Show ABOLISHING POVERTY J Our attention was called by a Manti l citizen recently to a newspaper article in which a prominent electrical engineer said machinery will viII in time abolish poverty in this country That i is s certainly a nice prophecy for there is hardly anything more desir desirable de de- sir able among human beings than to get away avay from property and ond drudgery But those of us who vho have been watching these big power ver magnates and utility millionaires cant can't help but feel that the abolition of poverty is for them more than it is for the balance of us They've been abolishing their own poverty all allright allright L right but it has been through cha charging ging two or three times what they should be charging for service They really are not the consumer abolish a olish his poverty very fast If all of this great mechanical power now being developed were distributed ed cd e equitably and fairly among us it would help a great deal c cf f fOU fUlS OU ourse S Bot Bt si since development and distribution in this n tt is in the hands of a z few v it is hardly likely no r taUt 1 how hov many machines we may invent that many of us are going to see the day when poy poverty will b be e a thing unknown |