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\4~ THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1932. Manpower Obsolete Magazine Declares Technological „ Unemployment Per manent Feature, Says Arti- - 1 ’ . cle in Fortune. Declaring that ‘Vapid acceleration of production cf machine energy al ready hay-rendered-a-pail_Qf the hu- man race obsolete and a further part obsoles^nt,” the December issue of Fortune carries an article describing technological unemployment as “con ceivably the most important issue of cur time.” “It is common knowledge that the great industries have strained every resource in the present depression to eliminate labor costs and that their success has been such that even though pie-depression production were resumed on January 1, *193^, there would still remain an unemploy ed population variously estimated at four to six million,” Fortune declares. “But the significant fact .... not present technological unemploy ment; it is the apparent tiend to ward rapid’y increasing technological unemployment in the future. “It has been estimated by those who enjoy long range foVecasting that even if the productivity of industry- by mechanization continues to in- hrease in the ^ next twenty-five years at the rate establisheKl in the last twenty-five, only \forty-five men will be required in 1947 to do the woik dene in 1932 by seventy and in 1907 by 100. “For seme two or. three milUons of years,” fortune declares in tht\arti- tiele, headed ‘Obsolete Men,’ the wnk was done by a patent automatic self- coaling mechanism of levers, joints and complicated controls with a maxi mum life cf about thice-score years and ten, an average efficient working day of eight to twelve hours, and in termittent power production of one- tenth of one horsepower. . . This mechanism sowed, cultivated and harvested the world’s corn, milled and Jinked its bread, wove its doth, shap ed its bricks, heeiled its shoes. . . . It was still doing the great bulk of world’s work 100 years ago. . . Summarizing the recent announce ments of engineers and economists on the rapid advance of mechanization the article points out: “ . . . that if the S. S. Kuropa obtained her motive power the way the Spanish Admiral Euiybiades ob tained his at the battle of Salamis i she would have to carry sweeppulkis to the number i f 3,000,000 men. “ . . that if 10,000 men had set out to dig the Panama Canal the year the Pi'giims landed they would not yet have finished the digging oi’ the earth and rock. “ . . that if the 1929 United States wheat crop had been grown in 1829, (1,000,000 men would have been required, whei'eas 4,000 men using the best 1929 equipment could have done the whole job. “ . . that in one decade (1920- 30) one manufacturer (General E'ec- tric) created new machinery capable of producing four tjmes as nnuch man power as the total wage earning popu lation of the United States. “ . . . that one man in 1930/could* make as many needles a day as 17 000 men in 1830.” Holding that th? question of reme dy still Pemins open,” Fortune de- cilares that the “only device so far seriously offered 1 in the present em ergency is the share-the-work move ment for rationing the residium of employment among the employed and the unemployed by the introduction of the five-day-a-week,” a program wide ly adapted by leading corporations. j m m m Social and Personal News from Williston Norfolk, Va., visited Mr. and Mrs. James A. Kennedy during the holi days. Miss Vera Boland left Sunday for Charleston, where she will make her home with her aunt, Mrs. George Mertins. Litfcle Miss Gloria Powell is visit ing her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Martin, in Chefaw. - Miss Fay Sfevenson, is spending a few days with her mother in Colum bia. " * * — Mrs. Belle Sprawls, x>f North . Au gusta, ia/visiting friends in Williston. “GOD-MAN” OF INDIA TO BREAK SILENCE Doctors Fe&r His Vocal Chords Are Dead. Williston, Nov. 26.—Mrs. F. D. Powell has returned to her home in Lakeland, Fla., after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Purvis. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Parker' and Mr. and Mis. J. W. Parker spent Thurs day in Chaileston. Mis s Sarah Smoak, Mrs. Ernestine Brade and MP. Cooper, of Charleston, were guests Sunday of L. H. Boland and family. Little Miss Edna Gra ham Bol'and returned with them aftei a week’s visit in Chariest: n. Miss Lenna Davis, who teaches in Fountain Inn, is spending some time with her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Davis. Miss Von Etta Boyd, of Washing ton, Ga., arrived Saturday for a visit with her parents, Mr.’ and Mrs. J. L. Boyd. Selwyn Thompson, a student of The Citadel, was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Thomp son, during the holidays. Miss Vera Dean Carter, of Bam berg, waa the week-end guest of iniia Riley Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Patterson, of j New York.—The charmed followers of Sri Sadguru Meher Baba, the ‘‘Mes siah” and “God-man” of India, who tarried here briefly and silently last May, will be Interested In the dis closure that the Zoroastrian priest will return to this country next Febru ary to break his seven-year lingual fast—if long disuse has net atrophied his vocal cords. The news that the Parse© mystic, who has not spoken for seven years, aifH who is now wandering silently about Europe In a “superennscious state” nwailing further astral In st ructions, will speak next year came from Mrs. J. G. Phelps Stokes. Baba, athletic looking man of thir ty eight, with flowing hair and heard, came here in May and was lodged In the home of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Schloss, at Hannon, N. Y. He was to break his silence here, and rescue America from “materialism.” But suddenly Baba, who says he is part human, part divine, and has contact with (he Beyond, declared he had been directed not to talk here. He went to Los Angeles to talk, but there got another message to hold off until 11)34. From (here he went to China for one day, tTTPrr-~(-o-_ileno!i, Italy, still silent. \\ Idle keeping his silence unbroken. Baba “talks” via an alphabet board lie has hung around his neck. In his home country he Is credited with performing many miracles such as starting or stopping rain, halting oilier forces of nature that threatened harm to mankind and the like. Scientific interest In the baba lies principally in learning whether lie still can talk after his seven years’ silence. Experts declare that disuse may have rendered his vocal chords impotent to vibrate and that not even the yogi's “miraculous powers” may he sufficient to restore them. Those who profess to know say. however, that the baba realizes all this and, having intended all tiie time to speak ngam some day, has ••hemmed” and “hawed” and cleared his throat with a noiseless muscular action and practiced larynx calis thenics daily in order to keep the vocal cords from atrophying. FOREIGNERS TAKE UP FRENCH FARMS Native Finds City Life More to His Liking. Paris.—With a population of 41,834,- 923, France appears gradually 'resign* Ing the problem of its regeneration to the foreign element, who, according to statistics, have twice as many chil- -rtren ns the Froncli, nml wtio ntremly CLIPPER SHIPS TO SAIL SEAS. AGAIN Two Taken From “Graveyard and Refitted. »» Oakland, Calif.—Docks agleam and sails, newly patched, two square rigged ships of ^he ATtfcka Backer*: fleet, for years "buried” here in the mudllat “graveyard” of the Bacitie. are ready to sail once again through the Golden Gate and follow the paths along which they once hfyzed a glor ious chapter in American history. They were the Star of Alaska and the. Star of England. Soon they plan to sail through the maze of their sis ter ships’ masts, huddled together as if to break the loneliness, and out Into the Bnclflc. The Star of Alaska and the Star of England are being refitted for a new life—strange ones, no doubt—at sea. The Star of Alaska has been sold to a group of students from Spruce Bine, N. C., who plan to con duct a “floating university” o^i a round-the-world cruise. They plan to sail from San Francisco hay with the South seas and Australia as their.first stops. The Star of EnglamTs new owner. Edward Eisen Grieve of Los Angeles, will take the square rigger to the South seas to “get away from the tick er .tape and forget the depression.” With Grieve will he a party of writ ers and scientists. A'year ago one of the two old Star clippers, the Star of Alaska, its white canvas billowing, cleared the Golden Gate and took f part in the Alaska sal- mon season. It returned to its rest ing place here after a successful trip. Aged mariners recall the days when the entire fleet of 23 clippers made the annual run. Then it was that skippers bet the customary $1,000 and the crew its last nickel on the outcome of the race to Puget sound. Two years ago the Star of England and the Star of Alaska staged their last race. Last year the Star of Alaska saileiL alone. " For the first time, steam vessels ,were used exclusively this year by the packers, the sailing ships definitely abandoned. Of the original 25 in the fleet, only nine remain. The others have been sold. are taking over- thousands of farms abandoned by Frenchmen moving into the cities. With an increasing population in the cities and virtually a stationary popu lation In the country, France offers the least encumbered place In Europe for the neighboring countries suffer ing from too much politics and patri otism. Spaniards, Italians, Poles. Belgians, and even Germans are crowding Into Trance;—•—' Moreover, the French farms, aban doned by broken French families, are being manned by thousands of soil loving Italians. In 38 departments of, France there has been a diminution of population. Curiously enough, the rich agricultural departments of the north, in Brittany, in the Ardennes, in Normandy, and in the regions about Paris, the population lias greatly diminished. But in many of these de serted regions, the foreign population is noteworthy. In the Ardennes, there are 30,000 foreigners; Saone et Loire. 23.000: (Ters," 13.000, Cote d’Or,- TV 000,; Aveyron. 13,000; etc. The population of Baris is 2,891,020, with 279,111 foreigners included. The foreigner is welcome if he sub mits to French laws and pays his taxes. Since 1030, the birth rate among these foreign elements is two-thirds compared to one-third native Frendu The best indication that the foreign element has come to stay is revealed in the fact that among employers and proprietors, there are 14.719 Italians: 8,405 Spaniards; 4,797 Belgians; 3.413 Swiss; 010 Luxemhurgers; 410 Ger mans. and 111 Britons. There are more than 21.000 Italian farmars operating properties on the share basis; more than 20,1100 Bel gians, 7,300 Spaniards and 4,700 Swiss. Tokyo Jumps to Third Among Greatest Cities New York.—As the result of new to tals announced from New York city and from Tokyo, Japan, the official and unofficial standings in the population lists of the world’s greatest cities have undergone considerable changes. New York’s unofficial metropolitan population feadvsl the huge figure of 12,055,187, while Tokyo came up from an inconspicuous point to third place by announcing its population as 5,312.- isoo, jumping ahead of Berlin, Chicago, Baris, and Moscow. Officially New York is still second to London, with a imputation of 6.981,915 In its live boroughs while London has 8,202,818. Tokyo, which had counted its popula tion as 2.50m,000 and its area ns 31 square miles, has annexed 82 villages and towns and increased its square mileage to 233 and its population to more than 5.00(1.000. The official stand ings now place London first. New York city second, Tokyo third, Berlin fourth, Chicago fifth, Baris sixth, and Moscow seventh. Iowa School Girl’s New Outfit Costs 35 Cents Ames. Iowa.—Mildred Baldus. sev enteen, wanted a new ensemble, so she made it herself. The entire out- -fit. iucUidmg <iress, hat, under gar- ments and a handbag, cost 35 cents. 'I'lie skirt, and short jacket of the two-piece dress wore made from chicken feed sacks, dyed a rose shade. The blouse and under garments were made of flour sacks. The close-fitting hat and the hag were fashioned from pieces of osnaburg left over when her mother made new chair covers. Dain ty lace, given Mildred by her grand mother, trimmed the under garments. But when the outfit was shown at a hoys’ and girls’ achievement exhibit here, her brother was not content to bask in reflected glory. .“See the buckle on her hat and that other one there on her belt?” lie questioned spectators. “She took them off ray golf knickers.” Plant 155,000 Acres of Timber Lands Washington.—More than 135.000 acres of the United States were planted with forest trees during 1931, state reports compiled by the forest service, United States De partment of Agriculture, show. In 1930, 138,970 acres were planted. The forest service planted more than 20,000 acres in national for ests In 1931. State forest planting totaled 58,989 acres and new plant ing on other state lands, 3,321 acres. Reported planting by indi viduals amounted to 29,624 acres. Other contributors to forestration included: Industrial organizations, 21,638 acres; municipalities, 11,501 acres, and schools and colleges. 1,114 acres. Michigan led all states In plant ing and putting idle land hack to work growing timber, the report said. New York was second, mid Pennsylvania third. The'1931 plantings, the Agricul ture department estimated, brought the total area of artificially refor ested lands to acres. , f T T f T f ? f f ? T f ❖ f f T T T T T f T T T T ❖ <♦ ? f ♦> ❖ t f ? f f f »*♦ f f 4 ? f t T T ? T ? ❖ ? x t See Our Samples of Christmas f Before placing your order this year. We have a complete line of Engraved Cards at prices to suit the times. Don’t be fooled on imitation en graving-get the genuine. t f T T T ? T f T f 4 x ❖ t T T T T T T T T x f I f t Y t The People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C. Jr >