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HARRY LAUDEMAN Harry, the manager of the 1907 baseball team, was born August 14. 1888. He finished the grades and high school in a very creditable manner. He intends taking a medical course at the famous medical college of Halmamann, Chicago. Without doubt we shall hear more of this rising genius and his cures if lie survives his present course in chemistry. He is the smallest, but not the least one in the class. He is always the foremost in the movements of our class which have been many and great.
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this is being supplanted by machines, with which a ditch such as is used for laying tile can be excavated at the rate of one hundred eighty feet per hour. The sewing machine too, has an important place among machinery. Only by this machine could the demands of society be tilled, for one of these machines can do the work in a day that would be necessary for scores of the nimblest of fingers to do by hand. This is the story that meets us every where. Perhaps the millenmium will come when the ingenious man has made every operation incidental to human existence automatic, and there is nothing left for him to contrive. Let us now consider its effects on society. The machine brings the effect of nature into more effective co-operation with man. The results derived from this fact is clearly expressed in the familiar distinction between hand made and machine made articles. Thus it is easy to perceive that the greatest advantages are to the machine owner. The cost of production being reduced to the minimum, his profits are increased, and increased capital invested in improved appliances is soon repaid, allowing keener competition and increased sales. To the worker it has its advantages and disadvantages. Here arises a social problem that has required the most careful thought and study of eminent and learned men of all departments of learning to solve. With the first appearance of machinery the laboring classes scented danger. They were deceived to the fact that machinery was a curse, that it had decreased the capital of the country and that the employer was benefited at their expense. That they were driven from their employment to starve while the machine did the work. The invention of the spinning jinny and power loom threw thousands out of employment. The typesetting machine displaced the printer. The air brakes took the place of the brakemen. These men were skilled along these lines of labor and could not well turn their hands to other employment. Then riots occurred, and inventors were mobbed. Was this fallacy? Time has proven that it was. The machine came to stay and soon labor lost its antagonism toward it. It soon became evident that if the machine was not an economical advantage it would not be used. It realized that a change of relation was brought about and not a change of existence. For while the machine displaced labor, labor must replace the machine. The capital that was saved by machine labor went into the manufacture of machinery. Mot only did it require labor to build new and repair old machines, but also to oversee and operate them. To build factories, buildings, cars and ships. Thus, new industries were opened which required new workers, and to which the displanted weaver or printer soon adapted himself. The increased consumption of coal and other fuel, thus occasioned, resulted in a greater demand for labor in those lines of industry. Again, the machine has reduced the price of luxuries. Things that were once luxuries are now attainable by working classes. Demand was increased. And this increased demand creates an increased supply, which in turn creates an increase of labor. By the aid of the machine man is able to save his muscle and improve his mind, thus bettering his social condition, and creating a demand in new fields— books and literature. Thus we see that the working people derive great benefits from the economy of effects made possible through machinery. Hence an account of its advantages to the worker as well as the owner: the machine, with its ability to increase the productive power of labor, with an economical saving of expense, must be regarded as advantages to every society. 22
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