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...sighted in the high Andes, 55 miles to the east. His black cassock flying, Padre Vélaz clambered aboard a special plane. By nightfall, with 15 volunteers and a hardy baqueano (ranger),the padre was climbing up the craggy trail toward the lofty Páramo de Dos Torres...
...Dos Passos went to South America to see if there was any help for democracy in the younger societies of Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He found signs of pioneer strength in Brazil, but in Argentina as in Britain he found centralization leading toward tyranny. In Chile, he saw a democracy in danger of drowning with a heavy Communist minority tied to its neck...
Saving the Republic. With such dark augurs, Dos Passes came home to a fresh examination of U.S. democracy. After a tour of the great corn and wheat belts of the Midwest, a study of several industrial towns and a dissection of a huge food company, he was ready with some overall conclusions...
...great danger of the age is not Capitalism or Communism, says Dos Passes, but Bigness in all its forms. The great task of democracy is to control "these stratified corporations"-Big Labor as well as Big Business-so that they do not crush individual liberties by main weight...
...control them? Dos Passes sees only one way: vigorous individual participation in all parts of the community. Among the developments that cheer him most: the use of profit-sharing devices, suggestion systems, management-labor committees, cooperative methods of enterprise. These, says Dos Passes, "are frail straws but they exist ... I believe that our salvation depends on our making a stand and recklessly investing all our hopes and energies in [them]. The margin for error is narrowing with breathtaking rapidity. The time is coming when every citizen will have to ask himself at every hour of the day: Is what...