The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-24
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MR.. MODESTUS

Raindrops are fine
Bubbling springs are a beauty tt
behold
Brooks that babble, and rivers tha,
run, are blessings
But when raindrops multiply, brooks
rust, and rivers begin to roar
The water that was beneficent cal
become a raging torrent
Devastating, terrifying, destructive
full of curse
Unless it can be controlled; like tha;
great Ohio River Flood
x X x
In 1914, before World War I,
Total national production was about
$21.3 billions
In 1919 total production was about
S4S.5 billions
Exports in 1914 were 81 per cent OF
total; in 1919, 16 per cent
BY 1929 total national production
was about 1928 billions
While exports had dropped again tr
9.S per cent of total
Per capita production had increased
from $217 in 1914
To about double as much, or $434
per capita, in 1929
And most of it seemed to be staying
in the United States
Since the per CAPITA" the popula
ton, the people
Were not getting double what they
received in 1914, as their share
The abundance of production became
flood, with no place to put it
That was the way our engineers
were doing things, in 1929.
x X X
Hitler got the jump on the democ-
racieS, in this war
Something terrific had to be done
in producing> war materials: or else
So we quit loating along, in mass
production, and got busy
Today, General Motors reports its
war capacity production
Eventually to produce war
materials at Il rate of 50 billions
per year.
That amounts to almost one-fOurth
the total national production in 1914-
And that is the capacity of only one
corporation and its branches
This is the secret weapon" which
is going TO lick the Axis
This is the artesian well of POWER,
which will decide the war
\ hnA Of i,,,
hitherto untouched unused
Which are still mounting in their
output, unmeasured yet in volume
Consisting not merely in raw mate
rals and man-hours-
But composite Of free, cooperative,
interviewer, coordinated brain ener-
gieS-
Flowing from wills, emotions, intelli-
gence, training
OF Il people who have the price to
pay for the freedoms they love
x X
Wen win this war: AND THEN
What will engineering and manage
ment capacities do
With this new-created stream of
POWER IN PRODUCTIONS?
Engineers studied the Ohio River
Valley, and laid cut food controls
Destruction in Tennessee River
Valley lands is being changed
Into Controlled Power, helping to
feed, to clothe, to house
The men and women who were for
merIy victims of wild forces raging
by what new technique of engineer
ing, by what genius of management
VIII this unheard of, unparalleled
rush of commodities be controlled?
1t Will take more than tinllering--
Machine gun production has been
doubled in the same man-hourS-
Processes formerly using 40 men are
now accomplished by five men
Diesel engines of same horsepower
weigh one-fith, take one-third space
Magnesium production capacity will
equal discovery of IL new continent
* X X
You cannot put this new wine in the
old bottles
Old techniqueS of economic control
will not fit these forces
Property directed, they will create
new sources of human happiness
If confined within old pipes of
and selfish greed
They will develop explosive quail
tiles, destructive again
1t is not the "radiCalS' who are to
be feared in reconStruction-
But those who refuse to see new
forces and new sources of power
stop world-grOwth.