Show COLUMN AND NOSTALGIA this column has been accused by some of its best customers of nostalgia or too much yearning toward world war precedents and expert bences in mobilizing american industry and manpower man power for defense sometimes from the ho hostiles host stiles lles this criticism takes the angle that the nostalgia Is tor fora a government job on the defense front more frequently it Is from sincere and understanding der personal friends and is that too much emphasis is put on mobilization principles and experiences 23 years old and that like a apall a day tor for 30 days it gets too monotonous tor for the readers relish no this column Is not in rebuttal of any of these criticisms about nos talala it Is just to talk some of them over As to nostalgia tor for a job that good sense any man would like again to have some active part in a great national effort in a crisis but that natural wish was abandoned long ago quite understandably this administration would not seek out a critic tor for any more important job than janitor in its doghouse it is not to be blamed for that any other course would be bad it make tor for harmony on the other hand the administration has shown great consideration and restraint this column could have been silenced any day without justifiable criticism from any source by simply calling its conductor to active service as a reserve serve a course which would also have put him in a considerable financial crimp and could have resulted in no more interesting employment than counting coconuts at san juan de doc bac bac As to nostalgia for world war methods of mobilization they were adopted for manpower for industrial mobilization the president Is reported to have said of the war departments plan which followed our world war model that we need a 1940 mobilization and not a 1018 blue that what the germans said they are on record as having modeled their whole industrial effort on oil the war industries board plan so far as it was wai applicable |