e middle of my chapter
with greetings to Paul Pfeiss and to Warren Stone. In my book the Ghost
of the People of Cleveland salutes the Ghost of the People of the United
States!

VII

THE GHOST GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS

A body usually begins with an embryo, and the tissue and skeleton come
afterwards.

A book does, too. I prefer not exposing a skeleton much, myself, and am
inclined to feel that the ground plan of a book like the ground plan of a
man, should be illustrated and used, should be presented to people with
the flesh on, that a skeleton should be treated politely as an inference.

But I am dealing with the body of democracy. And people are nervous about
democracy just now, so much boneless democracy is being offered to them.

So I begin with the principles--the skeleton of the body of democracy for
which this book stands.

The outstanding features of the body of democracy are the brain, the
heart and the hand.

With the brain of democracy goes the right to think.

With the heart goes the right to live.

With the hand goes the right to be waited on.

With these three rights go three greater rights, or three duties, some
people call them.

With the right to think goes the right to let others think.

With the right to live goes the right to let others live.

With the right to be waited on, goes the right to serve. To call the
right to serve a duty is an understatement. I doubt if the people who
have succeeded best and who have really attained the largest amount of
their three greater rights, have thought of them very often as duties.

I end this chapter with the three questions America is in the world
to-day to ask, to find out her own personal three answers to in the sight
of the nations.

I am putting with the three questions the three answers I am hoping to
hear my country give, before I die.

What determines what proportion of his right to think, each man shall
have?

His power to get attention and let others think.

What determines what proportion of his right to live, each man shall
have?

His power to let others live.

What determines what proportion of his right to be waited on, each man
shall have?

His power to serve.

These are the principles of the new League--the voluntary, spontaneous
organization of the men and women of America to meet the emergency in
America of our war with ourselves, on the same scale and in the same
spirit as the Red Cross met the emergency of