Show THE PARAMOUNT CONCERN P PERHAPS the great trouble is vaunted vaunt vaunt- ed d rugged individualism individual sm seel seemingly on n the theve verge ve ge of extinction concerned itself with in- in and groups of individuals f forgetting that the interest of the general public the public the whole public public must must be regarded as paramount in the erection of the economic social and political political po po- po- po structure Much ruch as Americans like to compose orations on the tho premise that there are are no classes in this countr country any intelligent onlooker must convince himself that in the national scene there is a constant parade of upper upper middle and lower classes The present endeavor appears to be one designed to knock that upper c glass lass ass off its ith perch and aul bring it down to the earth upon which the vast middle class lives and transacts transacts trans traus- acts acts its business Too if this is its aim it would lift the submerged submersed portion of the body politic the politic the host of forgotten men we wo heard about during the tho last campaign upward campaign upward and onward In other words it seeks to make a verity of the things the orators talk about on th the Fourth of July In a country of people this becomes be comes a sizeable job It would even b be a big job in a country ruled by a dict dictator tor with absolute sway In a democracy it is a still to tougher proposition It means that the lions and the lambs must lie U d down wn together and together and like it It doesn't seem to offer much promise of lasting success if they dont don't like it Moreover Moreover More More- over they will vill never like it if coercion if-coercion f is isem employed em em- to fo make mak one strat stratum m out put of three three and and what's more they ther wont won't stay put If will willbe willbe ill be more like a mixture than a compound and will have to be shaken U up every now now- and then It will be the shaking up that will vill hurt These are but ra random dom thoughts on a nev new social order in in the making arid and they lead nowhere except to a vague wish that dares not become become become be be- be- be come come a hope hope that instead of of a fight to a fi finish ish v might finish without a fight in the interest o of the paramount concern |