# Editorial (November 1972) **URL:** **By** Walter Block **Published:** November 1, 1972 --- “We hope \*Speaking Out\* will become a regular feature, but this all depends upon you our readers.” With this issue, _Outlook_ introduces a new section, _Speaking Out_, reserved for the thoughts and opinions of our readers which are too long or inappropriate for a letter to the editor, and too short to be used as an article. Manuscripts should be from about 500 to 700 words long and typed double-spaced. Please include a word count and a short autobiographical introduction. Manuscripts should be mailed to our editorial address and should include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. We hope _Speaking Out_ will become a regular feature, but this all depends upon you our readers. In the past month our circulation has increased by almost 1000; so let me take this opportunity to welcome our new subscribers and to invite them (as well as our old ones) to participate in _Speaking Out_. After much soul searching, our semimonthly contributor Dr. Murray N. Rothbard has decided to name his column. Although this decision was made without benefit of any special _Outlook_ “Name-The-Column-Contest,” reports are that Dr. Rothbard made use of the most sophisticated techniques of mathematical economics, including regression analysis, a favorite of his. After having wheezed, belched, bellowed, and blown half a dozen fuses, the computer spewed forth _The Plumb Line_. Our readers need not fear that Dr. Rothbard intends to regale us with advice on plumbing, however. He will rather continue to present us with a free-wheeling and running commentary on the issues of the day as they affect libertarianism; offering, as always, the sharp, incisive views of his that have a way of becoming the libertarian view on any given question. In the December issue of _Outlook_, Dr. Rothbard will tilt his lance at the unresolved and puzzling question of “kid lib.” In the December issue, we will also be proud to present a no-holds-barred exclusive _Outlook_ interview with Vivien Kellems, IRS gadfly and valiant defender of the rights of single people. At 76 years of age, Miss Kellems takes on the minions of the state tax bureaucracy with a spirit that a confirmed statist could only regard as apalling. She discusses the legitimacy of taxation, young people of today, constitutional government, her famous sit-in at a Connecticut voting booth, birth control, William F. Buckley, the withholding tax system, women’s liberation, among other things.