MAN AND MACHINE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 1 November 1926, Page 9

MAN AND MACHINE

AMERICA AN IDUSTRIAL

MECCA

A JAPANESE PILGRIMAGE

OBSERVATIONS OF VISITORS,

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, 30th October.

A group of twenty-two prominent Japanese commercial and industrial representative men who recently arrived in the United States to make inquiry relative to American industrial efficiency and prosperity concluded tho first fortnight of their tour upon arrival here. They will now complete their trip by examining factories in the urban centres .along the Atlantic seabord. They wero greatly impressed with the tremendous advancement made by the application of machinery to industry.'' Mr. Kiroku, one of the Kobe bankers and dean of the delegation, however, made a profound observation, intimating that he felt that in America machinery was beginning to control humanity. He said: "Mechanical civilisation in the United States has been tho most impressive thing to our party. The Japanese still work with manpower; tho Americans with machines. My first thought was that a machine was using a man." The delegation, however, readily admitted that mechanical devices released American people, permitting them to take advantage of liberty, pleasure, and happiness. Mr. Sajibei Shima, another delegate, said: "The happy expression of American people has been the one outstanding thing of the tour."