Rebuffs Cuff

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I just got through untangling the sophisticated calumnies of Mr. Raphaelson in Friday's CRIMSON. I would like to ask, in the first place, whether the column is primarily directed at the former president of the Free Enterprise Society personally, or whether it intimates that our society itself is made up of bigots or simpletons.

If its purpose is to slur the persons of our membership, the column is unworthy of any notice. But if the calumny is intended to brand our organization with the stamp of reaction, perhaps the following comments are in order:

The Free Enterprise Society is a highly composite group, representing a true cross-section of politics in the University, with the exception of the extreme left and its fellow travelers. But politics is not our vocation.

If the free enterprise system is objectionable merely because it is predominant in America, then the same must be said of baseball games and corn husking bees.

We are opposed to Communism and Fascism not only because they are un-American, but also because they represent barbarism and anachronism allen to our civilization. Our object is not to worship the goddess Free Enterprise, but, first to define and then investigate the system, and see how it can be improved for the benefit of all America and of the whole world. Sirius Proestopoulos, '51   Vice-President,   Free Enterprise Society