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Show Opponents Brand Technocracy as ! 'Mirage' in Talks to Engineers i Technocracy that purported apex of Utopia la s glittering mirage which overshadows s mud hole of complexity, misinformation and unsound un-sound reasoning. Thus, with an argument equally as complex as that of the technocrats, did Dr. T. C. Adams of tha University of Utah and J. A. Hale, chief engineer engi-neer of the Utah Power and Light j company, lambast assail, criticize i and damn the so called new Idea of government before the Utah Society of Engineers at the Newhouse hotel Wednesday evening. Technocrats who would replace ! dollars with ergs, reduce working ; time to four hours per day and provide pro-vide a standard of living equivalent to that now attainable on an annual Income of $20,000 in the race to round the inevitable corner to prosperity, pros-perity, were charged by Dr. Adams ,with mystifying the public with high- 1 sounding terms such as ergs and joules. Ha accused the proponents of the new idea of exaggeration and Inaccuracy Inac-curacy in presenting their purported "fscts." Mr. Hale told the group technocracy technoc-racy runs counter to human nature and that the "facts which it claims for Its basis are far from new." The sponsors of technocracy have selected two defects in our present system of government and damn the system because of these: the paradox of profits and corporate finance," he said. "Wealth is not necessarily the ownership of debt" The vitriolic assault on technocracy, technoc-racy, apparently served only as a bait for members of the society, however, for at the conclusion of Dr. Thomas' and Mr. Hale's arguments, it was decided de-cided to allow proponents of the new idea to air their views at tha next meeting of the group. |