Of course there are the crowds on paper, too. Ink-mobs roam the streets.
Crowds do not get on as individual persons do, because individual crowds cannot get physically and humanly together.
It has been generally noted that the best radical labor leaders who come into definite personal contact with employers grow quite generally conservative and that the best conservative leaders become what would have once seemed to them radical when they really learn how to lead.
Why is it that when they begin to learn as leaders how things really are, they are so often impeached by the crowds they represent—by capital and labor?
The moment there are conveniences for crowds—for the rank and file of crowds to catch up to their leaders, to see things whole, too—the moment we have the machinery for crowds being able to have the spiritual and personal experiences their leaders have with the other side, crowds will stop dismissing their leaders—the moment they see both sides, and get practical, too.
The purpose of the local chapter of the Put-Through Clan, is to find a means in each town of getting all crowds and groups together regularly as one group revealing themselves, listening and being listened to, and confiding themselves to team-thinking and to doing team-work together.
The Put-Through Clan headquarters in a town will be the Town Fireplace for Crowds. It will be the warmest, liveliest, manliest, most genial resort in town—where all the live men and real men who seek real contacts and care about men who do, will get together. The refreshing and emancipating experience many men had in army camps will be carried on and become a daily force in the daily life of every town in America.
§ 8. The Sign on the World.
I looked up yesterday and saw a sign on a church in New York. I like it better every time I go by.