IT IS OBVIOUS that the world is knee-deep in a social revolution. What is not obvious is that imbedded in the present revolution are the seeds of another. Yet that must be so simply because it was always so. No sooner do men settle down to a given set of ideas, a pattern of living and of thinking, than fault-finding begins, and fault-finding is the tap-root of revolutions.

WE HAVE it on the authority of the Lord, as recorded in Genesis, that idolatry is a corruption far more reprehensible than even the sins of the flesh. But, why? Why is the inveterate habit of humans to worship idols put so low in the scale of values? For answer, let’s look to the story of the golden calf.

WALL STREET—which is a thoroughfare completely surrounded by rumor—has a new tidbit on its whispering tape. It is told in confidence, guaranteed “inside dope,” and therefore is of doubtful character. Nevertheless, it is worth repeating.

Dear Joe:

Everybody is writing you letters. Don’t let this annoy you, for with us Americans writing letters to editors, congressmen and other celebrities is only a national habit. It’s in line with what we call democracy—if you will pardon the expression.

THEY WERE members of the debating club at a local college, and would we please help them prepare for the debate:

Resolved, that the Federal Government should adopt a permanent program of wage and price control.

They had good reason for coming to us. HUMAN EVENTS had made editorial comment on this debate topic in a recent issue, and the students inferred that we were something of an authority. We are not immune to flattery, and the coed debater was pleasant to talk to.

WHEN YOU EXAMINE samples of the anti-socialistic literature which is flooding the country, you realize why socialism, despite its irrationality, is gaining common acceptance. If these booklets and “letters” were designed to aid the collectivistic cause they could not do a better job.

IF IT IS in the interest of freedom that the Church and the State be kept apart, it is equally in the interest of freedom that the school be divorced from the State. That is so because it is impossible to immunize education against religious values.

LONG, LONG before Freud, a fellow named Joseph got himself a reputation as an interpreter of dreams. So, when all the Ph.D.’s of Egypt failed him, Pharaoh sent for this wizard and put to him the puzzler that had come out of his subconscious mind one night—something about seven lean kine and seven fat ones.