The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1932, Page 10

oo nocracy, a research group of tech increased his ability to do work, (EDITOR'S NOTE: major results of an exhaustive The now machine age. research, ployment and the facts.) By J. R. BRACKETT (Copyright, 1932, by The cited Press) Asso- NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—For 7,000 years, up to the beginning of the last century, the consumption ot uhe earth's resources per person every day did not change appre- ciably. Then, suddenly, man found the machine, and today in vhe United States, only 100 years sumption per person is 75 times greater, and two-thirds of this in- ihucbuabe crease has come since 1900. These are major findings of a ten-year research by Technocracy, vhe title given a research group of The earth is being revolved as much energy per capita from the earth as he did only that in the last 89 years the nation has increased its ener; production at a more rapid rate than the people have been able to consume. nation's resources, later, con- | Ma('huw Age—Where Is It Leading America Prmhu‘tum Is Blamed., Ec'mmmu' Disru ptwn 12,086, coc 1929 120,000.000 | .m... by machines, and faster nicians and engineers. The and in United States, the a century a chart at most effis Technicians Fear Collapse of Society; System Now OQutdated This is the first of two articles disclosing research into the meaning of the going on at Columbia University, New York, deals especially with the effect of the machine on em- and reveals some startling umption belng 45,000 Cal- per capita per day in | « ories 1930. Dhis extremely rapid gain in a sociely entirely unprepared for it has produced similarly rapid, ec- onomic gains and also violent rluctuations in the economic cycle. Scott says, Energy production re- mained at the rate of 2,000 Calories la day for 7,000 years. Suddenly it | expanded. | The expansion was quite smooth although rapid up to 1900, then it /became more rapid and began to violently because -the| social mechanism could not .Ldopl[ itself to the increasingly quick change. Fluctuation in energy produced | technicians and engineers working |resulted in fluctuation in produc- at Columbia university under di-| rection of Howard Scott. In these findings, Scott says, lies the basic cause of the present dis- | even | tress, and they . foreshadow greater distress in the future. In ancient Israel, Egypt, Greece, Rome, during the founding of Eng- | land, the power of Napoleon, the | beginnings of the United States,| man ate food, wore | burned fuel to warm his These were the $rincipal consumed, and their consumption, represented energy consumption. Exclusive of fod, man consumed 2,000 Calories : ing a measure of energy home. | At the beginning of the last cen- | tury man began to use the steam, engine. The engine required coal. Then came other engines, other machines. They required coal, and water power. tion was for man, so man, feet, consumed the energy sary for the machines. Thus besides the items nec- essary for his physical existence man now uses other of the earth’s resources—and at the rate of 150,000 Calories per capita a day, exclusive of food, This represents a gain of 75 per cent in little more than a century atm 7,000 static in ef- neces- ~less fortunate. clothes and | items | a Calory be- | oil, | Their produc- | tion of goods, thus fluctuation in| employment and economic dis-] tress. | The fluctuations are the ba- | sic ca pression, and they tend to and faster they go—too ias\, production | producing says Tech- upper left shows how man has icient nation, now takes 75 times go. The lower right chart shows 353 times. This has meant gain in violence as mechanical efficiency increases, Scott says, producing even more disastrous ec mic changes, unless the machine is changed. In 1840 the siightly more ulation and crude beg oi energy {inding new ways to use was witnessing transversion, that machines, them to do work— | .ne steam locomotive, for example. was timber At that time the. nation from coal and wss than 75 trillion B. T. U. measure of energy) in order drive its simple machines, tories, activities. In 1929 the United States had 1 population of 120,000,000, an in- 1840, but produced had risen to al- U, or 1840. Most of this increase occurred af- in that year produc- crease of ten times over energ, mosi 000 trillion B. T. 453 times as much as in er 1900, for tion was 2640 trillion B. T. U. The United States has pro- duced energy (and with it the amounts of goods, since energy is necessary for all forms of “production) much faster than the growth of the population and much faster in the last few years than it was possible for the people to consume the production. These facts point out with a new es of the present de- |vividness, Scott says, that society ‘has passed from the time—only $9. Toilet . . (Standard New PLUMBING 7000 100000000000 CLOTHES JUNEAU CHAMBER OF GET OUR PRICE BY THE JOB— Not by the Hour 30 Gallon Range Boiler 50 $15.00 Pattern Bowl) RICE & AHLERS CO. HEATING SHEET METAL “We tell you in advance what job will cost” DA ”» The Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring an Old Clothes Day Thursday noon, November 10. Boxes will be placed outside the Arcade Cafe to receive such as you wish to donate. The clothing will be turned over to the Juneau Woman’s Club for intelligent distribution. The need is real, so dig into that old trunk or go up into that dusty attic, and we feel certain you will find many articles which are of no use to you but which will bring joy to someone COMMERCE. ALLEN SHATTUCK, President, United States had | than 12,000,000 pop- | innings of the new mea?:us likely ‘30 colapiee; inko. Wreo fuels and! its fac- nips and to carry on other PUBLISHERS SPEEDING UP "~ BIOGRAPHIES Novels Appear to Have : Slackened New Books Off Press By JOHN SELBY NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—As if by command of some literary i/lusso. | lini, publishers seem to have slack- " led off on speeded | put. novels, and to have up the biographical ou‘- ( ‘ Certainly no one will overlook | the Letters of D. H. Lawrence| among these latter efforts, albeit' Ithcvy are not prqeisely biography, but the material from which bio- P in al, no one could, for , ‘grnphy is made. physical sense, the book Certainly, is a ponderous one of | some 866 pages. \ It contains hundreds of letters, jeach of them a pure and glinting! _ particle, the total of which particles tis a likeness of Lawrence himself, in mosaic. They are unselfcon- scious, honest. They reveal almost as much about the recipients as | the writer, and that is a great | deal. ‘»,‘ if it contributed nothing to our| | In his long introduction Aldous ! Huxley also tells much about Lew-| rence, but nothing so poignant as, for example, the progress of the | writer’s disease as reflected obuque- |ly from dozens of surfaces in the h i icentury ago—when it |the speed of an ox-cart in a so- |ciety equipped to move at that|j: which it is moving at 0! an airplane in a society funda- n—em.ally unchanged in economic | and social methods. And Scott says, unless the nation {can improve its methods of con- trolling the social vehicle society the like of which man has never seen bafore. Only by adopting the technic now of the more efficient m_mzd then with improvements in to the whole system can society func- tion successfully in the face of the inew advantages Scott says. HINDU) MAGIC a |tate and has entered an era in| the speed | used for administering some | industries | o | moved at| will be mango seed in the soil, cov a cloth, makes « few magic passes, multers weird mm —removes the cloth and there's he mango tree—magically grown up, QUETS is like magic | Willlam Raymond Ryals, Letters, to the day when he was jed down a muddy mountain- side to rest in the crowded ceme- tery at Vence, in the Alpes-Mari- tir of Soutehrn France. OTHER BIOGRAPHY A xhaustive, brightly written and fairly conceived biography of Jol O. Rockefeller by John T. F! s quite likely to attract at- n, if for no other reason than Flynn has tried manfully to tenable position between the t mal extremes of horns on 1and, halo on the other, and to k there. The book is titled s Gold.” nuel Butler has been done poise and wisdom by Clara ; Stillman as “Samuel But- Mid - Victorian Modern”; ley Vestal has labored to re- a man instead of a story- ogey in his “Sitting Bull”; | Robert Haven Schauffler has ed his longer life of Bee- into a pleasant book he The Mad Musician” (the is ironic) — and there are MRS. BUCK'S “SONS” | second panel of the trilogy Pearl S. Buck in “The Good rth” now stands finished in her “Sons.” The beauty of Mrs Buck's style, and the serenity and intelligence of her literary bearing are enough to make the book nota- The begun & Orientals. and if it contributed to that derstanding without telling a yry of merit it also would be, ible. It has all three values,; wever, and the further virtue of, economy of means and effect. There| those unable to accept “Sons” as it is, without appraising against “The Good Earth.” These ght remember, however, that the ond part of a trilogy may be the better for a lapse .into com- parative tranquility. - D {Youth Given 99 Years for Killing Nov. 9.— twenty- pleaded guilty to the murder A. G. MacGuerty, thirty-three, newspaper circulation auditor of Minchester, Mass.,, and was sen- tenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. FORT WORTH, Tex,, 1.WO, —the Mango Tree Trick The Indian conjuror then incantations, The economy and satisfaction you get from JUNIOR BRI- $16.00 per ton delivered PHONE 412 W hat Glasses? New Rimless Sta - tite re- duces break- age — needs no adjust- ing. Valentine Building There is no guesswork here. methods — by carefully analyzing your face—by measuring each feature —we are able to determ- ine the one perfect style of glass that is becoming to your type. DR. R. E. 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