FELIX WITTMER TELEPHONE 395 GROVE STREET MONTCLAIR 3-3071 March 20, 1952 UPPER MONTCLAIR, N. J. Mr. Ludwig von Mises The Freeman 240 Madison Avenue New York 16, N.Y. Dear Mr. von Mises Your article on OUR LEFTIST ECONOMIC TEACHING, in the April 7 issue, is of course one hundred percent correct Aspane who has taught the ideas of von Mises , Hayek etc. for many years, and who, as a resilt of opposing the Reds and pinks in his College has lost his job I am deeply concerned with the matter you have brought up For that reason I wish to tell you that you owe us another and more practical article. The readers of The Freeman, and that may not be more than some 15,000, won't disagree with you. What they want to know is what can be done about the matter In the last six lines of your article you mention the If remedy. Who will tell us how it can be applied ? The vast majority of Presidents and Deans ( not even to mention high school administrators ) are mainly businessmen and politicians and never have had either the inclination or the time to study the problems to which you refer. They are a bunch of fairly well-meaning, hypocritical and platitudinous ignoramuses They are not even able to select the proper professor. Our side is hopelessly disorganized. At Montclair State Teachers College where I taught international relations, I stood alone against the Social Studies Department - about a dozen x% the colleagues. I know how the welfare state is systematically indoctrinated in about eight high schools. If you believe in free enterprise you don't even have a chance to get a reacom- mendation form the placement bureau Unless your business friends establish an independent placement bureau which only recommends scholars who have been passed by men like yourself, we don't have a fighting chance. felia Wittener Sincerely Felix Wittmer, Ph.D.