| Show COUZENS SAYS TECHNOCRACY SHOWS MERIT Richest United States Senator Believes Be- Be lio es That Valuable Suggestions Suggestions Are Arc Advanced V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Jan 2 Tech 2 Tech Technocracy is viewed by the richest United States senator James Couzens R. R Mich as a stimulating stimulating stimulating ing doctrine that sho should ld stir sUr up the American American- people to do something some some- something thing about their economic plight The multimillionaire senator sees in the new energy approach to the problems of the machine age some valuable suggestions which may lead to solutions The technocrats are due particular r thanks he thinks for their emphasis emphasis emphasis em em- on our stupid policy of credits which produced the financial fi financial drunk from which the nation now suffers They are due dueI I thanks for their emphasis on the I necessity of action to repair a a. machine that has produced millions milli millions mil mil- li lions ns of unemployed Technocracy The machine age The senator smiled and pushed back his chair He knows all about the machine age He grew up with it He sits in the senate I a liberal after a career career career car car- eer that began as a car checker and culminated as an automobile magnate Ive Iye read everything I can find about technocracy he said Ive talked to my colleagues about it I To suggest facts accurately and andI I so broadly as the technocrats have done may suggest a n. cut clear-cut remedy which does not now ap- ap ap ap- pear If the technocrats do no more than start the people to thinking they will perform a great service Its just too bad to have some elements elements elements ele ele- I ments starting a campaign of ridicule Those of us who have had experience experience experience ex ex- in industry know the effect ef et effect of mass production and the machine nachine age Some who attempt to o ridicule the technocrats stress tress the he number of workers absorbed In n the m motor tor car industry in par par- They point out other cases where development of machinery has gas increased opportunities for workers We Ve all hope the discovery of chemists and technologists will goMill go still Mill further and make malte work But none cone of those Ive I've read take the i time ime element into consideration This great growth of unemployment ment nent was developing rapidly in 1928 when Mr Hoover was abol abol- abolishing shing poverty Not only was this caused by bythe he the rapid development of the machine machine ma ma- chine pine but a very large group of our ur citizens were affected by the development of the talking moving picture Thousands and thou thou- sands ands of well-trained well musicians were vere thrown out ut of jobs as a re- re sult What consolation is it to melons mol mel lions ions ons of workers who have had no regular employment for the past four our cur or five years to be told that some ome me time in the future technologists technologists and chemists will find new things rings in the production of which people eople may be employed Will this kind and ind of talk keep these millions of f people out of the bread line Be it said to the credit of the technocrats that they have hayo laid great reat emphasis upon the policy of credits There are arc lit lit- literally Sally rally millions in America and and reign foreign countries living Jiving o. o off of debts The aggregate of the promise romise to pay is so stupendous that nat at radical prop proposals will develop to 3 reduce this mountain of credit vision aa as s sto so 3 we can con some to 3 what can be done |
