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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 1, 1944

Yes, the common people need training -- lots of it -- to be able to rise to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in this great republic.

Similarly, in our higher schools of learning there must be more easily available classes in Statecraft (and again i do not mean "practical politics"). There should be full and complete training for those who wish to make a life-time career of statesmanship, diplomacy, and such governmental duties. It is really far more important than our West Point and Annapolis. These students should be taught with the correlations between the mere act of holding an office and the larger world-aspects of governmental needs and policies. They should have a chance to know how economics, business, education, religion and government all need to be closely intertwined. They should be taught to distinguish and properly evaluate the relationships of these entwined factors of the daily lives and needs of every person in the world today. They should be taught the various items of difference between our system of government and that of other great nations of the world, and how those differences may or may not affect our international relationships.

Similarly, when a person is proposed, or proposes himself, as a candidate for any office, high or low, he should be made to show that he is qualified for that office by former training and beliefs and previous ability in corresponding lines of private endeavor. If a man, for instance, has never been able to make a financial showing of ability in his private and public life, he should not be allowed to obtain a public position where he would have to handle and invest the public funds. If he has never been a success in personnel relationships in his business and private life, he should not be allowed to take a public office which largely is one of personnel relations. If he has never held any sort of an executive position in the business world he should not be allowed to become a high governmental executive.

Governmental business, whether of a city, state or the nation, has become BIG business, and those who are intrusted with its handling should be men of the highest probity who have also demonstrated by training and experience that they are capable, by having handled commensurate positions in private or business life. A man who, neither by training, experience or inheritance, has come into touch with the problems of the common people, should never be allowed to control the destinies of the common people. Business is not run that way, so why should government, the biggest business, be?

This it seems to the observer, is the very epitome of common sense, but how seldom do we see it carried through in political affairs!

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Yes, the common people need training -- lots of it -- to be able to rise to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in this great republic. Similarly, in our higher schools of learning there must be more easily available classes in Statecraft (and again i do not mean "practical politics"). There should be full and complete training for those who wish to make a life-time career of statesmanship, diplomacy, and such governmental duties. It is really far more important than our West Point and Annapolis. These students should be taught with the correlations between the mere act of holding an office and the larger world-aspects of governmental needs and policies. They should have a chance to know how economics, business, education, religion and government all need to be closely intertwined. They should be taught to distinguish and properly evaluate the relationships of these entwined factors of the daily lives and needs of every person in the world today. They should be taught the various items of difference between our system of government and that of other great nations of the world, and how those differences may or may not affect our international relationships. Similarly, when a person is proposed, or proposes himself, as a candidate for any office, high or low, he should be made to show that he is qualified for that office by former training and beliefs and previous ability in corresponding lines of private endeavor. If a man, for instance, has never been able to make a financial showing of ability in his private and public life, he should not be allowed to obtain a public position where he would have to handle and invest the public funds. If he has never been a success in personnel relationships in his business and private life, he should not be allowed to take a public office which largely is one of personnel relations. If he has never held any sort of an executive position in the business world he should not be allowed to become a high governmental executive. Governmental business, whether of a city, state or the nation, has become BIG business, and those who are intrusted with its handling should be men of the highest probity who have also demonstrated by training and experience that they are capable, by having handled commensurate positions in private or business life. A man who, neither by training, experience or inheritance, has come into touch with the problems of the common people, should never be allowed to control the destinies of the common people. Business is not run that way, so why should government, the biggest business, be? This it seems to the observer, is the very epitome of common sense, but how seldom do we see it carried through in political affairs! 23