The minds that conceive and bring the idea to the birth, that bring the idea to pass, called engineers, will act as another, and the minds that teach, bring up, draw out and apply the idea and relate the idea to life—will act as another.
I propose a club of fifty thousand creative men be selected and act together—that a nation may be conceived.
I propose that fifty thousand engineers or how-men, men who think out ways and means, be selected and act together, that the nation that is conceived may be born.
These two Clubs will have their national headquarters together in a skyscraper hotel of their own in New York and will act together—in bringing an idea for the people into the world.
The third Club—twenty or thirty million people, on the scale of the Red Cross—in ten thousand cities, will apply and educate the idea, bring it up and put it through.
What one's soul is for, I suppose, is that one can use it when one likes, to contemplate and to enjoy an Idea.
What one has a body for with reference to an idea is to take it up, try it out and put it through.
The Air Line League proposes to coördinate these three functions and operate as a three in one club.
The idea would be to call the first of the clubs, the club of inventors, the Look-Up Club. The second, a club of how-men and engineers, the Try-Out Club, and the third—the operating club of the vast body of the people taking direct action and putting the thing through locally and nationally would be called The Put-Through Clan.