Evening star., 1932-12-23
DESCRIBES
AIMS
Neither Dictator Nor Soviet
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. New
Economic Order.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 23-Tech-
nocracy envisions neither dictatorship
by the technician" nor "a Soviet Of
the engineer" one of its chief pro-
ponents, Howard Scott explained last
night.
In statement designed to eliminate
certain misconceptions" about the group
and its theories. Scott. who is directing
the technocracy survey at Columbia
University, said:
"Technocracy wishes to state that It
s non-profit research organization
operating without salaries and there
fore not stated or equipped to handle
the deluges of inquiries concerning
tions
The word technocracy, as represen-
tative Of new body of thought, means
through the power of technique-and
as such has no connotations Of die
tatorship by the technician or soviet
of the engineer Technocracy Is a new
approach to social phenomena.
Partisanship Avoided.
"Technocracy is method OF
scientific procedure in operating a
mechanism of a continental order of
magnitude and not one of political
partisanship based either upon class
antipathy or class dominance. ..
"Technocracy points out that the
man hours per unit produced were
highest . century ago on this continent
and have since declined steadily to lower
and lower ratios; that energy per capita
rI Iahf nit q n
tury ago and have risen In a fluctuating
but continually upward curve until they
have reached a point where today en-
this continent they are the highest per
capita Of all time.
"TeChnOcracy states tnat we
are In the midst of social change and
that the rate of social change Is pro-
portiopal to the rate of substitution of
energy for man hours. Therefore, social
change Is accelerating In time from this
point Of view.
"Technpcracy points out that this
continent has no cause for gloom, or
fear of chaos but that we must face
the inconvenience Of change-that this
continent today stands on the threshold
Of q new era Of well-being, that Is to
say. a more efficient conversion of
available energy and an increase In
total energy converted. which makes
possible an increased standard Of liv-
ing. The high road to this new era
can be one or orderly progression under
chronological control.
New Era Envisioned.
"The North American continent Is
= the only area of such magnitude
from the standpoint Of geologic set
up. physical equipment, personnel, and
the state OF technical knowledge-com-
petent and ready to progress into that
new era.
The engineer and the technologist
of today are the only functional group
in our present social structure possess
ing both the knowledge and the capacity
to direct this progression in a sane and
orderly fashion.
"Technocracy also wishes TO point
out that If the trends of the past CEN
tury continue at their present rate of
acceleration, this continent will shortly
have to decide whether or not It is
going to bequeath its children of today
and Of the generations to come . still
greater debt load and an ever-increasing
Unemployment, with the resultant of
steadily decreasing standard OF living
for all.
"Technocracy has set itself to the
task of defining our social problems
and is confident the thinking personnel
of this continent will move in q con-
structive direction"