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One of the emotional drives existant in some degree in all of us is selfishness and desire for personal advantage whether it be monetary gain, social prestige, intellectual position, or some other form of ego satisfaction. This being the case, for every time in his- tory that a really great leader arose out of a previously organized group of people there are probably 10 examples of little leaders who arose from the group largely motivated by personal advantage of one sort or another and who gathered around them a small portion of the original group by appeals to their emotions, their personal needs or by opposit- ion to some acts or policies of the original leadership. When this hap- pens the original group is seriously handicapped in its development due to the division of loyalties, dissipation of energies, and confusion of direction. The group may survive, but its growth and accomplishments are greatly slowed down and long-term, all inclusive interests may be set aside while time and energy are spent on more obvious but actually less important passing problems.

Thus the title of this piece-"Confusion of Persons and Purposes. If, in human activities a condition of affairs exists that is sufficiently important to enough people a leader, an initator, a focal point will appear around which the needs and hopes of those particular people can crystallize. Having done so, the choice between selecting long range goals and working for them or frittering away time and energy on short-range, immediate problems and on interecine emotional conflicts between little internal sub-groups, i is presented. If the "indians" be- gin to pay more attention to the appeals of various local "chiefs" than they do to the long range needs of the tribe they will soon cease to ex- ist as a force of any consequence. Thus it is imperative that to acc- omplish anything really valuable and important both for the desires of the immediate members and for those who will come to it later, the eyes, thoughts, energies and activities be principally focused on those goals common to ALL members of a social group rather than being div- erted to local problems and local persons. This latter procedure is certain to destroy the group as a whole and to preclude its accomplish- ing anything important. How long would the United States continue to exist as a world power, as a cultural leader, as a contributor to the world of tomorrow if the desires and aspirations of individual states or large cities and their local leaders were not subserviant to the overall needs and purposes of the Union as embodied in the Constitution and the Federal Government?

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Now if you think I am indirectly referring to our own group and its problems you are right, that is exactly my purpose- to show that what has happened innumberable times before in history in uncounted little groups of persons with special interests can also and has in fact already been attempted. Fortunately far sightedness, loyalty and good sense prevailed and the incipient schism. If every reader of this article

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