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...mind. In the Europe that the colonists left behind, state power had often been used to enforce religion, and the results over the centuries had been war, strife and persecution. To assure freedom of religion in the new nation, the founders wrote into the First Amendment a double-barreled safeguard: they barred both any "establishment of religion" and any restriction on "the free exercise" of religion. The Supreme Court last week based its ruling solely on the "establishment" clause, but many Americans got an impression that the court impaired the free exercise of religion...
...with it by what it calls "supply management"-that is, imposing broader and tighter curbs on farm production while keeping price supports at high levels. The alternative approach, favored by the American Farm Bureau Federation, is to gradually decrease price supports to the point where they serve as a safeguard against drastic price drops rather than as an incentive to overproduction. Production controls could then be gradually whittled away, and perhaps abolished altogether. Basically, this was the approach advocated, but not clearly and consistently pursued, by Ezra Taft Benson, Agriculture Secretary under President Eisenhower...
Lincoln's Birthday to argue that the Great Emancipator never meant to free the slaves ("The black men for whom he felt compassion but not respect have won the victory that Lincoln intended as a safeguard for the white man's civilization...
Some girls may be in need of guidance, but it is doubtful that blind faith in impersonal rules gives them any sort of real direction. If "most girls come to Radcliffe knowing nothing about the student government rules," how does the existence of the present rules safeguard the future reputation of graduates of the college? If those who are planning to spend the next four years of their lives here are unaware of these rules how many people in the outside world can be expected to be informed about the proposed changes...
...critics. The only answer, says Executive Secretary William G. Carr of the National Education Association, is for Congress to give aid without strings, and "trust the integrity, patriotism and good judgment of local and state school boards and administrators." Pending that happy day. others now believe that the best safeguard might be a really strong federal education agency, similar to the lively, independent National Science Foundation. Sooner or later, the pressure of population on poor school districts will force Congress to pass a hefty education bill. A strong education agency could then act as a referee between Congress...