Having agreed to our principle, whether as individuals or groups, of being unfooled about our subconscious and automatic selves, who are the best people in a nation constituted like ours, to unfool us the most quickly, to get our attention the most poignantly, and with the least trouble to us and to themselves? IX TECHNIQUE FOR LABOR IN GETTING ITS WAY The best people to advertise a truth are the people the truth looks prominent on--the people from whom nobody expects it. In my subconscious or automatic self the decision has apparently been made and handed up to me, that there are certain books, I do not need to read. My attention has never been really got as yet, to the importance of my reading one of Harold Bell Wright's novels. But if I heard to-morrow morning that Henry Cabot Lodge and President Wilson during the last few peaceful months had both read through Harold Bell Wright's last novel, I would read it before I went to bed. Or Judge Gary and Mr. Gompers. Any common experience which I heard in the last few weeks Judge Gary and Mr. Gompers had had, a novel by Harold Bell Wright or anything--I would look into, a whole nation would look into it--the moment they heard of it--at once. The first thing to do in making a start for new brain tracks for America is to pick out persons and brain tracks that set each other off. Even an idea nobody would care about one way or the other becomes suddenly and nationally interesting to us when we find people we would not think would believe it, are believing it hard and trying to get us to believe it. Suppose for instance that next Fourth of July (I pick out this day for what I want to have happen because I have so longed for years to have something strong and sincere said or done on it that would really celebrate it)--suppose for instance that next Fourth of July, beginning early in the morning all the Labor leaders of America from Maine to California, acting as one man broke away--just took one day off, from doing the old humdrum advertising everybody expects from them--suppose they proceeded to do something that would attract attention--something that would interest their friends and disappoint their enemies--just for twenty-four hours? Suppose just for one day all the Labor leaders instead of going about advertising to themselves and to everybody the bad employers and how bad employers are in this country would devote the Fourth of July to advertising a few good ones? Then suppose they follow it up--that Labor do something with initiative in it--the initiative its enemies say it cannot have, something unexpected and original, true and sensationally fair, something that would make a nation look and that a hundred million people would never forget?