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By Chapin R. Leinbach

THIRTY-FIVE years ago Sinclair Lewis wrote a blueprint for America. He recognized that Caesar had conquered Gaul and Erasmus had written in Oxford cloisters so that a Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.

He knew that what Ole Jensen, the grocer, said to Ezra Stombody, the banker, was the law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatever Ezra did not know and sanction, that thing was heresy - worthless