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Grand Coulee Spills Over! The greatest struc- America's Power Goes Up! Chart shows total
ture on earth is now producing power for Uncle conversion of electricity in U. S. in billions of
Sam, fighting for the life of this nation. Bureau kw.-hr. E stimate for 1942 is based on 15 per-
of Reclamation Photo. cent increase over 1941.
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O FFICIAL MAGAZINE OF TECHNOCRACY INC.

What Shall It Profit Ye?

By Howard Scott
Director-in-Chief, Tech nocracy Inc.

Warfare, The Armed Conflict of Political States their homeland except a supply of original weapons
and men . . The military movements of the armed
forces were necessarily limited to contiguous territory
THE LAST 70 centuries of man's history human

I in which sustenance could be acquired by conquest.

N
beings have organized themselves to conduct many The means of transportation were few and limited.
and varied conflicts either against the natural forces Horses, while used for many centuries were used only
of their environment or against human enemies seek- as ridden animals; the horse as a transport animal
ing to oppose them. for hauling loaded vehicles did not come into exten-
Mankind has been engaged in warlike conflict al- sive use until the invention of the collar and hame in
most continuously in this long historic stretch. Since the thirteenth century. (Stirrups were not invented
16oo B .C. down to today the world has enjoyed as a until after 500 A.D.) The wars of history were there-
whole less than 330 years of peace. Less than 10 per- fore limited by territorial considerations of possessing
cent of 3500 years has witnessed no warfare on this a source of supply and by the inadequate, slow trans-
earth of ours. Throughout these 70 centuries human portation of foot troops and .oxcarts.
beings have died in conflict with other human beings Up to two centuries ago wars, like the migrations
on the fields of battle, and the ranks of mankind have of people and the expansion of the human race, were
been decimated by floods, famine, drought, and dis- confined mostly to the North Temperate Zone. The
ease with and without the combat of warfare. predominant direction of all wars in Europe and Asia
There have been many kinds of war, from simple for thousands of years has been an east-west (or west-
tribal raids and forced migrations of people intruding east) direction . The direction of wars has been similar
into other lands to those of trained armies of city, to an d in many cases simultaneous with (either pre-
state, kingdom, and country, seeking to dominate a ceding or following) the migrations of people, for the
greater area than the homeland. There have been chi ef expansion movem ent of peoples has been from
nationalistic wars, religious wars, im perialist wars, and east to west. The conflict of human warfare has
one world war, but today the wor1d is involved in paralleled this expansion.
the first total war in history. The Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Medes and the
In over 68 of these 70 centuries the mili tary conflict Persians carried their war.s to the Egyptians, the
was always conducted by armed forces that lived off Mycenians, and the Greeks. Each and every ex-
the territory of the enemy and necessitated little from pansion and war has exhibited the general tendency,
4 TECHNOCRACY

economy, namely, warfare was conducted with hand-

The internal technological pres- tool armies limited in mobility by their dependence
sures of the dominant Temperate on the limited transportation of the foot soldier and
Zone political states will force an ex- the low striking power of hand · weapons vs hand
pansion into the Arctic and the weapons. Mankind had to await the discovery of the
Tropics and it is of little moment means of converting extraneous energy be'fore he could
whether the expansion occurs as a implement himself with the facilities for conquering
result of peaceful consolidation or space and time and all the zones of the earth.
as the result of military conquest. \Vhile some trade was conducted in historic times
by overland caravan merchants and by sea traders,
still it must be stated that those simple means of
transport and production would never have become
up until the last three centuries, of the east fighting effective enough to have achieved a great surplus
and expanding its way west. In all the "long course of production or the development of world trade. World
Egyptian history from the first Dynasty to Ptolemy trade could not have been conceived of nor carried
the armed forces of Egypt only extended their south- out by J ul ius Caesar, nor could Julius Caesar have
ern boundaries a step beyond the geographical Egypt fought a total war. While the legions of Imperial
that we know today. The east-west movements of the Rome fought from the British Isles to North Africa
and the Near East, war 8,ooo miles away from Rome
barbaric Alaric and Attila were followed in turn by
was not only inconceivable it was physically impos-
many others including the Saracens, the Turks, and
sible. Trade only became world trade as technology
Ghengis Khan and Tamerlane.
developed the requisite means of production, trans-
The re-discovery of the Western Hemisphere by
portation and communication. Humanity has accom-
Columbus in 1492 led to a further westward expansion
plished this feat only within the last 150 years of the
to be followed by expansion in the Western Hemi-
7,ooo years of recorded history.
sphere from the eastern coast toward the Pacific. The
movements of wars and populations proceeded on In th e year 18oo the population of the world was
their east-west or west-east plane. Simultaneously estimated to be 85o,ooo,ooo; today, in 1942, the popu-
with the east-west movement to the Western Hemi- lation is estimated to be approximately 2>40o,ooo,ooo.
sphere, Russia began an eastward movement which The expansion of the human race in the last 150
finally reached the Pacific at approximately the same years has been more than twice as great as its total
time that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. growth in the preceding 69 centuries. The habitable
The east-west movement and the west-east movement portions of the world, in the course of this long
of population and human conflict finally circled the progression of east-west, west-east movement of the
globe to meet each other first in the North Pacific and human race, have become occupied finally to such an
later in the island lands of the Pacific. extent that there are no longer any appreciable un-
The pressure of population in conflict with the occupied portions in the Temperate Zone. Mankind
natural forces of their habitat invariably forced ex- has achieved this increase of population and wide-
pansion and conflict with other areas and other spread occupation of the earth through the tech-
people. The expansion of population and the con- nological application of science to the area operation
flict of human warfare were channelized down through of his various national economies. If mankind had
the centuries chiefly through the North Tempera te insisted on operating solely with human toil and hand
Zone with few exceptions. As other hemispheres and tools the population would not have grown, time
continents were discovered within the last few hun- and space would not have been conquered, and pro-
dred years, the movements of people have spread to duction would have remained at the scarcity starva-
the South Temperate Zone and to various localized tion level that had existed for untold centuries.
areas of the Tropics where fortuitous combinations The east_-west direction of population growth will
of climate, soil and rainfall permitted the develop- be forced znto a north-south, south-north movement.
ment of a stable economy. Political states now possess in their technological
economies the facilities with which to invade and de-
All the economies prior to 18oo A.D. were human velop the regions of both the Arctic and the Tropics.
toil, hand-tool economies deriving their livelihood The physical demand of increasing resource-consump-
directly from the soil by the application of human tion of the technological 'economy of the dominant
toil to crude tools and implements. The armed con- Temperate Zone political states will force a political
flicts of these economies naturally were fought on the expansion to occur in the north-south direction. The
same general characteristics as the conduct of their modern political state of the Temperate Zone, at-
 TECHNOCRACY 5

tempting to · produce the major portion of its physical nuhtary warfare may have . forced same r)\ational
wealth /;Jy technological processes, will be compelled ent,i ty to introduce in its wartime economy regulations
by tht; rising energy demands of those processes to rat~oning the consumption of food materials and
acquire and develop new and greater sources of energy travel, but none of the emergency wartime regulations
supply. This internal technological pressure of the of the national entities of yesterday's armed conflict5
dominant T emperate Zone political states will force ever in any way introduced even the slightest change in
an expansion into the Arctic and the Tropics and it the basic techniques of the production of physical
is of little moment whether the expansion occurs as wealth or in the operational structure of their economy!
n result of peacefu l consolidation or as the result of The wars of yesterday were fought principally with
milita1·y con quest. The expansion will be inevitable. human beings and hand tools between belligerem
This change of direction of jJOpulation growth and powers whose internal economy produced their physical
expansion of political states is bei~g made apparent wealth with human toil and hand tools.
in this first total war of the world. This change of The wars of all of yesterday's 7,ooo yean were
direction will be the great dominant ·which will dis- fought for a myriad of causes which might be sum-
:Jipate all the existing considerations of a postwar marized briefly as having been fought for god, greed,
world that will be entertained as the primary con- and gold. All major wars have been fought in the
sideration of the peace conference te1·minating this past on the premise that victory over the enemy
total war. would insure a multiplication and extension of the
national virtues of the victor. There have been wars
of expansion, wars of conquest, and religious wars.
There have been imperialistic wars; and the World
War of 1914-1918 marked the last war of the old
Total War, Forerunner of Social Cha nge
epoch. Today, United States and North America with
the other allies of the United Nations are engaged in
engaging in armed conflict fighting the first total war in history.
A LL POLITICAL STATES
have waged their wars with armies composed of
either citizen soldiery, paid mercenaries, professional
A total war could not have . been fought prior to .
this time. Even if they had so desired, the political
fighting castes, or the volunteer-conscript armies of states could not have fought a total war prior to the
the present national states. The political states in widespread introduction of technology in the internal
their armed conflict of yesterday were never at any time operation of their respective economies.
forced by the exigencies of their military activities to Political states of the past have viewed a new or
contemplate any reorientation of their internal econo- alien religioq as a revolutionary or social dynamic
my. The military wars of yesterday have been con- to be feared . The basis of their fear was that of
ducted by single opponents or a number of states probable overthrow or conquest resulting in the institu-
allied against one or more states. The armies that tion of a new ruling class superimposed on the same
faced each other on the field of battle in the past have century-old production of physical wealth by human
fought each other in the main with weapons and toil and hand tools. Regardless of whether the causes
formations of similar types. The organized political of yesterday's wars resulted from god, greed, or gold,
~tate of yesterday only possessed an apparent military conquest of the enemy resulted only in a change of
advantage when fighting some savage or barbarian the national facade with the substance of their national
people whose state of social organization was far be- economy unaltered.
low theirs. The Summerian civilization rose from primitive
The internal economies of yesterday's political states obscurity, lived to flourish, and disappeared in ob-
engaged in armed conflict were almost identical in
their methods of producing physical wealth. Funda-
mentally they were the same. They differed only in
None of the emergency wartime
their external facade. When the victor vanquished
regulations of the national entities
the enemy and consolidated the territory of a defeated
of yesterday's armed conflicts ever
political state into the victorious homeland the vic-
in any way introduced even the
tor instituted no change in the methods of producing
slightest change in the basic tech-
physical wealth. As state conquered state they suc-
niques of the production of physical
ceeded only in perpetuating a continuation of the
wealth or in the operational struc-
same processes of producing physical wealth and the
institutional organizations possessed by both them- ture of their economy.
selves and their defeated enemy. The vicissitudes of
 6 TECHNOCRACY

livion. In Egyptian history dynasty followed dynasty equipped armies. The technological nature of total
from the first to the Ptolemys. The Hyksos conquered war requires a vast productive output of mechanical
Egypt, the Egyptians defeated and routed the Hykso~. equipment of all kinds. This equipment is capable
The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians fought, con· of high speed rates and high speed, automatic discharge
quered, and were defeated. Athenians and Spartam of firepower. The technological equipment of total
began the Grecian progression which reached the war has a terrific consumptive power of raw and manu -
height of its expansion in Alexander the Great's con· factured materials. Therefore, in order to product
quest that reached from the Hellespont to the Indus, the technological equipment requirements of total
from the Indus to the Nile. The conflicts went on, the war and the rate of materiel production to supply
scene changed. Rome and Carthage engaged in theit the technological equipment, the noncombatant arm}
military death struggle that terminated with the de· of the political state engaged in total war will exceerl ·
feat of Hannibal at the battle of Zama, 202 B.c., tu the total military fighting forces by 8 to 10 times.
be followed by the destruction of Carthage itself. The The United States is engaged in total war. Tht
world has seldom been at peace. The world has en· Secretary of \1\Tar has just announced that the Armed
joyed less than 10 per cent of that abnormal social Forces of the United States will reach the grand total
condition known as peace. The last great religious of 9,ooo,ooo men in the latter part of 1943, including
war, the Thirty Years War, was terminated in the 7,5oo,ooo in the Army and 1,5oo,ooo in the Navy.
Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. There have been many A considerable portion of this estimated total will be
wars fought since the Treaty of Westphalia down to sent into foreign service necessitating a huge tonnage
and including the World \1\Tar of 1914-1918. of merchant shipping to transport ·and maintain it
Not until the World War did certain physical funda· on foreign fronts. In order to fight this total war
mentals in the operation of national economies become the United States will be compelled to mobilize be-
apparent. Science and technology, introduced into the tween 62 and 64 mill ion citizens into the productiv('
social existence of man less than 150 years previously, and service operations on the home front.
had progressed so far that for the first time in human When any citizen is selected for compulsory milital)
history each national entity engaged in the World service by our country in time of war he automatically.
War found it necessary to install ever greater installa· u pon induction into the military service, gives up and
tions of machinery and technological equipment to
such an extent that even the vanquished nations
emerged from the World War with more energy
generating equipment, with more machine installa- NEW OR'DNANCE HEAVY TANK
tions, and with greater capacity than when thosr
America is beginning to _catch up! This big
belligerent powers began the war.
The wars of yesterday for god, greed, and gold had new tank is tops in its field although it is only
conquest, domination, and loot as their prime motives. a forerunner of what we may expect if the tech-
Never hitherto has any confiict of political states been nological skill and productive capacity of this
fought with the implements of social change. Only country is given free rein. It was not until August
total war is technological and only technology can 1940 that the Ordnance Department received a
fight a total war. America must understand that we sufficient appropriation from ·Congress to even be-
are fighting the first total war in the midst of a world gin designing a heavy tank! On the opposite
revolution. page we see the result. This tank weighs approxi-
mately 60 tons. It is stated by the Ordnance De-
partment that no other vehicle exceeds this tank
in regard to firepower and horsepower of engine.
The Impact of Technological War on Individual The armor is cast and welded to eliminate the
Enterprise ballistic disadvantages of the rivetted tank. Al-
though a formidable weapon, it is not by any
means to be considered the last word. Great ad-
the requirements of COm· vances in design and construction will yet be
I N ALL PREVIOUS WARFARE
batant service and military supply did not require
the mobilization of the total population of a political
made. This is but the forerunner of a new line
of heavy tanks which Technocracy predicts wilJ
state. Total war requires the mobilization of the depart radically from this in design to achieve the
entire population old enough and fit to serve. Military maximum efficiency. Official War Department
service is compulsory and necessary in order to meet Photo.
the requirements of large, well trained, mechanically
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surrenders all prerogatives, rights, and privileges to increase in new plants. The steel industry was only
personal initiative and private enterprise. When the 40 million tons wrong! The business brains of the
citizen of the United States enters military service he steel industry had been very clever for some decades in
is, by the compulsion of military law, compelled to merchandising steel for a profit at a price to the com-
abandon all the legitimate and illegitimate lucrative mercial consumer. The very acumen of their success-
practices of competitive chiseling. All members of the ful business achievement in merchandising steel has
Armed Forces of the United States are trained and bee·n revealed as the depth of mediocre moronity when
disciplined to fight for their country and to defeat called upon to put forth a vision of the steel produc-
the enemy wherever found. The structure of military tion required to meet their country's need in total war.
service does not permit the officer or private to par- One can go down the long list of aluminum, mag-
ticipate in the military operations for pecuniary gain nesium, copper, rubber, textiles, shipping, and trans-
and personal profit. The members of the Armed Forces portation, always to find the same defeatism of in-
do not draw dividends or bonuses, nor are they paid capacity. Internally, business has attempted by every
time and a half. When one serves his country the means within its command to preserve the competitive
honor of the service comes first. No one can get rich practices of corporate and private business simultane-
from a lifetime of military service in the United States. ously while producing the equipment for total war.
This is exemplified by that popular army ditty: 'You're This has resulted in a haphazard, unplanned creation
in the army now. You're not behind the plough. of national confusion, a struggle of conflicting com-
You can't get rich, you-- - --! You're in the Army mercial interests to dominate the economic pattern of
now.' the United States in fighting this greatest of all wars.
The military services of the United States are a Individual citizens obtaining a livelihood under the
non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-political aggregation free competitive practices of a Price System compete
of men and machines organized to fight the wars of with each other for occupations and rewards on a
our country and to defend our national honor when- voluntary basis if the opportunity is provided by
ever and wherever called upon. The citizens, serving economic circumstance. The staggering immensity of
their country in the compulsory military service of the United States' war program of production for
the United States do not economically compete with victory will be such that hundreds of thousands of
each other for pecuniary gain, nor do they attempt to small manufacturers and more hundreds of thousands
acquire their livelihood by individual effort. of small businesses will be liquidated by the economic
}
The Government of the United States assumes com- processes of non-business war production.
plete economic responsibility for all persons inducted Productive and service personnel will have to have
into the Armed Forces; that is, the Government pro- the complete mobility to be moved anywhere at any
vides all persons in military service with food, cloth- time in order to meet the shifting requirements of our
ing, habitation, medical care, recreation, and trans- growing war effort. The personnel of the nation must
portation. We do not expect, nor would we even con- face the facts, cold and hard as they may be, that the
sider the ludicrous possibility of a soldier being com- war production program will necessitate many shifts
pelled to supply his own food and clothing-his Gov- of occupation and geographic location.
ernment does it for him. The mobilization of 62 to 64 million civilians into
the productive and service occupations necessary to
The economic development of the United States in support 8 to 10 million in the military forces engaged
the last 150 years under the initiative of private busi- in this war cannot be achieved by business, either
ness, regulated only slightly by a small amount of private or corporate. The operation of the productive
governmental refereeing, has resulted in the most mag- and service requirements of the United States can no
nificent array of successful corporate enterprise on longer be conducted on the basis of voluntary parti-
exhibit anywhere in the world. Business, "!;>oth cor- cipation of the individual for rewards in dividends,
porate and private, has loudly proclaimed its com- bonuses, salaries, or wages.
plete competence to meet any and all of the gigantic The directors of the war production program must
problems required in the production for total war. have the authority and the power to move men, money,
We remember the limitations of business vision in machines, and materiel to any location at any time.
1939 and 1940, for all business was in the same posi- The Government of the United States must assume the
tion as Big Steel which fought the expansion of the authority and the power to conscript all personnel,
producing capacity of the steel industry. Big Steel all equipment, all property or buildings, and all
pompously declared that the steel industry of the materials necessary to operate the mechanism of war
United States had sufficient capacity to meet the total production. To attempt to organize 64 million human
war needs of the United States without any further beings into the mechanism of our all-out war effort
TECHNOCRACY

on a voluntary basis is an open invitation to internal issue: Can we introduce in this country, in this greatest
disaster. democracy of the United Nations a national draft ol
compulsory labor service-drafted to work for frozen
wages in private enterprise to produce profits for busi
ness ownership? This would be fascism in the United'
The Danger of Fascist Contro]
States!
The United States is fighting fascism in this total waJ
HE .FREEZING OF WAGES and salaries is already on
around the world and it cannot win this total war
T its way. The freezing of civilian ~mployment to
jobs and locations is already proposed along with the
if it permits business ownership to impose fascist con
trol on its war production.
forced drafting of civilian employment to new occupa· If we as a nation continue to fight this total wa1
tions and emergency work in new geographic locations. under the competitive practices of business enterprise.
This immediately brings to the fore a fundamental the UniteP. States faces the greatest reduction in
standard of living ever faced by any nation in history.
Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan,
Canada, Australia, and South Africa have all had to
Boats Built Upside Down! This is another reduce their standards of living in order to meet
advanced construction process which was for· the productive demands of their varied war con·
seen and urged by Technocracy. Here is a 173- sumptions. The pre-war standard of living of these
ft. patrol boat. Note the big 'rocker' which help!' countries has never been high when considered l1l
to turn it over when near completion. This yard comparison with that of the United States. The re
is turning out one a week. But this process could duction in standard of living of these countries to
turn them out bi~?:l!«'r and faster. U. S. NaY)' their war levels may have resulted in short rations
Photo from Acme. and in some cases may have caused general malnutri-
10 TECHNOCRACY

tion m the civilian population. Nevertheless, the gone into the production of mechanical equipment.
changes wrought by reduction of these economies to The United States is building a big steel plant in
their wartime level will be relatively of a minor order Brazil and a copper smelter at Chiquimata, Chili and,
compared to the changes that will be brought about if the proposal of government salvation of small manu ·
in the United States by the reduction of peacetime facturing in the United States goes through, we will
standards of living to the level of a total war econo- ship all our small manufacturing plants, closed by
my thrown into continual confusion by the anarchy the war program here, to the countries of South
of the competitive practices of private enterprise. America.
Total war demands equality of sacrifice. All over the world total war is forcing technology
Equality of sacrifice in a total war is impossible of to beget more technology. Technological miscegena-
attainment so long as any American's participation m tion has set in and it will spawn a whole new brood
the war effort is conducted for pecuniary gain. We of processes, techniques, and machines.
Americans are a peculiar people. We are more in- All over the world every government is being com-
genious and possess a greater capacity of devising pelled by the technological impact of total war to
devious ways to make easy money than any other substitute national service for the vagaries of profitable
people on earth. private enterprise.
As soon as war, political legislation, or business Every American belie1•es in the equality of sacrifice
speculation create a real or enforced scarcity every inherent in the national service for all that will br
smart American devises ways and means of profitably required by our country to fight this total war.
bootlegging that particular scarcity. Prohibition ·wa' Total conscription of men) machines) materiel) and
the legislated scarcity of only one item of human money with national service from all and profits to
consumption. The present procedures of price ceilings none is the only way to achieve equality of service and
and price floors is a political process that has rubber- sacrifice. Every American has to face the fact that
ized' the floor and the ceiling in order to facilitate this total war cannot be won by profits) dividends,
the price being bounced in any direction in order prices) bonuses) or war wages.
that it may solve expediently the inequities of the Technocracy asks every American the question :
moment. Which do you want) business or victmy?
Frozen prices and frozen wages will not provide the U pan your answer rests the fate of the nation.
instrumentality for a controlled standard of living at
our coming war economy level.
All over the world every country, belligerent and
neutral alike, is straining to install more technological North America develops its North. Beyond
equipment either to meet the demands of total war . this far northern river winds the new Alaskan
or to develop new lines of national production in Highway on and on through the rugged terrain
order to fill the void created by the economic blockade of northern Canada. Under the joint sponsOI"-
of total war. ship of the United 'States and Canada this pio-
Australia, that only yesterday was one of the world's neer road has been completed before the De-
greatest producers and exporters of unfinished agri- cember I deadline. The U. S. Army has done a job
cultural and mineral products, has been forced by of heroic magnitude under difficult conditions,
the exigencies of total war to change from an agrarian far from sources of supply. Here we see supplies
and mining economy into a full-fledged manufactur- he~ng ferried across with a cable which ingeni-
ing economy with an output capacity great enough, ously uses the force of the current to cross the
not only to satisfy the call of Australia's wartime river both ways.
needs, but also capable of providing a considerable In the completion of this highway Technocracy
surplus for export. sees one more feature · of its Continental pro-
Australia today is manufacturing tanks, guns, planes, posals coming to reality. Technocracy has urged
and airplane engines. Australia has become a pro- the Alaska Highway for years. This present
ducer of merchant shipping and naval vessels up to road is a rough pioneer road. It is ironic to
w,ooo tons. Australia, that used to import its rna- note that after the Army has done the hard
mine tools from Great Britain, Germany, and the work, the climbing of mountains, the slashing of
United States, is now a large producer of machine forests, the bridging of rivers, and has fought
tools. Total war has forced a wide-scale introduction the insatiable muskegs, under intolerable condi-
of technology into the Australian economic structure. tions-after all this-then the private contractors
Australia can never go back. are to he called in to finish the job and col1ect
India, too, is being mechanized. India, too, has the gravy. U. S. Army Photo from Acme.
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America Stronger Than Fascist World

OUR RESOUR:CES AND AREA GREATER

MERICA is opposed by the fascism of Europe The points of Japanese land conquest stretch from
A on the one hand and the Japanese fascism of
Asia on the other. What is the relative strength of
Kiska in the north to Java in the south, or if trans-
posed to our map, from the coast of Labrador down
these areas as compared to our North American Con- across the Continent to a point several hundred milo
tinent in terms of area, population, and productive beyond the Galapagos Islands of ·Ecuador. From east
capacity? See the inside back cover of this magazine to west the Japanese holdings, if transposed to tht
for a graphic presentation of these factors. map of North America, would reach from Puerto
Rico to very near the longitude of Hawaii.
Although Germany proper is smaller than Texas,
Area and Japan proper is smaller than California they havt
In Asia most of the area controlled by Japan con- succeeded in dominating large areas of the earth with
aists .of water-a gigantic maritime empire. Neverthe- a fascist method of social operations. The greater they
less, it is astonishing to note that in point of land area grow the greater threat they constitute to the destiny
only, the Japanese actually control more territory than of this Continent.
the Germans. Furthermore it is to be noted that the These geographical facts are of sober interest. They
Japanese have made much of their grab in less time represent in some degree the magnitude of the taslt
and with less expenditure than the Germans, and that which faces America as it moves up to be the chief
the territory they have taken is much more productive supplier of materiel and manpower in this global war.
in some respects (particularly food) than the lands
conquered by Germany. Population
The land area of all countries conquered or con ·
From the standpoint of area and population tht"
trolled by Germany is 2,286,ooo square miles. Com·
German fascists have not fared as well as their Nip·
pared to this the Japanese have conquered or control
ponese brothers. The Germans have conquered or
2,g86,ooo square miles. The area of our North Amer·
control less territory than the Japanese and they have
ican Continent, by contrast, is 10,313,ooo square miles.
taken over a greater liability of dependent popula-
Thus we see that in land area alone the Japanese con-
tions. The total population of all the areas taken over
stitute a more formidable enemy than the Germans,
and controlled by Germany is 402,ooo,ooo, while the
although area in itself is not a suitable criterion. It
population of the areas 'under Japanese control ir-
is to be noted that the North American Continent is
318,ooo,ooo. This is a combined population of 7to-
almost twice the size of the Japanese and German
ooo,ooo people. In comparison with this the North
territories combined.
American Continent has tgs,ooo,ooo. Table II.
Some other features of the area controlled by the
The Germans have 176 people to the square mile,
fascist powers are of interest.
the japanese 107, and the North American Continent
An equal-area map of Europe transposed to North
19. This is an advantage to our side for our produc-
America at the same latitudes would show that Hit·
tive capacity is not dependent upon manpower but
Ier's Europe runs from the latitude of the north
upon technology.
coast of Baffin Island to about the latitude of Chicago-
a distance of more than 2,ooo miles. If we in-
clude Lybia it would run down to about the latitud(' Resources and Technology
of Cuba. In an east-west direction the conquered The Germans have a huge dependent population
European territories transposed to North America with limited food resources as compared with Japan.
would run from Newfoundland to about Salt Lake Cit} and their disadvantage as compared with this Con-
if Spain is included in the fascist setup as it must tinent is even greater. On the other hand, the Euro-
be. This east-west distance is about 2,500 rn)les. lt . pean area as compared with Japanese Asia has a pre-
is int~resting to note that most of Europe lies in rela- dominance of industrial equipment and productivity.
tively high latitudes as compared to the centers of Measured in terms of steel ingot capacity fascist Europe
population of this Continent. rates at 5~,8oo.ooo tons annually while Tapan can onl-?
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turn out 7,2oo,ooo tons. On the other hand the 25 percent of the world's superphosphates of lime
capacity of the United States alone is now almost go,- 8 percent of the world's potash
ooo,ooo tons annually, or 65 per cent greater than 82 percent of the world's sulphur
the combined steel capacity of the fascist world!
In a survey published in Technocracy, July 1940, Now, America is at war and some of these differ-
the resources and productive capacity of the North ential advantages have been lost because telephones
American Continent were compared to those of the and automobiles have become less important than
rest of the world. This demonstrated that in the pro- tanks and guns. America was faced with the giganti<
duction of basic materials and in the manufactured job of conversion-a job which has not been dont
goods of peace the North American Continent had completely or satisfactorily, or quickly enough. '
the hig~est per capita production in the world and We have not made full use of our actual or poten--
in many respects exceeded the combined world pro- tial strength because -we have constantly permitted
duction. Table III cites some of these figures shown private and group interests to prevent a designed
extensively in Technocracy's original survey. national operation of our entire mechanism. We havr
Other data in this survey showed that the North millions of blueprints for details without a singlt
American Continental Area produced the following design for the entirety.
percentages of world producti~n in these important These figures, perhaps, incline to make us feel over·
items: confident. Yet, statistics of steel production, as with
statistics of radios or area, are not a criteriqn of mili·
Alcohol ......... . 35 percent tary power in themselves. America has the tech-
Automobiles .. .. . 78 percent
Paper ......... . . 53 percent nology, and it has the resources and area but it has
Sulphuric acid .. . 30 percent failed to install the design of operations . necessary to
Tires ...... .. . .. . 7l percent mobilize these resources and technology.
Wood pulp ..... . 46 percent America is a mechanism. Haphazard voluntary con-
tributions, volunteer service, the labor market, and
The North American Continental Area also pro-
private enterprise-even if they were all motivated by
duced:
the highest patriotism-cannot operate this mechanism
28 percent of the world's natural phosphates under the enormous demands imposed upon it by the.:

TABLE 1: AREA

EUROPEAN FASCIST CONTROL JAPANESE FASCIST CONTROL NORTH AMERICA

Russian area~
Germany
600,000
224,973
Dutch East Indies
Manchukuo
733,"rn0
503,013
Canada .
United States
3,694,863
3,026,789
France 212,681 China areas 500,000 Greenland 837,620
Spain 195,010 French Indochina 284,522 Mexico 760,290
Poland 150,290 Japan (Empire) 263,357 Alaska 586,400
Finland 149,954 Burma 233,492 Colombia 441,651
Norway 124,984 Thailand 200,148 Venezuela 352,051
Romania 122,282 Philippines 114,400 Labrador 112,400
Italy 119,703 Sarawak 42,000 Br. Guiana 89,480
Yugoslavia 95,551 Br. No. Borneo 31,106 Dutch Guiana 54,291
Greece 54,092 Fed. Malay States 27,506 Nicaragua 51,660
Hungary 40,510 Malay States 23,486 Honduras 44,275
Bulgaria 39,814 Bismarck Arch. 19,660 Cuba 44,164
Czechoslovakia 38,252 Portuguese Timor 7,330 Newfoundland 42,734
Latvia 25,395 Andaman Islands 2,508 Guatamela 42,353
Lithuania 21,683 Mariannas 245 Panama 29,065
Estonia 18,354 MarshaUs 160 Costa Rica 23,008
Denmark 16,571 Dominican Rep. 19,332
Holland 13,202 Salvador 13,176
Belgium 11,752 Haiti 11,069
Albania 10,629 Br. West Indie! 10,251
Luxembonrr 9911 Br. Honduras 8,598
Hawaii 6,407
Fr. Guiana (,053
Puerto Rico 3,435
Misc. Islands 4,327

Square Mlle.~ 2,286,680 2,986,723 10,313,7'34

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TABLE II: POPULATION

EUROPEAN FASCIST CONTROL JAPANESE FASCIST CONTROL NORTH AMERICA

Germany 77,028,433 Japan (Empire) 99,698,779 United States 130,215,000
Russian areas 77,000,000* Dutch East Indies 60,727,233 Mexico 19,479,000
Italy 43,691,000 China areas 50,000,000 Canada 11,209,000
France 41,905,968 Manchukuo 34,200,900 Colombia 8,600,000
Poland 34,769,400 French Indo China 23,250,000 Cuba 4,200,000
Spain 24,583,096 Burma 14,667,146 Venezuela 3,530,000
Romania 19,535,398 Thailand 14,464,489 Guatemala 3,045,000
Yugoslavia 15,400,177 Philippines 16,000,000 Haiti 2,600,000
Czechoslovakia 10,285,900 Fed. Malay States 2,052,729 Puerto Rico 1,806,000
Hungary 10,076,315 Malay States 1,773,776 Br. W. Indies 1,778,000
Holland 8,639,595 Portuguese Timor 460,655 Salvador 1,704,000
Belgium 8,299,940 Sarawak 442,900 Dominican Rep. 1,587,000
Greece 7;020,000 Br. No. Borneo 290,526 Honduras 1,000,000
Bulgaria 6,319,232 Bismarck Arch. 247,780 Nicaragua 900,000
Finland 3,807,163 Mariannas 69,800 Costa Rica 623,000
Denmark 3,749,000 Andaman Islands 19,223 Panama 548,000
Norway 2,908,000 Marshalls 10,311 Hawaii 384,000
Lithuania 2,549,668 Br. Guiana 337',000
Latvia 1,950,502 Newfoundland 289,000
Estonia 1,131,200 Dutch Guiana 171,000
Albania 1,050,000 Alaska 63,000
Luxembour~: 296,913 Br. Honduras 57,000
Fr. Guiana 31,000
Greenland 17,009
Labrador 5,000
Misc. Island~ 1,225,000

Total 402,000,000 Total 318,000,000 Total 195,000,000

• The prewar population o f the areas in Russia now held

by Germany is estimated at 77,ooo,ooo. Millions of these,
however, left the area both before and after occupation in
what was perhap s the greatest migration in all history. through the total mobilization of all the resources ol
The same applies t o th e popula tion o f Chinese occu pied
areas. the nation under technological direction. This is a
total war and a technological war, and as long a~
America continues to permit business, party politics,
labor, farm bloc, and thousands of other conflicting
growing threat of fascist domination from both Europe group interests to dominate the conduct of the wa~
and Asia. this Continent will fail to realize the potential great ·
The strength of America is potential. To success- ness of its mines, its forests, its land, its technology.
fully conduct an offensive from this Continent re- and its men and women .
fJilires that this strength be converted into reality - L . M. Dickson

TABLE III: PRODUCTION OF MINERALS, 1937 (METRIC TONS)

NORTH AMERICA'S
PERCENT OF
IDNERAL NORTH AMERICA REST OF WORLD TOTAL WORLD TOTAL
Aluminum 174,000 307,000 481,000 36
Asbestos 383,000 101,000 484,000 79
Coal 462,866,000 1,077,134,000 1,540,000,000 30
Copper 1,072,000 1,258,000 2,330,000 46
Lead 828,000 858,000 1,686,000 49
Nickel 102,000 13,000 115,000 89
Petroleum• 1,551,620,000 490,095,000 2,041, 715,000 76
Steel 52,805,000 82,195,000 135,000,000 39
Zinc. 686,000 933,000 1,619,000 0

• Barrels.
 Victory Program
of world events compels the Unitl!d State~
T HE CONFLICT

to install the designed direction of the strategy of total

war or face disaster. The United States must efficiently in·
stall a complete mobilization of all the resources of its na-
tional entirety.
This designed direction of national operations cannot be
attained if America permits business and party politics to
dominate the war program. The structure of America's
economy demands that we Americans abandon the haphazard
conflict of private and group interest in order that we maJ
win this world war, defeat the enemies of America, and win
the peace for America.
America cannot achieve a fighting national morale and in-
ternal efficiency while some Americans gain wealth and
economic advantage in war prices, war profits, war wages; and
war racketeering through the spilling of the blood of other
Americans in defense of the country.
Technocracy urges total conscription of, 1nen, machines.
materiel, and money by the government of the United State.~
of America-with national service from all and profits to
none. It is proposed that these specifications remain in force
for the duration and six months thereafter.

Me n M a c h i n e s M a t e r i~e l a n d M o n e y
 10 TECHNOCRACY

Men Machines
Technocracy urges that the · Government of the Technocracy urges that the Government of the
United States institute immediately the total conscrip· United States conscript all of the physical facilitie!
tion of all eflectives, male and female, between the and equipment of rail, bus, water, and air transporta-
ages of .18 and 65, for national service, civilian and tion; all telegraph, telephone, and radio communi·
military. All citizens shall serve on the same basi.~ cations systems; all public utilities and power pro·
of pay as the Armed Forces with the same standards ducing and transmission systems; all of the manufac-
of food, clothing, and health protection, and with the turing industries of the country; all of the oil well.,
same allowances for all dependents regardless of and refining industries; all mines and mining opera·
rank or social position. tions.
It has been stated that America eventually rna~· All industry, mining, transportation, communica-
have to mobilize 13,000,000 men in its Army plm tions and other necessary units of Continental opera-
2,000,000 in the Navy and Marine Corps. To provide tion shall he unified under their various function a 1
armament, clothing, food, and transportation for this commands under a technological command of the
great body and to provide for essential civilian needs whole. The entire technological command and the
will require the services of 64,000,000 civilians. These entire armed force command shall he under the uni-
figures require that 79,000,000 Americans function at fied direction of 'the constitutional Commander-in-
specific tasks in the national war effort. Yet today. Chief__JFranklin D. Roosevelt.
our total labor pool is estimated at only 54,000,000 These physical facilities constitute the collective
persons including those working at unessential occu- technology by which America produces. Each of these
pations. functions under Total Conscription would he coordi-
America cannot build an armed force of 15,000,000 nated, not under a political bureaucrat, hut under
men and recruit 64,000,000 people into specified tasks the operating heads of the industry itself. A tech-
by voluntary effort. Total war demands the conscrip· nological command of each industry would he ap·
tion of the nation's personnel. pointed by the Commander-in~Chief of the nation to
Technocracy points out that the only equitable and conduct the operations of each sequence.
efficient manner of conscripting manpower is to put Production and distribution would he carried out
it on a national basis with a national scale of pay. by these functions on the basis of the production
Technocracy also points out that the conscription of orders received by them. These production orders
manpower is necessarily only one phase of national would he blanket output purchasing orders for the
mobilization-that if manpower is conscripted, the entire output of the given plant for a given period.
tools they use must likewise he conscripted. The buying and selling of private enterprise will he
Total ·C onscription provides that all citizens shall replaced by mass government purchase (allocation or
serve on the same scale of pay as the Armed Forces. requisition) reduced to the simple formula: that every
All citizens will he placed on the same standards of purchase order is for the full 30-day operation-out-
food, clothing, and medical care as the Armed Forces. put of mine, factory, mill, etc.
All non-employable dependents will receive the same Total Conscription provides that all of the financial
allowance regardless of rank or social position. If it'@ transactions and bookkeeping records of corporations
good enough for the men in the Armed Forces why and . individuals engaged in business activities he
in hell isn't it good enough for the rest of U!'! ·rruick froz en' for the duration.
 TECHNOCRACY •7

With National Service

From All and Profits to None!

Materiel Money
The materiel consists of the apparatus and sup - Technocracy urges that the Government of the
! •lies of an organization as distinguished from its per- United States institute the immediate conscription of
~onnel. Included in materiel are all of the manufac· all national corporate w ealth and its attendant in-
I ured supplies, foodstuffs, clothing, and raw materials stitutions such as banks, trusts, and insurance com-
11ecessary. Under Total 'C onscription the title to all panies; and that total conscription shall include the
materiel (whether originating from agriculture, min· suspen sion of all dividends, profits, interest, rents,
ing, manufacturing, the forest , or the sea ) shall b e dues, and tax es; and a moratorium on all d ebt and
I ransferred to the United States Government. litigation.
The total conscription of machines an d m ateriel to The conscr iption of m on ey calls for the susp en sion
operate as national ar senals and nation al materiel of all corporate financing, all buying and selling, and
banks will eliminat e the trem endou s floo d of pur- other b usiness transaction s. W h en the manpower of
chase orders, shipping bills, invoices, checks, drafts, th e n ation is mobilize d on the sam e basis as the Arm ed
con tracts, subcon tracts and general r ed t ap e n ow in - F orces an d when the physical f acilities of the nation
volve d in the production of every bullet, gun, tank, are m obilized for n ational service, it is automatically
and plane. necessar y to susp end all ordinary financial t rans-
Total ·C onscription also provides that t he Govern- actions. This wou ld b e accomplished by the su sp en·
ment of the United States shall conscript all of the sion of 'business' and the ' quick freezing' of monetary
physical facilities and operating personnel of all ex- wealth.
port and import corporations. The Government of To assure the continued operation of the states,
the United States shall be the sole importer and ex- counties, and municipalities total conscription pro-
porter. vides that the Government of the United States assume
The Government of the United States shall also all of the financial obligations of the states, counties.
conscript all patents, inventions, and processes extant and municipalities and in return for assuming such
in our national domain whether foreign or domestic. financial obligations would arrogate to itself the power
A Continental operation of total war cannot stem of levying all taxes now levied by them.
from the traditions or methods of business and party Total Conscription provides that the Government
politics. America must abolish immediately all pro- of the United States shall prohibit the transfer of
duction for profit at a price, and substitute in its place United States purchasing power in the form of cur-
the engineering design of production for the tech- rency, notes, drafts, or money orders from all cor·
nological operation of the strategy of a Continental porations and residents of the United States to any
offensive. corporation or resident of any alien country.
J.:he 'G overnment must conscript the machines and One of the primary functions of Total Conscription
materiel of the nation as well as the people. This is to provide a rationing control of all flow lines of
means all of the factories, all the equipment, and all goods and services as the only solution to the control
of the buildings used in production, distribution and and simplification of our war effort and to provide a
services. The four 'M's-Men, Machines, Materiel, guaranteed standard of living at a frozen price level.
and Money- mean a real 'M' Day for America. When Total Conscription would prevent inflation and would
that day arrives America signs the death warrant of furthermore make it possible to fight this war with-
fascism both at home and abroad. oht adding a sin gle p enny to the national debt.
 18 TECHNOCRACY

SOME FACTS
AMERICA NEEDS TOTAL C01VSCRIPTION

Technological Total War Has Changed the Order of Magnitude o/ Our National Operations

Technocracy Has Called the Turn and Proposes an Operating Design to Meet These Conditions

1. The United Stall's Army is to reach 7,soo,ooo meu the end of 1944. In addition to the big corporations
by the end of 1943, the Navy 1,5oo,ooo; by the end of doing business on the war, the United States ha-;
1944 the Army may be 1o,ooo,ooo or even 13,ooo,ooo 169,000 small manufacturers, 72,000 wholesaler~.
with 2,ooo,ooo in the Navy. This great achievement 1,614,ooo retailers, 638,ooo service businesses, 20o,ooo
is the product of 'selective' conscription, but it does builders, 4o,ooo amusement businesses, and 25,ooo
not solve America's over-all manpower problem. hotels. You can't win a total war with this conglo-
T echnocracy points out that this is not a 'selective' meration, and they are going to the wall. Do we have
war. vVe must have all men and all women in the to do it the hard way? Total Conscription woul<t
war effort. The 'selective' system must be extended put small business into national service.
to all effectives, male and female, between the ages of
18 and 6s. This means Total Conscription.
5· Six billions a month spent on war now with g011-
ernment paying 20 percent of its bills. That means
2. War production will employ 17,ooo,ooo by the we (you and I) are going into hock at the rate of
end of 1942, must grow to 2o,ooo,ooo by the end of $4,8oo,ooo,ooo a month. America is rich and we can
1943 and probably to 3o,ooo,ooo eventually. The ad- handle it, but it's an awful future . burden for yon
ministration has called for a voluntary 'rationing' of and your children and their children. America can
manpower in the hopes that national service can be fight this war without adding a single penny to the
avoided, but polls show majority of people unwilling debt, without a crushing new burden of taxation .
to change jobs voluntarily. Trends again point to
need for Total Conscription to draw workers from
unessential occupations, to plac:e fittest men in Armed
6. Agricultural production for 1942 has broken all
Forces, to keep farm labor force sufficient.
records: corn 3,016 million bushels compared to2,673
in 1941; wheat up to 982 million from 946; peanut'i
doubled to 2,8oo million pounds; cotton up to 14
3· Congress considers law to draft 18-year olds. All million bales from 10.7; others likewise. Abundam
males between 18 and 44 will then be liable for military crops have thrown a strain on the national structure
service. Above this scale are men between 44 and showing up lack of planning. Results are shortages
65. This vast reservoir is available for civilian needs, in some areas of some products; lack of farm labor:
is already registered. The women are still to be strain on transport system; increase in prices. Again
registered. Technocracy's proposal calls for national it seems we must do it the hard way by trial and
service from all between 18 and 65. error with political expediency often uppermost in
all considerations of the problem. Experience will
soon show legislators and government bureaus that a
4· At least 3oo,ooo retailers to go out of business b)· national control of all flow-lines is necessary. Tech ·
 TECHNOCRACY

nocracy predicts that the government will have to in - already in a form of national service. By contrast to
stall an over-all method of national operations by this, away back in 1937 when conditions were con-
eliminating business operations and production for sidered to be 'very bad' the grand total on the Federal
profit at a price. Drastic but less drastic than chaos. payroll was a mere 1,170,977· America must face this
question: Can this force of civilian and military
workers be demobilized back into the channels of
7· Complaints are increasing with regard to tht: private enterprise? Can the additional 17,ooo,ooo
amount of red tape involved in war contracts. A news- war workers (ostensibly on government pay, too) be-
paper recently sold 500 pounds of waste paper on a demobilized into the postwar market?
government project. This transaction, involving a
total of $1.75, took 19 separate pieces of paper in -
cluding bids, purchase orders, confirmations, etc.. all 11. Technocracy ts a non-political organization .
to sell $1.75 worth of waste paper. Technocracy has only one program-its Victory Pro-
gram of Total Conscription. This program does not
call for the installation of any of Technocracy's social
8. In the 'Evolution of Statesmanship' published i11 program or for the placing of this Organization in
1935, Howard Scott said: ' . . . if America becomes any position of authority. Technocracy is not a party :
involved in a war with japan, we can console our- it has no assumption of power theory.
selves that we have at least given her something to
remember us by-American materials will come back
to us done up in japanese wrappers that won't be so 12. The billeting of war workers in private homes i~
pleasant; in fact , they won't be boquets.' Private a distinct possibility in the near future. This is jus.t
business persisted in selling the materials of war to , another indication of the extent to which the war
Japan. In the first quarter of 1941 the United States effort will affect the basic requirements of food, cloth-
sent Japan 8,314,000 pounds of lead; 1,og7,ooo barrels ing, and shelter.
of gasoline; also copper, and machinery, in some cases
tripling the exports of the same period in 1940. This
was good business. Today we are attempting to con- 13. The Federal Reserve Board Index of total indus-
duct a war against that same enemy with the same trial production is not reaching the anticipated levels.
methods of good business in producing our own war The June index was 176. It was expected to reach
equipment. Across the country an undertone of in- 200 by the end of this year, but this has been revised
quiry is getting louder: Why can we not put our good downward to 188. The war production is expanding
business practices in cold storage for the duration but not as fast as was planned. Lack of over-all
and turn to ·technological practices for total war? planning has resulted in shortages of steel, copper,
Let's make it total war, and not half war, half business! aluminum, magnesium, molybdenum, chromite, tung-
>ten, and zinc. Shortage of supplies in these items
is not caused by their lack. In 1937, which was a
g. No fascist country in the world has Total Con - typical pre-war year, America produced 39 percent
scription with equal service from all and profits to of the world's steel, 46 percent of the world's copper:
none. The fascist countries have conscription of aluminum .36 percent; magnesium g percent; molyb-
labor alone. Technocracy suggests that labor official- denum 95 percent; chromite 7 percent; tungsten 10
dom get behind their OWf!- members in promoting percent; zinc 42 percent.
the idea of TOTAL conscription before the conscrip- -Editor
tion of labor abolishes all of labor's gains. Labor
must adopt a protective offensive. This is labor's
chance to help solve America's problem and its own _
It is a challenge to labor. Can we introduce in this country,
in this greatest democracy of the
United Nations a national draft of
10. The Federal Government has become the great- compulsory labor service-drafted to
est single employer in America with over 7•5oo,ooo work for frozen wages in private en-
people working directly for Uncle Sam. This will in - terprise to produce profits for busi-
crease enormously. Another 2,5oo,ooo are on the ness ownership? This would be
payrolls of states, counties, and municipalities. This fascism in the United States.
is a total of '9 percent of the present labor pool
20 TECHNOCRACY

Unknown An1erica
·No Other Continent Hal! Anything to Offer Americ_.

is going to bring home a number ol (quinine), tung oil, perilla oil, bananas, papaya,
T Hii WAR
things to America, and in more ways than one.
This time these are not merely the lessons of adversity,
cocoa, and other tropical products.
It takes a war to teach us geography and the re-
but precious commodities that we have let slip away -;ources of our own part of the world. Quinine, now
from their natural home on this Continent. needed in huge quantities, was transported from its
We have pandered to the gods of world trade and native habitat and made a monopoly of the Far East
sold our heritage down the river. Now we are going where 42,ooo acres of the cinchona shrub were culti-
to pick up some of this heritage because we are being vated on the Island of Java. The shrub grows wild
compelled to in the fight for survival. This heritage in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia. Suckers!
is rich and it lies in the soil and the climate of this Sugar? Yes, we have plenty of sugar; we just can't
Continent. transport it. Coffee? The same. Silk? Besides the
When the Jap blitz broke upon the Pacif1c, this synthetic silk which we can make in abundance, the
nation suddenly awoke to th e fact that it rolled on mulberry bush on which the cocoon lives will grow in
rubber-tired wheels and that it had no source of Mexico and the Central American plateaus, and up
rubber supply. Little was it known to the average to Salt Lake.
American that this Hemisphere is the home of rubber, Now we are finding out that we have to come back
that every rubber tree in the Dutch East Indies and to our own Continental Area for such important
Malaya came from seedlings taken from this part of items as essential oils used in soap, paint, and ink.
the world. Little was it known that rubber can grow We are going to have to use our own abaca plant
as far north as Mexico City. The hevea brasiliensis which is the source of Manilla hemp to make the all-
can be grown in 14 republics on this Hemisphere. important rope needed by our Navy and industry.
Now we are finding out about these things and after We are going to have to use our own natural cocoa
this war, unless we decide to follow the siren song of and other products.
world trade again, we will have our own abundant We are now finding out that this Continental Area
supplies of natural tree rubber, plus what we shall has 12 percent of the - world's tropical hardwoods-
produce from guayule, cryptostegia, and synthetically. 424 million acres of them!
In July 1940, Technocracy
published a survey of the
resources of this Continent.
The following is quoted
therefrom:
In addition to all of
the products listed in
the a c c o m p a n y in g
tables, the area defined
as the Technate of
North America [see
cover of this magazine]
can produce the follow-
ing items in sufficient
abundance for the re-
quirements of the popu-
lation: chicle, rubber,
sisal, copra, sugar, cof-
fee, silk, tea, cinchona
TECHNOCRACY 21

Yes, we are being forced to recognize that thi5 World are severe, and there are many who insist that
Continental Area is a treasure house, that we have America must cling to the concept that all good things
many things besides steel, and oil, and coal. After come from Europe or Asia or Africa-anywhere but
the war has been won what is this incredibly rich from this Continent.
Continent going to do with these r esources? Are we America, as the chief supplier of men and materiel
going to subsidize plantations and industries in India, in this conflict is going to win the war. It is a war
Java, Malaya, etc., or are • we going to develop our against fascism, a war to remove the menace of fascism
own Continent? externally and internally from this Continent. It is
We are using our resources to win the war; we a war to provide security for America against foreign
must also use them to win the peace. aggression, and to provide abundance for the people
There are those in this country who would have of this Continent. The resources and technological
us believe that the material deficiencies of this New skill of America will provide the answer.
- Division of Publications

What Is Technocracy's Record?

From the pamphlet Total Conscription, Your
Questions Answered

HE DEFENSE and security of this Continent has Technocracy proposed aid of $15 billion to Britain
T always been an integral part of Technocracy's
social analysis and design. Technocracy has always
before the passage of the Lend-Lease Act.
Technocracy has protested for years against the
stood for more efficiency and more production. Tech- shipment of metals and oil to Germany, Italy, Spain,
nocracy · was long aware of the potentialities of Japan and other countries.
European and Asiatic fascist expansionism and as it In August 1938, Technocracy presented specifica-
became evident that the long anticipated struggle was tions for the Army, Navy, and Airforce to repel any
developing Technocracy turned its attention more and attempted attack from Atlantic or Pacific, and charged
more to the immediate problem of national security. that the military budget of the United States was
Unless America wins this war this Continent will inadequate.
never achieve its great social d es tiny. In September 1939, Technocracy demanded the de-
Technocracy has n ever permitted anyone but citi- velopment of a Continental strategy and the planned
zens to be members. generalship of all Continental operations for the se-
In home defense activities, Technocracy has par- curity of America.
ticipated to the full. Our Section Headquarters have In July 1940, Technocracy demanded Total ·c on-
been used for Selective Service registrations, for first: scription by the Government of the United States of
aid classes, and air raid warden work. Technocracy's Men, Machines, Materiel, and Money with National
mobile sound units are used by police a11d fire de- Service from All and Profits to None.
partments. On December 7, 1941, Howard Scott, Director-in-
Technocracy was the first organization in America Chief of Technocracy, sent a telegram to President
to protest against the use of the fascist-type of ex- Roosevelt in the name of the Organization placing
tended arm salute in our schools and public gather- the entire personnel and equipment of Technocracy
ings and to urge the adoption of the military style o f Inc. at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief and
salute for all occasions. pledging the unqualified support of Technocracy to
Technocracy demanded conscription prior to the the Administration's war efforts.
passage of the Selective Service Act. In this telegram Technocracy urged the Commander-
Technocracy proposed the acquisition of Atlantic in-Chief to ask for a declaration of war against all
bases long before they were acquired from Britain for of the thirteen national signatories to the axis pact
destroyers. of fascism .
22 TECHNOCRACY

Series A, Number 22 December, 1942

The Organization Official Literature

America's Social Dynamic Pamphlets
Technocracy ori ginated in the winter of 1918-1919 when Introduction to T echno cracy ... . .. ... .... ... .. 25 cents
Howard S cott fo rmed a group of scientists, engineers and America-Now and Forever .... ... .. ... . ..... 15 cents
economists that became known in 1920 as the Technical The !Evolution of Statesmanship ... .. . .. . .. ... 15 cents
Alliance- a research organization. iln 1930 the group Man-Hours and Distribution • •••• • •••• • ••• • • 0 . 15 cents
was first known as Technocracy. 'ln 1933 it was incor· Total Conscription Questions Answered . .. . ... . 10 cents
porated under the l aws of the State of New York as a Sellout of the A ges ... . .. . .. .... . . . . ... . . . ... . 10 cents
non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian membership organi· Science vs. Chaos .. . .. . .... . . .. . .. .. ... . . .. . . . 10 cents
zation. In 1934 Howard Scott, Dir ector-in-Chief, made his America Must Show the W ay . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . 10 cents
fir st Continental lecture tour which laid the foundation s The Mystery of 'M oney . . .. . . . . . ... .. . ... . ... . 10 cents
of the present nation-wide membership organization. The !Energy Certificate .. . . ... . .. . . . .... . . . . . . 10 cents
Technocracy in Plain Terms .... . . . . ... . ... . . . 5 cents
T echn ocracy is the only American social movement
with an American program which h as become widespread Periodicals
in America. It has no affiliation with any other organi·
Technocracy, 155 E ast 44th St., New York, N.Y.; 15 cents
zation, group or association either in America or else·
The Technocrat, 984 W est Vernon Ave., Los Angeles,
where.
Calif.; 15 cents, $1.50 for 12 issues.
It i s not a commercial organization or a political party;
Northwest Technocrat, 2021 Third Ave., Seattle, W ash .,
it has no finan cial subsidy or endowments and h as n o
15 cents, $1.50 for 12 i ssues.
debts. Technocracy is supported entirely by the dues
Great Lakes Techno crat, 38 S. High St., Akr on, Ohio,
and donati_ons of its own memb ers. The widespread mem·
15 cents, $1.50 for 12 issues.
bership activities of Technocracy are performed volun·
tarily ; no royalties, commissions or bonuses are paid, and
Technocracy is publish ed by T echnocracy Inc. at
only a small full-tim e staff receives subsistence allow- ISS East 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Publication
an ces. The annual dues are $5.00 which are paid b y irregular. No subs cripti o n s accepted. Copy ri ght 1942
the member to his local Section. by Technocracy In c. P r inte d in the United States of
America.
There ar e units and members of T echnocracy in almost
every 'State, and in addition there are m embers in Alaska,
H awaii, 'Panama, Puerto Rico and in numerous other
'C overs: The area r epresented by this map is
pla ces with the Armed Forces.
the physical organism on which the studies of
Members of Technocr acy are glad to travel many
Technocracy are b ase d. In order to defend any
miles to discuss Technocracy's Victo ry Pro gr am with any
interested people and Con tinental H ead quarters will h e
part of this 'Continental Are a it is necessary to
pleased to inform anyone of the location of the nearest
defend all parts of it. The United States as the
principle national entity must undertake the r e·
Technocracy unit.
sponsibility of t he entire ·C ontinent. Defense re-
T echno cra cy was built in America b y Ameri cans. It i s
quires an offen sive strategy. The star s on this
map indicate the locat ion of Contin en tal bases
composed of Ameri can citizen s of all walks of life. T ech -
which have b een proposed b y Tech n ocracy for
no cra cy's m ember ship i s a composite of all the occupa-
years. Now, the American flag flies over many
tions, economic l evel s, races and reli gions whi ch make
of them. Unl ess America wages this war on the
up this country. Membership i s open only to American
basis of a C ontinental offensive strategy, t he
citizen s. Alien s, Asiatics and politicians are not eligible.
United States itself can not b e defende d success-
!Doctor, lawyer, storekeeper, farmer, mechani c, teacher.
fully. T echnocracy map by Bourges P rocess.
preach er o r housewife-as long as you are a p atrioti c
Ameri can- you are welcome in Technocracy.
 NORTH AMERICA STACKS Ul'

North Am e ri ca, out· store hou se and base of ope rations, is to he chief
supplier of materiel and manpower. Here is how North American
Continent sta cks np . Ar ea is twice fa scist area, population smaller- Steel Ca p a city
fewe r month s to fee d . Produ cti ve capacity outstrips th eirs-steel, 65
90,000.000
percent more. W e need design e d operation . See page 12. ton s yr .

POP .
402,000,000
10.313.000
Steel Capacity
Sq Mi .

53,800,000
Pop.
tons yr .
318,000,000

Pop .
195,000 .000

Area

Area

2,986,000
2.286,000 Steel Capacity
SQ . M i.

D
Sa . M i. 7,200,000
ton s yr .

AREA OF GERMA N CONTROL AREA OF JAPANESE CONTROL NORTH AMERICAN CONTfNENTAL AREA