Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-20
THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL
BY H. Addington Bruce
ITO an Englishman, Albert Mansbridge,
we are indebted for this admirable
statement of the democratic ideal

we are indebted for this admirable
statement of the democratic ideal;
Democracy is a state of society in which
every individual not only has the opportunity
to make the best of his or her own individual
gifts, but actually takes advantage of the OPP
portunity"
If it cannot be conyincingly ALLEGED that
in any land these two great implications of
democracy are as yet anywhere Ear realiza-
tiOn at least it is true that in many lands
today there is discernible, more plainly than
ever before, the impulse to their realization
One has only to read news dispatches and
newspaper articles to appreciate this.
Almost everywhere among civilized peoples
there is growing Impotence with condi-
tiOns adverse to a genuine and complete de-
mocracy. Heavy blows are being stack
against everything which initiates against
equality Of opportunity for self-deyelopment
as witness, for example, the campaign to
abolish commercialized child labor. At the
same time the possibilities and purposes of
self-development itself are under close
scrutiny
More and more clearly it is perceived that
the democratic ideal demands a self-deyelop-
ment that has other than wholly material
and selfish ends in view. Merely to amuse
onseIf, merely to earn living or perchance
give oneself feverishy to an amassing Of
democracy.
If the sordid spectacle of materialistic self
seeking is still to be widely witnessed, there
is evident a growing interest in things of the
mind and of the spirit The young men and
women of all nations are seeking in ever
greater numbers the boon of higher educa-
ton, and by one means or anot older men
and women strive after the SAM boon.
Nothing is more impressive, nothing
mo l.
ed adult education movement. To study, to
reflect, to discuss cultural as well as occupa-
tional subjects is now the leisure avocation
Of multitudes who discover to their great
joy that intellectual growth is possible at
any age and brings with it rich rewards.
And beneath the adult education move
ment-motiyating it, in facts steadily
rising sense of social responsibility.
Herein, too, we have another tremendous
ly hopeful sign There is ample proof that
cooperation, effort by each for the good Of
all. is more abundantly felt to be a prime
human necessity. With increasing co-opera-
ton the ultimate vindication of democracy
Will draw closer and closer.
Copyright. 1924.C
lude to execution. The habit of swift realiza-
ton of his every wish had grown with him,
and that habit guided now his course.
He made his preparations quickly, and on
the morrow the Spanish carack-lately label
ed Nuestra Sonora de las Llagas, but with
that label carefully effaced from her quarter
trimmed her sails and stood out for the
open Atlantic, nayigated by Captain Jasper
Leigh. The three galleys under the com
mand Of Biskaine-eI-Bor crept slowly east
ward and homeward to Algiers, hugging the
coast, as was the corsair habit.
The wind favored Oliver so well that with
in ten days of rounding Cape st. Vincent
he had his first glimpse of the Lizard.
Continued Saturday. Renew your Su'serip-
ton now to avoid missing a chapter of this
story.