Show I MACHINERY l AND UNEMPLOYMENT It was only three or four years ears go that the whole country coun coun- try was talking about something called technocracy That was wasa a new Conom economic c philosophy bascil bas- bas efi eil upon the theory that the causes causes c of our unemployment and other troubles was that machines machines ma ma- chines were replacing man lean manpower po power cr in industry and that if that tendency kept on it would not be long before there ihen would bo 00 no work for anybody to do The technocracy idea was an echo of the outcry which has been raised when whenever er eyer a new invention invention invention in in- has been brought out outto outto outto to do work which was formerly done clone by hand When Then t the first cotton spinning machinery was invented the first power looms I set up there was a tremendous j 1 I outcry bout about the bread being taken out of the mouths of the the I I 1 working class That was moro morn than years jears ago and and it is I Ionly 1 I only necessary to look back into into in in- in-I in I to history to realize how foolish the opp opposition to those e early curly machines ss s wa was l' l t 91 r instead of of I making less work they made I I more work By producing cotton cloth more cheaply and more more I edily than it had ever er been made by hand the machine production pro pro- pro pro-j l t multiplied the demand and the mark market t for cotton colton cloth I Iso I so that within a few years ten I I persons were employed on the spinning and wea weaving ving machines machines- I I 1 for lor e every on one onn who had been employer em em- employed I em-I I hand labor in the I a at t same industry try I To a generation which knows ot of industrial history I the r revival rival ival of this outcry I against the machines seemed c convincing The evidence to too the e contrary however is right in front of the eyes of bf an anybody body who will look for it il The best example is in the automobile industry in in- More 1 automobiles have been made and and sold in the past year than in any one of the previous previous pre pre- ous five yews jers Very much more of the work of building automobiles is done dono by machinery machin machin- ery cry than at any time in the past it itIS is no uncommon thing for an automobile manufacturer t o 0 scrap worth of h heavy heavy hea hea- a vy Vj machinery to replace it with ne new and more efficient eq equip equip- ip- ip mont ment But has the machine thrown automobile workers out of their jobs Quite the opposite opposite opposite site is true true- In one great factory factory fac fac- fac tory alone atone which formerly employed employed em enl- l workers too pro pro- pro 1110 duce a million and a half of auto auto- automobile a automobiles to- to mobiles mobile in a year l lust last st year ear 90 no- workers were employed to toi i produce a smaller number of cars There was no reduction in wages on the contrary w wages wag wag- g- g es went vent up Yet Ye tl th the price of the car came down Precisely the same saIne experience has followed the introduction of modern machinery in every line of industry There are temporary ary readjustments and shifts of employment but in the thc long run 1 un the enlarged market created creat creat- ed offering better goods at lower lowI low low- I er prices results in the employment employ employ- ment num t of more people than could I find jobs before the new machines ma ma- chines were pu put tin in I I j 1 I I I 1 I 1 I I I I I I l t I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I SALESMAN IAN AGAINST DRUNKEN DRIVER R RI I I see sec your jour neighboring own o I voted dry said a salesman 1 to toa a general genera storekeeper in ill an efI ef- ef I 1 fort to work up p conversation conversation- That will probably mean that I I they will kill just drive chive over h h here re and other surrounding towns towns' j i I Maybe l i so BO o replied the merchant mer- mer I flier flier- chant but having been in business busi busl business ness under prohibition and since its repeal Id I'd give a hundred I dollars donars to have prohibition back backI 1 I imperfect I-imperfect imperfect ct as it was They j I cant cant can't spend it for booze and andI have it for groceries and dr dry goods Shifting the emphasis th salesman said The worst trou- trou ble with booze is is that people who wile drive will win drink it The courts give too light sentences A man in our town was given givena a a suspended sentence on drunken drunk- drunk ten en cn dr driving dring ing and wi within thin six hours was picked cd up again on the same charge Such potential murderers murd ought to be given five years They are arc worse than murders When they hit they II mangle I c. c 1 So can be heard rumblings everywhere against the man who to have his own fun endangers endangers en- en I en-I dangers the lives live of man many Judge M. M A. A i of Pittsburg said the other day I The intoxicated motorist must be humiliated His friends must inow now that he has disgraced him self In that way more than in any other will we make the J streets and nd highways s 's safer safer- I CARE OF T- T AGED E-AGED- THE AGED AGED- RESPECTFUL 1 I RESPECTABLE I The play Over the Hill to the Poorhouse brought tears to many many eyes and fears feals to many 1 hearts I Stock crashes and amid changing times have in days clays gone by I sent sent many men and women who had worked hard and and saved wisely io to the humiliating poor poorhouses t 1 houses of this rich and glorious iland land i j The Old Age Security Act- Act not as bad had a rs ns s political l campaigning campaign campaign- ing felt it necessary to try to tomake tomake make it out to be and be-and and not as perfect as it will yet be made r is already beginning to function for fOl those 65 or over I England has hns had a similar plan for many years yean and revises re it every year year- Many 1 can recall church gatherings gatherings gatherings gath gath- I where respectful and rei respectable re re- i c care cere re of the aged poor was urged Once the haunting fear of poverty and humiliation in deI declining declining de de- de- de I clining dining years is removed from mans man's thinking much of greed i and its attendant injustices will willbe willbe be blighted ted in the bud |