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1933-01-03 [P A-6] 'The Show Goes On' The Wed 60 Years Technocracy Question LEWS SUPPORT As Clowns Laugh ηΚΠΜ RECEIVER CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY REPEAL PLEA MADE WITH RECEPTION. In Mummer Parade Time to Fabricate Automobile Reduced From 1,300 POWER COST PROBE DUE AT BALTIMORE AT OHIO SESSION to 90 Man-Hours—87 Workers Could Have Philadelphia "Shooters" Produced All Brick Needed in U. S. Language Too Abstruse and Roosevelt, Lehman and Disdain Lack of Usual General Electric Files Plea Second Resolution Proposes Pinchot to With Prizes. and Admits of "Lame Leaders Too Intolerant, Editor's note: This Is the fifth of a tomobile, fctnce it emits parts and ac- Co-operate $30,000 Company Ratification series of six articles giving a new insight others who had a into technocracy, whose of cessory makers and prediqtion machine. He Says. possible economic collapse started a far- share in making the finished Engineer Institute. By the Associated Pre»·. Necessity. Duck" Amendment. fltng controversy· The articles also pre- Hay says the Implications of such a PHILADELPHIA, January 3—Phila- sent other statistics pertaining to points furnished rttised'bv technocracy. ligure are that the automobile historic "shooters," undaunted whereas delphia's employment to but 210,000 men, By the Associated Press. thé failure to offer $30.000 in By the Special Dispatch to The Star. by city's Associated Press. Br the Associated Press. the total figure was in the millions observed New Year day -with a 3.—Alfred E. BT J. R. BRACKETT. NEW YORK, January 3.—The power prizes, BALTIMORE. January 3.—The Gen- COLUMBUS, Ohio. January 3.—Two NEW YORK. January when It is considered that huge numbers that an out- authority of the State of New York Mummers' parade brought In Smith comments on technocracy In the (Copyright, 1033, by the Associated Press.) man the service sta- eral Electric Co. yesterday filed resolutions, one proposing ratification were required to announced last night that President- pouring of color and buffoonery. January issue of the magazine, New NEW YORK.—Man-hours is another rubber tire factories and so on. United States Court a tions, elect Roosevelt, Gov. Herbert H. I-eh- With no Incentive except the tradi- District petition of the "lame duck" amendment to the, Outlook, appearing today. phrase, long a friend of the engineer, Hay adds that a composite figure for man of New York and Gov. Glfford tion that "the parade must go on," 10 for receivership of the United Railways MR. AND MBS. CHARLES A. Federal Constitution and the other He criticizes tt)e technologists for th#t technocracy has. placed in Amer- a whole industry cannot be fairly given Pinchot of have agreed clubs of Mummers—less than half the & Electric and WILLIAMS proposing repeal of constitution prohi- using abstruse language and for intol- ica's mind with new due to the variation from to Pennsylvania Co.. operator of trolley emphasis. plant plant to with the Institute of Pub- usual number—turned the city's central bition in Ohio, were Introduced at the erance of existing systems and leaders, It is the reduction of the number of in co-operate bus service in Baltimore. Of 3501 "thirteenth street northwest, efficiency. lic in its into the section Into an outburst of rainbow opening session of the ninetieth Ohio and expresses doubt at the value of hours per man needed to produce a unit Enginsering inquiry The traction company's board of di- who celebrated their sixtieth wedding cost of distribution of electric pageantry and nonsense before the General Assembly yesterday. their findings. However·, he calls the of pfoduct that technocracy envisages Productivity Varies. power. rectors. In a statement issued by Lucien anniversary Christmas eve with a fam- formed to a slimmest crowd in years. Both resolutions were presented In of the with which they of The of L. P. Alford and J. E. The Institute, provide S. Storrs, president of the concern, ad- ily gathering and reception. They were Study prqblejsts much today's troubles, and perhaps figures had thinned their the House of where forum for the discussion and study of Unemployment mitted Its to married In on Representative·, are concerned "a fine thing" and says even greater ones in the future—trou- Hannum, who have done much research Inability continue opera- Philadelphia, Pa., Decem- such costs eminent will ranks, but the "shooters" kept up the t G us Kasch. Democrat, of Summit that "undoubtedly much good will come bles in the form of growing unemploy- into man-hours, show wide divergences by engineers, %ns and authorized the filing of answers ber 24, 1872, coming directly to Wash- 1 launch its a here annual march, dancing, capering and created a brief furore when he from a discussion of their plane." ment. of productivity in four Industries. For Inquiry at meeting admittiej? the necessity for receivership. ington and living here .ever since. Mr. County 20. waving silken umbrellas and gaudy made an unsuccessful attempt to intro- "Every now and then some one dis- At Columbia University, where the initance, for blast furnaces the range of January Officials for the United Railways said Williams was in the Government serv- Its announced to capes. The jesters found no official too duce α resolution condemning certain covers a new system which is bound to of engineers who call their studies rates of production was found to be purpose is attempt the General Electric Co., to which the ice for over 50 years and is now on the group to establish a which high for their quips and gibes. The activities of Gov. George White, also a the tons foundation upon concern owes less than (5,000, filed the retired list. He Is 84 years old and his revolutionize all government and technocracy are at work under dlrec- from 145 per thousand man-hours their Democrat. The House also a the with once-a-year harlequins, laying wife 79. Both are well and active. received entire economic Smith writeè. aïe for à of nine to 1,313 tons distrilrution costs of lectrlclty. petition with Judge William C. Coleman system." ,tldn' of Howard Scott, several dozen group plants troubles at the feet of King Momus, bill by initiative petition to legalise 2.75 "When the initial excitement dies thousand for a special reference to hou.· old and rural In his chambers, as no session of court The guests were Mr. and Mrs. C. A. down. charts, showing principally two lines- per man-hours group of even In the per cent beer. service, can be detenu. d accurately found amusement depres- was due to the and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. It is always found that changes in these one of production, the other of man- seven plants. held, holiday. Weckerly and sion. of Mr. Kasch's criticism of Gov. Whit· was fields are gradual, and that we have hours. In the petroleum industry a wide scientifically. Storrs' statement said the banks Erroll Dunbar Harrisburg, Pa.; Those will There were countless take-offs on based on the activities of the Governor mistaken new words for new was a of re- who preside at the sessions the traction company had been and Mrs. N. J. KaSas, Mr. and Mrs. E. prin- The production line on this chart range found, group nine the recent election. financing and Democratic State are D. S. Steinman, of the Congress and to continue their but J. Mr. A. C. Radue and Chairman Henry ciples." goes upward, the man-hour line down- fineries producing 633 barrels of crude president willing: support, Balgemann, G. New York" State and Brunner in attempting to organije He summarizes technocracy as fol- ward. For instance, technocracy says petroleum per thousand man-hours, as Society of Professional the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & sons, Mrs. Emma Fordham daugh- and the Legislature. He asked the Houw lows: it took 1,300 or one man compared to 141,829 barrels for a Engineers past president of the Power Co., which has a four-month bill ters. man-hours, group to a resolution of three refineries. American Association of Engineers; the United, had "determined adopt summoning tfc· Summarizes Technocracy. 162'i eight-hour days, to fabricate an against Governor before Clyde L. chairman of the Public no allow these ar- it to explain his ac- automobile in 1904. whereas today it Deductions King, that it could longer tions. "That we have developed labor-sav- Disputed. Service Commission of 90 hours, or 11*4 eight- Pennsylvania; rears to continue without endangering machines so faat that there is less requires only 87 men could have MANSION Secretary of State eiarence J. ing Technocracy says Robert H. Fernald, dean of the Uni- JHO its and so advised the INSTALL NEW RADIOS Brown, SI railways hour rights and less work for that our clays. all the bricks the United who was to men: output produced versity of Pennsylvania School of En- company." presiding prior organisation, States used in 1929 if the had told Kasch he was "out of all kinds of things is increasing be- Employment Decrease Cited. industry gineering; Mllo R. Maltble, chairman The statement also said only the com- of order." with When Kasch persisted In efforts yond rublic consumption, and that we it re- operated the best methods. Hay of the Public Service Commission of holders will be affected TO COMBAT STORMS to In 1920, Scctt says, actually pany's security speak. Broun told the must l ave some kind of a new govern- to fabricate all says such statements imply the impossi- New York; Francis Lee Stuart, consult- by the receivership, that the company's sergeant-at-arms quired 210,000 workmen BE to "seat him or remove him from the a WRECKED -, of such WILL ment scientists and engineers who bility actually attaining mark, and of in recent by the automobiles produced.
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