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Show American Man Has Become Mere Cog in Nation's Vast Industrial Machine By W. J. TURNER, English Journalist. It would be possible without very much distortion to depict America Amer-ica as offering something analogous to the harem system of Asia, but reversed; for in America it is the men who are in the harem. The American man is kept for breeding and for making money; he has no real part in the social, intellectual and spiritual life of the coun try. All day long and often far into the night he sits at his desk oi rushes through the streets like an automaton. He is a smaller or a greater cog, or at best a dynamo, in the industrial in-dustrial machine and he is kept blindly in motion by the ceaseless pres sure of the industrial system whose only goal is the filling of everv square mile of the continent with farms, factories or skyscrapers. When there is not an acre of waste land from the Atlantic to the Pacifn oceans, then, but only then, will the pressure be lessened and the speed slacken. And what then? What is to he done when, from New York to San Francisco, the entire country is nothing but wheat, bacon, textiles, machinery ma-chinery and skyscrapers? Nobody knows; nobody dares even to pause to put that question. |