On Hating Dog and Children
Nathan, George
THE ALTERNATIVE: Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin. Editor in Chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Publishers, The Saturday...
...In spite of their pretensions they are whimpering, whining, runts whose fontenelles reflect their infantile development...
...Neither yet sees, as the right has observed since the days of Edmund Burke, that a government powerful enough to "give" people their rights has the power to destroy them also...
...According to statistics of the U. S. Labor Department, every time the minimum wage goes up, so does the rate of unemployment among Negroes, particularly teenagers who have the least experience and fewest skills (see: The Alternative, Vol...
...Unlike his campus comrades, Galbraith has learned that the left does not always have a friend in power...
...When in a position to exercise their style of freedom it develops after the fashions of Brother Hitler, Brother Stalin, and Brother Mao...
...Minimumwage laws, in fact, are grossly discriminatory since they work the greatest hardship on minorities and youth...
...Additionally, a volunteer army will prove more flexible as well as proving itself more efficient than a conscript army...
...7 OUR YOUTH ENSLAVED by Jefferson Davis...
...For when student senator Marilyn Ritter had the effrontery to express disagreement in the press, oring blithely interdicted her freedom of speech...
...To world problems they prescribe dilated freedom, but are themselves perfervidly enthralled by the least — Continued on Page 12 4 ON HATING Continued from Page 4 physical velleity...
...The right opposes this type of Federal manipulation of the economy for two reasons: It places too much power in the hands of government and it is counterproductive...
...Publishers, The Saturday Evening Club Managing Editor, Jefferson Davis Musikred akteur, Frank Octave Brunell Business Manager, Baron Von Kannon Editorial Staff, Hon...
...The speaker Benito Mussolini...
...In all ilk of noisy charade the professors of literature act just like grownups — they become purposeful, they form committees, they solve problems, and if taken seriously they would even implement their hair brained solutions creating graver problems...
...Otherwise, at a time when technology superannuates the almosttrained GI, there is no reason for furthering the draft other than force of habit in the bureaucratic grooves...
...3 POETRY by Mary Qwaint...
...Taking innocent delight, they toy with facts and construct elaborate sand castles with foolish theories...
...Come Ye then to 319 N. Walnut CAFE LA TORTILLA Corner of Kirkwood and Grant MEXICAN CUISINE • Tostados • Tacos • Enchillados • Tamales • Burritos • Chili • Roast Beef Sandwich Also Mexican Crafts For Sale OUR YOUTH ENSLAVED Continued from Page 8 a conscript army safeguards against the alleged dangers of a volunteer army...
...At a time when a Vietnamese non-war plods expensively along, the talk of a voluntary army will remain just that — talk...
...Though hardly genteel enough to take in the neighborhood riot with Herr ritchey's pacifists our editors are rather nice — albeit you might not want your daughter to marry one...
...Now they return to the campus to fuss about, pontificating on all the sordidness of the adult world and repining its failure to accommodate the designs of Goethe, Shelley or (gasp) Norman Mailer...
...2 THINK LEFT, DOING RIGHT, AND BEING GALBRAITH by Sir Arthur Wellesley...
...Benighted by innocence and immured in make believe, they gurgle dyseptically to captive audiences whose riposte — at lease at the graduate level — rarely rises to the articulateness of goo goo...
...Freedom can only survive and prosper if the coercive power of government, whether intended for good or evil, is minimized to a point consistent with maintaining internal order and external security...
...He had wormed his way into the summer senate where, like a goat at rutting time, he bellowed and snorted, making a vexatious fool of himself...
...Galbraith probably does not contemplate the thorough-going restrictions Mussolini had in mind...
...5 EUHEMERISM: THE CHICKEN, THE EGG, AND THE EAGLE by George Nathan...
...A person not worth the minimum Federal rate will not be hired or kept on...
...Incidentally, you might dimly remember Sirhan Sirhan as the alleged assassin of whatchamacallit and subsequent winner of the national press' award to "the most typical American of all...
...should be sent to The Alternative, R. R. 11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental U. S. A. TO BARE THE WITNESS AND THE TRUTH CONTENTS ON HATING DOGS AND CHILDREN by George Nathan...
...Any increase in governmental power restricts the freedom of the individual, a political maxim the new right knows almost intuitively...
...Calling her home, he went to the ridiculous extreme of threatening her with a libel suit...
...In college towns they slouch about libraries and the naive identify them as intellectuals...
...As with the supposedly defunct German General Staff, the higher military echelons are always comprised of professionals, so the argument that the draft prevents military elitism appears patently absurd...
...They then earn nothing which is considerably less than something — a point the new left does not consider, but which those unemployed because of the law know through bitter experience...
...The Treaty of Versailles, seeking insurance against future wars, limited Germany to a conscript army from which Hitler galvanized the most powerful war machine then known to man...
...Ironically, however, the left operates in a manner calculated to destroy the rights of Negroes and Whites alike...
...They are not worthy of more than the most casual contempt, they are too insignificant...
...George Nathan Sir Arthur Wellesley Associates, Cristy Campaigne Tom Charles Huston Deborah Harshey Contributors, Louisa Porter Jerry Gerde Marilyn Ritter Mary Qwaint Sharon Rogers George Washington Plunkitt Alien Contributors, Alan Somers Anthony Comstock R. Dennis Tyrrell The Alternative was founded in 1924 by George Nathan and Truman Newberry over a cheap domestic beer in McSorley's Old Ale House...
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...A glance into their watery eyes reveals them innocent of the least embolus of thought . . . their immaculate minds unsullied by any blemish of cultivation...
...Even adjudged by W. C. Fields' standards we qualify as "not all bad," for we loath both dogs and children...
...A minimum-wage law is supposed to raise the wages of those earning the least — generally meaning the Negro...
...In summary, the new left mouths the slogans of freedom, but the new right protects freedom...
...The other main argument against a volunteer army is the cost factor As previously mentioned, the noneconomics of our present system could hardly grow more squanderous...
...The totalitarian leaders of the new left are aware of this truth...
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...Though weighty, the case against the draft may never be prosecuted...
...Originally published on restroom walls, only since 1967 has it come under purview of the Saturday Evening Club which publishes it from September through June...
...When men are recruited to fill a specific job or skill and are not serving just as a body, troop morale undoubtedly will increase...
...Anyone familiar with the residue surrounding county court houses recognizes them for what they are — loafers...
...Now, suddenly, surprisingly, and refreshingly, Galbraith and a host of other intellectual Daniel Boones from the New Frontier are concerned over the growth of Federal power because of President Johnson's using the power to resist the Communist onslaught in South Vietnam...
...One might expect a twenty-eight-year-old man to interest himself in something other than campus agitation, but oring claims himself conscience bound to personally extend to students every prepositional phrase of the Bill of Rights — that is as long as the students act as his minions...
...W^jli^W Flowers For -C^^-"*"^^ Every Occasion 304 E. 5th Ph...
...While opposition to the war in Vietnam is still the new left's first passion, it still waxes hot on civil rights, professing passionate interest in the rights of minorities...
...In this case, the new left is no worse than the old left...
...8 REVIEWS by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr...
...Yet there are indeed important considerations as to the performance of a volunteer army, once instituted...
...The current enlistment rates are highest in Southern and South Atlantic states, both areas of low median annual incomes, so the pay raises need not be massive...
...6 NEW LEFT THOUGHT by The Saturday Evening Club Axiological Committee...
...They appeared at the Democratic National Carnival in short pants and were caught sucking their thumbs...
...As for pets, who could favor the finger-licking — Continued on Page 4 2 THINKING LEFT Continued from Page 3 plicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become...
...Further, the savings of greater efficiency and lower turnover, coupled with secondary factors, actually would reduce military costs...
...Certainly the pay rates of enlisted personnel would necessitate revision, but perhaps not as drastically as one would imagine...
...For years Galbraith used his considerable prestige within the inner chambers of government to increase the power of the executive over that of Congress...
...As oring approaches middle age he translates freedom as his freedom to persecute teen-age girls...
...Recently one of these shabby Dorian Grays, mark oring, exhibited his famous reverence for freedom of speech...
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...9 HOW GOES THE FACTORY by John Kelley...
...Instead, it throws them out of work...
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...For instance, the intellectual sucklings cribbed in university English departments never fail to bestir our abhorrence...
...ON HATING . . Continued from Page 2 primates of the new left...
...To be successful, planning must be total, bringing with it more suffocating restriction of the individual...
...Truman Newberry Rev...
...A Ross Barnett, for instance, might use the power of the presidency to resegregate...
...To dissent from his fustian is to libel him — a truly remarkable undertaking, for how does one libel the nation's most plentiful natural resource, the east coast idiot...
...Presumptively I. U.'s students will have to suffer Herr oring's roaring dishonesty for another year, and The Alternative's editors will, in their humor, provoke the mad improprieties of self-righteous dervishes like Herr ritchey, but let us all take cheer, for such cretins generally die in even greater agony than they lived . . an event we greedily await...
...Behind political cuddlies like Papa McCarthy they while away the hours at political fantasy...
...To consider them as anything beyond disgusting is to exaggerate...
...Tragically, their acolytes are not...
...The scales weighing the various merits of the opposing systems list so heavily in favor of a volunteer army that further criticisms of the draft would be overkill...
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...Yet it is all but inevitable that once economic planning is started, it can not be stopped, since one measure of planning calls for another to counterbalance the reverberating effects of the first...
...At night just before mommy tucks them in they devote a few minutes to picture books or, with more harmful effects, wrap their pudgy fingers around a crayola and attempt to write...
...They waltz about Kirkwood some swatting flies, some drooling on curb stones, others dreamily toying with their filthy fur, their muzzles shoved deep in runny ice cream cones...
...11 On Jtatiua 2>opl and GUMie+t by George Nathan In one of last year's less dulcet editorial criticisms of The Alternative mark ritchey, a second-rate intellectual and full-time sissy, deliriously compared our editors with Sirhan Sirhan in paralogistic scurrilities which I dare not repeat in an essay designed for reading aloud at the domestic hearth...
...Those shuffling, stammering, Meganthropi squatting about the newly opened Kirkwood Zoo are merely revolting...
...In truth they are but children with a touch of fraud — for can you imagine making a vocation of what any normal man takes up as mere pass time...
...Even if the power is employed with the best intentions, it can produce results opposite those intended — minimum-wage laws are an example...
Vol. 2 • September 1968 • No. 1
