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Show Germany, if they are carried out, can be watched with interest elsewhere. We have heard in the United States J a great deal of complaint that our de- j pression was due to the substitution i of labor-saving machinery for hand j labor, thus throwing many people out of jobs. Similar complaint has been heard from time to time for more than a century, ever since the world entered on the mechanical age, in fact. "Usually "the introduction of a new machine has resulted in the displacement displace-ment of hand labor, but this labor has generally found a place' elsewhere. Perhaps this has been harder to do since the present depression arrived, but it is to be remembered that most of the labor-saving machinery was in use before the depression, in 1929, when there seemed to be a shortage of labor. ! It is the argument of those who favor labor-saving devices over hand labor that the machinery is actually a benefit. While it increases the output, out-put, they say that, by cheapening the cost, it increases the demand and puts the finished product into the hands of the people who would not otherwise other-wise be' able to buy it, and opens up new fields for mechanical and hand exploitation. i For example, they say, if the machines ma-chines for making shoes were suddenly sudden-ly eliminated, and we had to go back to the old hand labor, there would be a scarcity of shoes and a price so high that most people would have to go without footgear. The number of shoemakers to supply the demand would be so inadequate that there would be a shoe famine. Those who favor the return to hand labor would not have it commence on so large a scale. They suggest that, in the building of roads, for example, and in other construction designed to increase employment, that all the work, where public relief funds are used, be performed by hand. This would provide no road famine and no labor shortage, but might add greatly to the general employment. I The subject is an interesting one , and there are able debaters on both sides. Perhaps it would be just as well that we wait for a little while ' and see whether Mr. Hitler is able , to put it over. I HITLER'S LATEST ! PLAN. Boss Hitler of Germany has issued a new edict and one which is designed design-ed to reduce the amount of labor-saving machinery now in use in Germany, substituting hand labor for the same. Institution-! which put in more labjr-saving labjr-saving machinery are to b? deprived of certain assistance from the gov-' eminent. Already, it is said, many tanking institutions which were getting get-ting ready to install mechanical calculators calcu-lators have decided to keep fie old human bookkeepers. j The old cry has been raised that the present plight of Germany is due to mass production and the substi-' tution of machinery for hand labor. : The- result of Hitler's experiments in |