ore and more competent men and women
are going to be attracted to the job. The universities are going to be
freer and better places to work in; they won't be monopolies any
more._

"Monopolies?" Lou said.

_In restraint of knowledge,_ Malone thought. _The old monopoly was in
restraint of trade, and legal action helped to kill that kind. The
monopoly in restraint of knowledge took a little more killing, but
you're doing the job quite nicely. And not only in the schools._

_The factional fights are having the same result. Look at the AAAM,
for instance. That organization is a monopoly, pure and simple.
Simple, anyhow. And what the factional fights are doing to it is just
breaking up the monopoly and letting knowledge free again._

_And then we come to Congress. Senators and representatives are having
a terrible time, some of them. There's a fight going on between
Furbisher and Deeks because Deeks has discovered some evidence against
Furbisher. Who's having the terrible time?_

_All of them?_

_Nope. Furbisher is. Deeks isn't._

_And that's the way it's going all over. The useful, necessary
legislation is going through Congress now without being cluttered up
by stupid dam bills and water bills and other idiocies that simply
clog the works._

_And then, of course, there are the gang wars. Now, I feel as sorry
for the Sanitation Department as anybody, but at least they're
cleaning the streets for good now. The boys who are dying off and
getting sent to hospitals and jails are just the ones who should have
been sent away long ago. Everybody knows that, but nobody can prove
it._

_Except the PRS._

_And the PRS is busy doing just what it can about that proof._

_And all it takes is a few of you. I don't know how many--I don't know
how many of you there really are, for that matter. But it must be a
fair number to stock all your branches with "top-level" executives and
the lower-level men and women who really believe in the PRS blind, and
do their best to keep it working._

_There are probably a lot of ways it might work, but the simplest and
best way I can think of is this one: there's a clearing-house sort of
set-up, and information comes in from various telepathic spies working
for the PRS, about various projected activities of the imbecile
contingent._

_And, from this information, you figure out the best time and place
for lightning to strike, and you select the kind of lightning it's
going to be. Here it