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...Help the anti-Communist underground "keep the hope for liberty
alive."
Readers of those full-page Free Enterprise ads were in for a shock. For months they had been reading about how government interference with the free enterprise system would lead to the desecration of their altars, the destruction of their electoral system, and the demise of their free press. "Handout strings," according to the ads, would turn out to be the chains of a police dictatorship. But then suddenly last week a new series of ads appeared, calling for Congressional passage of a bill designed to destroy retail price competition by government intervention. They were endorsed by no less than...
That kind of good news travels fast. Soon a swarm of handout seekers buzzed around him, ten visitors a day from outlying districts, "a thousand letters a day from people all over France, Italy, Switzerland and Belgium." The abbé lit out for Paris, partly to escape, partly to pick up his fat check and two second-hand Citroens for 1,500,000 francs...
...jungle telegraph, he passed the word that he was planning to give away free tobacco rations. Some 40 pygmies showed up for the handout. Of these, Schoeman was able to persuade only 18 to help him in his experiment. The 18 made the long trek south to Cape Town, so that the white men at South Africa's tercentenary exposition this week could see the pygmies in the flesh. Only men and married women went along because, as any pygmy knows, a maiden who drinks water from alien springs will become sterile...
Before the Mid-East's oil age, the tribal Arabs had a morality and political system which suited their severe lives crudely but comparatively well. The poorest Bedouin could get an audience with the great sheik and a handout from his kitchens. The mistreated slaves could flee to the local ruler, demand protection under the law of the Koran...