wenty-nine million dollars.

People say as if that was all there was to it, that the fate of this
nation to-day turns on our national manpower.

But what does our national man-power turn on?

It turns on people's knowing and knowing in the nick of time, a man when
they see one.

Man-power in a democracy like ours turns on having inventors, bankers and
crowds act together.

Sometimes banks hold things back by being afraid to cooeperate with
inventors or men of practical imagination.

This is called conservatism.

Sometimes it is the crowds and laborers who hold things back by being
afraid to cooeperate with leaders or men of imagination.

But the fate of all classes turns upon our having men of creative
imagination believed in by men who furnish money, and believed in by men
who furnish labor.

The idea of the Look-Up Club is that men of creative imagination shall be
got together, shall be made class-conscious, shall feel and use their
power themselves and put it where other people can use it.

How much time and how many years of producing-power would it have saved
America if Alexander Graham Bell had known or could have had ready to
appeal to, America's first hundred thousand picked men of imagination,
when he was trudging around ringing doorbells in Boston, trying to supply
people with imagination enough to see money in telephones?

If William G. McAdoo, when he had invented with his tunnels, a really
great conception of the greater New York, and was fighting to get people
in New York to believe in it, and act on it, had had an organization of
one hundred thousand picked men of imagination in the nation at large to
appeal to--one hundred thousand men picked out by one another to put a
premium on constructive imagination when they saw some, instead of a
penalty on it, how much time would it have saved New York and saved
McAdoo? How much time would a national Club like this save this nation
to-day and from now on in its race with the Germans?

Why should our men of practical creative imagination to-day waste as much
time running around and asking permission of people who had none, as
McAdoo had to?

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If a hundred thousand silver dollars--just ordinary silver dollars--were
put together in a row in New York on a sidewalk, everybody going by would
have imagination at once about the one hundred thousand silver dollars
and what could be done with them.

But