People have wills,
visions, individual emotions and lurchings of their own. When a man with
a pendulum temperament sees a colossal pendulum made of crowds of
people--crowds of employers and crowds of workmen--swinging from one
extreme to another, the first thing he wants to do as each issue comes
up, local or national, is to see to it that his own mind and each other
man's mind in these two crowds on each side of the question should go
twice through the middle, to going once to the extremes at either end.

In other words, The National Air Line League will act to bring extremes
together--twice through the middle to once at each end--and local clubs
will act as attention-swinging machines--as attention-forcing machines
between classes.

I might give an illustration:

The National League in its central office in New York gets a report from
the local branch in the town where Smith safety razors are made that the
Smith Works are in a chronic state of strikes and sabotage and sustained
ugliness and inefficiency. The Central Office, after quietly looking into
it, hearing both sides and finding the charge is true, sends through its
local branches reports to the ten million men shaving with Smith blades
every morning that the workmen and managers of the Smith factories, who
are working a nominal nine hours a day, are spending three hours a day in
fighting with each other as to how Smith blades should be made for the
public, and six hours a day in making the blades. The consumer is told by
the League that he is paying for nine hours' work a day on his blades and
only getting six, and that if the employers and employees in the Smith
factories could be got to listen to each other and to work together the
blades could be had for three cents less apiece.

The League will then proceed through its local branch in the Smith town
to arrest the attention of the Smith workmen and the Smith employers. It
will suggest that they get each other's point of view and sit down very
earnest and hear everything that the other side has to say and everything
the other side wants to do, until they find some way of getting together
and being efficient and knowing how to make Smith blades.

If necessary in order to get the attention of the workmen and employers
at the Smith Works to the desirability of their listening to each other,
the users of Smith blades throughout the country will shave themselves
with their fathers' razors for three weeks.

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