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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
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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.
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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.
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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. ,
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