Abstemiousness, Fothy Finch says, should be our motto, rather than Abstinence. We shall be QUITE careful not to identify ourselves with the MORE VULGAR aspects of the propaganda. And of course at social functions in our private homes total abstinence is quite out of the question. The working classes wouldn't get any example from our homes, anyone; for of course we never come into contact with them there. But the working classes must be saved from themselves, even if all the employers of labor have to write out a list of just what they eat and drink and make them buy only those things. They simply MUST be saved. Not that they'll appreciate it. They never do. If I were not an incorrigible idealist I would be inclined to give them up. But someone must give up his life to leading them onward and upward. And who is there to do it if not we leaders of Modern Thought? THE JAPANESE ARE WONDERFUL, IF YOU GET WHAT I MEAN DON'T you just dote on the Japanese? They're so esoteric -- and subtle and all that sort of thing, aren't they? Just look at Buddhism and Shintoism, for instance. Could anything be more subtle and esoteric? We've been taking them up -- our Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know -- and they've wonderful, simply WONDERFUL! Not, of course, that one would BE a Buddhist or a Shintoist -- but it's broadening to the mind, don't you think, to come in contact with the great thought of -- of -- well, really of people like Shinto, you know, and those other sages? And how wonderfully artistic they are -- the Japanese! The new parasols are quite Japanese, you know. Haven't you seen them? I have three, for different costumes. One is covered with embroidered Japanese crepe, and an- other with martine silk. But the one, I think that express ME the most accurately -- the one that represents my individuality, REALLY -- is made with gold spokes covered with black Chantilly lace. Japanese shape, you know, and French workmanship. And one must strive to represent one's self if one is to be honest. One must put one's soul into one's environment. Although Environment isn't what it used to be. You don't hear Environment spoken of nearly as often as you did. Environment is going out. But besides being so esoteric and exotic and artistic, and all that sort of things, the Japanese are wonderfully up to date, too. Do you know, they actually have a battleship named The Tango! Have you thought deeply of Interstellar Communication? It promises to be one of the great new problems. The loveliest man talked to us about it the other evening. "Interstellar Communication in Its Relation to Recent Psychic Hypotheses" -- that's the title; I wrote it down. I always take notes of a title like that. It helps one to get to the heart of the matter. Interstellar Communication is wonderful -- simply WONDERFUL! We're going to take up Mars soon.