The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-11-15
| DEMOCRACY
What Il Is
What II Seeks to Do
By w. C. B. Randolph

recbnocracy is a science. The
.;auce of the production and dis
s ss;b of commodities for hui
ar consumption. All sciences are
n'a ar less intricate and are con-
, n~ with deeper truths than are
,,suallv found in the mind of the
. uv man. But this should not
s;scourage any one from the at.
.amnt to get at the science of tech
rocracy for fortunately for US al
:. truths are more easily under
stood than perhaps the
.tbar science, and better still, will
sat 70 the nation far greater di-
~, and immediate results than
has ever afforded us by all other
sonrces combined. This is a bold
statement.
To Indicate the general scope of
our undertaking, intending to fill in
The outlines later, let us say that
democracy offers to the thinking
World an entirely new conception
# the production and distribution
Of goods, lays heavy hand on the
errors in the present system and
calls upon all men to be prepared
to do some Independent thinking,
RIDING the mind of many of It's
ureconceived opinions which will
not be found ultimately to be un-
supported by the newly acquired
Information concerning the nature
Of the economic world with its al
most inconceivable complicated
forces many of which are working
IN embarrassing conflict with the
scientific methods necessary for
best results in health and happiness
for all.
These will be studied in detail.
The word "technocracy" comes
from two Greek words, "tech" the
proper way to do difficult thing,
and "cracy," rule, such as "democ-
racy," the rule of the people. So
in a general way democracy
means that the rule of production
and distribution of the means of
life shall be placed in the hands of
trained technicians, expertly COM
petent, who have no ownership in
the vast and complicated mechan-
isms they manage but are entrust-
ed by the nation to do for the peo-
pie what their scientific training
has fitted them to do.
In this new set-up the production
and distribution of goods will be
treated as one undivided and con-
tinuous act, with the same science
attached to distribution that now
prevails in production.
Under the present system we
have scientific direction at tn
'front.' end, production and chaos at
the latter end, distribution. The
is similar to threshing
machine capable of turning out I'M
mense quantities of wheat and at
the tail end no sack sewers and
buckars. The machine soon clogs.
The technocrats tell us that
these scientific trained men who
know how the nation can best BIZ
served are only hired men and are
not allowed by their "owners" to
employ the methods which are
we'll known to them.
And just as no one would con-
sent to have mighty power plant
entrusted to an ignorant man, or
one who has the power to dictate
to what trained men he has, so it
would be the apex of folly to en-
trust the entire equipment of pro-
duction and distribution of the ma
don to the dictates of few in
terested "owners" who outrage the
science underlying this precious
process by which the people must
live by ordering the distinct dislo-
cation of these all-important social
forces which by that interference
retard and cripple the output of
goods.
democracy explodes a bomb at
this basic weakness of the present
faulty system. Technocracy calls
attention to an unexpected intrud-
er in the field of industrial activ-
Hy. That intruder looms dark and
sinister and threatening. His in