Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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 By GERALD STANLEY LEE Author of "Crowds" and "Inspired Millionaires" "_The White House is haunted by a vague helpless abstraction,--by a kind of ghost of the nation, called The People_" NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO. 681 FIFTH AVENUE Copyright, 1920 BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY _All Rights Reserved_ First printing May, 1920 Printed in the United States of America TO JENNETTE LEE Transcriber's Note: Chapter XXII in Book II was printed without a title. CONTENTS BOOK I WHAT THE PEOPLE EXPECT OF THE PEOPLE I Gist 3 II The Lonesomest Job on Earth 4 III The President and the Ghost 6 IV Real Folks and the Ghost 12 V The Ghost Receives an Invitation 16 VI What a Body for the Ghost Would be Like 20 VII The Ghost gets Down to Business 25 VIII Three Rights of Man in a Democracy--The Right to Think 27 IX The Right to be Waited On 32 X The Right to Whisper 36 XI The Right to Whisper Together 39 XII The Right to Trust Somebody 41 XIII The Right to Vote All Day 46 XIV The Skilled Consumer 48 XV Sample Democracies 51 XVI The Town Pendulum 54 XVII The National Listening Machine 58 XVIII How the National Listening Machine Will Work 62 XIX Making a Right Start 64 XX Up to the People 66 XXI The Way for a Nation to Speak Up 68 BOOK II WHAT EACH MAN EXPECTS OF HIMSELF