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EDITORIALS Never Forget That These Editorials Are The Opinion Of One Man -——--------And He May Be Wrong The Face Of Socialism IrA &•*. ;»* El ’ * Up' j£ <• 'v'... J.n i t-L-’ i. .i-C Students of government today are led tc believe that socialism, or communism ar< something new in the world of politics. No ithing could be more wrong. The basic totalitarian concept that is in herent in "every form of socialism from in tellectual Fabianism through the brutally im posed Soviet form of communism is. as old as man, and much older than the history ol man. In its simplest face socialism is nothing more than the concept that one man knows better, or best what is good fqr another than that tpan knows himself. George Bernard Shaw, one of the fathers of Fabian socialism; expressed - it this way: “You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodg ed, taught and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.” ' !s The difference between this “kindly man ner” of Shaw and the blood balths of Stalin is only one of degree and not of principle. Napoleon said, “I am the state.” and this is exactly the same sentiment of the mid echelon bureacrat who walks into one’^ busi ness and begins telling him how many toilets he must have, who he can hire and who he cannot hire, when he can work them and how much he must pay them. Perhaps the most ironical reflection upon •the creeping socialism of our own nation is, that a very large part of the seed has been planted by corporate paternalism which has impregnated far too many employees with the belief that the boss is always right. The boss is only always boss, but is just as capable of being wrong as his lowest em ployee, and it is their spirit of non-conformi ty which breathes life into the body of free dom. The socialist of the Felix Frankfurter Jonathan Daniels breed is basically a conformist, but it is he who selects the pat tern of conformity. They become "Fighting Literals” when they are asked to accept the \ principles of Others. , Out point is that dictatorship is nothing . hew- '■ About Civil Defense • ... a ■ The civil defense program is the opiate used by the federal spender while he op erates on the pocket book of the taxpayer. There are countless ways of getting money from the unwilling, but the simplest is to scare hell out of them. That is the de fense pistol held by the . military and the the Fabian socialist to the head of the re luctant taxpayer. ' '■''•ti'Jj'. V* • Poison was the hold up weapon be tween World War l and Worid War II. There has always been a secret and terrible weapon “in tjhe hands of the esemy” tjat time” is blood brother to a distant coward who whimpered -and whined in his prehis toric cave while death haunted his cave .en trance’ with a sharp stick in its hand. There are no degrees of deadness, and the person atomized by nuclear explosion is no deader than the felloar banana peel and cracke ^'sidewalk. .* \ ; deadest Man i mits himself to be frigh vated by the beriighf.hand Jk governpieht. Newspapers, such as this, that go through the mails are subject to the gentle touch" oi federal Control. • ; Doctors who practice in public hospitals fall within the veil of federal supervision;' Huge companies who sell their products to government feel the hot breathe of, civil servant direction. ? , ^ Farmers Who beg for parity pride supports can plant only what the bureacrat permits, The labor union member is subject tc federal supervision, and most importantlj every person employed in the nation has his pay check, assaulted by federal withholding fajees long before he sees it, : In short, there are none beyond the read of federal red tope, but rye are enmeshed as a result of our own ignorance and greed. A nation, and its .individual citizens can no>t have 'liberty and surrender it for gov ernmental promises of security. * A choice has to be made as to which is most important, and at this day and date in history the choke has been against lib erty and in favor of “security.” The Sun Is Setting There are indications that The Sun Is Setting on history’s most noble effort-to help the have-not nations of the world. Only after the most prolonged and bitter controversy did the recessed congress gel part of what President Kennedy asked for in the way of money for foreign-aid spend ing. nnu: a* cu«tarc*s’ 1 iia niw&i .jwicwi Sector i«ftcjgh^ chairman of the senate foreign affairs com mittee, attacked the United Nations as a platform for peace and development of the world. V* These are more than “straws in the wind”. These are positive indicators that the days of continued open-handedness with the Amer ican taxpayers’ money to every bush-league nation around the world- are numbered. If this 100-billion-dollar effort has accom plished nothing else, it has more than con firmed the adage, “You can’t buy friends!” On every international turning those who have taken home the biggest loads of Amer icandollars have denied American foreign policy. Naturally, it would be blindly nation alalistic for Americans to assume that theit foreign policy has always been right, f , Too, one cannot expect a Nehru to-say, of America, “America, may she always be right in her relations with other .nations, but America, right or wrong.” This -super-pa triotic toast was said a long time ago, and most of us still subscribe to it.. But Nehru, DeGaulle, Adenauer, Nasser, Frondisi,, Mc Millian, Nkrumah are NOT Americans and no amount- of American, money can change their nationality,! nor their selfish, interests in their own nation. No foreign policy that is based — as ours has been f- on blind altruism can succeed; simply because no one accepts it aft face val ue." -.tee. are going to. be charged with selfish interests we might as well have the pleasure' of indulging. > Virtue1 tt»ay possibly h? it? own '■foreign jMmKFg&br, - ercisf one’s prejudges too blatantly in time v of national emergency except in the accepted direction. , . ' "'• ■'*' • life war-time pamphleteering is mpre or less left to the papers and magazines, who are daily concerned with the “rightedus ness’' of oiir cause, arid the “diabolioal” plans of the enemy. It is assumed that everybody, on our side wears a white hat, rides a-white horse and never shoots a man in the back, while the enemy wears a black hat and moustache and thinks nothing of shotting a 'White 4>atV in the back; But in those periods between wars the irrational fears' and the • coldbloodedly ra- , tional design of the chizenry talceV shape in the form of pamphlets. It is impossible for a single branch-head editor* such as myself, to' read even a fraction of the pamphlets that, come across my desk, and it is even more . impossible to avoid an occasional sortie “into the wild blue yonder” on the wings'of dti< of these epistles. There is a very serious danger to any easily involved citizen who permits himself to be exposed to only one point of View. If one were, to read nothing but the tracts of the John Birch Society, or nothing but the tracts of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People he would almost ' inevitably over a period — depend ing upon his individual resistance or lade pi resistance — become a wild-eyed practition er, of that particular propaganda he was ex posed to. * Title nrv\Ktn B/vKtAil Btmnltr Ivor a. n.rar. whelming majority of people in every nation: They simply don't read, and are not much concerned about affairs —- domestic or for eign. But that vocal and concerned minority is generally the ruling class, whether in the faceless society of. a totalitarian bureacracy or in the highly individualized rule of such | monarchies as those of' Castro or Tito. If I were to prescribe, and I’m about to, a remedy to prevents or cure blind prejudice it would cpnSist of mandatory readings on both sides of every issue. But this is an im practical remedy since too few of us have either or both the-ability and inclination to read,./. This rather leaves us where we started; Being ruled by those who do take the time, those who do have the inclination to read. 'So long as we are lucky enough to get men and, women to govern us who have the1 fac ility of seeing both to the'left and right all is well. . ' ' " : But along occasionally will come a dema gogue who has the personality and the cli mate to exercise far more than his fair share of control over , national and international destinies. There are. always Napoleons, Hit lers, Huey Longs among us but the political iripeness so necessary to their fpll flowering doesn't come along to frequently. '
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