A Call for Members

Actors, Amusement Experts, Archi-
tects, Cartoonists, Composers, Critics,
Dancers, Dieticians, Directors, Doctors,
Editors, Hygienists, Illustrators, Musi-
cians, Painters, Philosophers, Photog-
raphers, Physical Culturists, Poets, Sci-
entists, Sculptors, Writers and Laymen:

We, a group of American artists, realizing that the various insidious propagandas and political and economic intrigues of our day, by influencing the patronage and establishing control of our output, are gradually diverting our professions into fields of corruption, destruction and greed, and that the development of American culture, the very purpose of our lives, is thereby being defeated; realizing also that the "remedies" offered us by our politicians and economists, being too limited, even in their own limited fields, to suit even animal or insect life, are worse than hopeless in the broad field of culture; and, realizing further and feeling keenly that we must share in the responsibility for the present deplorable state of our national culture, we are determined, conscious of our power, to vindicate our professions and put our efforts into a constructive program for the development of a real American tradition.

We are therefore forming

THE AMERICAN TRADITION LEAGUE

which is to be founded on the following proposi-
tions, together with such modifications or additions
as may be necessary for the realization of its aims:

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That the world is not ugly.

That life is a great privilege.

That man has developed through instinct and
intelligence into various degrees of culture.

That culture is the quality of human happiness.

That human happiness is that state of being in
which man's faculties find their fullest expression.

That culture should dictate all political and
economic activities and establish national and in-
ternational worth.

That it is the duty of nations to develop their
culture and contribute to the health, wealth and
beauty of the world.

That the United States, favored by Providence
with a vast geographical field for unity, freedom
and expansion, a geological abundance, a climate
of widest variety, a sociology and a physiology of
unlimited combinations and a psychology as broad
as humanity, has the foundation for a great and
distinct race and a culture of enormous possibil-
ities.

That the world is to-day in need of our culture.

That the European tragedy has practically made
us the pivot of human progress.

That our responsibilities are tremendous.

That we are undergoing the acid test.

That our immediate actions will declare us a
great nation or a great abortion.

That our case is imperative.

That all our ills are due to the lack of sufficient
culture and the preponderance of racial, group,
class and individual greed.

That greed has prevented the development of
our culture.

That greed, in its various degrees, and in its col-
lective and individual forms, has dominated our
political, economic, social and industrial adminis-
trations and controlled our actions;

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— has dominated our schools, colleges, univer-
sities, museums, libraries, press, literature, art,
stage and movies and controlled our minds;

— has so buried our national tradition and
destroyed our national policy that there is little or
no understanding of what an American is;

— has moulded public opinion with empty
phrases and reduced our national spirit to mere
braggadocia;

— has repudiated the principle that governments
derive their just powers from the consent of the
governed and turned Washington, Jefferson and
Lincoln into respectable fools;

— has put all the land of our nation into the
hands of less than five per cent of our population;

— has made money-getting our chief occupation,
lowered the standard of happiness and made the
vast majority of our people "satisfied to make a
living";

— has increased the profits of the profiteers up
to three hundred thousand per cent;

— has established a beg pardon gentleness that
winks at famine, massacre and rape;

— has produced a pretty linear refinement,
called "good form," and is turning our youth into
collar ads;

— has reduced the intelligence of our pro-
ductive manhood by sixteen years;

— has cheated us with inferior commodities and
chemical and putrid "food";

— has made us a race of meat-eaters, gum-
chewers and wearers of eye-glasses;

— has made four out of every five adults the
victims of Pyorrhea;

— has made autointoxication more prevalent
here than anywhere in the world;

— has increased illiteracy and insanity and de-
creased the efficiency of our youth by thirty-two
per cent;

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— has made more drug addicts here than in all of Europe;

— has spread venereal diseases to one-fourth of our gross population;

— has shortened our length of life, filled the sanitariums and increased suicide and murder;

— is defeminizing our women and increasing degeneracy among our men;

— has belittled love, sanctified hate, and rewarded sentimentalism;

— has upset our range of values and made success cater to insipidity;

— has caused ninty-six per cent of our men of forty-five years to be dependents or barely self-supporting;

— is destroying initiative, our greatest quality;

— has encouraged snobbery and intolerance and increased lynching;

— has imposed gag laws and instituted frame-ups;

— has opposed immigration, the foundation of our nation, and prevented Americanization;

— has neglected our home qualities, imitated Europe, given us, second-hand art movements, Hungarian popular songs and German Liberty Loan posters;

— is governing our country from Wall Street and turning us into a British colony;

— is forcing men into greedy groups in order to get their share;

— is forcing wild reforms and is the direct cause of Bolshevism;

— has caused our entire nation to be dominated by less than twenty per cent of our population; which means that our freedom is less than one fifth of our fond claims and that over eighty per cent of our nation is forced, either by reward or threat of ostracization or jail, to live in various degrees of hypocrisy;

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— has enacted a "code of honor" which sanctifies distorted values, makes greed heroic and com-pels honor itself to struggle for an existence of one infinitesimal part of one per cent of the less-ened length of our average life;

— has lessened humility, mocked the sublime and made us less Christian than those we call heathen;

— has made the white man responsible for ninety per cent of the world's outrages and is forcing the yellow and black men to combine and rise in indignant and angry protest;

— is breeding more greed, rewarding greed and compelling general approval of greed.

That it is time the reign of greed should end.

— neither the Democratic party nor the Republican party will end the reign of greed:

— they are not adjusted to our culture:

— they are not an outgrowth of our geography, geology, climate, sociology, physiology or psychology and their policies do not attempt a specific American purpose.

— they are responsible for the present reign of greed and both would end with the end of the reign of greed.

— they are one and the same greedy group with headquarters in Wall Street, the American branch of the Bank of England, and are organized to perpetuate greed with a so-called league of nations.

— their one aim is to force a complete and irre-vocable commitment of our nation to an international plunderbund and they are keeping the espionage law active to prevent interference with that aim.

— their "issues" of "reservations," "mild reservations" and "no reservations" are personal squabbles over Wall Street and London patronage.

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- the Punch and Judy antics of their candidates for the highest offices of the nation, one capitalizing his babies, another his old father and another playing school, are insults to our intelligence and a disgrace to our nation.

- their Republican department's sudden mid-campaign change of label to "World Association for Conference" shows a poverty of invention rather than a steadfast adherence to a well established and fundamental principle, an organic difference from the Democratic department or an overwhelming honesty of purpose.

- British Tories, realizing that the incredulity of our most credulous of all publics has been aroused over their sacred covenant, have induced our "eminent jurists" to return home with their "intimate conversations" and advise the Republicans to offer us an alternative; and the fact that the "World Association for Conference" was offered before the arrival or the advice of our eminent jurists shows the existence of a direct cable.

- the "Loyal Coalition" exposé and "Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge" are merely the most recent of the many facts which have long since placed the Democratic department in Dowling Street.

- we are being played both ways by the London home office and the success of either means the loss of our culture and the great purpose of our existence; it means big business for Wall Street and materialism for our people, one of a dozen shares in temporary world control for Wall Street and war and more war for our people; it means arraignment against Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Russia, India, Egypt, Persia, Ireland, China, Korea, Mexico and Africa, and ultimately, yellow and black dominance.

That under the reign of greed yellow and black dominance is not comfortably remote.

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- the yellow and black races are calling our greedy system's democratic bluff.

- their argument is—"If your democratic principle is true, the majority should rule; we are the majority." "If it is the greatest happiness for the greatest number, God has given us the greatest number." "If men are born politically equal, give us our political equality." "Or do you regard us as beasts? If so the indictment is unjust for we have produced more culture than you and live less material lives." "If you don't live up to your principles as we do, but continue to take our wealth and villify us in your press, you are hypocrites, thieves and blackguards: get out!"

- with their enormous numbers force is only a matter of common sense, and common sense, when once started, moves quickly.

- with the white man exhausted from his own greedy wars, with Japan training her infants, building ships and sending her agents to Africa, yellow and black dominance is not comfortably remote.

- yellow and black dominance will revolve, as white dominance has revolved, into the hands of the greediest is of little solace to us.

That the aims of our radical politicians and economists differ from those of the older parties only by the fact that their numbers compel the principle of wider distribution of animal necessities. A condition which shows the pitiable state of our national culture.

- the philosophical differences between our radical groups are not cultural and exist to that extent in which present conditions check their relative and retaliative greed.

- the policies of our radicals, treating symptoms instead of causes, will not accomplish even their limited aims, but will lead to the same ultimate results as those of the older parties.

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- Government Ownership means a further restriction of individual freedom and a partial economic Puritanism.

- Government Ownership means politician ownership, more politicians from the ranks of our "Captains of Industry" and eventual control in the hands of the greediest.

- Industrial Nationalization means complete political control with all the "Captains of Industry," their newspapers, schools, colleges, universities, churches and social and welfare organizations concentrated into one field and forming the most powerful and greediest political machine in history.

- while Industrial Nationalization would at first shift personalities and show a wider distribution, greed would gradually convert the rank and file from industrial workers into petty politicians and the result would be inferior work, greater waste and extravagance, higher prices, concentration into the hands of the greediest, less and less distribution and less and less culture.

- Industrial Nationalization would limit individual freedom and destroy initiative at its material foundation and impair its spiritual development.

- Industrial Nationalization would not force men's minds into spiritual fields, as the radicals claim, for the most attractive, most remunerative and all dominant field would be the one created and operated by the political machine.

- Industrial Nationalization means a complete economic Puritanism, a standardization of lowered averages and the lack of variety, individual product, selection and taste.

That the radical idea of a "new Internationalism" is false.

- Internationalism is older than nations and its present name is about as old.

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- Internationalism is the interplay of national cultures.

- it is not nations, or their geography, geology, climate, societies or individuals, but their cultures which constructively interplay.

- an Internationalist is a nationalist whose product, in any field. has reached the quality of world beneficence.

- Internationalism is not a brotherhood of malcontents, but of masters.

- Internationalism is not destructive of nationalism, but dependent on nationalism.

- modern man is the product of national environment.

- international communication is a part of national environment.

- all culture is national in the making.

- Internationalism does not depend on the "Brotherhood of Man."

- Internationalism can exist between enemy nations, such as Shakespeare and Bessemer and Rablais and Pasteur in Germany and Bach and Liebig in England and France.

- Internationalism cannot be agitated into sudden completion but must grow and can grow only as national cultures grow.

- the radical idea of Internationalism is neither the result of a principle nor of a cultural necessity, but of a retaliative opposition to the international position of capitalism and is as imperialistic and class greedy as that of capitalism.

- only nations weak in culture are inclined toward radical Internationalism.

- strong nations are imperialistically inclined and can never be more than friendly.

- no two nations are equal and interrelation means assimilation or subjugation of the weaker.

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- radical Internationalism not only means as-
similation or subjugation of weak nations,
with the loss of whatever chance they may
have of becoming strong, but also the loss of
those smaller and immature cultures whose
attainments widen the range of human pos-
sibilities.

- radical Internationalism would destroy free-
dom, for freedom is protection from foreign
encroachment and isolation within an inde-
pendent order.

- national freedom outside of national limita-
tions is not Internationalism but imperialism.

- radical Internationalism depends on an
  ethical perfection and if that perfection were
  reached there would no need for a radical
  anything.

- radical Internationalism presupposes a sim-
 ilarity, and consequently a brutality, of men.

- the idea of a similarity of men is the result
  of a lack of appreciation of culture and the
  present day dearth of cultural product.

- culture depends on differences and the more
differences the more culture.

- Nature opposes radical Internationalism with
  her rich geographical, geological and climatic
  varieties which mould the types and influence
  the material and spiritual wants of men.

- radical Internationalism would result in
  world domination by the greediest radical
  nations and a combination of, and control by,
  the greediest radical groups of the greediest
  radical individuals.

- if radical Internationalism, with its precept
  of proletarian dictatorship, is true, the yellow
  and black races should rule the earth.

That the problem of good legislation is not solved
by the Soviet form.

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- the Soviet form of group representation
  means a multiplication rather than a decrease
  of the evils resulting from our present form
  of lawyer legislation.

- the Sovietist's claim that there are too many
lawyers in our legislatures is true, but it does
not follow that the industrial worker would
make the most capable legislator.

- both lawyer and industrial worker are too
limited to furnish all our legislative needs.

- Doctors, Hygienists, Dieticians, Physical
Culturists, Amusement experts, Artists, Sci-
entists and Philosophers should make up the
majorities of our legislatures.

- the errors of our legislation begin with our
  brass band and mud slinging methods of
  choosing and electing our representatives;
  methods which keep men of genius out of
  politics.

- the political campaign, with its "spellbinding" and corrupt practices, should cease, and in its stead all platforms, all candidates' interpretations of their platforms and their answers to opposing candidates should be published side by side either in the newspapers or an annual official book.

- the Soviet form does not provide a method
  of securing representatives on the basis of
  their legislative merits, but maintains the
campaign of noise.

- the Soviet form substitutes representation for
  legislation.

- the object of legislatures is not group repre-
sentation, but good legislation.

- the best legislation is least legislation.

- least legislation means direct legislation,
  which is the enactment of laws which fit their
  own, and avoid cross or hidden, purposes.

- indirect legislation is the mode of special privilege and greed and is the cause of radical revolt.

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- the Soviet form is another form of indirect legislation, with more direct representation of conflicting groups.

- the Soviet form means a multiplication of minorities, a complication of purposes and a multiplication of laws; all of which are obstacles to good legislation.

- good legislation is general legislation and the more general the legislation the more individual freedom.

- the Soviet form is special and limits individual freedom and liberates group greed.

- good legislation is limited to liberating individual freedom and limiting greed.

- the Soviet form would result in a dominance by the greediest of the larger groups and eventual formation into practically the same old divisions.

That our radical theories are intellectualistic efforts at progressive invention rather than social orders fitted to modern men and their needs.

- the radicals have picked their material from the open book of political and economic thought and woven it into dazzling theories.

- the Russian example shines because of the background of world hypocrisy and the in-tolerant tactics employed against it.

- human nature has already forced the Russians to forego a number of their original basic principles.

- as intellectualistic efforts the radical theories reach their highest value and fit the modern-ist metaphysician and his fifth dimension rather than the man on the street.

- the radical theories are opposed to national traditions.

- there is no real promise of a Bible, or of music, architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry or literature in our radical theories.

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- the radical claim that they must feed man before he can enjoy life and its beauty is not fitted to fact; for, outside of British, and Allied, (which is practically British) control, there is no such thing today as starvation or an unfed man.

- modern man has developed through instinct and intelligence into various degrees of culture and it is his culture which dictates the kind and amount of his social activities, the kind and amount of the food he eats, the kind and amount of the clothes he wears and the kind and amount of the shelter he wants.

- it is not about food, clothes and shelter that modern man is concerned, but rather the kind of food, clothes and shelter his culture demands.

- the radical theories aim at an ethical exactitude, made up of sentimental moralisms in an animal existence, and would rob man of his generosity and his beneficial extractions of fun.

- the radical efforts are for group or class control and are as bad in principle as those of the capitalists.

- no group or class can so embrace extreme opposites as to afford freedom to an entire nation, especially here where opposites are more extreme than anywhere in the world.

- the Marxian philosophy and its extensions into Socialism, Syndicalism, Communism and Bolshevism, and their offshoots, are the results of a dissatisfaction at the concentration of material wealth into the hands of the small capitalist class.

- the Marxian philosophy and its extensions are retaliative measures for taking the wealth away from the capitalists and distributing it amongst themselves.

- the capitalistic and radical systems are identical in principle, are based on class greed,

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advocate class rule and differ from each other only in matters of their numbers.

- both are material and bourgeois in character, both are opposed to democracy's basic principle of tolerance and neither is more than barely conscious of the God made differences of human natures or the cultural longings of humanity.

That our national errors began with the Puritan interpretation of democracy.

- the Puritan interpretation of democracy is collective, and minimizes the democratic principle of individual rights.

- the Puritan interpretation of democracy is imperialistic, and violates the democratic fundamental of tolerance.

- the Puritan interpretation of democracy is utilitarian and material, and has interfered with the development of our culture.

- in spite of its tenacious loyalty to its principle of state supremacy and its prediction of a resultant mighty race, there is no race culturally deader than the present American Puritan—the controller of the Democratic and Republican parties and the father of the collective basis, and the imperial, utilitarian and material impulses of our modern radical thought.

- the Puritan's interpretation has fitted democracy into the aims of his own racial greed and has been amazingly successful in diverting our national activities from their natural purpose.

- Providence has ordained a specific purpose for our nation; that Washington began its realization, Adams tried to adjust its "Weights and Measures," but the Puritan interpretation then started to gain general acceptance, and, despite the stupendous influence of Lincoln, there is not a political, economic, social or educational organization in

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the country to-day which appreciates the purpose of our national existence:

- the consensus of American opinion today is that our national purpose is subsidiary to a Puritan (or Anglo-Saxon) gentility—a table manner substitute for the Golden Rule!

- we are gradually following in the footsteps of Scotland, Wales, Canada and Australia, who admit their inferiority and have become completely commercial and culturally non-productive.

- the cause of most of our political mistakes has been the general acceptance of the Puritan interpretation, rather than the Puritan himself, who has merely acted a la mode and been a successful victim under our reign of greed and lost many of the joys of this wonderful life.

- the Puritan interpretation of democracy has developed an intense imperialistic intolerance which has manifested itself in witch-burning, lynching, tar and feather parties, law and order mobs, gag laws, frame-ups, etc.:

- intolerance has prevented many much needed contributions to our culture, has bred hypocrisy and secrecy and reversed the teachings of Confucius, Moses and Christ who made tolerance the basis of the Golden Rule.

- tolerance is the basis of civilization.

- tolerance is the basis of democracy.

- tolerance comes from that degree of culture which shows that the beauty of life depends on life's differences.

- all nature, and especially our own land with its many varieties, teaches tolerance.

- our geographic, geologic and climatic variations, the varieties of our social constituents and the physical, mental and spiritual differences.

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ences of our individuals cannot be organized
into a nation with a constructive purpose
except on the basis of tolerance.

- the cause of intolerance is greed.

- racial, class, group and individual greed have
prevented the development of our democracy
and side-tracked our national purpose.

That our national purpose is not an Anglo-Saxon "gentility," which excludes the cultural offerings of over eighty per cent of our number and shows a greater race suicide than any of our racial elements.

- our national purpose is a new and distinct race and a new and distinct culture, made up of, and produced by, one hundred per cent of Americans.

- our early break with England was not only
caused by a political squabble which might
be patched up, but by a geographical, geo-
logical, climatic, sociological, physiological,
psychological and cultural difference which
grows greater day by day.

- our land has attracted men of all bloods and traditions, who, under our promise of democracy, are entitled to play their relative part and contribute their best to our nation.

- we are an immigrant nation.

- none of our active elements originated here
and none have a prior claim on the ground
of originality.

- all claims rest on the qualifications to carry
out our national purpose.

- Immigration is the foundation of our nation and its one hundred and forty years of operation, in which all elements played their parts, has made us a first class power and the wealthiest nation and proven the political and social possibilities of our national experiment.

- Immigration is necessary to our maturity and to our present existence.

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- if Immigration drops the bottom drops out of our nation and an Anglo-Saxonia will be the result.

- the Anglo-Saxon element has been opposing Immigration and has "put over" Prohibition which interferes with Immigration and is preventative of a further dilution, by Immigration, of Anglo-Saxon dominance.

- we need Latin and Oriental subtleties and idealisms to dilute our increasing materialism.

- the class of immigrant we are now getting is small in labor element and is not being led here so much by a love of our institutions as by the hope of a better opportunity to make money.

- large numbers of our immigrants are leaving and larger numbers are waiting for Russia to open up.

- Russia's bid for Immigration, with her vast geographical accommodation, her big reconstruction plan and her promise to labor of labor rule, is more attractive to labor than ours.

- our non-assimilation of the immigrant is not due so much to his unwillingness as to his disappointment over the failure of our institutions to function normally.

- our need is to attract the immigrant and at the same time to prevent greedy racial dominance by establishing, on the basis of adherence to the Golden Rule, that balance of racial groups which is necessary for the maturity of our nation and the realization of its purpose.

That it is as desirable for us to learn foreign languages as it is incumbent upon the immigrant to learn English, a borrowed language which our usage has altered and shown to be unfitting for a great number of our purposes

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and preventative of our idiomatic and lyric
growth.

— criticism by artificial standards of racial
greed has prevented the study of other lan-
guages.

— we have contracted with the immigrant to
provide the means for his personal liberty
under a beneficial democracy, but are sup-
plying him with a linguistic mould into
which he cannot fit his cultural offerings,
and so he enters our midst an odd and
greedy individual.

— our contract with the immigrant imposes an
obligation, as well as a precaution, on our
part of a sympathetic understanding of the
qualities of culture he has to offer; which
understanding can come only through a
knowledge of his language.

— the English language, great and valuable as
its contributions would be in forming a com-
ponent element, has not, as a national tongue,
been successful in providing a means for
the full expression of the thoughts and feel-
ings of over eighty per cent of our number.

— the English language, as a national tongue,
ties us to a foreign condition, which, good
or bad, does not help us to complete national
distinction.

— it will take a long time to improve our lin-
guistic condition, owing to the slow growth
of language; which fact is a national haz-
zard and an added reason for immediate
efforts in the study of all modern languages.

That the race purist's argument that only certain
racial groups can combine or unite fits only
the conditions of past elemental races and
has little or no application to our problem;
for our national environment, which has as
often changed features and forms in one
generation and is developing a distinct type

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will, under a reign of culture, work through
a liberated natural selection and prevent
race deterioration.

— the race purist's claim of an indubitable
dominance by the strongest, (which to him
is the Aryan) race, is based on a conception
of strength which was formed by contem-
plating the most violent manifestations of
greed and not the most constructive develop-
ments of culture.

— the race purist has left most of the world's
culture out of consideration and draws his
conclusion from a purely material and
greedy premise.

— there are no pure races in the civilized
world.

— all civilized races are mixed.

— the Anglo-Saxon and the Teuton, for whom
the race purist pleads, are both mixed.

— the Anglo-Saxon owes all of his best culture
to a mixture of Norman blood, which, un-
fortunately, was completely absorbed ages
ago.

— the Teuton owes all of his best culture to
his Bavarian mixture, which has been weak-
ened under the rule of the Prussian, the
full first cousin of the Anglo-Saxon.

— it was through admixture that man turned
from savagery to civilization and developed
the idea of tolerance and democracy.

— race mixture here has produced the most
beautiful women in the world.

— it is the culture of a race and not the race
which is all important and in which there is
any human superiority or inferiority.

— competition is the order of the universe and
there will always be racial, class, group and
individual competition resulting in domina-
tion by what Fortune at the moment makes

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the strongest, and which will be, under a
reign of greed, the greediest, or under a
reign of culture, the most cultured—the
happiest.

- as happiness breeds happiness, the happiest race, class, group or individual is entitled, by nature, by reason and by right, to dominate.

That Providence has favored us with all the requirements for the highest type of civilization.

- the highest type of civilization is that in which the widest human differences are united for a cultural purpose.

- nowhere in the world is there a greater possibility for so wide a range of idea and emotion, invention and creation and vibration and movement in the social order as here.

- we have already in our youth, and in spite of our reign of greed, added to the world's possessions, excelled in the fields of hygiene, electricity, athletics and engineering, made many beginnings, of both high and varying worth, in poetry, literature, journalism, dancing, music, movies, painting and sculpture and developed national characteristics.

- as culture is the quality of human happiness, as human happiness is the full expression of man's faculties, as the full expression of man's faculties depends on individual freedom, and, as greed, which is abnormal material desire, interferes with individual freedom and the full expression of man's faculties, restricts human happiness and prevents the development of culture, our problem calls for the liberation of individual freedom and the limitation of greed.

- our remedy can be applied through governmental function.

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- a revolution is not necessary.

- government is primarily an educational institution whose function is to provide the means for the growth of culture.

- government is the result of individual wills, individuals are not the results of government will.

- least government is best government.

- government, in order to fit human nature, of which greed is still an integral part, should permit some greed rather than restrict individual freedom.

- government begins, not where greed begins, but where liberal individual freedom ends.

By way of applying a remedy the League further proposes:

- freedom of thought, speech and press be restored, the Espionage Law immediately repealed and amnesty granted to all political prisoners.

- individual activities be liberated into foreign relations by an immediate declaration of peace and reciprocal treaties with all nations on the basis of the fourteen points.

- the principle of Self-determination be encouraged and an asylum afforded to political refugees.

- an army and navy of sufficient size to insure protection from foreign encroachment be maintained.

- our forests be preserved, arid lands irrigated and agriculture promoted.

- Doctors, Hygienists, Dieticians, Physical Culturists, Amusement Experts, Artists, Scientists, and Philosophers be elected to our legislatures.

- all judges be elected.

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- political campaigns be prohibited and in their stead all platforms, candidates' interpretations and their answers to opposing candidates be simultaneously published in the form of logical and dignified debate.

- a plan be formulated for the extension of public fun.

- free music, dancing, vaudeville and movies should be in all parks and public schools.

- Saturday should be a full legal holiday and that we should have holidays in honor of our masters in art, science and industry and thereby provide for our vital need of more leisure and opportunity for self-development.

- our national anthem be changed from "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Dixie."

- all cities of the first class should erect and maintain a building accommodating free exhibitions of American painting, sculpture, architecture, acting, dancing and athletics, concerts and readings and lectures and debates, etc., on all forms and angles of philosophy, science and art.

- our educational system be readjusted to our culture and group and class influences be eradicated from schools.

- all modern languages be encouraged and taught in schools, colleges and universities.

- the intelligent dissemination of sex hygiene be promoted.

- the ownership of an invention should revert back to the inventor if, after a reasonable time, the invention is not put to its natural use.

- as all wealth comes from the land all revenue should come from the taxation of land.

- Prohibition should be modified because it is not wanted by the majority, because it is an

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unnecessary restriction of personal liberty, because it increases the warping habits of secrecy and spying, because it establishes a precedent and a habit of mind for further restrictions of personal liberty, because it interferes with immigration and because it attempts the impossible—to stop a universal habit of centuries upon centuries in which all men, the greatest, the lowliest and the holiest, have participated.

- the way to stop intemperance is by compulsory physical training for all citizens between the ages of ten and forty years and the encouragement of an athletic manhood and womanhood.

- there should be "sky blue laws" in all states.

- large gifts by individuals or groups to foreigners should be prohibited:

- heavy fines should be the penalties for food or drink adulterations and the purchaser of any food or drink should have the right to know its exact ingredients and should be encouraged by public approval to investigate and expose such adulterations.

- as men are not yet fully compensated by the simple joy in the doing of things and crave and need credit and reward, public recognition should be given to ability and worth by the presentation of graded decorations and insignias to those who add to any existing, or start any new, field of constructive activity:

- there should be government inspection of the books of public and semi-public corporations and institutions to prevent destructive and deceptive purposes.

That the cause of the high cost of living is greed;

the cause of inflated currency is greed;
the cause of watered stocks is greed;

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the cause of dishonest officials is greed;
the cause of all labor disputes is greed;
the cause of the farmers' troubles is greed;
the cause of bad food is greed;
the cause of bad laws is greed;
the cause of graft is greed;
the cause of dishonest officials is greed;
the cause of intolerance is greed;
the cause of frame-ups is greed;
the cause of fake is greed;
the cause of crime is greed;
the cause of intrigue is greed;
the cause of insidious propagandas is greed;
the cause of the League of Nations is greed;
the cause of the World Association for Con-
ference is greed;
the cause of the War was greed;
the cause of the wars after the War is
greed;
the cause of imperialism is greed;
the cause of all our political and economic
ills is greed.

That individual greed is the narrowest and most
destructive form of greed, is the cause of all
other forms of greed, and is the core of
our political and economic ills:

- no individual needs to possess more than
one hundred thousand dollars, but to sudden-
ly restrict individual ownership to that
amount at this day and date, when greed is
the most active element of our physical and
intellectual motor power, might be imprac-
tical:

- a good starting point in the limitation of
individual greed is the limitation of indivi-
dual ownership to one million dollars:

- there is nothing extremely new or violently
radical about the limitation of individual
ownership, for it has been embodied in all
religions and is a fundamental of Christ's
teachings:

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- charity itself springs from the recognition
that some have more than they need and
some less:

- the ten commandments are restrictions of
individual greed and the idea is hazily, but
positively, in the minds of modern men as
instanced in the philosophies of Carnegie,
Ford and even Rockefeller:

- in no department of human activity, out-
side of money, would our intelligence, our
morality, or our feeling tolerate individual
greed:

- if individual greed at table is so repulsive
and deserving of the summary ejection of the
individual, money greed, which is the cause
of our political and economic evils, should at
least meet with a like fate:

- the limitation of individual ownership will
restrict initiative only in the case of the
greedy consumer:

- initiative is limited by demand; which, under
a reign of culture and the liberation of
taste (which is the desire of a fuller realiza-
tion of life) will be widened and increased:

- the limitation of individual ownership to
one million dollars will not prevent the in-
dividual from earning or making more
money, from promoting industry, science,
art, welfare, etc., or doing with his money
as he pleases, except keeping more than a
million dollars.

- it will not interfere with the financing of
important enterprises for they are now and
will continue to be financed with the people's
savings through the banks and private and
stock exchange investments:

- it will not place us at a disadvantage in com-
petition with other countries, for other coun-

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tries, especially under present circumstances,
would benefit by following suit; or, by not
following suit, risk the loss of large num-
bers from their laboring and middle classes
who would be attracted here by increased
and better opportunities.

— the cry of "confiscation" against the limita-
tion of individual ownership is less fitting
than in any instance where a confisca-
tory method has been legally and morally
pronounced justifiable, for, in the examples
of slavery, excess profits and even the tak-
ing of the liberty or the life of a criminal,
other issues were partly or wholly involved;
while here the method is less than confisca-
tory and effects only that which is not
needed.

That our remedy is not automatic, nor are our
citizens automatons; that room is left for the play
of differences and that the play of differences is
what makes the world beautiful and life worth
while.

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The League is being formed to introduce and
carry out its propositions by political, economic
and professional action.

Any American who has read the foregoing prop-
ositions and is in general accord with them is
eligible for membership.

Annual dues are at present fixed at four dollars.

Each member will receive the publications the
League will issue. It is at present planned to pub-
lish a monthly devoted to the development of
American culture.

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