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...Drucker analysis: society and government are not the same-a distinction which goes back to St. Augustine and of which America's founders were clearly aware when they established a limited government for a free society. Good government is always (relatively speaking) little government, or, as Jefferson thought, the less government, the better. In the present period the political freedom implied in limited government is menaced by the need for economic security implied in planning. In its present catchword sense "planning," says Drucker, "is not a preparation for future events and contingencies. It is the abolition of all limitations...
California's Los Angeles County, which has 75,000 arrests a year for drunkenness, this month began a noble experiment in easing: 1) the pressure on its jails; and 2) the manpower shortage. Municipal Judge Edwin L. Jefferson got together with the U.S. Employment Service and the Salvation Army, arranged to give some of his charges a new start in a new environment. Thus far 200 habitual drunks have been bundled off to war jobs, with "very favorable" results...
...white cap upon his head, which his lady took care should always sit becomingly." Harriet thought he was wonderful, remarked acidly: "It is something that, living under institutions framed by the few for the subordination of the many, the English feel the interest they do about such men as Jefferson and Madison...
...Napoleonic penman was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the hero of Fort Sumter, whom President Jefferson Davis first entrusted with the defense of Richmond. "Old Bory" had a bloodhound's eye and a theatrical, martial look. Taking command at Manassas Junction, he showed a pardonable confidence in the fighting spirit of his troops, the first and fiercest volunteers. His notions of their tactical capacity-communicated in eloquent notes to Richmond-were purely visionary...
...touchy strategist, popular with his officers but fatally careless of administrative detail, was Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...