The biggest surprise in the intellectual world during 1974 was the awarding of one-half of a Nobel Prize for Economics to Professor Friedrich von Hayek of Austria -- the leading living scholar espous ing the free-market philosophy. The Nobel Prize … [Read more...] about NOBEL PRIZES
THANKSGIVING & FOOD
Thanksgiving is the most traditionally American holiday. Its observance was started by the Pilgrim Fathers 150 years before the founding of the United States. A Thanksgiving for abundant harvests is even more approprite in 1974 than ever before. … [Read more...] about THANKSGIVING & FOOD
WELFARE CHEATERS
Much as we all hate to pay taxes, most people do support a strict enforcement of the tax laws by the Internal Revenue Service. We are usually resentful when we discover that the very rich took enormous deductions or paid no tax at all. If we do not … [Read more...] about WELFARE CHEATERS
ROCKEFELLER’S GIFTS
Like many other Americans this month, I have been receiving campaign literture from eager candidates hoping to get my vote in the. November election. Last week I received' a very unusual campaign brochure. Under the candidate's picture and name, … [Read more...] about ROCKEFELLER’S GIFTS
PAN AMERICAN CRISIS
If Pan American Airlines collapses, it will not be because the U.S. Government failed to come to its rescue, but because it has been the victim of the affirmative discriminations practiced by the U.S. Government. U.S. airlines must buy their … [Read more...] about PAN AMERICAN CRISIS
SUMMIT ON INFLATION
The recent Summit Conference on inflation tried to place the blame on all the wrong people: business, labor, the farmer, and even the consumer! The Summit conferees labored and brought forth such people-punishing proposals as a ten cents a gallon tax … [Read more...] about SUMMIT ON INFLATION
RETIREMENT PLANS
The passage of the 1974 Pension Law has focused attention on the problems of our senior citizens. And rightly so. It is good that workers will now be guaranteed against loss of the pensions they have paid for. Since the passage of the Social … [Read more...] about RETIREMENT PLANS
REJECTION OF SOCIALISM
The U.S. branch of the Socialist International recently held a convention in New York City. Under the chairmanship of Bayard Rustin, the Socialists mapped ambitious plans to work through the Democratic Party and the unions in order to achieve the … [Read more...] about REJECTION OF SOCIALISM
RUNAWAY PLANTS
A recent letter to a metropolitan newspaper by Prank Eyles, executive secretary of the Midwest Industrial Union Council, calls attention to one of the prime causes of unemployment at the present time. He charges that "more than one million American … [Read more...] about RUNAWAY PLANTS
USURY LAWS AND PRICES
A recent Federal Reserve Bank publication attacks state usury laws as "burdensome and inequitable" and indicates that they should be repealed. The purpose of state usury laws is to protect individuals from being charged interest rates in excess of … [Read more...] about USURY LAWS AND PRICES
