s world.

An upside-down business world is one in which any man who has money
thinks he can be a director almost anywhere, a world in which on every
hand we find managers who are not touching the imagination of the public
and getting it to buy, and not touching the imagination of labour and
getting it to work, because they are not free to carry out their ideas
without submitting them to incompetent and scared owners.

The incompetent and scared owners--the men who cannot think--are about
to be shut out. Then they will be compelled to hire incompetent and
scared managers. Then they will lose their money. Then the world will
slip out of their hands.

The problem of modern industry is to be not the distribution of the
money supply, but the distribution of the man-supply.

Money follows men.

Free men. Free money.

BOOK FIVE

GOOD NEWS AND HARD WORK

TO ANYBODY

"_I know that all men ever born are also my brothers....
Limitless leaves too, stiff or drooping in the fields,
And brown ants in the little wells beneath them
And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heaped stones, elders,
mulleins and poke weed._"

_A Child said, "What is grass?" fetching it to me with full hands.

How could I answer the Child?_

* * * * *

_"I want to trust the sky and the grass!
I want to believe the songs I hear from the fenceposts!
Why should a maple-bud mislead me?"_

PART ONE

NEWS AND LABOUR

A big New England factory, not long ago, wanted to get nearer its raw
material and moved to Georgia.

All the machine considerations, better water-power, cheaper labour,
smaller freight bills, and new markets had argued for moving to Georgia.

Long rows of new mills were built and thousands of negroes were moved in
and thousands of shanties were put up, and the men and the women stood
between the wheels. And the wheels turned.

There was not a thing that had not been thought of except the men and
women that stood between the wheels.

The men and women that stood between the wheels were, for the most part,
strong and hearty persons and they never looked anxious or abused and
did as they were told.

And when Saturday night came, crowds of them with their black faces, of
the men and of the women, of the boys and girls, might have been seen
filing out of the works with their week's wages.

Monday morning a few of them dribbled back. There were e