Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1932, Page 29

MACHINES BLANED FOR HARD TIVES Research Engineers Picture Uncontrolled Advance in Industry. By the Assoclated Press. | NEW YORK, December 15.—Has a small group of research engineers, working silently for 10 years in the massing of a huge body of statistics, found the explanation of present eco- nomic_difficulties? ‘Technocracy, the title which the en- | gineers have given themselves, believes | that explanation is found in “the un- controlled advance of the machine, and in what they c’ll an ever-increas. ing burden of debt—machines which | force unemployment, debt which cen- | not be pald off at anywhere near the| Tate at which it is incurred. Howard Scott is their . have produced to date some 300 on employment and produc manufacturing industry, and with the help of unemployed engineers and | draughtsmen furnished by the New | ‘York Emergency Unemployment Com- mittee, expect to complete several hun- dred more. Around the research a considerable | furore both #s to technocrarcy's inter- pretations of its data and as to the ac- curacy of the data itself has arisen. | Lack of Contrpl Stressed. | ‘Technocracy does not criticize the | machine in itself, emphasizing rather the lack of control of th Without changes in the e e e ke, s chine is seen as an ogre in- t. The research creasing unemployment nbo&n;: with startling statistics, such as ; n automobile; 1914 he hours; in 1929, 92 hours, and today only 73 hours, In 1830 a man could make 45 bricks in 60 minutes. Today, if he followed the best extant practice, he could make 40,000 bricks in the same time. Buch cfficiency has been_ obtained only in isolated instances, but tcchnocracy is convinced that industry ever will seek this possible efficlency and cbtain it much too fast, so fast that mea will be thrown out of work. Technocracy holds that similar statistics may be adduced for large sections of American industry. On a general estimate, based on use of the most efficlent machines and practices now available, Technc.cracy has sald that between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 people could do everything required to run the Nation. Technocracy calculates that from about 1800 to the present day man in- creased his use of energy to 150,000 calories per capita per day—or an in- crease of 75 times in 132 years, Crites Score Figures, As for dcbt, technocracy calculat is hours to cause mechanical advance has made new machines more efficient. Technoc- racy argues that such advance will be more and more rapid. Crities of technocracy say that the figures are for isolated instances, that they are incorrect in several instances, grossly exaggerated in others and un- fairly interpreted in others. One of the first public critics was John'van De- venter, editor of Iron Age and an ex- pert in his fleld. Van Deventer charged that figures relating to steel and iron were grossly inaccurate. A similar charge as regards figures on k industry has been made by THE EVENING STAR, which | R. & day per Van Deventer technocracy’s gur- have, created unwarranted fear the machine. NAVY STUDIES 4 BIDS FOR 10,000-TON CRUISER Bethlehem Company, Low, Offers to Build Craft for $8,106,000. The Navy yesterday received four bids for constrachion of its new 10000-ton heavy cruiser, with the indicated low figure of u,m,o:&&mimd bin‘l:g thlehem Shi s ’Efiwfigmfi T.n. vessel iz 36 months a lver, Mass. The United Dry Dock Co. submitted s bid of $9,325000, and proposes to construct th:i v'r‘trgup in 36 months at taten Island, N. Y. o The New York Shipbullding Co: of- fered to produce the cruiser for $9,- 616,000 in 3G months, laying her down at Camden, N. J. The fourth bid was from the New- port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., which submitted a figure of $9.- 650.000, and would do the work in 36 months at Newport News, Va. Secretary Adems and his assoclates will compare the bids for their various features, particularly fuel consumption, and make known their decision short- 17 Under the law the vessel cannot be 1aid down before March 1. VIOLINIST TO MAKE DEBUT MINNEAPOLIS, December 15 (). Fifteen hundred miles from the Mec of musicians, artists and_ writers that is her home, Miss Gere Cotna of New York will make hL:r Am;ncm debu: The GIFT SHOP on the 4th Floor has a hundred ideas you haven't thought of for gifts—from all over the store and at every price! Plenty of Misses’ Sizes 14 to 20 for those who were disappointed. Also full range of Women's Coats—36 to 46. Shorter Women's Coats — 35 42%5. Junior Misses’ Coats—11 to 17. 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