The way to be a prophet and to interpret and establish in a nation is to lead in the business world to-day in establishing principles of competition, which exalt and interpret human nature, free the common sense, the will, the glory and the religion of the people. The way to be a President, the next four years, is to use the White House and all the resources of the Government to cooeperate with and back up this type of American business man. V THE RED FLAG AND THE WHITE HOUSE The first qualification the next President should run for the Presidency on is his vision or program for the nation with regard to backing up men in American life--democracy and the Red Flag. The first thing a President should see about the Red Flag is that the Red Flag is up to the people and not up to the White House--up to the people in five hundred thousand factories and offices and stores, up to the people on both sides of a hundred thousand counters, up to everybody who buys a paper of pins or a pound of cheese while they are buying it, up to everybody who buys a house or a watch or a cake of soap, a safety razor or a railroad, up to everybody while he is producing, while he is buying and selling, up to everybody individually and collectively to see that in every ten cents they spend in this country and every ten minutes they work in this country, the Red Flag--the civil war flag, is stamped on. Only the people can head off the Red Flag--all of the people working on it on their daily job all of the time. The more our President believes that the work of dealing with the Red Flag in this country is up to the people the more he gets the people to believe it, puts the work off on the people, the better the work will be done, the further the Red Flag will be from getting hold of the country and the longer the President will be in the White House. We call our President our Chief Executive. What we put him in the White House and make him our chief executive for is that he shall have imagination about a hundred million people besides himself, that he shall have imagination about what the people can do and imagination about getting them to do it. An executive is a man whose work is making other people work. We call the place in which we have our President live the Executive Mansion. The best man to elect to live in it is the man who can make a hundred million people work. THE END End of Project Gutenberg's The Ghost in the White House, by Gerald Stanley Lee