Archive for Melvin D. Barger

Why "Teacher Power" Had to Happen

It was built into a system of compulsory education, and must fall of its own excesses.

1Jun1976 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Losing Struggle to Save Private Enterprise

A socialist society lacks the moral foundation upon which private enterprise must take its stand.

1Apr1976 | | 0 comments | Continued

Robert Owen: The Woolly-Minded Cotton Spinner

Caught in his own web of humanitarianism, messianism, and determinism.

1Feb1976 | | 0 comments | Continued

Occupational Licensure Under Attack

A plea for free choice, rather than government control, in hiring skilled help.

1Apr1975 | | 1 comment | Continued

Socialism Seeks Its Own Level

Government intervention brings a harvest of lost liberty.

1Jun1974 | | 0 comments | Continued

Back Door Press Control

Government regulation and control of business eventually threatens freedom of the press.

1Feb1974 | | 0 comments | Continued

Soviet Dissent: Heat without Light

Freedom of the press a lost cause once socialistic interventions are introduced.

1Jun1971 | | 0 comments | Continued

Private Mail Could Be a Public Boon

A progress report on the Independent Postal System of America.

1Jan1970 | | 0 comments | Continued

More Lessons of Lost Weekends

Mr. Barger, a public relations representative in Jackson, Michigan, is a frequent contributor to THE FREEMAN and other journals. In my first freeman article, "The Lessons of Lost Weekends" (March, 1961), I related my ex­periences as a recovered alcoholic to many of the social and economic conditions of the world. For ex­ample, 1 noted that [...]

1Jun1965 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Freedom of Maturity

From the January 1965 issue of The Flying A, a publication of the Aeroquip Corporation of Jackson, Michigan, of which Mr. Barger is Editor. The truly unfettered life is that marked by order and responsibility. Not too many years ago it was considered an exercise of personal freedom when great-grandfather drove strangers off his land [...]

1Apr1965 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Failures of Private Enterprise

Mr. Barger is a public relations representative in Jackson, Michigan. The fantastic successes of the American free enterprise system and the dismal failures of social­ism in the USSR, Red China, and elsewhere, should be familiar facts to anybody who reads. And it is probably the glittering productiv­ity of the American business sys­tem that forces its [...]

1Sep1963 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Real Weakness of Unions

Mr. Barger is a public relations representative in Jackson, Michigan. Trade unions are in trouble. Not serious trouble, yet. But clouds are spreading over the union move­ment, and it seems to be losing its place in the public favor. There are loud clamors for putting stricter government curbs on unions and perhaps revoking their longtime [...]

1May1963 | | 0 comments | Continued

Experiments in Collectivism

Mr. Barger is Editor of The Flying A, com­pany magazine of the Aeroquip Corporation at Jackson, Michigan. According to an article that ap­peared several years ago in a pop­ular men’s magazine, a Bret Harte classic was once rejected for pro­duction on the Kraft Theatre be­cause the sponsor thought it pro­moted communism. The article was an [...]

1Feb1963 | | 28 comments | Continued

Could A.T. &T Run the Post Ofice?

Mr. Barger is a public relations representa­tive in Jackson, Michigan. "Custom has so strongly imbedded the monopoly myth in our minds that the mere suggestion of a private postal system seems incongruous." Frank Chodorov¹ It is probably one of the miracles of the past half-century that the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Company has escaped [...]

1Oct1962 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Prince of the Thing

Mr. Barger is Editor of The Flying A, company magazine of the Aeroquip Corporation at Jack­son, Michigan. Somewhere in New York City there is a young teen-age boy to whom, by the bad logic of our times, I owe a quarter. The debt has lingered now for almost a year, and probably won’t be paid. [...]

1Apr1962 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Lessons of Lost Weekends

Mr. Barger is Editor of The Flying A, company magazine of the Aeroquip Corporation at Jack­son, Michigan. It’s fairly axiomatic nowadays that alcoholics cannot get well un­less they fully accept the fact that recovery hinges on total abstin­ence. It is possible, of course, that future breakthroughs in drug and therapy techniques may alter this flat [...]

1Mar1961 | | 0 comments | Continued
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