MEN DISPLACED

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4634, 11 December 1934, Page 8

MEN DISPLACED

I USE OP MACHINES. Machines have displaced men, inflicting cruel hardship. The most important question is what are we going to do with these new and increasing powers that have been won for us by science, says Sir John Russell, Director of Rothensted Agricultural Experimental Station. The logical result of unchecked dominance of the machine is dictatorship of those in charge of it. Italy, Germany, and Russia have recognised the great and growing part of science in human life and have set out to organise themselves. They all adopt the dictatorship method, and that appears to be unquestionably the easiest way to achieve material results. Their natural results are very striking. There seems to be no doubt that a strong, single-minded dictatorship is the easiest way of using science in national life but no opposition can ,be tolerated. To us English people it seems a very hard price to pay, and, however nijuch our theoretical reformers may toy with the idea of dictatorship, it would not survive here. We have to solve the problem on some other lines, but we must face the fact that in refusing the simple way we are giving ourselves a hard taskIf we could ensure that the principles of Christianity could be wove 1 ! into the texture of the new, more organised society towards which we seem to be moving we should nave no anxiety for the future of our race.