Show Made in Germany COMPARISONS and contrasts arc are usually C Ji enlightening A comparison between a are are- re- re program made in Germany German becoming becoming be be- coming effective April 1 and our own efforts along that line helps us to make up our minds as to which we would prefer for America The nazi scheme provides that all aU persons under tinder 25 years of age become units in a n rigidly rigid rigid- i ly y state controlled enterprise All jobs will then be at the disposal of the thc state All AU who are within the a age e limit and holding a job will enroll with the governments government's state labor service It will ha have e the power to send the young worker to a farm a construction project project project or to a labor camp He lie must work where he is sent at the thc appointed task Not until the worker reaches the age of 25 is he lie permitted to enter upon a vocation of his own choosing For the worker thus to pass into the absolute absolute ab ab- ab- ab solute control of the state as a conscript is the logical outcome of any nationwide authoritarian authoritarian authoritarian control of the labor market It symbolizes sym sym- symbolizes the efficiency of despotism But what hat price ef efficiency Departure from a free and fluid labor marl market t is bound to lead to this form of regimentation Now Kow we must admit that there are man many shortcomings in our own reemployment ment pro pro- gram The They are inherent in any attempt to put people back to work in a gigantic effort to recover after a stubborn and widespread depression There arc are always bound to be imperfections im im- irn- irn perfections in the working out of a voluntary program In democratic go government we cannot hope to escape a rather definite amount of inefficiency and waste But if we are arc to maintain maintain main main- tam tain political freedom we cannot abandon the tIle principle of voluntary service The only alternative is something closely resembling the new nazi program Our scheme will work work out 1 mo more e slowly but it is infinitely easier to take |