THE WEEK

Having looked and looked and looked for the New Frontier, we finally spotted it last week when the negotiators foregathered in Geneva to seal the fate of Laos. It’s 500 miles closer to us than the Old Frontier.

The federal education bill now stands before Congress for action. The debate is over. The Senate will have approved the measure. The House of Representatives might yet—still could—reject it. There has been a considerable national debate on the subject over the past months, during which those who plead the fiscal necessity for federal action have conscientiously avoided meeting the great and devastating display of statistical counter-arguments, most of them put together by Mr. Roger Freeman in the course of his prodigious inquiry into the subject. The philosophical and political arguments against the centralization of education are a part of our heritage; we know prescriptively the case against the collectivization of the social power. How, now, will our elected representatives act? Let us hope with courage and clarity and with the zest that goes with voting for freedom, and against omnipotent government.

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Having looked and looked and looked for the New Frontier, we finally spotted it last week when the negotiators foregathered in Geneva to seal the fate of Laos. It’s 500 miles closer to us than the Old Frontier.

The federal education bill now stands before Congress for action. The debate is over. The Senate will have approved the measure. The House of Representatives might yet—still could—reject it. There has been a considerable national debate on the subject over the past months, during which those who plead the fiscal necessity for federal action have conscientiously avoided meeting the great and devastating display of statistical counter-arguments, most of them put together by Mr. Roger Freeman in the course of his prodigious inquiry into the subject. The philosophical and political arguments against the centralization of education are a part of our heritage; we know prescriptively the case against the collectivization of the social power. How, now, will our elected representatives act? Let us hope with courage and clarity and with the zest that goes with voting for freedom, and against omnipotent government.