4 Tho Newi-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Mon. Dee. 21, 1953
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MACHINE VERSUS HANDS
"Obviously, the United States Wants War"
C2f
Charles V. Stanton
The fine letter by Mr. B. Ames appearing in Friday's
xr,.,.,i?;. imrinnlitprtlv was of trrcat interest to readers.
Mr. Ames, a frequent contributor to the Reader Opinion
column, expressed the belief that the trend toward robot
machines is dangerous; that we are throttling our economy
bv our "frenzied rush" for labor-saving machines. It was
his opinion that by replacing hand labor with machines we
are reducing job opportunities and thus lowering demand
for consumer goods because unemployed workers cannot
be consumers.
The opinions expressed by Mr. Ames represent a very
extensive school of thought. Our so-called machine age
has met with much resistance. Some labor organizations,
in particular, have fought vigorously against new machines
and processes. - some sucn organizations nave rau
make-work and featherbedding because of fear induced by
labor-saving devices.
Arguments are plentiful on both sides of this long-standing
issue. There is no dearth of champions for either side
of the debate. But it might be well to take a look at a few
phases of the controversy.
Machines Boost Pay Rate
We have always liked an illustration we read a number
of years ago. We can't give credit because we've forgot
ten the writer. But it was pointed out that 1,000 men,
onuinnorl with tpasiioons. could rouirh out a few yards of
road in a day's time and could be paid 10 cents for their
labor. One hundred men, with shovels and wheelbarrows,
could build more and better road in one day and could be
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great deal more road, and on high standard, and could be poetry-quoting Harlow Fraden and
paid S20 - n's writer friend, Dennis Wepmat.,
. Thus one man, with a machine, would replace 999 but Friday were indicted on first de-
would be accomplishing much more work and much better
work.
The men who got only 10 cents per day would find ex
istence difficult. At $1 per day, the laborer might manage
bare necessities. But the man making $20 per day would
have a fairly high standard of living.
Because the man with the bulldozer could build a lot
of good road, more people would want to travel his road.
So they would buy more automobiles. The iob of building
automobiles would create additional jobs. As the builders
of automobiles would be skilled workers, thev too would
have sufficiently high standards of living and would want
overstuffed furniture, radios, refrigerators, etc., thus crea
ting more new jobs.
The workman sunplicd with a shovel and wheelbarrow
costs the boss only $10 or $15 for investment in tools. But
the bulldozer operator is in charge of a machine costing
thousands of dollars. Thus he must be paid for both skill
and responsibility". It coats on an average around $20,00(1
to supply tools and machines for each individual worker in
the industrial 'field today. The worker must have a hicrh
rats of production to pay back the Investment on this
machine. ,
Standard Of Living Raised
- Opposing the argument by Mr. Ames is the school of
thought that each advance in industrial tooling actually
creates more jobs. Furthermore jobs so created, requiring
higher skills and increased responsibility, promote higher
standards of living and a reflecting cycle of demand for
consumer goods
Mr. Ames pointed to the typesetting machine which
booted him out of a job as a hand compositor. Yet the
typesetting machine ushered in an immediate era of more
newspapers and an overall increase in general employment,
although admittedly thousands of hand compositors had to
turn to other occupations.
While machines may replace hand laborers, it is frener
ally the case that they create employment in some other
direction and result in an upward step in standards of
living.
If it is true that only by restricting the use of labor
saving machines we can maintain a high standard of econ
omy, then China, India and like countries, whore machines
are few and hand labor plentiful should be prosperous,
rather than the United States with its vast capacity for
machine production. But we find the exact reverse to be
true. So, in the light of this evidence, we must credit the
machine, at least in major part, with the fact that the
standard of living in the United States is higher than in any
other nation in the world, particularly when coupled with
the fact that standards of living appear to be directly pro
portionate to the degree of machine-controlled industrial
production of each comparative nation.
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Editorial
Comment
From Tho Orogon Prtio
Youths Indicted
For Murder Of
One's Parents
gree murder 'charges in the weird
cyanide-champagne cocktail mur
der of Fraden's parents.
, The iDdictment came quickly aft
er only a half day of questioning
witnesses before a Bronx County
Grand jury.
now youths, an esthetic, studi
ous pair who wear horn-rimmed
spectacles, have admitted taking
part in the bizarre slaying.
For four months, the deaths were
considered double suicides or mur
dor and suicide.
The 20-vear-o d Fraden was
quoted by authorities Thursday
night as saying he murdered his
parens hecause his mother con
stantly taunted him with being a
"lairy."
Bronx Dist. Atty. George B. De
Luca said the youth claimed that
''as long as he could recall and
before he knew anything about sex,
his mother oalled him a 'fairy'.
This he strongly resented."
The parents, Dr. William Fraden,
SO, a physician, and his wife, Shir
ley, 48, a retired school teacher,
died Aug. 19 of cyanide in cham
pagne cocktails allegedly mixed
oy their son.
ft was not Until Wonman's eirl
friend came to police with the story
four montlis after it happened
that murder was suspected.
Wepnuin's version was that he
and Fraden hatched the plot to get
tcccss to the parents' $150,000 for
tune. At the grand jury hearing
Friday, it was brought out the
assets totaled only $116,000.
Wepman, 22, readil admitted a
part in Ihe affair, hut it was only
after hours of questioning that
Fraden made a statement Thurs
day night.
Both youths were taken to Belle
vue hospital for psychiatric obser
vations. They will not be arraigned
on the murder charges until results
ol this examination are known.
Even though the Russians' orig
inal offhand rebuff of President
Eisenhower's atomic oeace Dro-
posal was later reversed, one
finds it hard to digest the incred
ible stupidity of their first response.
As most of the world recocnized
instantly, the President's plan was
fresh and different, at once prac
tical ano idealistic, me Kcas
greeted it, however, with an as
sortment of their weariest cliches.
How they imagined a standard
serving of Communist propaganda
RADIO PERMIT
WASHINGTON un A permit for
a new standard radio station in
Springfield, Ore, went to W. Gor
don Allen last week. He alreadv
operates stations at Salem and
Lebanon.
The permit from the Federal
Communication! Commission is for
a station on 10.'0 kilocycles, one
kilowatt, daytime only.
JU &,j(e
Sec. McKay Will
Abolish PAD
As Recommended
WASHINGTON un Secretary
of the Interior McKay savs he ex
pects to follow recommendations
that the Petroleum Administration
for Defense be abolished and its
functions shifted elsewhere in the
interior Department.
McKay, PAD administrator, said
in an interview before leaving for
a Christinas holiday in Orogon,
that he is inclined to follow rec
ommendations of the National Pe
troleum Council insofar as they
can De wonted 0111 within the
framework of government and le
galities involved.
These recommendations are that
remaining functions of PAD be
transferred to the Interior Depart
ment's oil and gas division and a
revived Military Petroleum Ad
visory Board in event the need for
PAD ends.
A final order will not be put on
McKay's desk for his signature un
til PAD officials have worked out
detailed recommendations for a
transition of Ihe functions. This is
expected to take a month or two.
The Council, an arlvicnrv avntm
of the oil and gas industry ropre-
M-NI.IUVOS. was asked recently by
II. A. Stewart, acting PAD deputy
administrator, to recommend who
should carry on when the need for
PAD ended. PAD'S work was cut
sharply when government mater
ials controls were lifted.
Last week the council mrnm.
mended that upon termination of
luncuons he transferred to
would be adequate for this totally
new occasion is a mystery.
They even called the plan a
variant of the old Baruch plan for
control of atomic energy, which is
just exactly what it is not.
The Kussians surely cannot se
riously believe that these painful
ly familiar propaganda devices
are going to impress anyone at
all. If they do think so, then they
nave lost an coniact witn reality.
Every word that has emanated
from official White House circles
about the President's proposal in
dicates it is a serious attempt to
grapple with the deadliest element
in world tensions.
Such an efiort demands a sober
answer. Even neutrals predis
posed to give Russia rather than
the United States the benefit of
any doubt want to hear something
more than routine guff from tho
Kremlin.
1 Unless the men in Moscow have
taken loave of their senses, thev
will fub'iU thoir later promise to
give the Eisenhower plan "seri
ous consideration." If they do, and
if they agree to discuss the Pres-
mems program in private con
versations with all interested pow
ers, the chances are strong, how
ever, that the ultimate effect will
not prove much better than if
they should rest on the first fool
ish utterances they made.
For the Russians have never yet
shown they are interested in the
substance of real peace and real
disarmament. They commit them
selves to the appearance, only,
since genuine peace and advanc
ing prosperity would be enemies
of the cause they seek to spread
across the globe.
From the Kremlin's viewpoint,
the most sensible move would be
to agree to atom peace talks and
then stall them or bog them down
in haggling along conventional
Communist lines. That would re
capture appearances, but yield
nothing of substance.
As for the United Stales and its
allies, their course is plain what
ever the Soviet Union does. Mr.
Eisenhower's proposal to build
a world bank of atomic materials
and foster their application to
medicine, agriculture, industrial
power and other peacetime use
should go forward with or with
out the Russians.
This plan has the grandeur of
outline tor all its modest con
UNIONS, PICKETS AND
CONTRACTS
Albany Domocrat-Horald
Columnist David Lawrence in a
recent article argues that the ac
tion of New York unions in forcing
suspension of all the daily news
papers in New York is an inter
ference, by invisible government,
with the freedom of the press.
"What the Constitution of the Unit
ed States, through the "bill of
rights" is supposed to protect the
right to pilbhsh without restraint
from any government, visible or
invisible has not been protect
ed," says Lawrence.
. The "bill of rights" restricts con
gress (the national government).
Lawrence makes no mention of
the 14th amendment, which applies
to the state governments, saying
". . .No state shall make or en
force any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of cit
izens of the United States, nor
shall any state deprive any per
son of life, liberty or property
without due process of law, nor
deny to any person within its jur
isdiction the equal protection of
the laws."
So we have the individual pro
tected against tyranny by national
or state governments. Both state
and na'tion have the power to pro
tect the individual in his life and
property against private or quasi
public organizations. Statutes are
passed for that purpose. Lawrence
points out that Congress exempted
labor organizations from the pro
visions of the Sherman antitrust
law, passed to prevent "restraint
of trade." This makes it possible
lor a group of labor unions to pro-1
hibit publication of newspapers
whenever the leaders decide this
should be done. Other unions pos
sess a similar veto on the exercise
of other rights of individuals.
In the New York situation, a
strike by one of the several unions
among the employes of the papers,
followed by the stationing of a
picket line in front of the publica
tion plants. was followed by
breaches of contract by several
other labor groups vital to the pro
cess of publishing. The unions pre
ferred to break .their contracts
with the publishers rather than
permit members to cross picket
lines. Such action now violates no
statute, regardless of what one
may think of the ethics of it. Nei
ther the Taft-Hartley "slave labor"
law nor any previpus statute deal
ing with labor has made it un
lawful for a union to forbid the
crossing of a picket line -when
some other union has an individ
ual strike in progress.
The whole New York situation
anas up to a practical veto un
publication of any of the New York
daily papers. New York's reading
public may wish to read the pa
pers, but it is not permitted to do
so.
What Lawrence suggests is that
the antitrust laws be amended to
deprive the unions of immunity
from suit for violation of those
laws. How serious such n action
could be, from the point of view ot
the labor organizations, is not hard
to realize. It can happen if the un
organized public ever gets suffi
ciently tired of being pushed
around. There might even be a lot
of support inside some of the un
ions. What we'd rather see would be
an inflexible disposition on the
part of unions to keep their con
tracts. Perhaps legislation would
be necessary to nake . contract
keeping obligatory on those organ
izations not responsive to the ob
vious ethics of the situation. Both
sides of a labor contract should
be expected and if necessary forc
ed to keep it during its life. We
can't believe that reasonable un
ion members see anything the mat
ter with this.
Is there any reason why parties
to a labor contract should be on
any different basis from the par
ties to any other contract?
HARDY SOULS
SAM FRANCISCO About 25 As a warmup, the hardy swim,
members of the Dolphin Club roers, ranging from ages 12 to 86,
hopped into the chill waters of the rampe( seven miles from their
Pacific Sunday in the clubs 55th beach
annual midwinter swim.
NEW YORK (vP) Those long winter evening commer
cials on television have revived the lost art of reading.
There is no better time to pick up a good book and settle
back for a reunion with the printed word than during those
cheery interludes on your video screen during which the
announcer tells you how you can avoid body odor and pro
tect your lungs by drinking only filtered beer, packed in a
king-size refrigerator that can be thrown away after using
only once. 1
"Durlttg one long commercial I ing" Sen. Joe McCarthy,
road my way through three feet "The Boy who saw Tomorrow"
. ,Vr; c'"m " "vc-ioot dook vice President Nixon,
shelf, ' a man bragged recently. ..0ur Anima, Neighbor,"To the
h. X. 'ft,. i' . "J1 ri family next door. Win-ton Churchill.
Berle.
hiss Me Asain. Strani!er"Frr
Penelope, the Bronx Zoo's old maid! 'i of the NPC
l'laiypus.
"A Mingled Yarn" Qucntin 1 Cin I
Reynolds. r I N3 1
wniu 1 an a Jian Believe?" f 1
Publisher Bennett Cerf. TOT IxICS
mi- one 01 suspicion jiar- m ...
lene Dietrich. II7S Miloc A.i.
"Time and Time Again" Ava ' ...wj npau
Gardner. .
UmU Victory" - Adiai Stevr..) f
'The Future of Architecture"
the oil and cao riivicinn ,,-i.ini. nn
crated between World War II and ' ,cnl wmcn marlted the Marshall
"ii- orginmng ol tne Korean con
flict as a Peace-time npenrv anH
a revived military advisory' board
composed of industry representa
tives. It also suggested continua-
' iVl'L.
Rites Held
snap rair
Betty Grahle
"Meet Me at the
Premier Malenkov.
'Songs for my Supper1
L.UHl)HniO,
Morgue"
Guy
ed beside her lover. Carl Austin
Hall, was buried alone near here
in a brief ceremony attended by
alnit 15 persons.
in ricasanlon, Kan.. 175 miles
"Pocket" Guide to the Birds" -, inTfamdv nlo? TA,"
Your favorite politician. t"ry. y t'cn""
"The Borrowers" To the other
real favor this ChrisE,; ! whyi "f""? ?"!!, J'l' T To, favorite bartender.
nui reiresn his ears ny giving mm: '
a heart wanning, old - fashioned "You Must Relax" Ditto.
pieent-a hook? If he has forgot-! "Brother to the Dragons" The
ten how to read, surprise him with' bo"' assistant.
color picture book. ' I "Some Enchanted Evenings"
June Locxnari.
"I Reached for a Star" Frank
I Sinatra.
"Notes Without Music" John
ny Ray.
"So Noole a Captain' Mai.
Gen. BUI Dean of Korea (presented
I with a salute).
"The Truants ' Arthur God-
"HOW to IM.iv vnnr H..I njf all! ..t'.!.. n.i.L. ti..ii...
tit. T;i. . i 1 nr 1.01110 diuiuo
"f. "'" President Ike. Li Rosa.
1 racucal Guide to Job Hunt-I "A Pail of Oysters"
another commercial.'
To guide von in maVintf the rioht
choice, here is our annual list of;
tnristnias book suggestions Just i
in jitet for folks in and out of!
the public eye:
"How to Make Doll Clothcs"-
ourujn Monroe. 1
"All Done from Memory" Har-'
ry S. Truman. -
The ten-minute rxivmnnv f.
Ul-ycar-old-old paramour was held
Plan. It opens a now vista . of
world development that beckons
all men of good will. That vista
should be explored with all those
peoples who are willing to make
the journey.
Grcenlease's body last Oct. 7.
Both Hall and Mrs. Heady plead
ed guilty to kidnaping under the
Lindbergh law and wero executed
in the gas chamber at the Mis
souri State Prison early Friday
morning.
About 40 persons gathered at
the Pleasonton cemetery for Hall's
public burial.
There wore two floral sprays.
One was provided by a funeral
home. The other was sent by a
friend of the Hall family.
Mrs. Heady's request that she
be buried beside her partner in
the crime was denied.
Gen. Grow Withdraws
Request For Retrial
WASHINGTON UH The U. S.
Court of Military Appeals has
allowed Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow
to withdraw his request for a new
trial on his conviction of violating
security regulations.
Crow's conviction resulted from
the theft of his secret diary by
Soviet agents in 1951. Excerpts
from the diary were used in Red
propaganda blasts against the
United States.
Grow was assigned as military
attache at the U. S. Embassy in
Moscow at the time his diarv was
filched in Frankfurt, Germany,
where he was visiting.
A court martial convicted the
general of improperly jotting down
U. S. military secrets in his per
sonal journal. He was sentenced to
a reprimand and suspended from
command of troops for six months.
Grow. 59, was retired last Jan. 1
after 30 years of service.
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v,.-' ",u W1UI riusrn sines,
Heart of 0, 2. Zl
1 1- the Lin"-Di,.o. i'sT Ka
riy ng queers Irom Outer! it ,. i k.m, -( '.
fingered officers dug up vouno Rnhhv
PRE-YUUE TRAGEDY
DAYTON. Ky. I Shock caused
by a fire that started in a closet
I filled with Christmas toys was
0 a chinnl 1, niamea tor me aeam 01 jits.
wrth ,LS 'side'? ??rah Hastings Siepe, last night.
.irs. oiepes was ncaa wnen iouna
in the binning home.
NOTICE
The office of
DR. A. E. DALROS
will be
CLOSED
December 25 thru
January 3
Space" To a butter
waiter,
"By the Dawn's I'gly Light"
Fine for throwing at alarm clocks.
Lite is north Living and "The
COMMUTERS COLLIDE
Din. -f n...;..... ii:-! - ; -.".. nuu un in
.v-,.-. ... .i.rC iiiMiiK leiccinc commuter trains collided
Buy em for yourself, and give outside a suburban Svdney station
i 11 ..c.-ti ... .pu .'iiini,v. nuing at least one per-
.uuton exercise. son. and injuring 70 others.
General Hardware-Tools
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reetttuT,
From all of ul ..
to all of you
a Merry HoliJay
Season, filled" to trie
trim with ioyf of
die YuletiJe.
FIRESTONE STORE
Jfolidgijs
At this happy tim we
wish to express our
heartfelt thonks
and appreciation
for your patronage
during the past year
and to wish all our
friends and neighbors
a joyous Holiday
replete with all
he seoson's pleasures.
Georgie Lee Shop
"TOTS TO TEENS"
130 N. Jackson
mm nappiness
fir
May this Holy Season
bring la our many friends all
Ihe tich blessings thai will make
lor happiness and joy through
out the year.
--W-f-lo ! I i fetotJlK. 4t
HORN'S
Roseburg Refrigeration
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