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workers."

Jack nodded and after a moment, said: "May I add, sir, one thing more?"

"Yes," said his father.

"Team play," said Jack. "That is my specialty, you know. Individualism
in a game may be spectacularly attractive, but it doesn't get the goal."

"Team play," said his father. "Co-operation, I suppose you mean. My dear
boy, this is no time for experimentation in profit-sharing schemes, if
that is what you are after. Anyway, the history of profiteering schemes
as I have read it is not such as to warrant entire confidence in their
soundness. You cannot change the economic system overnight."

"That is true enough, Dad," said his son, "and perhaps I am a fool. But
I remember, and you remember, what everybody said, and especially what
the experts said, about the military methods and tactics before the war.
You say you cannot change the economic system overnight, and yet the
whole military system was changed practically overnight. In almost every
particular, there was a complete revolution. Cavalry, fortress defences,
high explosives, the proper place for machine guns, field tactics,
in fact, the whole business was radically changed. And if we hadn't
changed, they would be speaking German in the schools of England, like
enough, by this time."

"Jack, you may be right," said his father, with a touch of impatience,
"but I don't want to be worried just now. It is easy enough for your
friend, Matheson, and other academic industrial directors, to suggest
experiments with other people's money. If we could only get production,
I would not mind very much what wages we had to pay. But I confess when
industrial strife is added to my other burdens, it is almost more than I
can bear."

"I am awfully sorry, Dad," replied his son. "I have no wish to worry
you, but how are you going to get production? Everybody says it has
fallen off terribly during and since the war. How are you going to bring
it up? Not by the pay envelope, I venture to say, and that is why I
suggested team play. And I am not thinking about co-operative schemes
of management, either. Some way must be found to interest the fellows in
their job, in the work itself, as distinct from the financial returns.
Unless the chaps are interested in the game, they won't get the goals."

"My boy," said his father wearily, "that old interest in work is gone.
That old pride in work which we used to feel when I was at the job
myself, is gone. We have a different kind of