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Show 'which we do not see- macniue, ' tvat make machines and that help to perfect and produce economically econom-ically the thousand and one neces-' neces-' ies and luxuries of modern life Ifrom our first nursery battle to car coffin. ! Ti,,. mchine has a vast r.-,r'.-er of more subtle influences c'.i c-r habi.s and customs and 'o'ttr cultural life. For example. !,.e science of animal husbandry iivts found it necessary to develop 'new tvpes of hogs and steers to meet the demand for smaller pork chops and roasts because machines have reduced the amount of physical phys-ical labor performed today. The familv of today's worker does not require the twelve and fifteen pound cuts of meat as did our wood-chopping ancestors. The machine has made American Ameri-can civilization. But it did not accomplish ac-complish this without a struggle by those who were keen enough to realize its value against those who feared it meant man's destruction. des-truction. Kven today, despite the overwhelming evidence confronting confront-ing us of the benefits that have come from technological changes, there are many Americans inclined to believe the spell-binding orators who picture the machine as a Frankenstein monster about to destroy des-troy civilization. This bogey has scared otherwise other-wise intelligent persons Into doing do-ing some very foolish things. It has made labor organizations strike against working for employers who were reluctant to sign agreements not to install new machinery in textile plants. It has led congressmen con-gressmen to propose legislaiton forbidding for-bidding technological advancements. It has impelled men to steal out under cover of night to sabotage road-making machines they foolishly fool-ishly believed were detrimental to them. Machines Versus Jobs By GEORGE PECK PART 1 Future generations of Americans are going to be highly amused when they learn that way back in 1941 . the machine-age needed to be defended. However, as the machine ma-chine exerts a tremendous inful-ence inful-ence in modern civilization, it is not surprising that it should be blamed for many of our troubles in time of depression, just as it History is full of accounts of attacks upon new machines. Many of us can recall the indignation against the automobile which frightened horses off the highway 35 years ago. All kinds or resolutions reso-lutions were passed to abolish what were then called "Infernal Machines" Ma-chines" fortunately without success suc-cess in most instances. ls credited with our prosperity at other times. It is human to be hasty in judgment and in condemnation. con-demnation. Almost all of us are conscious of the effect of the machine on our own lives. Most of Us have seen industrial development change the kind of food we eat, the clothes we wear, the kinds of houses hou-ses in which we live, the automobiles auto-mobiles and .trains in which we ride, and the occupations at which we work. The machine has brought many other changes of which we are not so conscious. In fact, practically every improvement which we enjoy in our modern lives can be found to be linked with technological development. All our modern modes of transportation trans-portation and communication ; without which our present type of business civilization would be impossible, are dependent upon machanical developments. Back of the machines we daily use, and back of every manufactured product pro-duct are countless other machines |