Show OMISSION Ol N NONE o rNE ONE nJ thing the new deal legislative program J overlooked to the great hurt of the naion nation nation na na- na- na tion ion was an emergency act providing for plowing plowing plow plow- ing under Tinder from one half to two thirds of the thc country's self anointed prophets of doom and disaster It would be a great help too if there were a clause in the reciprocal tariff bargaining bargain bargain- in lug ing b law authorizing a presidential decree barTh barb barring barring bar bar- ring such imported forecasts as The Th e C Coming g American Boom and the phantasmagoria fears of Sir Josiah Stamp a whom our aborigines s wOl would cl immediately elect to be bc known among tribesmen as Man Afraid Gadget Sir Josiah called upon the world Frida Friday for fora a ft moratorium on technological progress so that civilization should not be de destroyed t by its own imagination and ana genius As he misinterprets I the handwriting on the wall his fear complex undoes him making him a 1934 model I zar who after a celebrated feast featuring wines sipped from vessels of gold and silver brought rought from the temple in ill Jerusalem had such sucha i a seizure of jitters as to have haye it recorded that his countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so t that at the joints of loins IdS were loosed and his knees smote one against another The TIle idea of going back to thc the cart ox-cart era is not appealing Who wants to rub ruba a couple of sticks together and blow on tinder before getting a fire to bring forth the ham hamand hamand hamand and eggs 1 Who wants to throw away one single inv invention that has lIas made work easier casie wages higher leisure more abunda abundant t. t and life lifa I richer 7 Just why has a any y Am American sound in ill inbody inbody body and mind good legs a pair of willing hands and adequate d quate viscera any call to pa-n pa panic and because because be be- cause the going is hard l' l It has been hard before harder than it is ig now and our forbears made th the e grade We vr e have heard and are still stin hearing too much pessimism from cloistered savants holding hold hold- ing lug the fatalistic view th that t unless we we strangle strangle strangle stran stran- gle genius stifle new inventions retard the use of modern machinery do more work b by hand and call an immediate halt t to this stead steady march of mechanical cal progress there will be created in America America- a permanent unemployment ment situation of gigantic proportions This call for retreat t was answered by Waler Waller Walter Wal Wal- ler ter er W. W Head president of the General Genera American ican Life Insurance company at the annual convention conven conven- convention tion of the National Retail Credit association In an admirably reasoned argument fortified by incontrovertible records of American industry industry in in- which has been profoundly affected by mechanization he established that in the last seventy years our population has multiplied by seven and the earning power powe of our pur wage wage- earner carner today is four times that of the wage wage- ea earner er during the period of the hand land worker Hr Yr Head referred to the building trades first to suffer when the depression hit as less affected af I by saving labor devices and using relatively relatively rela rela- more hand labor than most of our other great ind industries The census of 1880 revealed 34 out of each males as s gainfully employed The census of 1930 1930 the first real year rear of f the depression showed 40 of each males gainfully gain gain- fully employed A vast amount of factual matter conveyed the unmistakable conviction that new inventions new Discoveries in science and industry have raised the the standard of living liying liv liv- liy- liy ing of our people created new new ideas ideas new wants new hopes and new aspirations New Nev inventions inventions and new machines have lave created new industries industries industries in in- and a market for an increasing ever-increasing amount of labor Jabor saving Labor machinery has been a prime factor in creating permanent employment cm em of a higher and better t type pe Vh go back f |