HYP Discusses Freedom; Economists Debate Taxes

Professors Seymour E. Harris '20 and Sumner H. Slichter brought their controversy over government policy and profits to a packed New Lecture Hall last night for the Free Enterprise Society's first forum of the term.

In a continuation of their disagreement last December before the Joint Congressional Committee investigating industrial profits, the two economists split over the advisability of employing heavier taxation to limit corporate profits.

Harris advocated an increase in taxation adjusted to a changing business scene and directed "in no small part" against business profits. This, he said, would promote a stabilized income, a more equitable distribution of income, and a rise in the standard of living without limiting "private enterprise."

Slichter, Lamont University Professor, asserted that individual investment, which should provide the bulk of bunds needed for capital expansion has been discouraged by the special 38 percent corporate tax, and therefore that further taxation is not feasible.

Senator Ralph Flanders (R.Vt.), chairman of the Congressional Committee, was unable to attend and his speech was read by moderator Philip D. Bradley, Jr., assistant professor of Economics.

Academic freedom will be on the docket at the Harvard Young Progressives' meeting in Emerson D at 7 p.m. tonight. Lyman Bradley, G. E. Harris Daggett, and James Zarichny who have all suffered setbacks in the educational field due to their political actions, will discuss these along with the general problem of academic freedom.

Bradley was removed from his position as head of the German department at New York University when the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee's national executive council, of which he is a member was cited by the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to turn over a list of the Spanish refugees they had helped to house.

Was Progressive Candidate

Daggett, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, was a progressive party candidate in the last election. In recent invectives the University has been derided as having a "communist cell," and Daggett was held as an example of one of its occupants.

A former Michigan State student, Zarichny was not allowed to re-register for the Spring term on the grounds that he had attended an off-campus meeting of The Civil Rights Congress at which Carl Winter, one of the 12 indicted Communists, spoke.