Show AN INVENTORS HOLIDAY it sounds like a reactionary suggestion but perhaps it would be well for inventors to take a holiday for a few years until consumption catches up with the output of the machines they have invented already for many years inventive genius has been devoted to the creation of machines to displace manpower so long as such manpower as was displaced in one industry could find employment in some new field all was well but lately it has been impossible to absorb the workers displaced by improved machinery and what is known as technological no logical unemployment has been the result one thing seems certain we must ease up on the introduction of laborsaving labor saving machines or drastically reduce the standard hours of labor or both otherwise overproduction over production and consequent unemployment may continue to menace the welfare of mankind and even the peace of the world on the other hand the problem might be solved by increased consumption of all commodities including farm crops if such could be brought about but the best thought of economists and others has so far failed to find a practical plan for the distribution of surplus products to the millions who are in need of them so we favor suppressing new inventions for a while this is also impractical of course but perhaps as practical as most of the other ideas being advanced for the relief of present conditions perhaps a gangster is consoled by the fact that he cant be put on more than one spot at a time is remembered because he surrendered who remembers the Bir tisher who won at brandywine A columnist says every time uncle sam goes into a diplomatic conference he loses his shirt that wont happen to gandhi tut he may lose his loin cloth it looks like it will be economy for southern banners to buy their cotton next year instead of raising it it seems that unemployment might be measurably relieved by putting the unemployed unemployment commissions its rather strange that some who complain about pensions for our own veterans are so willing to pay Eru war debts if some way could be found to tax the racketeers it be necessary to levy more than 10 cents a gallon on gasoline A doctor says a cold bath in the morning is the best way to health and a humorist yawns and asks the next best way in new yorks central park youngsters youngs gaze with wonder on a real live cow and down on wall street a bull would be an even greater curiosity salesmen might try their hands at selling some wheat and cotton even the recent heat wave failed to make us wish we were with captain wilkins on his submarine expedition to the north pole pathfinder reports that a chicago undertaker advertises three funerals for the ance of two who will be the first to get up a club of three discharged on the ground that she wore her dresses too tight miss ethel of hull england has sued her employer for damages six pairs of boxing gloves were among the wedding presents received when george stockings a pugilist married norah thornton of st louis in celebration of his one hundredth birthday charles flint of los angeles walked five miles to a reception at which he was present with a cane the new organist of the brooklyn warner strand theater Is 0 charpe minor |