The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-24
ENDORSEMENT OF
TECHNOCRAT PLAN
Sought IN SENATE
Resolution introduced BY Matt
haei lauds Scheme For
Economic Change

On the heels Of the dismissal Of
Chief Technbcrat Howard Scott and
his scheme from Columbia University,
State Senator w. E. Matthaei Of Wells
county Tuesday introduced a resolu-
ton in the North Dakota senate en-
dorsing the bureau Of democracy at
the New York university.
Matthaei asks that the legislature
give to the Bureau Of Technocracy
Our hearty endorsement of their ef-
forts toward the development Of any
system that will provide more equit-
able distribution Of our natural and
created wealth tending toward a solu-
ton Of our economic Ills"
The people of every nation on
earth are today faced with the immi-
nent possibility OF economic destruc-
ton and the resulting collapse of civil
lization," the resolution says.
"All known authorities Of every
school Of political thought agree that
the impasse In which the world finds
itself today Is directly and indirectly
the result Of an excess of production
In all lines Of industry over the Ca
pacity Of distribution provided by our
present capitalistic system.
Paralysis ID Forecast
1.-THE machine In industry has be-
come more highly developed during
the last so years than in all the ages
Of the world previous to that time
and this development promises to be
extended during the years to come to
q point where the worker in industry
will be. needed only. for supervision
and distribution and the resulting un-
employment, known as chronological
unemployment, will completely par
alyze the buying power of the working
class.
"There is today only one school Of
thought which has plainly recognized
the fundamental weaknesses Of our
present industrial system and pro-
posed an intelligent and workable
system to take It's place, such system
proposing the complete exploitation
Of the machine to the end that hu-
mainly may enjoy all that q machine
age can produce while at the same
time providing new theory Of dis
tribution based upon the energy out
put Of all industry and not upon gold
or other media Of exchange which
have no relation. whatever to the pro-
duction OF goods.
This scientific theory Of industrial
relations, known as democracy, has
been brought into being by and
through years Of scientific research
and study OF the energy output. ac-
tual and potential, of every country
and this study has been made under
the supervision and endorsement Of
Columbia university, great center
Of learning.
Conclusions Not Disptoved
Careful study Of the findings Of
these scientists fails to disprove q
single conclusion reached by them.
but does, on the contrary, only make
more evident the urgent need Of hui
mainly for an industrial system such
6 they propose, which will not only
produce but provide the means Of dis
tribution as we'll"
Despite his custer ct Columbia,
Technocrat Scott Is determined that
the work shall 60 on"
Renouncing some Of "the statements
and attitudes Of Scott, Prof. Walter
Rautenstrauch Of Columbia and three
associates who had been prime movers
In the technocracy group withdrew
Monday night.
They would continue their re-
searches into certain economic mat
ters, they said. but not under the
name technocracy.
AS far Is We are concerned" said
Rautenstrauch. 'technocracy ceases
TO exist and Scott viii not work here
ct Columbia) any longer"