Throttling the Railroads; C. Carson

Government intervention dams up and diverts the energies of the people; freedom releases them to constructive purposes. ~ by CLARENCE B. CARSON Now available as a book l $4.00 clothbound $2.00 paperback (1/3 discount on orders of 5 or more copies) The foregoing article, "The Impact of Intervention," was pre pared as an epilogue for the book. Dr. Carson's entire series on railroads is now available and may be ordered from: THE FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION, INC. IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK 10533 Grover Cleveland. ROBERT L. HEILBRONER in the in troduction to The Worldly Philos ophers observed that among the great economic thinkers in his books were "a madman, a parson and a stockbroker, a revolutionary and a nobleman, an aesthete and a tramp." The significant trait they shared was curiosity. Last August I had an opportunity to participate in a seminar at FEE. Although none of my fellow seminar partici pants that particular week fitted Professor Heilbroner's more bi zarre categories, the notable curi osity of the philosophers was, I found, lavishly distributed. Many of us had, as teachers, searched for comfortable, noncontroversial positions between the ideological extremes labeled "freedorn" and Mr. Colvard teaches at Clairemont High Scbool in San Diego.