There might be a few cases
that law-abiding citizens would regret; but that isn't the big thing.
Our work here is so far perhaps on the small scale, but it shows--it
shows--that everything must be on a cooeperative basis!
GIBSON: Everything? My house, too?
MIFFLIN [_beaming_]: Your house, too.
GIBSON [_amiably_]: How about your gold eyeglasses?
MIFFLIN [_laughing_]: Those will be given me by the state. But
seriously, aren't you coming to pay us a visit at the factory?
GIBSON: Since you ask me--what's the best time? I suppose the whistle
doesn't blow as early as it used to.
MIFFLIN [_laughing pityingly_]: Whistle! Oh, my dear sir! This only
confirms me in my old idea that the technical owners didn't have
practical minds. You don't suppose we abolished you, and then didn't
abolish the whistle? That whistle hurt self-respect. Really I'm sorry
it's Sunday and I can't take you over there this minute to see the great
changes. Talk about collectivism! That factory is the most interesting
place in the world to-day. When the men were working eight long hours a
day under a master it was all repression, reserve; their individualities
were stifled. Now they expand!
GIBSON: You mean they talk a good deal?
MIFFLIN: I never have been in a place where there was so much talk in my
life. They talk all the time; it shows they are thinking.
GIBSON: Isn't it noisy?
MIFFLIN [_delighted_]: It is! Every man has his own ideas and he
expresses them.
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