Will Rogers once told of being approached by someone in a great state of excitement claiming that an enemy submarine had invaded one of our harbors; the man was wanting to know how the country could get rid of it. Will thought for a minute and said, "That's easy...boil the water in the harbor."

But the questioner persisted. "That's a great idea, but how do we do that?"

Rogers responded, "Hey, I am a concept man. You will have to work out the details for yourself."

I confess to feeling a bit like Will Rogers in preaching on "You shall not covet," especially at Christmas. For a capitalist society which has built itself into one of the most powerful economic forces on earth by setting our sights high, by creating in us a desire...a covetousness...for more and better of almost everything, t…