is the matter with people is that they are off on
their facts about themselves and believe what they want to about
themselves. Naturally having begun with this they branch out and believe
what they want to about anybody.

To this end in our present industrial deadlock, the first thing we have
obviously got to make provision for in modern American life, is
practically a new profession--regular professional persons everywhere in
all cities, and in all the different industries and in the highly
specialized groups each with their special and different techniques, who
are experts in saving people from the consequences to themselves and
others of believing what they want to about themselves.

XI

THE WHISPERERS

A very considerable proportion of the things that labor unions are in the
habit of saying against their employers, the employers lock their office
doors and sit down and whisper to one another against themselves.

A very considerable proportion of the thing that employers are in the
habit of saying against their workmen, the workmen of the more efficient
type are whispering around to one another against themselves.

One cannot help thinking what it would mean, in our present industrial
deadlock, if the people who are whispering would shout, and the people
who are shouting would shut up.

But perhaps it does not matter so much what the shouters shout.

The first moment the shouters suspect what the whisperers are
whispering,--the whisperers on the other side--they will stop shouting to
listen.

The whole industrial situation narrows down to this,--might be put into
two words by a hundred million people to-day, to Capital and Labor, "Swap
Whispers!"

The tumult and the shouting die.

It is with the whisperers, we will save the world.

XII

MR. DOOLEY, JUDGE GARY AND MR. GOMPERS

The proposal that we have a new profession--a group of specialists to go
to, to straighten out our souls so that we can get on with other people
and be competent in business, comes to one's mind at first perhaps as a
kind of good humored, whimsical way of treating a serious and almost
tragical subject. But something has made me want to begin my idea in this
way.

In strained situations between people--situations in which one sees
people getting all worked up and fine, noble and wild-eyed about
themselves, I am not so sure but that the best, most pointed, most
immediate and thorough thing that can be done, is