The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-01-24
ENDORSEMENT OF
TECH]N0CRAT plan
Sought IN SENATE.
Resolution introduced BY Matt
haei lauds Scheme For
Economic Change

On the heels Of the dismissal OF
Chief Technbcr1t 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 eff
forts toward the development Of any
system that will provide q more equit-
able distribution Of our natural and
created wealth tending toward 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 oui
present capitalistic system.
Paralysis ID Forecast
1.-THE machine In industry has be.
come more highly developed during
the last 50 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 t.
Z point where the worker in industry
will be. needed only. for supervision
and distribution ana the resulting un.
employment, known as technological
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 oul
present industrial system and pro-
posed an intelligent and workable
system to take its place, such system
proposing the complete exploitation
Of the machine to the end that hui
mainly may enjoy all that . machine
age can produce while at the same
time providing . new theory Of dis
tribution based upon the energy out
put Of Ill industry and not upon golt
or other media Of exchange which
have no. relation. whatever to the pro-
duction OF goods.
This scientific theory Of industrial
relations. known Is democracy, hal
been brought, into being. by .ant
through years Of scientific research
and study Of the energy output, &C.
tual and potential, Of every countr,
ana this study has bcen made undel
the supervision and endorsement o.
Columbia university, 2 great centel
Of learning.
Cancellations Not Disptoved
Careful study Of the findings o.
these scientists fails to disprove I
single conclusion reached by them
but does, on the contrary, only MAXI
more evident the urgent need Of hu.
mainly for an industrial system suct
Is they propose, which Will not onl!
produce but provide the means Of dis
tIibution - WELL"
Despite his custer at Columbia
Technocrat Scott u determined tina
the work shall 80 on"
Renounctng some Of "the statement
and attitudes Of Scott. Prof. Walter
Rautenstrauch Of Columbia and thres
associates who had been prime mover
in the democracy group withdrew
Monday night.
They would continue their re-
searches into certain economic mat
ters, they said, but not under TIKI
name technocracy.
As far - We are concerned" Sais
Rautenstrauch, 'technocracy ceasel
70 exist and Scott viii not work herr
(at Columbia) any longer"