Show ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGES IMMINENT according to howard scott foremost technocrat of the world who delivered an address on technocracy at the hotel utah salt lake city last saturday evening fundamental changes in our economic and social structure are imminent and cannot much longer be delayed by 1942 mr scott affirmed there will be more people on relief or receiving government assistance than there will be employed by industry in this country and then you can kiss your price and profit system good night mr scott based this prediction on statistics which showed that the man hours of employment were rapidly diminishing while the production of consumer goods was inar increasing easing and with a declining purchasing power A price system mr scott stated works as well as any other system as long as there is a scarcity of products required by the human family and so long as hand manufacturing methods are employed which compels some sort of purchasing power and distribution but the mechanization of plants has changed all this and the price system must give place for a cost system which is the method of arriving at values under technocracy no cracy the speaker assailed the entire capitalistic system and made it look like a last years bird nest with the bottom tumbling out he said there was a serious surplus of goods and commodities modi ties in this country and that our smart politicians had conceived the idea of marketing these surpluses abroad to countries which had nothing to buy with and to whom we would have to loan the money with which to buy our surplus goods while at home we starve and stint our own people damn such an economy mr scott shouted if we are going to bestow charity let us begin at home under a technocracy mr scott claims when it reaches its full fruition which would require approximately 15 years and would embrace the entire north american continent from the north pole to the isthmus of panama each adult citizen would be required to labor 20 years to discharge his or her obligation to society based on a 4 hour day and a 5 day week and would receive a prorated pro rated share in the entire national production or income which would continue as long as he or she lived the period of employment would commence at 25 and would end at 45 after which ones time would be his own to do with as he be felt disposed so long as he did not interfere with the rights of other people and he stated that under this system of the application of physical science to the organization of pro aror consumer goods would be just as abundant as the air we breathe and that there would be no such thing as scarcity on this continent regarding the constitution of the united states mr scott stated that it was a form of contract devised by the victors in the war of the revolution for the purpose of preserving and guaranteeing the advantages accruing to them from the war that it is a telie relic of the shovel and spade period of this country and is totally inapplicable to conditions of this day under technocracy as mr scott visions it the functions of government would be administered much the same as a well ordered factory or the traffic in any modern city there would be approximately divisions of industry each of which its organization and from which one person would be sent to the national council or assembly and this assembly would select its president or leader comparatively few laws and regulations would be required in a just and scientific social system and crime would be reduced approximately 90 per cent the speaker claimed the existing political government with the national congress and the 48 states would all be abolished and the political parties pass out of existence and a functional society would be set up the persons engaged in physical production would form the government with a board of control besides operating the economic structure mr scotts language was very forceful even employing slang occasionally to drive his points home and rouse his audience but the system he proposed comes a lot nearer to the teachings of the messiah than the brand of chris that is being widely taught today and in our opinion will do more for the cause of real christianity than the combined efforts of all the christian churches under the present social order his system would soon give to the world a social system in which christianity could really function and the human family could progress toward its ultimate objectives under a technocracy we would get a true expression of human values those who elected to enter the service of christ would do so from choice not n ot from necessity or as a means of obtaining a livelihood and each person would be assured of permanent security and plenty we can find no flaws in the system that mr scott proposes and from present appearances it will not be long before america will turn to technocracy to solve its problems and get it out of the impending deadlock howard scott said technocracy is the fastest growing institution extant and it is now a race between technocracy and relief if relief wins it will almost surely bring technocracy scott also said in the course of his remarks that there were two kinds of people in the united states that the big bulk of them were suckers and the remainder of them were chiselers and that the suckers were all hoping that they might graduate as chiselers in the system which he proposes and is training people in all parts of the united states and canada for there will be neither suckers nor chiselers with these two classes eliminated the fundamentals of christs teachings can find root and be practiced |