The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-05


 are not keeping up with mechan- ical inventions. This is another way of saying that progress pro ceeds from a small number of individuals. All the the mechan- icaI inventions -sprang from a small number of minds. The men inventions are not as many as fifty.
 This method of progress raises certain questions, such as the ef- feet of the increa sing conplexity of society upon it's term of life. Simple organisms, and simple methods endure for thousands of years. But the complex society tends to disintegrate when any of it's numerous parts fail to func- tion. Are the supermen making the world so complex that ordi- nary. men cannot operate it?
 
 Primitive war carried on by people engaged in primitive agri- culture did not necessarily wreck the society The fighting done, men returned to their simple farms and resumed business as usual. In ancient India the sol diers never disturbed the 'huSoa nd men. The farming went on, while the battle was fought. With modern killing implements, cleo tric lighting, water supplies, man ufacturing plans depending upon world tra ransportation, it is differ ent. A disruption on this plane is hard to overcome.
 
 Science has developed another fact. Minds are not of the same order. They are of many de- grees. The earlier concept was that any mind might be develop ed to any degree. and that what happened was more or less an accident of birth, or environment. The army tests. and other tests since made. tend to show that mems minds are like their muscles. containing certain capao- ities which cannot be exceeded in the individual case.
 This thought is familiar enough on the physical side. Nobody sup poses that every boy jumps as far, runs as fast, or wrest1es as well as the fastest boys. It would be quite a mistake to attempt to make a champion marathon runner of a boy who had not even the capacity for a short race, But in the contests of the mind these attempts are the common doubted the wisdom of having the rule so.
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 Thds is a civilization in which necessary functions in the society are filled by individuals who do not dn the least understand the machinery with winch they deal. There are statesmen who cannot estimate the meaning of the new 
 do not understand the difficulties that attend upon a break in a complex industrial organism. A few men can tie up a transp orta- tion system, cut off a water sup ply. or disrupt a factory.
 
 Analogous to the individuals who ignorant1y flood coal mine, are the employers who fail to realize the dynamite of popu- lar dissatisfaction, and who con- tribute by stock watering. or other forms of social blasting, to the injury of this wondrously com plex and delicately adjusted socie- ", which is founded on the con- cepts of the mighty great.
  In Germany and the United States, since the war, state of employment has been somewhat similar, with Germany, prehaps, rather more fully employed. The German mark is worth a third of a cent. The American dollar is the best money in the world. Germany has little. United States. much gold. UnempIoyment must rest on some other factor than gold and currency Is this too hard to understand?
 
 Motor vehicle department dir ects attention to the law which forbids use of spotlishts, except when rays projected to the right of the center of the vehicle, not more than so feet ahead and dir ectly on the ground. The best place for the spotlight Is on the axle, close to the right front wheel, so that the rays are pro jected six or seven hundred feet in a path of light in which the right wheel may revolve, an i1-