On Thanksgiving weekend, Americans ought to remember those who
carried the torch of freedom during times of moral darkness. One
of those rare individuals was R.C. Hoiles, born on Nov. 24,
1878, the founder of Freedom Communications Inc. and co-
publisher of the Register, with his son Clarence, from 1935
until his death in 1970. R.C. Hoiles stood for freedom at two
especially critical times in U.S. and California historywhen
much of the public wanted to and the federal government
didintern Japanese-Americans in World War II, and later, when a
local school board fought to continue the practice of
segregating Mexican children from Anglo students. By such
opposing acts of state racism, Hoiles embodied the long
tradition of classical liberalism (which is really what the
philosophy that came to be called libertarianism most resembles)
in the civil rights movement. Along with Frederick Douglass,
Rose Wilder Lane, Branch Rickey and many others, Hoiles believed
that individual rights belong to each person regardless of