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Show MACHINES AND JOBS JOBSHow JOBSBow How Bow is your job affected by machinery9 machinery ? asks a adIspatch adispatch adispatch dIspatch from rom ! Dayton , Ohio , printed recently m in the theNew theNew theNew New York Times The answer , it suggests , should be bejared beleased bejsased jared leased : ) on the cold practical fact of what Is occumngm occurring occumng occurringProm ] Prom m 1900 to 1930 . , says the dispatch , when we.had we wehad welead . -had had .had lead - tmore ( more new machiney mach1ney than at any time in our his- his - his1cry history his history - tory 1cry ; : there was a gain of 20,000 20000 , new jobsDunng jobs jobsDuring jobsDuring During Dunng the last fifty years , the population of the theUnited theUnited theUnited United States increased about 200 per cent , whUe while whUeJobs whilelobs whileJobs Jobs lobs . have a.ve ave have increased about 300 per cent . , That does.not does.not does doesnot . -not not .not - look as if we'were wewere we v . ' were ere going in the wrong direction direction.One-seventh direction.Oneseventh direction.One directionOne seventh . One-seventh One seventh - - of e\ e everybody eerybody etierybody \ erybody working today is makmg making makmgsome makingsome makingsome some product unknown fifty years ago Eighteen of ofour ofour ofour our biggest Industries have been created by machin machin- machinery machinery machinery - ery and invention m\ention m ention Ixnention \ since smce 1880 One out of every four fourpersons fourpersons fourpersons persons today owes ov.es oves . his rus employment emploment : } ; to one of these theseeJghteen theseeighteen theseeighteen eJghteen eighteen nemdustnes new ne\\ ne ' \ industries mdustnes produced by invention and engineering a1gtneerlng , , . says sa3"S sa3S " H . A Toulmin Toulmm . , Jr , of the potent potentsection potentsection patentsection section of the American Bar AssociationThis Association AssociationThis AssociationThis This looks like a pretty good result resu1t from our ourtwentieth ourtwentieth ourtwentieth twentieth century mechanizationOccupations mechanizationOccupations mechanization mechanizationOccupations Occupations that have gone out of vogue have haveost havelost havelost ost lost ! 800,000 800000 , , jobs The new business created by Inven inven- invention Invention - tion have given more than 2,250 2250 2,250000 2250000 , , 000 jobs jobs-The jobs The jobsThe -The The - balance balanceis is undoubtedly unooubtedly on en the right side of the ledger in inlavor infavor infavor lavor favor at of invention invenUon and engineering |
