If technology is to minister to free men, men must struggle to acquire the practical disciplines related to speech as they have never struggled before. For in acquiring excellent speech men acquire the heritage of our entire civilization. They acquire the ability to act freely and critically and to recreate daily the social freedoms which reflect their rational natures. Yes, despite the fact that democracy more than any other political form, requires intense cultivation of language, or the techniques of human association, it is literally true that never in the history of Western education has instruction in the art of understanding and employing human speech been so inadequate. Today people take refuge in music and in musical instrument. Men rise up to speak of the thoughts and duties of freedom to free men, and their phrases, stale and fuzzy with inertia and imprecision, convey no conviction. Legislators try to frame laws in this instrument in the use of which they have no skill, and their laws prove abortive. The bankruptcy of speech is proclaimed by the multiplication of letters: N.R.A.s, W.P.A., O.C.D., etc.