The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-07
CUTTING OFF HEADS

after g0g az@e cox IS ,he rez6z % caa arasso-
eEa.a "nG&e hats agl gqg ga ~ rh.on~ zaJa On"
# 'H~ C'rHnd.ss orators IN ,ae Fs"acn rego!1,fon
C.,Nh2 Of heads Has ,ten NE method II da>~
irritating wealth, ,n&ssshY geace. rgfl'Yln2 p0'ca
and sfca,Sng prosperity The nre>hed did M, ~9'.
TssY vol and IN 1912 ,he fg,e.rr 'racs u France
nss less taan IL had oG"n a.ztg yeass hef9r" Yet
,"r still anxious 10 believe thu there rs sona"
Hr'actsf, IN legislation and some mystery m Torde
Ti!l make bnqr people rich ana hungry people
asI fed
lake goar q7n csse ior example Ne have
wealth, have the aThee, standard II living INA,
ne nqri5 hss ""Gf seen ne have ,he most efficient
manufacturing plants and the creates natural r.
sources. Nth NC possible exception % Russia, on
earth Airng with thsac great gifts re hav" zrd"-
spread unemployment. suffering and vat Gi.ibCa
ton ~ she normal routine Of ili"-
S9g, Mat 40 realty ~ant - f"pd. clothing, hcur-
ny and, anog" all opportunity 70 turn the
iec,ina minute into tangible possessions and
Dsable gDGds Some day vii look back on thu
situation and N" experiment. have made 70
zeal With H. and will perceive that tn" real
problem that had to solve not hrw 10 take
income from Peter and give It 10 PauFs labor com
pine 10 produce more goods that could be used b.
everybody,
We are not suffering today from any deadly
technocracy which has aDbugated mankind and
placed u under the cruel dominance q the ma
chine This newspaper IL brought 10 the reader
BIZ rnaehncs-fr0m the typewriter which writes
this copy and the typescttIng machine that acts IT,
'hc stereotype machine which make the matrIx
and the great laundering press which prints a., to-
the motor which delivers IT. Without these ma
chimes there would be no Newspaper. II Is also
true that knowledge Itself could not be spread
without the mechanics! equipment and, after
all II said and done knowledge Is the biggest
money maker for mankind that has been discoy
cred
10 cut oG machines may be III" only way, if we
Whnt 10 go back 10 wearing skins and living in
hollow trees. but If va want better clothes, better
food better light better houses. better motor cars
better movies better books and better science, we
will have to find first and foremost, better ways to
uac machines and 10 discover more desirable prod
ucs 10 b" made by machines
In word the problem II not TO destroy wealth
but to create wealth. the problem is not to divide
up little, but 10 distribute much; and the way to
distribute is by production. II was production OF
ships that opened the New World; it was produc-
ton of TIE railroad that eliminated famine; it was
production of motor cars and aTplanes that prac-
.tcay mastered time and space; it was production
of the knitting machine that clothed our bodies
and the production of fertilizers that filled our
grannricS. and it will be the production OF new
articles and the development of new methods that
will solve the old difficulties that confront us to-
day,
The great leader for the future is not the man
who vii! show us how to cut down on what we
now have. hut the one who will open further hori-
for service and for To say that TINS can
not be done is to say that human energy haS come
to the end of the road We do not believe 1.-THE
Richmond News-Ieade