MAR. 3, 1959 FIVE CENTS Voice of the Editor Fewer Golden Eggs HRISTIAN HERE is a widespread popular belief that the steeply progressive income tax provides government with a great deal of money coming from those in the upper brackets. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Approximately 84 per cent of the money the Federal Government collects from the individual income tax comes from the lowest bracket-20 per cent. In 1956 ECONOMICS that bracket of taxation yielded $24,696,000,000. Only 16 per cent cf the money derived from the individual income tax came from the brackets ranging from 20 up to We stand for the tree market-the economic system with the least 91 per cent. All those brackets put together yielded only amount of government and the greatest amount of Christianity. $4,747,000,000 in 1956. Competent students believe that if all individual in- COPYRIGHT 1959 BY THE CHRISTIAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION, INC., REQUESTS TO REPRINT INVITED. come taxation above 20 per cent was abolished the amount government would collect from the 20 per cent bracket alone would be greater than the total collected today under the steeply progressive structure. For instance, today some $45 billion are invested in Freedom or Fleshpots tax-exempt state and municipal bonds. Most of these bonds are held by people in the higher tax bracket. If REV. RALPH S. NANZ, PH.D. these funds were invested in other types of securities, as Emeritus Protessor of Biology, Carroll College they would be if the progressive income tax system were abandoned, a very large amount of income that is today not taxed would be subject to taxation. G OD HAS CREATED us to be free creatures. He The sacrifices for ideals throughout history thrill us Again many persons with larger incomes have little put us here that we might determine our own beyond measure. But what of tomorrow or even today? incentive to produce more since the higher taxation brack- destiny within the moral law. Our Lord put His seal on Does the idealism of the noble ones of history move ets would take up to 91 per cent of it. This stops the flow God's purpose when He said, "I am come that they might you to high endeavor for Christ and country? Or will of much taxable income that otherwise would be created. have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." you as college men and women follow the line of least We repeat that many competent students of the mat- Do you know any way to abundant life without free- resistance, which all too often turn, out to be the "party ter believe that more money would be collected for the dom? That is the Christian philosophy which inspired line" planned by a few well organized and dedicated Federal Government if all tax brackets above that of 20 the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the totalitarians? "Liberals" they invariably call themselves, per cent were abolished. United States and our existence as an independent nation. but it is a one-way liberalism-their way. All who don't You of the senior class are entering your enlarged "go down the line" with them are sneeringly designated life with a liberal arts training. The word "liberal" is one "reactionaries." One Way Exchange of the most used, over-used and abused words in the God created you and me to help fulfill His purpose. English language. The word has a satisfying connotation. The outstanding fact of creation, revealed and perpetu- W WISH to record our conviction that our govern- Nearly everyone envisions himself a "liberal" and hopes ated in the teachings of Judaism and Christianity, is that ment made a colossal blunder in concluding its others so regard him: Many "pinkos," "fellow-travelers" man is free-free to make decisions for himself, free to so-called cultural exchange agreement with the Commu- and "collectivists" call themselves "liberals." The word choose his work, his companions and his way of wor- nist Russian government. As for the radio, the Russian largely takes on the meaning and color, shall we say, shiping God. In other words he is a libertarian. God must people have few sets and most of them are in the hands of of its user. have wanted it that way or He would have fashioned His party members while we have nearly nation-wide coverage. When we speak of a "liberal" education, we under- creation and moral law along other lines. Concerning motion pictures the films we import from Rus- stand it to signify mental exercises in the basic academic Now Mr. Khrushchev and his followers don't go sia will be seen by countless millions of our citizens while disciplines which liberate the mind. To be liberated is to along with such "nonsense." They have the pattern for the films going from here will probably have only a very be free. This does not, as we well know, mean freedom remaking God's creation-for moulding free men into limited showing mainly to party members or will be so without restraint. Indeed, freedom is possible only within automatons and slaves to a politico-economic cult which garbled by taking from and adding to the sound track the restraints of God's laws. says to its human robots, "You do this and you do that as to become effective instruments of hate-America propa- Under the leadership of Moses, the Children of Israel -or else." Regimentation is the order of the day, but our ganada. escaped from their Egyptian slave-masters. But a few Lord never preached regimentation. He came that men The motion picture industry rightly recoils from the years of adversity during their new-found freedom put might be free-not that every detail of their lives should disapproval it expects of the American people but never- them into a complaining mood. Forgetting the whip lasb be prescribed by a commissar or a bureaucrat. Because theless feels that it must cooperate with the State De- they remembered only the flesh to eat the cu- they were willing to risk their security and their lives on partment in providing distribution for the Russian films. cumbers, and the melons." Loudly they cried, "Let us this premise of God-willed freedom, men and women Without any doubt Nikita Khrushchev looks upon return to Egypt." settled in the wilderness of this continent. Howard E. these cultural exchanges as a means of weakening the Socrates drank the hemlock rather than compromise Kershner has said that if the country's founders had United States and strengthening world-wide socialism. his freedom of mind. Patrick Henry said, "Give me lib- been as "concerned with security as we are today Amer- He so reported three years ago to the Soviet Communist erty or give me death." John Hancock signed his name ica would still belong to the Indians." Party but our government nevertheless continued its boldly to the Declaration of Independence in open de- You students have lived all your life in an atmos- negotiations looking toward the agreement which has fiance of a mighty monarch. Our college is named for phere surcharged and infused with the teaching that we now been concluded. another patriot who fearlessly identified himself to the are wards of the government from cradle to grave. The A special report by a committee appointed by the world by signing that same document of freedom as prevalence of such an un-American concept warps public American Bar Association reveals that "cultural ex- Charles Carroll of Carrollton. These men knew they thinking to the extent that freedom is limited and bu- change" with America was one of the Kremlin's major were signing their death warrant if the Revolution failed. reaucracy increasingly promoted. weapons against us. The Communist Daily Worker has Within the memory of many of us, scientists and others Since the beginaing human beings have weighed been pleading for these exchanges. So has Khrushchev have risked and, in many instances, lost their lives that liberty and security in the balance. Men have found that on the American television screen by the courtesy of the the human race might ultimately be free from virulent liberty outweighed security based on slavery and pov- Columbia Broadcasting System. infectious diseases. erty and have been willing to die to gain it for their (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) Myths About Education EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT, Associate Editor, Spadea Syndicate, Inc. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER has been ties survey two years earlier had shown game" conducted by the office of Health, available about them. Only 10 per cent led sadly astray if he has based his pro- 19,750 classrooms in Alabama. Would the Education and Welfare. Former Secretary of the science teachers had taken non- posals for federal aid to education on the Office of Education have us believe that Marion Folsom said in a memorandum teaching jobs, not the whole 40 per cent misleading figures and assumptions pub- the citizens of Alabama had abandoned published in the New York Times, Decem- claimed by Mr. Folsom. lished by the United States Department of 6,500 classrooms between 1954 and 1956? ber 31, 1957: "There is a current shortage Yet, it is on such a flimsy basis that the Health, Education and Welfare. In count- The Office of Education was undaunted of more than 8000 high school science Health, Education and Welfare Secretary less speeches, news releases, magazine when the New York Education Depart- teachers, and yet, of the 5000 graduates proposed a 50-50 matching fund with articles and television appearances, this ment wrote that it was unable to supply prepared to teach science last year, two states to help them and their local school agency's propagandists promote the fol- an estimate of a classroom shortage. Ac- thousand, that is 40 per cent, went into in- districts seek and get more science and lowing myths: cording to Congressman Gwinn, member dustrial jobs rather than the classroom." mathematics teachers. of the House Education Committee, it This statement is contradicted by the Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, vice-president of 1. There is a classroom sh ortage. In the merely cooked up a number of its own National Education Association's 1957 the Fund for the Advancement of Educa- fall of 1956 the Office of Education claim- and included it in the supposed national Teacher Supply and Demand Report tion, wrote in the Farm Journal, March ed a shortage of 159,000 classrooms. Yet, shortage of 159,000 classrooms. which shows that these 2000 teachers had 1956, that "we'd have no teacher shortage in some states the number of existing class- not all gone into industrial jobs. The facts today if we really made use of our superior understated. Forexample, accord- 2. There is a shortage of teachers be- are that about 30 per cent of these teach- teachers." Dr. Eurich suggests that any ing to Circular 490, there were 13,240 cause they are quitting in droves to go ers were either seeking teaching jobs, con- shortage of teachers in various subjects classrooms in Alabama in the fall of 1956. into better paying jobs in private industry. tinuing their studies, in military service, in various communities be met by use of The long-range phase of the school facili- Here is another example of the "numbers homemaking or there was no information assistant teachers to handle routine tasks; (Continued on page 2)