KEEPING OURSELVES DEMOCRATIC Big words and pomposity never were designed for the highest types of men.

Our great national figures have almost without exception had one quality which was a keynote to their ultimate success--this was their _simplicity_.

Next was their _accessibility_.

There are numberless big-hearted and big-brained individuals in the world whose duties are so manifold that in order to accomplish what has been placed in their hands they must be saved from interruption, but the truly great individual is never hidden away entirely from his fellow man.

He never becomes such a slave to detail that he does not find time to fraternize with ordinary mortals.