New Britain herald., 1929-10-28

ried out. nor has anything been done 10 start carrying them out, nor will it be done until presently the un- avoidable period of depression will come upon us and we shall again have our bread lines and our soup ! kitchens.
 DeadIine For Workers Slowly, but surely, what is called the deadline drops in certain indus tries In the metal works, the age was 50. then a few years after that 45, and now 40. After a man past 40 has lost his job, the door of hope is set against him in many lines.
 Tn Detroit right now you will find that gradually. in all the plants, from Ford to Packard, they are wedding out the men who are no longer able to keep up with the Il speed of the belt. These men have They no longer can move quite quick enough to satisfy the stand ards of competition, efficiency pro- duction, so out they go, until the number of them who arc out reaches to the thousands.
 Who are going to take care of them?
 What doth it profit a nation if it doth gain 0 whole world In the increase of mechanical conveniences and in the doing of it lose it's own soul. the development of it's people
 ipin iu to 6n tS n V it has to be able to analyze the facts and challenge the conscience of the nation.
 You will find this to be absolute ly indisputable, that income above what is necessary for the reasonable development of life is bad. Bad for the people who get it. Bad for the community in which it is spent, And it doesn't matter even though that income be spent for purposes which are highly beneficial for the com- munity-for in the last analysis 1t may do more harm than good.
 If you are going to carry Chris tianity to the end in the field of in dustral relationships, you will have to judge the prince of this world, and that is, the desire to make money.
 Discussion
 Q. "You were speaking of the Detroit headline as about 40?"
 A. "Mr Ford has just expressed publicly his ideal of keeping men working beyond the deadline. But they do not seem to be able to carry it out The deadline in the Ford case is not 40. The point is this. AS long as Mir. Ford was in q good competitive condition with the old model car, he was able to indulge in the policy of high wage. Now, with the new car, ha is up against the kcenest kind of competition with General Motors. The new car is still losing money. They have to cut down the cost of production at every possible point"
 Q. What can an average church do about this whole matter, any way"
 A. That depends upon the par ticular situation in your town. If you get an occasion of dispute in the town, it is up to you to attempt to formulate judgment and get the community to do it. Usually 1t is too late. In the meantime, it is the responsibility of the churches to carry forward, with the other Chris tian associations, campaign of education in the community. The only agency in the town that can assume to represent the common in terest is the religious organizations There should be stimulating com munity discussion concerning indus , trial standards.
 O. You spoke about the prob lem of unemployment. What can be done about it?"
 A. q pointed out that the chief problem today is not the introduc- ton of new machinery, but the in- . troduction of new methods to save production cost, in order to pay ' dividends on these increasingly higher capitalizatiCns for these mer- gers. In the first place, there should
 
 society as a whole, which gets the y benefits as a whole. It means d sys = tenn of insurance that will assess Il , in part upon the industry and il < part upon the consuming public = through the state. The thing Wt = are trying to do now is to work uI r a campaign for old-age compensa c ton law in the state.
 n "As to the responsibility of thu v consumer. Only some of us are em n ployers or managers or investors = but we are all of us consumers. Th' Q Christian church is not doing wha = it can in educating the consumers t conscience"
 : Q. Are there eny bright spots 1T . the south?"
 A. "Ycs, there are. There arr
 some in a little village where ther' c has been a very intelligent welfar' It policy and program, which has ad - vanced and educated those mill peo 5, pie. Now of course we face tn d proposition that the welfare program n always faces. wher you have got t, n q certain point in educating you l. people, you go or or stop. Yo, e either go on and try to give thos " people an increasing share in tn
 control of the situation, or try t' e keep them in a subordinate posi- l. ton. The other bright spot is tha q a large proportion of people of tn E younger set have totally ney n spirit and attitude toward the sit D. uation and they are not at all in e mood to allow the early chapters il r industrial history In Great Britail 1T and the United States to be re q peated in the south. You have seeI r. the worst side of the south reporte' 0 in the papers, but not the best. q look to sec an industrial develop e ment in the south that will b
 rnuch more rapid than if has bee