365 FILLING THE 7-YEAR GAP Need for young men in business FOR seven years, war had first claim on prevent waste of first-class abilities in unworthy manpower. Business and industry had to jobs (such as followed the 1914-18 war), the forgo their normal recruitment of promising Government has established a nation-wide young men to train for responsible posts. appointments service. In many firms this absence of young men is not of An Index of Talents yet felt to a problem. reinstatement At Offices pre-war employees has, for the moment, masked the registers form an index of able men (and, a dangerous gap—but it has not filled it.