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makes their combined effort most effective toward 

 whatever end or purpose she has in mind. The Ger- 

 man plan fails to meet the test that will be imposed 

 by an American, and in the long run the best interests 

 of her own people, because the plans are made and 

 executed for and not by the many. They are superim- 

 posed by supermen upon those below. The true demo- 

 crat will not despise wise leadership more of that 

 later. But men will be free. There is a growing 

 conviction among thoughtful people that perhaps the 

 biggest single task of the New Day is to secure the full 

 efficiency of men and peoples, while conserving their 

 liberty, their initiative, their private power to think 

 and plan and do. 



4. Duties as well as Rights Are to be Emphasized 

 and even Enforced. The common man has thus far 

 made his fight for opportunity largely on the basis of 

 justice. He has claimed that he has not had his 

 " rights." He has antagonized the so-called " rights " 

 of the privileged classes because he believed that these 

 rights created great wrongs. Now the spirit of the 

 New Day is a spirit of righteousness rightness. It 

 holds that the great test of all human endeavor is 

 whether or not it is right. The moral not the economic 

 method and result is after all the big thing. The 

 struggle for the rights of the common man is there- 

 fore a legitimate struggle. If he cannot secure his 

 rights, he cannot be free, and if he cannot be free, he 

 cannot grow to the full stature of a man. Now the 

 common people gladly receive this doctrine when it 

 applies to their own rights. This is natural, for they 

 feel and on the whole have a right to feel that their 

 rights have been denied them. They believe that the 

 struggle for their rights is a righteous struggle. 



