THE WEEK

Last week was the week when the Reverend Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux informed the President of how the saints analyze the difference between his and the previous two Administrations. In the beginning was the New Deal. Then the Fair Deal. And now, said the Reverend Elder, “the Heaven-born Deal.” The President was much struck by this intelligence and repeated it to Mr. Nixon and Republican lieutenants at the airport breakfast send-off for the Vice-President, whom he instructed to go out and speak the truth to all the people. “Give ‘em Heaven,” he said, beaming. And Mr. Nixon beamed, and Hall beamed, and all the angels sang their praises.

The latest political document of the Labor Party in England zeroes in on the residual inequalities that have obstinately survived the socialist steamroller and the conservative scalpel. There are, even, vestiges | of social classes left to contend with! Thé evil in such a thing the authors do not feel the need to discuss. “We take it as self-evident,” they write, “that our society will be healthier and happier without social classes than it is with them.” They deplore the advantage that accrues to children “whose family background was materially and culturally enriched.” They call for abolition of the inequality and nepotism that prevail in “small and family businesses”; they rage over the fact that, by one means or another, there are those who continue to “enjoy standards of living far higher than their incomes should permit after payment of tax.” They promise, in short, continued warfare against anyone who presumes to labor with extraordinary zeal or ingenuity in behalf of himself and his family. Let him labor, they say in effect, but let the State see to it that he labors in vain.

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Last week was the week when the Reverend Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux informed the President of how the saints analyze the difference between his and the previous two Administrations. In the beginning was the New Deal. Then the Fair Deal. And now, said the Reverend Elder, “the Heaven-born Deal.” The President was much struck by this intelligence and repeated it to Mr. Nixon and Republican lieutenants at the airport breakfast send-off for the Vice-President, whom he instructed to go out and speak the truth to all the people. “Give ‘em Heaven,” he said, beaming. And Mr. Nixon beamed, and Hall beamed, and all the angels sang their praises.

The latest political document of the Labor Party in England zeroes in on the residual inequalities that have obstinately survived the socialist steamroller and the conservative scalpel. There are, even, vestiges | of social classes left to contend with! Thé evil in such a thing the authors do not feel the need to discuss. “We take it as self-evident,” they write, “that our society will be healthier and happier without social classes than it is with them.” They deplore the advantage that accrues to children “whose family background was materially and culturally enriched.” They call for abolition of the inequality and nepotism that prevail in “small and family businesses”; they rage over the fact that, by one means or another, there are those who continue to “enjoy standards of living far higher than their incomes should permit after payment of tax.” They promise, in short, continued warfare against anyone who presumes to labor with extraordinary zeal or ingenuity in behalf of himself and his family. Let him labor, they say in effect, but let the State see to it that he labors in vain.