| Show IOther Other Points of View 1 TH THE EASIl EASIEST rr WAY AY In the quickening quickening- ening tendency to centralized control of or all business AVO wo In America aro are like tho the carefree men In the I song ong Ye We dont don't know where We Ie are going but we wc ere Cre on our wa way The federal administration which has done Its best bost to reverse all 11 our familiar practices ma may bo be aware of ot I the he name namo namand and the nature of at our ultimate destination But Butt It t will wilt not tell Th ro isn't time apparently Tho The war var overshadows all 11 else elac Ends and consequences arent aren't discernible discernible dis dis- In the dust of or effort Mr Burleson caused it to ho bo known in Philadelphia yesterday yes yes- es erday that he wants wante the ll Bell and nd the Keystone telephone systems merged at once At the same flame moment It wa was proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed formally that the thEs federal government take over the neat mel business and absorb the packer and their systems Tho The fervor of or tho the concentration theory Is dally daily at Washington Anti And there I I. I U an unvarying explanation for I each now flOw adventure In go We Wc Yo are e Informed In- In i formed that the tho competitive system Is wasteful and that I It t IB is unsuited to the high efficiency necessary m. m to win the war a r. r Estimates must bo be n made do to suit tho the times And yet ct ItIs It Itis Its Is s not enough h to say of or tho the competitive system In meat packing jacking or telegraphy h or railroading that It Is wasteful Th The competitive system ma may be bo called wasteful now because be be- cause caUDe It employs great numbers of ot men and women who If It the they are aro dispossessed of ot their jobs may easily rind find useful comfortable and profitable employment In Iii the tho Industries by the tho war But what Is to happen when tIme the war ends WilL centralized control o of big hiS businesses and the utilities remain or will the tho Industries be bo disentangled separated and established as thc tIle they before Surely It Is li not altogether l logical to sa say that a system of business Is wasteful because It employs a great number of people for a a. service et that might bo be performed more I cheaply b by concentration People have ha to bo be employed And nd If competing systems found It possible to give work to thousand thou thou- sands sand whom the federal a administrators now declare superfluous super super- then the triumph seems to be bc on the time SIde aide of ot competitive compe business It Is in conceivable that some genius might find a wa way to todo todo do all work b by me means ns of or a n fow few machines But what would then become becom of or the people who must work for tor a living It remains to bo bo be seen soen whether Mr Ir McAdoo or Mr Burleson will be clover enough h to sug suggest est future occupations for tor those who ho ma may ultimately be Le left lett without employment In Inthe Inthe Inthe 1 the process of or concentration The passion for or formalism of operation and In all Industry seems limitless In the Presidents President's cabinet And It I 1 IB lit uncomfortably suggestive c at times of or the thc trend which brought the tho detestation of ot tho the whole world on efficiency Philadelphia Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger I r raj Sa ii tea Pat tIa I |
