The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-24
MODERN PRODUCTION.

MODERN PRODUCTION
 T HOSE WHO pessmistc about production permit their anieties to disturb unduy. Charles P. Stenmez Tn America and the New Epoch, presents the soundcr View, which well be recalled He
 
 hours Now eight to nine hours It has decreased about 20
 cent The productivity these hundred
 proen following has increased at least ten foldrobably
 nearly let
 tenfold
 duns the day we could now produce as much as we did in ten says that it just true in the rubber business in thing else and Illustrates In the time Goodyear which much less than hundred rubber mill batch of 40 pounds hour But single workman operating modern high speeds mills produce thousand pounds hour which is more than fortyfold-
 In certain operations drying dryer does three hours what it formerly took three months to do
 The Stenmez estimates is probably too low. It is diff cult to estimate modern production against ancient production because the quality of modern production is so different
 Modern life is estimated in terms alone of drink and place sleep but figures of increasing human comfort and activity
 bygone age age which houses had bath ubs and modern heating plants There electric lights, and rue running water Sewage too often through the open streets the surface Houses lily ventilated in winter. Diet comparatively boats railroad raln telegraphs bath tubs moving pictures parcel posts.
 Babies like fles and their elders the The term of life shorter than Common education was rud menay Provision just beginning by which all the pie might instructed chate slaves Work just emerging from condition of serfdom.
 When the quality of life is measured element in producvy when elements like clean bOdes educated health and long life estimated into the problem it that hirfold does not the increase in produc vy The figure must be expressed in terms enormously larger.
 Productivity in commodities proceeds in numner of ways improvement roads, railroads and other of communications improvement of parcel post express service inventions forces of better of using materials improvement in the instance breeding hens that eggs, that milk and grain that production the and in less risk of the enemies destroy crop-like Marquis wheat, which fur shorter and gives onethrd yield to
 Despite what has been done there are make, which ought to be made possible
 Dams be erected to control the flood water of the great which would millions of dollars in crops water we'll the irrigation of dry lands be profitably of stump lands be reclaimed rush waste for lack of the utilize the of them Coal be burn mouth of the instead of at distance and elec rcy others could be cheapy produc ed might be heated by the current economically instead of heated wasefully by coal
 story leaving the farm and going to the cities thing to grieve The history of civ While it needs all the labor of most of people produce merely food and the bare necessities of life there can high civilization, development of in vention complex industrial life little attention to agr- culture application of the best methods and the most fruitful result system where twenty percent per cent of the population might feed the other ninety cent better than they fed especially if citizens trained they might readily be- to participate critical periods of the harvest
 All with the world. The difficulties that bese inc between methods The crisis only seeming a crisis of the nature that occurs when fears down unsuitable dweng to erect The sme is too sweeping The improvements that take place in matter how vast are to be thought scarcely than giving the cosmic dwelling coat of paint