d Cross, the day the armistice was signed, ten men and
women for victory of a great people over themselves, where in the mere
stress of merely beating Germans, there had been one before.

IV

THE CALL OF A WORLD

The difference between a first class nation and a second class nation
might be illustrated by the history of almost any live man in any live
profession.

Dentists at first pulled teeth and put in new ones. Then they began
filling them. Now people are paying dentists high prices for keeping them
so that they have no teeth to fill.

Orthopedic practice has gone through the same revolution. A bone doctor
used to be called in after a leg was broken, and set it. To-day we see a
doctor in a hospital take up a small boy, hold him firmly in his hands,
and break his legs so that he will have straight legs for life. The next
stage probably will be to begin with bow-legged babies, take their bones
and bend them straight when they are soft, or educate their mothers--to
keep them from walking too soon.

The essential thing that has happened to dentistry is that they now kill
the germs that decay the teeth.

The first natural thing for the Red Cross to do would be the day after
the armistice to go back to war germs.

The Red Cross with its branches in every town and every nation in the
world would announce that from that day on, through a vast new division,
it would occupy itself with germs--with the germs of six inch guns, with
the germs of submarines. It would deal with the embryology of war.

The germs of war between nations, breed in wars between classes, and the
germs of class war breed in the wars between persons, and the germs of
war between men and men breed in each man's not keeping peace with
himself.

It is when I am having a hard time getting on with Stanley Lee that I am
likely to have a row with Ivy Lee. It is a colossal understatement to say
that charity begins at home. Everything does. If a man understands
himself he can understand anybody. If he gets on with himself the world
will fall into his hands.

The great short cut to stopping war between peoples is to stop war
between capital and labor. This is a feat of personality and of
engineering in human nature. It is a home-job, and when we have done it
at home we can sow all nations with it. If I wanted to stop a war between
Ivy Lee and me I would have to pick out a series of things to do to Ivy
Lee and to say to him which he would like