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be merely a question of practical, although of fundamental, social reform, at each stage to divide the advantages of these new and gradually established combinations equally between the managers, the workingmen, and the consumers. It may be regarded as a new factor in the social thinking of the National Socialists to influence the development of the great industry, so far as possi- ble, in this direction.

According to what has been said, it is only natural that the National Socialists should first of all make use of, and faithfully cooperate with, every convenient means, however small, of improving the economic condition of all poor people, so long as they are practicable and conform to economic progress. As a matter of course, therefore, they labor for the further exten- sion of the German workingmen's insurance, and for legal pro- tection for workingmen, in which measures there are still man}- defects ; and they labor for the extension of non-partisan bureaus of employment over the entire empire, and, with this extension, for an organization of employment in general. They support all efforts to ameliorate the dwellings of workingmen ; found associations for building such dwellings, and participate in undertakings for the elevation and education of all half-educated, quarter-educated, and uneducated persons ; and for this task they are especially fitted, and they are under obligation to it, since the majority of all German Protestant teachers are counted among the adherents of their mode of thought. Naturally so new a movement as that of the National Socialists has yet no exhaustive social program. Gradually, piece by piece, one will arise in the course of common effort. The demands which have been described are practically those which have been thus far fi.xed. At present we are engaged in making a special commu- nal program. Perhaps at a later time it will be permitted and possible in these pages to give news of further social and social- political progress. Paul Gohre,

Pfarrer a. D.

Leipzig.