the ranks. Thus a continuous stream of necessary goods and services would be kept flowing steadily from the hands of the Young Workers, and pouring out over the entire population would furnish a basic livelihood for everybody for life.

This Organization composed of Young Workers in the public service, together with their directors and leaders, is called in this book, for convenience—the “Commons.”

Their patriotic, public, industrial service completed, the Young Commoners—still young at the age of 26—would graduate, or demobilize and, leaving the service as free men and women, would thereafter disperse to their homes. For the remainder of their lives they would receive from the relays of Young Commoners who would succeed them a full supply of the necessaries of life constituting a competence. Thus there would be conferred upon the nation, for the first time in history that any people have attained it, complete economic emancipation.

Having graduated, the Young People would be no longer Commoners but would be free citizens—potential capitalists. The world they would enter would be constituted precisely as in our present-day capitalistic system, i. e., competitive, individualistic, profit-seeking—a world in which buying and selling for profit is the prevailing practice (and of course with the use of money).

In this sphere—called in this book for convenience—the “Capitals,” the individual citizen is at liberty to engage in the pursuit of wealth, fame, leisure, sport, trade, culture, pleasure, or any other aim that attracts him. Nothing except his own limitations will put any bar to his ambitions.

He may continue to work or not, as he chooses. His basic livelihood in any case is secured. All that he needs will be delivered at his door, or placed at his disposal as long as he lives. This competence—in actual goods and services, not in money, he cannot lose or give away, or be robbed of.