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.