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Show BUSINESS VS. POLITICS WHEREVER an industry or business busi-ness succeeds, some one must pick the manager who makes it a success. Usually in the free operation of natural nat-ural and economic law the right man finds himself for the job. Whether industries, be they railroads rail-roads or shipyards, are under socialism or private capital, success is the manager. man-ager. This man is always picked because be-cause of his experience fitting him to handle the -job, while in politics he is picked for other reasons. In politics his political opinions must suit the picker, pick-er, or the one who picks the man must be his friend and admirer. Politics often picks second-rate men to handle the most important work of the nation, as experience proves. Business, a corporation, or selfish capitalists would pick a practical man for the work he was to manage. Politics picks a man with his head full of economic theories, while busi-' ness would , demand a man who knew his job. |