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Compoo,', Aklon, OJ ..o THB A Monthly Making an Article For The writing of an expository piece-like "Guar­ anteeing Your Income"-is a construction job, reeman Libertarians not unlike the building of a house. It starts with an idea. Whether or not the house or the article will meet with acceptance depends on Editor FRANK CHODOROV the pertinence of the idea. In the case of the Managing Editor MABEL WOOD house, the need for it is the first consideration: Business Manager IVAN R. BIERLY will it satisfy the chosen tenant? As for the article, the writer is primarily concerned with readers: will they be interested? The idea for many an article germinates in VOL. 5, NO. 11 Contents MAY 1955 the newspapers. What people are doing is an indication of what people are thinking about, and the article will get attention if it promises Editorials to add something to that line of thought. Prominent in the headlines this last year has Why Teach Freedom? .............................. .. 458 been something called the Guaranteed Annual The Morals of Yalta 453 Wage. To an economist like Dr. Harper, there "Play Ball"......................................... 460 seemed to be something ominous in GAW; the little that appeared in the newspapers, in the Articles way of detail, suggested that the plan would impinge on the nation's economy. Guaranteeing Your Income F. A. HARPER 461 But what is the plan? For several months Capitalism for the Many EDWARD MAHER 466 Dr. Harper made inquiries, and all he could Death and Taxes-Except for Coops .. LEONARD E. READ, JR. 469 learn indicated that there is no specific plan, A Strange Alliance REV. EDMUND A. OPITZ 471 Tale of a Coat CARTOON 473 only generalities. The labor press was most The Experiment-"Noble in Purpose" JOHN T. FLYNN 474 evasive; about all one could get from it was Sources of Tax Reduction HARLEY L. LUTZ 477 that the details of the GAW would he worked Even Lincoln Said It MALLORY CROSS JOHNSON 479 out in labor-management conferences. What Would You Call Mr. Hoiles? .....THADDEUS ASHBY 481 That was meager material for an article. But the expository writer depends not so much Books on the known facts as he does on the fitting of these facts into a pattern of thought, or A Reviewer's Notebook JOHN CHAMBERLAIN 484 philosophy; he has to find the bricks and mortar He Adds Little to Philosophy FRANK S. MEYER 486 of his article in his stored-up learning and The Rathole HELMUT SCHOECK 486 The Cost Was High OSCAR W. COOLEY 487 understanding. "Robber Barons" DEAN RUSSELL 487 Having assured himself that the theme is The Unreal Dream WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN 488 timely and important, the task before the writer Oil and Imperialism HAL LEHRMAN 488 is the arduous one of selecting words, sentences Diplomacy of Brawl SUZANNE LA FOLLETTE 489 and paragraphs, and putting them in an order God Is Liberty F. R. BUCKLEY 490 that will both entice and entertain the reader. Trade or War PAUL L. POIROT 490 Nobody likes to "push" himself through a piece Stubborn Finland RICHARD M. PALMER 491 of reading matter. Well Worth Reading. .............................. .. 492 To my knowledge, "Guaranteeing Your In­ Washington, D. C FRANK c. HANIGHEN 464 come" was rewritten twice, and I have no doubt that the final draft underwent additional scrub­ Readers Also Write 456 bing. But the labor paid off. EDWARD MAHER has been an advertising agency copy chief and editor of Liberty. LEONARD E. READ, JR. is with the California The FREEMAN is published monthly at Orange, Conn., by The Irvington Press, Inc., Irvington-an-Hudson, N.Y. Copyrighted in the United States, 1955, by The Irvington Cotton Oil Corporation. This, his first attempt Press, Inc., Leonard E. Read, President; Fred Rogers Fairchild, Vice President; Claude Robinson, Secretary; Lawrence Fertig, Treasurer; Henry Hazlitt and Leo Wolman. at article writing, shows promise. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Orange, Conn. HARLEY L. LUTZ, Professor Emeritus of Public RATES: Fifty cents a copy; five dollan!! a year; nine dollars for two years. Finance at Princeton University, is now Tax SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE: Send subscription orders, correspondence and instruc­ Consultant for the NAM. tions for change of address to: MALLORY CROSS JOHNSON ran across this piece The FREEMAN of Lincolniana while doing research work for Subs'cription Department the FREEMAN and built an article around it. 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