ervice rendered, not according to the freaks of a haphazard system such
as I have been trying to describe."

"But how are you going to bring that golden age about?" Murdoch
inquired.

"By education. The first thing is to accept the principle that wealth
cannot be accepted except in exchange for full-measure service. You,
Mrs. Transley--you teach your little boy that he must not steal. As he
grows older simply widen your definition of theft to include receiving
value without giving value in exchange. When all the mothers begin
teaching that principle the golden age which Mr. Murdoch inquires about
will be in sight."

"How would you drive it home?" said Y.D. "We have too many laws
already."

"Let us agree on that. The acceptance of this principle will make half
the laws now cluttering our statute books unnecessary. I merely urge
that we should treat the CAUSE of our economic malady rather than the
symptoms."

"Theoretically your idea has much to commend it, but it is quite
impracticable," Mr. Squiggs announced with some finality. "It could
never be brought into effect."

"If a corporation can determine the value of the service rendered by
each of its hundred thousand employees, why cannot a nation determine
the value of the service rendered by each of its hundred million
citizens?"

"THERE'S something for you to chew on, Squiggs," said Transley. "You
argue your case well, Grant; I believe you have our legal light rather
feazed--that's the word, isn't it, Mr. Murdoch?--for once. I confess a
good deal of sympathy with your point of view, but I'm afraid you can't
change human nature."

"I am not trying to do that. All that needs changing is the popular idea
of what is right and what is wrong. And that idea is changing with a
rapidity which is startling. Before the war the man who made money, by
almost any means, was set up on a pedestal called Success. Moralists
pointed to him as one to be emulated; Sunday school papers printed
articles to show that any boy might follow in his footsteps and become
great and respected. To-day, for following precisely the same practices,
the nation demands that he be thrown into prison; the Press heaps
contumely upon him; he has become an object of suspicion in the popular
eye. This change, world wide and quite unforeseen, has come about in
five years."

"Is that due to a new sense of right and wrong, or to just old-fashioned
envy of the rich which now feels strong enough to threa