wn in New York and will act together--in
bringing an idea for the people into the world.
The third Club--twenty or thirty million people, on the scale of the Red
Cross--in ten thousand cities, will apply and educate the idea, bring it
up and put it through.
* * * * *
What one's soul is for, I suppose, is that one can use it when one likes,
to contemplate and to enjoy an Idea.
What one has a body for with reference to an idea is to take it up, try
it out and put it through.
The Air Line League proposes to cooerdinate these three functions and
operate as a three in one club.
The idea would be to call the first of the clubs, the club of inventors,
the Look-Up Club. The second, a club of how-men and engineers, the
Try-Out Club, and the third--the operating club of the vast body of the
people taking direct action and putting the thing through locally and
nationally would be called The Put-Through Clan.
The Air Line League through these three clubs will undertake to help the
people to stop being an abstraction, to swear off from being a Ghost in
their own house. The great working majority of the American people--of
the men and the women who made the Red Cross so effective during the war,
which came to the rescue of the people of the nation with the people of
other nations, will come to the rescue now, during the war the people are
having and that the classes of people are having with one another.
IV
THE LOOK-UP CLUB LOOKS UP
Sec. 1. _For Instance._
Such a crisis as this nation has now, Springfield, Massachusetts, had
once.
Springfield a few years ago, all in a few weeks, threw up the chance of
being Detroit because two or three automobile men who belonged in
Springfield and wanted to make Springfield as prosperous as Detroit, were
practically told to go out to Detroit and find the men who would have the
imagination to lend them the money--to make Springfield into a Detroit.
Naturally when they found bankers with imagination in Detroit they stayed
there.
What happened to Springfield is what is going to happen to America if we
do not make immediate national arrangements for getting men who have
imagination in business in this country, men who can invent manpower, to
know each other and act together.
The twenty-five hundred dollars Frank Cousins of Detroit recognized Henry
Ford with, a few years ago, he gave back the other day to Henry Ford for
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