Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-10-22 | Page 14 | Machine-Made Men Stalk on Broadway

MACHINE MADE MEN STALK ON BROADWAY BY ' MJ '-. w fi;. new iroRK, Ocv ,f ;inv ,n dusitrial genius, like Henr l-'.n.t. ever turns hl:i energies to the manufacture Of Robots We'r1 all 'gojfcrs. as tho as Ing is The Robot is a terrible creature of Rjnthetie flesh, bone and skin. lie is In the Image of man except spirituality spirit-uality and laziness. One Robot hnv- ing been completed and assembled ho can be turned to tho task of manufacturing arms and legs of nth. i 'wbots. After they uro as-St as-St m ' ' they can be sold in whole-j tale l tta to various industrial con- cerns and to nations as soldiers againt tho Robot armies of othci i nations. jr maybe you would like a Robotos as stenographer. She wouldn't chew) gum because she has no taste. Rho wouldn't waste tlmo with llp-stlcki and primping because she has no sense of beauty. She'd never asJtj for a raise because she has no uso for money. AT $6.50 HER. Tho opening aceno of "R. U. R.," tho new Theatre Guild play, shows Just such a stenographer. Her em--ployer, rather, her muster. Is tho general manager of Russum's Universal Uni-versal Robots. He is dictating to her when Helena Glory enters. Helena is tho daughter daugh-ter of tho flrm'a president. She has come to ullcviate the condition of the1 Rohoti. He convinces Helena that the j Robots havo no souls, henco they are not slaves, and persuades her to marry him. Ten years later. Robots now cost' nly $6.50 each becauso of the great j , quantity of production. Millions of ; flVI th. m are he!nr used up In wars. But 'flfwB human population is dwindling. j ,r There l . i . been no babies born for -fti time. Helena reads about that. U ' V She destroys the formula by which ' )r the Robots are compounded. .fLr!$ The Robots of tho world organize. jj Some havo been endowed with 'iftlij' brains. They declare war on man- Jfi; kind. But Robots cannot begot ,J.lVj Robots. They do not know tho secret !nj$4 of their existence. They hem In the quarters of tho men who run the rtMlft Robot factory. Gil The manufacturers would buy (fnW tht r freedom from the Robots by fillwiil ol u-i Ins them the formula that would luti? allow their propagation. Helena con- , tj 'J-a?. fosses she destroyed the formula It 'tllJi'J was too complicated to be memor- Wajl lzed. The humans are doomed. MnTsI Only tho superintendent of the fac- i MS'Ij tory was spared by the Robots. He llil'J! had worked with his hands. As the 'Jffawl Robots begin to dwindle In numbers ! MeTjfl tney press him to solve the mystery ol their existence, He is powerless - He looks In the glass and sees In "''53f himself the last living human. iOR