B1ack Is Beautiful. E. MERRILL ROOT 857 and litterateur, is often identified in public Home-Town Boy Makes Good JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES 858 appearance or in the minds of different people Briefer Mention. .............................. .. .. .. 859 by the title of one or another of his much dis­ Morality and "The Moon" SERGE FLIEGERS 860 cussed books: The Managerial Revolution, The Machiavellians, The Struggle for the World, The Coming Defeat of Communism, and just Poem this year, Containment or Liberation. He has appeared frequently in our pages in recent Cat in the Classics SJANNA SOLUM 842 months, and promises in forthcoming issues to become in fact a "regular" contributor. Worth Hearing Again ........ .. .................... .. 851 From Our Readers. ...................... .. ........ .. 832 Correction It is with bowed heads that we call attention to the omission of a phrase in Ben Ray Red­ THE FREEMAN is published fortnightly. Publication Office, Orange; Conn. Editorial and man's review of The Conservative Mind by General Offices, 240 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. Copyrighted· in the United Russell Kirk in our August 10 issue, which mis­ States, 1953, by the Freeman Magazine, Inc. Henry Hazlitt. President; Lawrence Fertig, Vice President; Claude Robinson. Secretary; Kurt Lassen, Treasurer. represents Mr. Redman's meaning and scholar­ Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orange, Conn. Rates: Twenty-five ship. The error occurs on page 819, right-hand cents the copy; five dollars a year in the United States; nine dollars for two years; six dollars a year elsewhere. column, second paragraph, line 12, in the phrase The editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts unless return postage or, beginning "nourished on." This should read: better, a stamped, self-aadressed envelope is enclosed. Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced. "nourished on Bentham's principle of enlight­ Articles signed with a name. pseudonym, or initials do not necessarily represent the ened self-interest and Rousseau's principle of opinion of the editors, either as to substance or style. human benevolence." Our humble apologies to aE&ou Printed in U.S.A.• by Wilson H. Lee Co., Orange, Connecticut. author and readers. II FROM OUR READERS \1 Why Don't Keynesianism Illustrated As a fair example of "what's going on" in many colleges, one trustee [of You the college my son attends] recently re­ assured me that "they are not sup­ posed to teach Keynesianism atall, Stabilize merely explain it." However, I have been entertained many times by such classic examples as this: "It's very simple to stop a depres­ Real Wages sion and return to prosperity-all one has to do is hire the necessary thou­ by sands of unemployed, for instance, give returning to the them stirrup pumps and place them on the deck of the [nearby] Dumbarton GOLD COIN STANDARD? Bridge pumping water up out of the bay from one side, then discharge it on the opposite side back into the bay, just so they are paid every day-what with their high propensity to spend and their low propensity to save...." blah, blah, ad infinitum. RALPH H. EMERSON San' Francisco, Cal. Senator Humphrey Objects ,A copy of the FREEMAN ,for June 29 has ,cQm~, to "my attention and I have read your column, "The Fortnight." I refer THOSE of us who work for a living­ During that period, a phenomenal,. and who doesn't - will be restless increase in industrial productivity , 0 < in' particular to the paragraph on page and dissatisfied as long as we are partially overcame the effects of 692 concerning the A.D.A.... The .paid in dollars of uncertain and fluc­ the decline in the dollar's real value. implications of your comments con­ tuating value.: Making plans ... say~, As an example - Kennametal, as cerning me are unmistakable ...: ingto bring those plans to reality ... a tool material,helped increase seeing dreams come true - these are metal-working productivity as muoh In' its ,issue of May 31 .." the essential to human contentment and as 300%. Despite these technologicaL [Daily]' Worker advised the faithful happiness~ . ' . improvements real wages dropped 'that the A~D.A. has been added to ,its'Hite 'Parade. ... It a.K.'d all The foundation ,for security is sound far behind dollar pay. Then~ eight 'hundred delegates, with two money,. is only one money Friction between'management and exceptions. These were Senator which fills that desqription ---: a med­ workers was inevitable. The con­ Humphrey .and Arthur Schlesinger, ium of exchange"which is freely stant cry for "more 'money" 'a'ctually , Jr. It seems they had not toed the convertible to'gold on demand. means "for more purchasing power" line.' : .. Schlesinger still hopes to 'When"fhe"96vernment seized the - to make up for the dollar's defi- ~iency. write speeches for Adlai Stevenson. pebple':s gold twenty years ago, it . In other words - for sound Humphrey may have to run against withdrew, from its, citizens their money ... Congressman Walter Judd next year power to control government spend­ The President, some of his close in Minne,sota.
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