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Show Progress Almost Beyond Comprehension The scientific and industrial progress made by the United States is almost beyond the comprehension of the ordinary mind. It has been the great economic epic of the ages. What might we not do if we properly used all the technical advan cement made in the interest of all the people. It would not take long to build the New Earth. Just look over some of the progress made. In building highways today two men with a machine can do more than 250 men could do with shovels and picks, etc. In steel making 2300 men are now doing the work formerly done by 6000 mm. In pig iron ork one man now does the work that two used to do. Two men can now take twelwe tons of ore from a lake steamer and load it on to railroad cars in three minutes. A carload of coal can be unloaded and placed in a steamer in two minutes. One man can now spin 1600 pounds of yarn in a day, enough to make 3000 shirts One man can weave yarn into 400 square yards of cloth in a day. land knitters cannot make more than 100 loops per minute while knitting machines make 500,000 loops per minute. minu-te. Flour milling machinery increase the work of the hand-tool flour maker8, 000 timei. In the cigarette field 20 000 workers work-ers now make about 120 000.000,000 cigarettes while in 1919 it took 24,030 workers to mike 53,000,000,000- And during these years the farmer's prices for tobacco were decreased by 70 per cent. Now if society was organized and managed, not primarily as now for the speci d benefit of the few, but for the welfare of all the people, and goods were produced, not for profit for part of the people, but for the use, service and welfare of all the p ople, then everybody would nave an amazing abundance and what a happy, peaceful world . e would have. |