The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-25
Physical Science


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nection with governmental setups IL
indeed misnomer.
Now how about economic systems
Are they of scientific origin? The
barter Of savages in the days Of cave
men could not have been. Their use
of dogs teeth, and with the American
money to handle deferred exchange
of goods; the stamping on a crude
piece of metal, the scribbling on a
fragment of bark; surely none OF
these are scientific.
All nations and peoples today carry
on trade or exchange Of goods and
services. This is all based on PRICE;
and price Is based on the relative val
ue of the commodities, which depends
on their scarcity; so the economists
tell us. Then defining this system as
PRICE SYSTEM we can include
them all, as: Any social system, which
effects it's distribution of goods and
services by carrying on trade or COM
merce based on commodity valuation,
and using money as a means of ex-
change. All systems in the world to-
day are PRICE SYSTEMS.
The base of such system is com
modify valuation; but few economists
can agree as to the definition of this
term. They do agree on one feature Of
it, and that is that commodity valu-
alton" is subject to continuous varia-
ton. 1t is variable.
So here we have for the very foun-
dation of our economic system, our
PRICE SYSTEM, an unstable variable.
bles. AS for being scientific in origin
or in operation-such a statement is
ridiculous.
1t follows then that we have con-
structed, through the years, great
scientifically based productive ma
chine; but we are trying to operate
this Frankenstein with the haphazard
controls that were handed down to us
from past ages. 1t is as though we
sought to drive an airplane with a set
of leather reins. 1t can't be done.
Several of the readers of this col
umn (there really are a few have by
letter, or, personally taken me to task
as chuck passer"; sighting my fire.
quent references to "the scientists and
technologists as the men who have
gotten us into the present shambles
and that it is up to them to get us
out" Being thus put on the spot, so
to say, the writer has been running
down some of these so-called labora-
tory worms, research experts and OPP
Grating industrial engineers, to accuse
ever realized their guilt; and il so,
were there any plans to rescue us. In
other words that is passing the buck
directly which is more than most
buck passers" do.
Mountains of material poured in and
f you've sometimes missed this col
INN it was because the writer was
buried in scientific data, his feet en-
angled in equations, while he combed
scientific factors out of his hair and
)enciled columns of statistics. The
'esults leave no shadow of doubt. The
scientists and technologists know what
hey are talking about and can prove
t. The measurable correlated FACTS
determine the inevitable results not
,nly in the stocking of the steam en-
zine, but also in the stocking of a ma
ion. AOur economic and social prob
ems, when ultimately analysed are
BASED upon technology and physical
'ealities. Physical science is the key
o our difficulties and its application
o the economic and social order is
lot only imperative; but unavoidable,
whether we like it or not.
So the writer is no longer ION the
pot" for the SCIENTISTS and the
can not only ana
we the problem, but also have the |
solution. This column will, as usual, |
Joint out the problems we face; then
lttempt to indicate what our scientists
md technologists will do when they
ire called upon to solve our difficult |
les. Old ideas and old systems die |
lard, especially when they appeal to |
he human ego; but the sooner we
wake to the FACT that we are mere
puppets and that we cannot suspend |
he laws of nature, the sooner we will
isten to the men who know these
Mystical laws and where they are
aking us: THE SCIENTISTS AND
PSYCHOLOGISTS.