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Show WE MUST HANG TOGETHER (By THEODOSIA GARRISON of the Vigilantes.) Said Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, putting down the pen with which he had just signed the Declaration of Independence : "Gentlemen, we must all hang together to-gether or assuredly we shall all hang separately." In a single phrase he combined an epigram, a warning, a declaration of faith and, incidentally, framed a motto for the present generation. The value of team work for the national na-tional good is unquestioned ; the value of the individual beyond the share he contributes to the. general power is negligible. neg-ligible. This undented fact, acknowledged acknowl-edged by everybody and more often quoted than applied, waited to he demonstrated dem-onstrated in its entirety by the Imperial Imper-ial German government, who, after Its fashion, lost no time in claiming it as a personal discovery, marking it with the "Made in Germany" stamp and promptly christening it "efficiency." Mind you, it is the German government govern-ment that has made Its people efficient, and that by the simple and direct method of the brutal overseer who lashed a gang of slaves into the perfect per-fect workmen that produced the 100 per cent, result he desired. The individual who with all his heart ivlsh.es a certain thing accomplished doesn't have to be whipped into his work, and the difference between slavery slav-ery and freedom, between autocracy nnd democracy, lies In that Individual himself. "The nation," says President Wilson, "needs nil men. but It needs each man. not In the field that will most pleasure him, but In the endeavor that will best serve the common good." |