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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 9 and her human resources. If she hopes for in- dustrial supremacy, she must set about this con- servation with energy, and must pursue it unre- mittently. The writers have a thorough knowledge of Eu- ropean industrial conditions, through having done business simultaneously in this country and abroad for many years, through frequent trips abroad before the war, through having crossed the boundaries of many of the warring countries many times since the outbreak of the war, and through having observed carefully industrial con- ditions and methods. Their opinion, which is that of all who have made intensive studies of these conditions, is that America is far behind European countries in conservation of the ma- terials element, both natural and manufactured resources. This statement needs no proof in this place. The fact it contains is universally ac- cepted by serious thinkers and investigators. It is equally true that up to recent times European countries have done comparatively little toward conserving the human element. The hope of this country lies, then, in equalling or surpassing foreign conservation of material