Soveriegnty; W. P. Patrick

In our business, sovereignty means being separate, yet at tracted to one another by mutual interests. We are separate and sovereign business people. We are, as I once called it, "independent contrac tors." Measure your independence against the salaried employee of any company. Compare your growth, your income, and your op portunitieswith their "security." Would you like to be limited to a salaried security and menial mediocrity? I doubt it. Our method of marketing proves the reality of the American Mr. Patrick is Chairman of the Board of Holiday Magic Cosmetics, Inc., uniquely or ganized as a system of "independent contrac tors!' This article is from his column in the November-December 1967 issue of the com pany magazine, The Wand. 112 Dream as shown by independent, enterprising people attending to their own welfare and success. Your attachment to this com pany is cemented in mutually ac cepted rules binding both our com mon affairs.

We don't withhold your income taxes. We don't pay your govern ment pension and medicare taxes. We don't provide you with sick leave or paid vacations. You do these things for yourselves as you choose. You don't punch our time cards, give us mileage records, expense vouchers, or daily reports. With us you have independence, mutual assistance, and an un limited opportunity to go as far as your talents, lubricated by your own sweat, will take you. Who's more interested in your security, you or us? Who's best able to provide that security, you or us? Sovereignty is a political idea as well. The idea of local "home-rule" government grew out of the concept of original interest, personal liberty, and private ownership of property. Original interest is within you, since no one is as equally and vitally concerned about your wel fare and security as yourself. It stands to reason that you, or those you personally delegate, select, and pay, will best care for that which you own, earn, and desire.

1968 SOVEREIGNTY 113 Somehow, the notion has crept into our thinking that one who lives farthest from our town cares more for it than you. In addition, it is thought today that some ap pointed bureaucrat several thou sands of miles away is more con cerned about your personal wel fare than yourself. How can anyone believe that some nameless, faceless, civil servant has more compassion and interest, knowhow, and intelli gence, when it comes to our own interests, than we do ourselves? I expressed my feelings on this subject in my Happiness andSuc cess through Principle. Of course, my views run contrary to the "ac cepted" view of brotherhood be tween the ruled and the rulers, but so does reality. Those who believe the desire for self-improvement and material betterment is selfishness and wrong are the ones who seek the power of government as a moral material equalizer, and the ones who ultimately discourage prog ress and new ideas.

I believe that, once man hurdles the obstacles of inborn ignorance, his legitimate self-interest is the finest. motivating force for his own and mankind's progressive material and spiritual benefit. Self-appointed superior people bleed for mankind and seek power to control everyone according to their plan. They stifle and impede progress as well as human free dom. They are opposed to the average man having personal sov ereignty. They oppose business sovereignty and local government sovereignty as a result. America's founders proved them wrong. Holiday Magic, as a busi ness on the front lines of the mar ket, has proved them wrong in the modern comnlercial world, too. When you see or hear me stand ing up for some political or pro fessional ideal, you should have no doubts as to my motives. My firm desire is to see that Holiday Magic remains a sover eign and prosperous company. To do that, I should be willing to stand and defend our rights to be a sovereign and free people.

To insure that right, you and I should be willing to stand and de fend, and declare, our nation's right of sovereignty in a hostile world, and our state's right of sovereignty under our great Con stitution. Only when these things are done can you, and your children, feel secure in your efforts, your pursuit of prosperity and security, and the freedom to own that . which you earn and save. Sovereignty is a meaningful word to us and to the whole of mankind. ~_ Zealous reformet's of governmental institutions tend to forget that sound underlying ideas are basic to liberty. How a president is elected - who shall rule - matter much less than to under stand why the power of government should be l'imited in the interests of m·an and society. With that distinction in 1nind, a student at Brown University here cautions against hasty aboli tion of the Electoral College. IN DEFENSE OF THE COLLEGE ROGER DONW AY A BAND of phoenix-like reformers will soon rise up, as they quadren nially do, to advocate the abolition of the Electoral College. In a series of background articles, journal ists will calculate the possible courses of post-election havoc in 1968. Editorialists· will fill space supporting programs of amend ment. Civics teachers will ridicule the antique institution. And the word "undemocratic" and the phrase "one man, one vote" will be heard in every corner.