Science: Job-Maker

Last week U. S. Science took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and struck back at the popular charge that its inventions and labor-saving devices were largely responsible for Depression. Millions of jobless felt that, somehow, they would be at work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which...

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