The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-08-24
The American WAY
NEW NOR FRONTIER

EDITORS NOAE John T. Flynn
is a noted author, lecturer and
radio commentator
A big question around Washing
ton these days is: Where is the
New Frontier?
One wag claimed a geographcr
went slightly nutty because he
took seriously this latest political
label and tried to find it on a map.
Another jokester thinks this is
what the astronauts are up to
trying to find the New Frontier.
However, now that the new re-
gime IL Washington has been in
office for nearly three months, the
outlines of the so-callcd New
Frontier are becoming pretty clear.
1t is obvious that it is not in
outer space or on some far-flung
outpost of any ocean or continent.
1t is right on the Potomac in Wash
ington, ID. c.
And it is not a frontier, and
there is nothing new about it. All
one needs to do is to take a look
at its cast of characters. The New
Fronticrsmcn arc made up of the
old, discredited New Dealers, and
OF their mOdcrn-day disciples and
imitators. Basically, their philos-
ophy is found in the old Roose-
vCltian formula of tax-and-tax
spend-and-spend. elect-and-elect.
OF course if this is what the
people want, maybe the New
Frontiersmen know what they are
doing. But often the people do
not know what they are getting
because the product is not prop
crly labeled. New Frontier"
sounds challenging, forward-loOk-
ing, inspiring But it is somewhat
like labelling a can of Goldfish eggs
as caviar and selling it at a high
price-a practice which the Fed
eral Trade Commission would
never permit
The basis of the New Frontier
is so old it creaks-mOre and more
government interference, and thus
more and more control, over every
phase of our lives by the Wash
ington bureaucracy, all carried on
with great bites out of our in
comes.
The results of the old New Deal
panaceas arc now catching up with
us, and we are paying the inevita-
bic price for its interferences in
our frec-cnterprise economy. Older
citizens may recall that this was
once facetiously known as gov
eminent by alphabet soup a
reference to the innumerable alpha
betical bureaus set up by FDR and
his successors. 1t isn't easy to keep
track of the steady flow of new
interferences coming out of the
New Frontier, but at the last count
there were proposals for no less
than 25 or 80 additional alphabet
cal agencies-to be piled on top of
the existing ones-covering every
thing that the American states,
communities and individuals once
thought was their own special con-
Germ.
Now no matter what label is put
on all this, it is really disguised
form of socialism. Our new Presi-
dent is said to be avidly in search
of information and intelligence
about the numerous problems he
faces, which is certainly to his
credit. But perhaps he needs to
tear himself away from the Har-
ward and other New Frontiersmen
who surround him so that he can
take a clear look at socialist eX-
periments in other countries. Euro.
pcan nations which have eX-
perienced socialism and know
what it means seem to be getting
somewhat fed up with the reality
Great Britain, for instance, an
nOunced recently that she is sell
ing back to private investors the
seven steel companies which were
nationalized ten years ago.
West Germany has about com
pleted turning over to private
ownership the government-Owned
Volkswagen Auto Works.
Is is rot strange to see the
United States, under the pretense
of a new frontier which is not
new and is not a frontier, going
in for socialist experiments which
European countries tried and arc
now discarding
1t is an ironic twist of fate that
just when Europe begins to