Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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,aefaaa af , Low1NG furnaces flaming chimneys the crash of the '3' l J a drop forge! . . . The fascination of industry! . . . To make one's way during the dark early morning l Q' ' e' ! hours among a group of laborers as they hurry to the shop, to punch in with them, stand at the bench beside them, labor throughout the morning and, when noon comes, have lunch with them .... Thousands of them! Hundreds of thousands of them! Immense factories! Roar of machinery! Smoke, soot, grease! Mass production! . . . They struggle at their various tiny operations . . . simple tasks, perhaps just the movement of a hand. Beneath the flare of blue mercury lights, in the haze of steam and smoke with the odor of fresh-cut steel and hot motors! So simple! . . . yes! Day in and day out, year in and year out they labor. Pushed when products are needed most, laid off when the company deems it unwise to produce further 3 . . . as cogs in a great machine, tools in the hands of a world throbbing with the life and convenience they themselves make possible. But do tl1ey mind? Were it not for their prod- ucts the world would be at a standstill. Were it not for the wor1d's use of their products they would be at a standstill. Thus they are drawn into this vast whorl of industry, merely to eke out an existence. . . . . An Antioch freshman sees industry. 209

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