Judge — June 16, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUD GE Volumitis stuTE business men are in reaction against certain A disorders that have followed in the train of mass production, “Volumiti was defined at the recent meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States by Lewis H. Bronson, It is seen in “those who hesitate to give up anyth in the way of volume, even though the lack of profit is acknowledged.” Dr. Julius Klein of the Depart ment of Commerce, diagnoses a_ simil: “as a business disease disease as a.” He points out that there is a ten- punt too much on the economics of mass mass man dency “to production.” Mass production is the greatest factor in our cur- rent It is steadily raising the standard of living, bringing within the grasp of millions the conveniences and luxuries which they never could have afforded under the older system. | Higher wa and lower prices are about equally important in increasing consumption, Shorter margins of profit follow as a matter of course. But inevitably some manufacturers in their zeal shave their profits too close—often by fixing prices unre: more often by letting their expense of doing business mount unreasonably high, Comparing this week's sales to those of the corre sponding week last year is a valuable and exciting p but it ought to be paralleled by the prosier habit of comparing present production costs with last year's. Striving to boost volume to a new high record sonably low, but tice ich season is well enough if the cost of selling is at the same time boosted to an even higher record. ver was it so vital as it is today for a business man to strike the balance between caution andr: Those who mistake it become the martyrs of the new industrial revolution, hhness. * * * AXS 2x ful prospect looms. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Al Smith ever belonged to a college terni Of the nation has been s; hands of the Greck letter boys. Coolidge Gamma Delta and so, to be sure, is Har Dawes is D. U. and so is Charles E. Hughes. Speaker Longworth is Zeta Psi, Will Hays Phi Delta Theta, Frank Lowden and Senator Borah are Be So the list runs on until we come to the two men most likely to be candidates for the White House. Is it prudent to commit our destinies into the hands of any man who never learned the sacredness of oaths and rituals, who never wore a pin on his undershirt or gave a down-and-outer a lift brother? There may never went to colle to the Catholic chu cause he was a be some excuse for Al, who at all, and who bel anyhow he which, in the Heflin country at atest of all secret ne about Hoover, who even waited on table is said to be definitely solidarity at all among T turn out to lick him from Alpha t, is reputed to be the g socicties. But what's to be ¢ worked his way through coll in a sorority house, and wl anti-frat If there is « the brethren they to Omega. * * * aN old man died the other ¢ in Kentucky, in poverty and alone, and lay dead for days before ey found him. He it was who announced twenty- rears ago that he could send the human voice by wireless telephone. He predicted radio broadcast ing in an interview printed in 1902, in which he said, “My apparatus will eventually be used for the general transmission of new: It will convey mes- sages between land and sea.” At that time he gave public demonstrations but could find no backers. The Kentucky hermit may have been quite wrong in the belief that he had anticipated Marconi. But now that he is gone he should have his little day in the press, not for his own sake, but as tribute to that great army of the unknown in which he was but one unit—the Derelict Inventors—luckless men fired with mad dreams, nurtured on forlorn hopes and doomed to fail for want of capital with faith. does this whirling world throw. tog man and the right money ! How rarely ether the right Younger Generation Notes. R No. 24 TLY ina woman's colleg student govern- t board decreed that a certain girl must be expelled because she had been drunk. ‘The kindly an intended, of course, to keep it dark and let her drop out quictly b vterms. ‘The girl herself thought different. She insisted that th colleg ought to hear about it. » said, he other girls ¢ a right to know what will happen to them if they he same attitude was taken by a girl sus- pended at another colle You can be shocked, if you like, at the immorality of these young things, or scornful of their bravado. We prefer to admire them as realists and darned good sports. t who! comicbooks.com