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Dissatisfaction with inefficiency that has developed under private control has led some enthusiasts to suggest and urge as a solution of production problems that all or some of the large industries be nationalized. That solution would involve produc-tion in all the evils of the bureaucratic system, would deaden individual initiative and would halt production progress by the perversions of majority decisions, quantity values and the negligible consideration which politics gives to facts and scientific law. All progress is individual and begins with basic things first. Therefore, this discussion can wisely ignore the socialistic theory of governmental functions and consider only what the government can contribute to produc-tion under private initiative. In the constructive fields govern-mental work is most effective when it has the least mandatory power. When government service to be effective must win for itself con-fidence and …