The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-01-06
HOW WILL YOU
 GET DOWN FROM
 THE MOUNTAIN''?
Technocrats Dragged You
 Up to the Heights, But < Trail Back Seems Lost
By SIDNEY B. WHtPPLE United Press Stan Correspondent lEts.x.wu1s.l.A fAQQ hv Gfnlta1 DppaAl

GUtteu t'FeHS StUU NOFrcsIOuucHt Copyright, 1888, by United Prcss)
 Now York, Jan 8--UP)-HaV- ing led It's followers to a mountain them to view the precipice Of world collapse, technocracy might be expected to point, in tho dis tance. to some Utopian civilization.
 Instead, technocrncy merely says "Weil, here we are, and what arc you going to do about it. got you up here, but you'll have to got down by yourself"
 There have been vague suRgeB- tons that society can reconstruct ats measures and standards--that we should use the symbol for some unit of energy, like the "erg', for measurement of human values, in- stead of the dollar sign. But the technocrats stop right there.
 In other words when they are pinned down, they admit they have no solution for what they term the tuachine-age crisis. And they do not pretend to have any. Thcre- fore, technocracy ig not q panacen for the worlds economic ills. It ls not communism nor socialism. It has no blueprint for the future or civilization.
 It Ia, briefly, merely plan Tor study" and not . method for operating society. It Is limited at least at present, to the gathering Of figures, the analysis of statistics, the arranging of facts, which may or may not be valuable in chartinS trends of industry and economies --~dependent upon tho accuracy or tho facts obtained,
 Howard Scott, who seized upon the name "technocracy", and built around 1t his pseudo science, de- fines 1t ns: "A method of scientific procedure In operating mechan- ism of c continental order of mag ilitude, and not one of political partisanship based either upon class antipathy or class dom!- nance" That Is m admission that technocracy has no political phase < Whatsoever. How 1t could be en- forced--provided 1t developed the plan which to-day is lacking--.is asmattcr of government, and tech nocracy will not corcern itself with that.
 .@Dr Irving Fisher of Yale, says that technocracy's only function in solving unemployment Is that moro technical activity might help the world to recover more quickly from the depression"
 FrDr James W. Angel, himself a Columbia professor, calls the in- fiuence of technologlcal improve ment on unemployment "overem- phasized."
 Dr Dugald C. Jackson. of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, says that We cannot truthfully ascribc the cause or eyctic unemployment such as that of to-day to invention and ma chinery. They have added im- measurably to the comfort and happiness of ourselves. and broad 2 ly, to the improved character ana general stability of our employ Iient." ;.
 Charles r. Kettering. president of the General Motors Research corporation, is another who dis putes technocracy's findings. we suffer not from r-production, but from under-circulation," he says. adding "Id like to have those fellows for my competitors"
 " When the sum total of the ac- accomplishment of technocracy to date has been cast up, 1t seems to be this-"It has set the boys to thinking and arguing" That, in itself, may prove to be no mean accomplishment.