Every member of the Cabinet has a news engineering job.
And the fact seems to be that the moment the news is attended to in each member's department—applied news, special and private news, turned on and set to work where it is called for—most members of cabinets, secretaries of making people do things, and for that matter, the Presidents of making people do things will be thrown out of employment. The Secretaries of What People Think, and the President of What People Think—the engineers of the news in this nation—will be the men who govern it.
CHAPTER XV
NEWS-CROWDS
I have tried to express in the last chapter, some kind of tentative working vision or hope of what authors and of what newspaper men can do in governing a country.
This chapter is for anybody, any plain human being.
Governments all over the world to-day are groping to find out what plain human beings are like.
It does not matter very long what other things a government gets wrong, if it gets the people right.
This suggests something that each of us can do.