The twenty-five hundred dollars Frank Cousins of Detroit recognized Henry Ford with, a few years ago, he gave back the other day to Henry Ford for twenty-nine million dollars.
People say as if that was all there was to it, that the fate of this nation to-day turns on our national manpower.
But what does our national man-power turn on?
It turns on people's knowing and knowing in the nick of time, a man when they see one.
Man-power in a democracy like ours turns on having inventors, bankers and crowds act together.
Sometimes banks hold things back by being afraid to coöperate with inventors or men of practical imagination.
This is called conservatism.
Sometimes it is the crowds and laborers who hold things back by being afraid to coöperate with leaders or men of imagination.
But the fate of all classes turns upon our having men of creative imagination believed in by men who furnish money, and believed in by men who furnish labor.
The idea of the Look-Up Club is that men of creative imagination shall be got together, shall be made class-conscious, shall feel and use their power themselves and put it where other people can use it.