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Some mitigation will come through cooperative management, but effective management must always be more or less autocratic in its application, however the autocrat may be appointed. And we can never make the individual task expressive of the creative instinct by any modification of industrial process that can now be forseen. In short, the man can no longer live in his job. The best part of his life and strength will continue to go to processes almost utterly sterilized of expression of the human spirit...
Then too there is the other type of boy who is industrious, ambitious, conscientious and tries his hardest to learn, but simply has not the brains to go through with the task. He is really a pathetic figure. He is wasting valuable money and even more valuable time, but he is so serious and faithful about it that everybody hates to tell him that he ought to be working in a blacksmith shop or a factory. It is true that he often succeeds in obtaining a degree, but he would be just as well off without...
...threatened district, France has shown her ability to put a stop to German pretensions. Some such action was inevitable, if the Treaty was to be saved from the international scrap-heap. It is a pity, though, that France, already so heavily burdened, should be compelled to take up the task alone. It is doubtful whether this occupation would ever have been necessary, if from the beginning the Allied powers had been more sensible in making their demands, or more firmly united in backing them up. As it is, France has undertaken a responsibility which rests properly upon all the rest...
There seems to be a belief among most Americans that with the completion of the war our task, too, ended. The aid which we must render in the future should be of as great and lasting value as any we have rendered in the past. We must build up the civilization that has been torn down. Now that active assistance through the League has been blocked by failure of the Treaty, individual effort must be applied to the task of building up the stricken fields of enterprise. Individual capital, private organizations for reconstruction, must take up the task...
...Hoover is now charged with another task of supreme importance, that of the Industrial Conference, the aim of which is to bring Capital and Labor to a realization of the national emergency in order that they may pull together as they never did before. He will succeed...