The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-12
By J. R. BRACKETT Copyright, 1882, The Associated
 PreSs.)

By J. R. BRACKETT
 Copyright, 1882, The Associated
 Press.)
 NEW YORK, Nov. 1J. = Were he Unted States to use the most Efficient methods of production tow available, cnly 30 per cent of he people at present employed between 120O0,OOO and l5.000 000- would be necessary to do everything run the nation.
 This is one symbol used by raehmccracy, a research group of echnicians and engineers working t Columbia University, to dem- pnssrsl5e the growth, effects and what is considered the possible per- Is of the machine. The research 3as teen in progress ten years mder the direction of Howard Scott.
 Practically all of the gain in the nations efficiency has occurred n the last century, the research rs found, man having failed to better his ability to do work in Ill of preceding history.
 Calculating that about 38,C00,000 low are gainfully employed, use of he most efficient methods now available without new inventions would render more than 20,000,000 Icf them useless so far as abso- utely necessary work is concerned, :. the research estimates, without even considering the 100000 now ohless
 Lever Cost Production
 Scott says that while such meth 5ds are not fully in use now, .fere Rust be an accelerating trend soward their adoption since all business activity is directed toward cwer cost production - machines mean fewer men lower costs
 When it is considered Scott says, Alat most of the gain in the last sentury-there had been no gain ID to the last century-Ihas occur led in the last 30 years, it can be been what the potentiality is for he future toward the rapid ex- ension of better methods.
 A man with a spade in 1880
 could till ciily 0ne-eight acre
 of land in a 12-hour day. Other
 crude devices, the wooden blow
 fer instance, bettered this speed
 somewhat. In 1855 with the
 advantages of the earlier till
 ing machines, he could till
 between 12 and Is acres day.
 Today, with most modern ma
 chinery and methods, he can
 till about 96 acres in an eight hour day. .s.s.sa.
 It took him 5,75O minutes CT 96 hours to till an acre in 1880 with spades, and some what less time with the, wood
 en blow. It had taken him
 at least that long in, all in-
 dustry up to about 1880. To-
 day, with the most modern
 methods he can till an acre in
 five minutes. #3e S If the wheat acreage in 1929 | had been titled with :, spades it 1 would have required 4,900 900 men. ! The 1929 tillage actually required l between 75.O00 and 100000 men, 1 but, had most efficient methods 1 been used, 4,O00 men could have | 5cne the job. Mesa;. The tendency, Scott says, will be l Inevitably toward this possible ef- l siciency, with consequent reduc- 1 kion in the need for farm labor. |All farm crops can be titled about | |as efficiently. A few more men. |wlth modern methods, can accom- R,lish the whole farm process. Efficiency the Goal In 1930 a man could make 45 | bricks in 60 minutes. Today he ean make 40,O00 bricks in the same | time. About 87 men using most | modern methods could have pro- kinced all the bricks the United | hsed in 1929. sing tp Man used 60 minutes to make AS | bricks in 1930; today he needs | but four seconds for the same AS raw clay to burned bricks. Here again the tendency | Eoward greater efficiency and small Ter employment is seen. Scott says In 1904, the beginning of the |automobile industry, one man needed 1,291 hours to fabricate an by 1914 he needed 400 hours in 1929, 92 hours, and today only 73 hours.
 e The rapid gains in this modern industry, Scott says, show how ra- p.d displacement of men with ma