University of the Pacific School of Dentistry - Chips Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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DEAN' MESSAGE Perhaps, yes most certainly, the most important lesson we learned from our devastating experience of the early thirties was that man's age old apprehension that his con- sumption of the necessities of life may exceed his productive capac- ity is to be a groundless fear here- after. The consequential result of in- validation of the theory of insuffi- ciency could but result in spirited challenges to our concepts of eco- nomics. There is no doubt but that if man were permitted uninter- rupted time to solve the problems that arise through efficiency of pro- duction, he must in the end accom- plish these tasks with reasonable satisfaction. Food, shelter, clothing, and adequate health services for all, seemed to await only for a workable plan of distribution. Under normal circumstances a small percentage of our population could and did pro- duce enough of the essentials for all. It is suspected that under such condi- and the industrious would prosper and enjoy the fruits of their efforts and yet, the shiftless and irresponsible would not be without life's necessities. Our economic lesson in this respect was hardly learned when new needs were thrust upon us. Production not for man's needs but for man's destruction now has become the order of the day. It is said that the underlying cause of the present World War will not be reliably estab- lished during the lifetime of anyone now living. Whether or not the causes are to be truthfully established depend largely on whether or not the democracies survive. tions the-pr uden f 24. E iq. At the moment of this writing our country is in this enormous struggle so that this truth may be established and not submerged, so that men may be their own masters and not slaves, and so that the fruits of man's labor and enterprise be enjoyed and not employed for man's destruction. God willing these are to be. Our attention to the problem of distribution is temporarily shifted to, which in decent times is of lesser importance, that of production. Until the issues are finally settled in the interests of democracy, We must work more and more and produce more and more, in order to escape slavery and, that men in the end may live to enjoy the heritage of nature's and man's newly realized productive capacity.