program of using the unemployed in such work? The contractors who take on the work will do it to make a profit, will they not?

“A factory for the production of rayon yarn is nearing completion in New Jersey. Its operation is entirely mechanical and production can be carried on twenty-four hours a day without a single worker in the plant. By means of photo-electric cells it will be possible for an official in the New York office to change dyes without leaving his desk and without human assistance at the plant.”

The above are but indications of where we have arrived and are but one phase of the subject explaining why there is so much unemployment. Listen to what follows:

“The technologist can easily produce a blade with a tungsten carbide edge on a steel wafer base at just twenty per cent additional cost of a blade today. But the blade would last a lifetime and longer. The razor industry could quickly supply the nation with these life-time blades, but the plants would have to shut down almost immediately. After a few weeks the demand for blades would be almost nonexistent. The plants are open today only by marketing a product that needs constant replacing.

“If the comparatively new fibrous nettle plant, ramie, is introduced to industry (and eventually it will be) the entire wood pulp, silk, wool and cotton industries would be very seriously affected. Ramie has a 22-inch fibre, can be raised 1,500 pounds to the acre (compared to 150 pounds of cotton) and two and three crops can be obtained in a year in the southern states. There is no problem of picking, since it can be cut and bound with a thresher. If made into suits it wears seven times as well as wool, and several hundred times better than cotton. It has the advantages property of being stronger than wet than dry. It can be made into paper cheaper than wood pulp and the paper can’t be torn by the human hand. It has a lustre similar to silk, and linen, can be woven with silk and rayon or wool and cotton, and takes dyes beautifully. The technologist can refine and prepare ramie for spinning by complete automatic process. Here is a fibre far superior to cotton or wool, that can also be made into paper, that is many times better than wood pulp