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deal after a run of bad luck. I guess tho that everyone realizes now that we were getting lousy and boggish in 1929. Money and power seem to be poison.

  Perhaps the wrecking of old values

by Neitsche and the psycologists had something to do with it. Individualism is a grand thing but not in economics. If you don't have hard morality in economics a clash is inevitable. There is no comfort in being a robber if all the rest start robbing too. Of course the old ethics and brotherly love were never strictly practised but they had their influence nevertheless. It seems to me that the essential kernel of Christ's teaching is coming to fruition just when the religion built around him is crumbling. Fifty years ago in a depression like this they would have calmly let people starve but now they at least are very un-