The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they wantLee, Gerald Stanley
Philosophy
The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want
Lee, Gerald Stanley
Democracy; United States -- Politics and government
The moment there are conveniences for crowds--for the rank and file of
crowds to catch up to their leaders, to see things whole, too--the moment
we have the machinery for crowds being able to have the spiritual and
personal experiences their leaders have with the other side, crowds will
stop dismissing their leaders--the moment they see both sides, and get
practical, too.
The purpose of the local chapter of the Put-Through Clan, is to find a
means in each town of getting all crowds and groups together regularly as
one group revealing themselves, listening and being listened to, and
confiding themselves to team-thinking and to doing team-work together.
The Put-Through Clan headquarters in a town will be the Town Fireplace
for Crowds. It will be the warmest, liveliest, manliest, most genial
resort in town--where all the live men and real men who seek real
contacts and care about men who do, will get together. The refreshing and
emancipating experience many men had in army camps will be carried on and
become a daily force in the daily life of every town in America.
Sec. 8. _The Sign on the World._
I looked up yesterday and saw a sign on a church in New York. I like it
better every time I go by.
THIS CHURCH IS OPEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY FOR PRAYER, MEDITATION AND
BUSINESS.
I have been wondering just who the man is who had the horse-sense and
piety to take up the secret of business and the grip of religion both,
telegraph them into ten words like this, and make a stone church say them
at people a thousand a minute, on the busiest part of the busiest street
in New York.
Whoever the man is, he stands for the business men we want for the
Put-Through Clan first.
One of the first things the Put-Through Clan is going to dramatize is
this sign on the Marble Collegiate Church.
The men in America in the next twenty years who are going to carry
everything before them in business, drive everybody and everything out of
their way, take possession of the great streets and the great factories
in the name of God and the people, are the men who practice daily the
spirit of this sign, the men in business who refuse to go tumtytumming
along in a kind of thoughtless inertia of motion, doing what everybody's
doing in business--the men who turn one side (by whatever name they call
it) to pray, to snuggle up to God and think.
Men who have success before them in business are the men who have the
most imagination in business.
Imagination with most of us consists in taking time to see things before
other people do, in connecting up what we do with its larger, deeper,
more permanent relations, relating what we do to ourselves, to others, to
our time and generation, to the things we have done before and to the
things that must be done next.
"Prayer, Meditation and Business."
It is wonderful how these words, when one comes on a man who does not say
anything about it and puts them together, tone each other up.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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