Does n't do any good. Working wristers and mufflers is a method of dodging the knitting draft. That's not the way to look at it. We were having fine weather then. The Germans have it, they say.
Soldier wants a book, on engineering, for example, or a history, or an anthology of recent poetry.
But you can't have method and efficiency in a democracy. Efficiency and personal freedom don't go together. When you get down to brass tacks, personal freedom is a mighty poor name for it, speaking for four fifths of the population. When the talk begins with the uselessness of wristers, shifts from that to democratic inefficiency, and from that to the probability of Deutschland uber Alles, you may be certain of the diagnosis. The disease is cafard.