WHAT TO DO NEXT
Gale, Zona
What To Do Next By ZONA GALE SAUK CITY has today shown the State of Wisconsin what to do next in political organization. Superintendent Cary has compared this town action with the founding of the...
...And "Patriotism is one of the temporary and intermediate phenomena of social love...
...and by taking them on auto trips and to moving picture shows Doctor South wins their confidence and affection, and makes their three weeks at the institute a pleasant and memorable chapter in their lives...
...was the answer...
...and the argument of the reactionaries is that the direct party primary has failed and there is nothing else but to go back to the party convention...
...The thing that you have done here today is to show the way not back, but forward to the Primary Assembly...
...That is the threat...
...A new Harvey," he says, "will show the circulation of the blood from a common heart" And again: "Our special task is to iterate and reiterate to one another that society is organized love...
...Economic justice for labor, political and social freedom for women, peace, race fellowship—all these things, one after another, have to be tested by this new understanding...
...And when once the complete Primary Assembly is realized—the absurdity of the present position of women will be visualized to imaginations which have not yet seen...
...this citizens' assembly is weekly...
...This program realizes the Wisconsin idea—the identification of politics and education...
...This Primary Assembly of the citizenship keeps the democracy of the direct primary, with all the social and deliberative values of the convention, secured not for a few, but for all the people...
...We call it Social Love...
...Many of those who come to her for observation and treatment are poor mountain folk who have few enjoyments...
...It means the abolition of party platforms, the establishment of the common ground, the town meeting principle without the town meeting limitations...
...For at bottom the impulse of social love is what brought us all here today, and what made possible this ceremony...
...asked one...
...It was largely in consequence of her demonstration of the ravages of that wicked parasite, the hookworm, that the state authorities, aided by the Rockefeller Commission, are carrying on a systematic campaign to extirpate the hookworm disease...
...this citizens' assembly considers all its relationships, local, state, national, and human...
...How shall we get enough of this social love, sufficiently expressing itself...
...The party convention which it displaced was social for a few, but utterly undemocratic...
...this assembly plays, sings, dances...
...It is printed on this page...
...For one we realize that the next step in evolution is upon us—as a world—and that only in our understanding of social love as the new note in social life can we find out the next things we ought to know about life...
...Pass...
...Is there not inspiration in her reference to "Social Love as the new note in social life...
...The moving of the ballot box from city hall to school house symbolized the completeness with which the people of this community have employed the "social center" as an effective instrument of self-rule and self-expression...
...We are even summoned to discuss the commercialization of public recreation —and do discuss it, and go home, without understanding—yet—that the meeting adjourned too soon, before un-commercialized recreation had time to express itself in practice...
...Medical College in Philadelphia in 1902...
...More and more frequently some form of the simple, normal method of Primary Assembly is in use to thresh out specific discussions: Peace, suffrage, initiative and referendum, the short ballot, the new pavement for the main street—any night we are likely to be summoned to discuss these...
...How did your daughter pass her examination for a position as teacher...
...It is an expression of a strong primal force, which is more and more definitely expressing itself in social life...
...An Able Strategist in the War On Disease A PICTURE and sketch of Dr...
...For how could it be then that women should sit in the common meetings, bring their contributions of specialized knowledge on school and home—and more—and then, on the ballot-casting day, absent themselves from the common gathering-place while these things were all decided for them...
...Go back to the party convention...
...The Very Idea Two suburban mothers met on the train one day, and the topic of their conversation was their daughters...
...When shall we see that not best in desultory meetings, called to discuss our common business, but in regular assemblings, in meetings inclusive of wide social meanings, shall the real voice of the people—about which we say so much—actually be heard, and be answered...
...not of the University and the Capitol but of the citizens' forum and the public school...
...LippincotVs...
...And there is only one answer...
...then we test by the new standard, everything that happens...
...Thus was completed the machinery for giving Sauk City a true Social Center...
...What next...
...And it is chiefly because today marks in the history of this town one of the steps whereby social love provides for itself a channel, that it is a great day, that it shines out for the story of the town...
...But they cannot do it alone...
...The town meeting merely discussed...
...That is, it is the organization of the whole citizenship on the basis of common responsibility With difference of belief...
...In the time on which we are entering, there will be, as Henry Demarest Lloyd says, new Newtons and new Galileos who will work out this force which makes clear the relation of the social atoms to the social masses...
...The school building at Sauk City, Wisconsin, became the official voting place in the election of November 3. Some weeks before that day, with elaborate ceremony, the people of this community transferred their ballot box from the city hall to the school house...
...Lillian Herald South, head of the Kentucky State Bacteriological Laboratory at Bowling Green, is said to be the only woman to hold the important position of State Bacteriologist She has specialized in bacteriology ever since her graduation from the Women's...
...To find this out is your business and mine...
...Then the school principal was given the added duty of serving, with increased pay, as Civic Secretary, thus being elevated to the dignified service of a "community prime minister...
...The town meeting was yearly...
...this citizens' assembly identifies Politics with Education in place, personal service and curriculum...
...Maybe you wouldn't believe it, but they asked that girl about things that happened before she was born...
...So now, instead of consciousness of kind, we are coming to a new term for that primal force...
...The direct party primary was democratic but utterly unsocial...
...EDITOR'S NOTE...
...The school building had first been thrown open to the use of ALL the people, old and young, for civic as well as for educational purposes...
...Then we want them...
...And no other consideration of expediency or geography or time or property or tribe holds for one minute...
...An extract from the article follows: "There could be little progress in the war against disease but for the work of the bacteriologist who, like an able military strategist, but using a microscope instead of a spyglass, discovers our enemies, the minute organisms that prey upon the human system, and works out the best methods of repelling their attacks...
...BUT after all, the great thing which has happened here today is more than this...
...In connection with her laboratory Doctor South conducts the only Pasteur Institute in Kentucky, where persons bitten by supposedly rabid animals are examined and treated free of charge...
...But this has led us astray, for we thought that we recognized many kinds of kinds, we emphasized specific kinds and forgot the generic kind, as Europe is doing today...
...And every door that we open to a common meeting place for purposes to which this common meeting place is now dedicated, lets in not only us who enter, but one more hint of light from the new day...
...Do they promote social love...
...Lillian H. South, Kentucky's bacteriologist, appears in the Woman's Home Companion...
...So when we judge today by our new standard, and say: "The use of the children's schoolhouse and our school-house, as a place for our common education in the business of being alive, as a place for our common gatherings and our common recreations—and-for the casting of our ballots—not quite common yet!—will this promote or decrease social love...
...The town meeting was one of two co-operative processes of the town, the other being consciously educational...
...That is an extraordinary statement— what does it mean...
...WISCONSIN led the nation ten years ago in the establishment of the direct party primary...
...We used to call it consciousness of kind...
...Great social engineers will help us—are helping us now...
...She didn't pass at all...
...Superintendent Cary has compared this town action with the founding of the Republican party at Ripon sixty years ago, saying that this beginning is historically more significant than that...
...At the celebration which crowned these achievements, Miss Zona Gale, author of "Friendship Village" and other fine stories, made an eloquent address of interpretation...
...In principle it is the Old New England town meeting...
...The town meeting was circumscribed in its discussions, considering only local affairs...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
