Germany is experiencing that delight of economic delights--a genuine labor shortage. The New York Times Berlin correspondent assures us that the shortage is not confined to skilled mechanics or specialized industries, but is becoming general and is acute in agriculture, building, mining and domestic service.

Lest some of us begin to ponder the comparative performances of a dictatorship and a democracy to the discredit of the latter, we beg leave to introduce at once testimony on the subject of How Germany Reduces Unemployment. It is from an article by Dorothy Thompson, who has spent many years in Germany, written last year at a time when Herr Hitler was broadcasting his accomplishments to a cheering Nazi party congress:

The same methods of reducing unemployment are available to the American people. All they have to do is signify their willingness to accept such work at such wages as may be directed by some bureaucrat in Washington.