Religion: Malvern OutMalverned

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Equal Education. "The social injustice of creating a cultured elite without giving to the great majority of the nation's youth a rightful share in our cultural heritage should cease at once."

Social Services—"as unconditional and universal as the use of the roads."

Equally sweeping and specific is the churchmen's program for industry, which is based on the premise that "the first need is a new public opinion which will discountenance any form of financial transaction or arrangement that yields a profit without rendering commensurate service, or that endangers the rights of others." This would immediately condemn "all speculation in currency or industrial shares" and "irresponsible use of wealth." Some of the other "rights and responsibilities" which the churchmen feel industry must regard "as no less binding than honesty or solvency":

Industrial Responsibility. "The nation will no longer allow the major decisions in industry and finance, which determine the country's wage standards, work standards, and unemployment totals, to be taken as now by a handful of people who are not bound to answer for the social consequence of their decisions." If private enterprise is "willing and able" to discharge these obligations, say the churchmen, "well and good." If it is not, the nation will step in.

No Price-Boosting. "The prices of all necessary commodities" must be kept "within the reach of all."

Congenial Work. "The grade of employment to which each man or woman should be entitled should not be lower than the grade for which he or she is qualified by experience and training."

Monetary Control. "The issue of money (including credit) shall be scientifically directed to keep the currency steady in value, to maintain production steadily at its best possible level, and to keep the purchasing power of the public level with the goods so produced."

Long-Range Planning. "The experience now being gained in the partial subordination of finance to war production, and the present experimental methods of financing public expenditure with a minimum of interest charges, should be extended to the post-war program of House Building and the necessary development of Agriculture and whatever other industries may be necessary to a balanced economy."