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...television industry and the respected denominations in your community have this in common-they both have an enemy. This enemy is the fringe or marginal preacher. He makes use of the air lanes for his own monetary gains. The religious exploiter [requests] that you write in for a pamphlet or booklet, with the idea that he has your mailing address for . . . solicitations . . . for money. These religious hucksters do untold damage to the church cause. Some of them make thousands, yes, even hundreds of thousands of dollars' profit with no way of knowing where the money goes...
Throughout the political battles of half a century, the rallying cry of Britain's Labor Party has been the Marxist ideal of "social ownership of the means of production." Last week in Towards Equality, a slim, 31-page pamphlet prepared under the personal supervision of Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell, Labor sharply and radically changed its tune...
...Stubborn Rich. What Labor proposed to do about unequal cultural enrichment, Towards Equality did not say. It left little doubt, however, about how it proposed to tackle "unjust" inequalities in wealth and income. In loving detail the pamphlet discussed the relative merits of a tax on expenditure rather than on income-Gaitskell has long been distressed by "the refusal of well-to-do taxpayers to react to high taxation [of income] by cutting down their standard of living"-and of collecting inheritance taxes in property rather than in cash, a device which would have the advantage of depriving the heirs...
...Socialist press was in no doubt where it stood in the matter. Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The uncommitted voter will quickly see that what the pamphlet means by equality is a process of leveling down, of keeping everyone as far as possible to the lowest common denominator, in all those things in which people naturally desire to be unequal-housing, education or property...
...delegate remarked to the woman tending the pamphlet counter that her husband didn't go for New Thought. "A lot of them don't," said the saleslady sympathetically. She fingered a stack of paper slips, looped together with ribbon and proclaiming: "I reject all negative thoughts from others. They may return to those who sent them. I am positive, positive, positive. Divine force is manifest in me. I am positive, positive, positive...