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Major General Fowlois, former chief of US Army Air Corps says "capable industrial workmen should be kept on their jobs during wartime instead of drafted into the army." -- Does that mean they should be allowed to continue gracing our park benches while the incapables are giving their hearts blood for the country? Note: I am not ready to admit that merit system prevails in industry, except in the exception, but that the job is rated "by sufferance" and a rule to perpetu- ate that condition but furthers the sufferance. Civil Service and License are in point -- too often a safeguard for mediocrity and indolence; if not out- right insolence on the part of the gentry of all-thumbs. No you're not winning any wars that way, either. political, industrial or military. And the good Ameri- cans will wake up some morning horrified to find their their teeth hanging on a nail; the pearly whites of their smile swaying in the morning breeze Bartender, fill 'er up again, for there's nothing so ghastly as a toothless grin -- an industrial army with drooping ears. Ho hom, I see where we are getting our finger into the South American pie. Hope we don't burn our wrist! "Collectivism is attractive in book form but as a prac- tical operation it doesn't turn out well." -- So? In under capitalism it doesn't yell? Labor has the same trouble under capitalism and in as much as we can't very well abollish collectivism and Labor it looks as if capitalism must vamoos. No cartel, international, political, or economic, can prosper, because capitalism is spotty an wholly un-uniform -- too many unrelated factors.