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make old skills obsolete. Indeed, Mr. Diebold comes close to contradicting himself later when he says that job re­ training is needed. If automation were not causing people to lose jobs, retrain­ CHALLENGE invites your comments. Address letters to ing would not be necessary. CHALLENGE, 475 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. By all means let us have automation where it will improve our ways of doing things, but we cannot shut our eyes to QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS DURABLES AND INVESTMENTS the human problems that it creates. • In analyzing the forces determining • CHALLENGE always has been of great J. H. SMITHSON the proportion of consumer expendi­ interest and value to me since its in­ Baltimore, Md. tures likely to be spent on durables, ception, but the January, 1961 issue, Prof. Bilkey fails to consider one im­ in particular, seemed to have more than AID OR CHARITY portant factor ["End of an Era?", De­ the usual number of items of great • The lesson of our experience with cember, 1960]. This is the increase in import at this time. the Navahos [December, 1960] is that family size which has appeared as an The interview with Marcus Nadler