24 THE FARMER AND THE NEW DAY 



government, and to the conditions of living, will have 

 regard primarily, not incidentally or accidentally, to 

 the common man, to the great masses of men and 

 women. They are to have in vastly enlarged measure 

 the opportunities for comfort and happiness and re- 

 warding labor and growth of mind and heart, that 

 have to so great an extent been the privilege of the 

 few. 



2. Planning a Civilization. The very fact that the 

 work of the world has been done on the basis of indi- 

 vidual interest, has led to a certain measure of drifting 

 or chance development. One might, of course, be led 

 to make this statement too strong, for there has been 

 a vast deal of planning. Perhaps the best single test 

 of an efficient civilization is the ability of men and 

 women to plan how they will work and live together; 

 what their great objectives are to be and how they can 

 best be attained. In the past this planning has been 

 done largely by the few, and in the interests of the few. 

 Plans for the many have as a whole been made with- 

 out their assent, and not always in their interest. The 

 spirit of the New Day will call for a better and bigger 

 plan of work and life for all men in the interest of all 

 alike. 



3. Reconciling Efficiency and Freedom. The idea 

 of efficiency has come to stay. Wasted effort, wasted 

 resources, wasted time are immoral, " dead wrong." 

 The spirit of the New Day demands from each person, 

 from each working group or class, from each social 

 institution its utmost effectiveness and largest exer- 

 cise of capacity. At this point, we are obliged to learn 

 from Germany; to fail to do so would be foolish. For 

 Germany, beyond any other nation, has learned to 

 make a plan for the work and life of her people that 



