Evening star., 1948-01-04


obtain a good job from some one,
q duty to do a good job FOR some
right can be enforced for one person
without compelling another to fulfill
q duty. In the language of the
courts: when a right is invaded
a duty is violated" There is nc
right where there is no remedy
A Philosophers Views
Even the basic right of my indi-
vidual liberty cannot be enforced
except by imposing restraints on
your individual liberty. The claim
of a right is worthless unless it can
be enforced; and, as more rights
are enforced against more and more
people, there will be less and less
liberty; more and more domestic
conflicts, less and less internal
peace.
Long ago a great philosopher
pointed out that "the right of all to
all things" means "the war of all
against all" The surest way to
destroy the fundamental freedoms
Of American life would be to build
up a vast legal structure of social.
economic and political rights, all
Of them creating corresponding
duties, and all of them enforced by
governmental restraints upon indi-
vidual freedom.
Communists and their dupes COM
plain that a "hysteria" of anti
communism is causing the suppress
sion of civil rights IN the United
States. So now they are diligently
fomenting a counter -hysteria" for
expanding civil rights until the
basic rights of life, liberty and
property will be completely lost in
a maze of petty rights and duties
and regulations which only COM
munistic dictatorship could possibly
enforce.
Bad Example of Hysteria
The horrible and outstanding
example of this civil rights hysteria
is the recent. report of the Presi-
dents Committee on Civil Rights,
which is probably the most mis-
chievous document that has been
published since Marx and Engels
produced the Communist Manifesto
100 years ago.
In the name of liberty" this re-
port proposes to compel American
men, women and children to live
and work in a social and economic
system created and regulated by
Government, a system in which their
most profound emotions and ambi-
tions are to be suppressed at the
will of political monitors.
Here are the two most funda-
mental recommendations Of the
committee, in its own language: ],
"The elimination Of segregation,
based on race, color, creed or ma
tional origin, from American life"
"The enactment Of a Federal
Fair Employment Practice Act, pro-
hibiting all forms of discrimination
in private employment. based on
race, color. creed Or national origin" "
Please note that segregation is
to be eliminated - not only from
Government operations, but every
where from American life" That
is precisely the aim of the COM
mittee, which announces, with the
voice of omnipotent omniscience:
"We can tolerate no restrictions
upon the individual which depend
upon irrelevant factors such as his
race, his color, his religion or the
social position to which he was
born"
A Curious Observation ~
Hundreds of millions of Protes-
tants, Catholics, Jews, Mohamme-
dams, Buddhists and Hindus have
believed and taught for centuries
the One Way of Living, or the One
Road to Salvation, was divinely Or
dained and revealed in the articles
of their particular faith. Any ones
religion is necessarily a restriction
on him and, if he is to be free in
the exercise of his religion "a free
dom expressly guaranteed in our
Constitution), then he must be free
to restrict his associations with
others in accordance with his feel
ings and his convictions as to what
is necessary and desirable. Yet the
committee would have man forced
ht Ia ~ into asSorja tiors which NAV