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everywhere. I first beccune aware of it when I interceded
for a man who had broken mentally under the stresses and
strains of domestic problems and had to go into a mental
hospital for recuperation. When I interceded with the
steel company where he was employed, there was no longer
a job for him in spite of his twelve years of seniority
because the company, at a cost of some two million
dollars, had installed new machinery which would displace
four hundred men who had been working at that plant, and
I became aware then and began to give study to the whole
situation of the rapid advance of technology and the lag
in the preparation by our private sector and public sector,
by government and industry in the preparation of, or
for the social maladjustments and human maladjustments
which result.
We cannot afford another depression. I was
just coming out of high school in that depression, but
the rich people threw themselves out of windows, and the
poor people just starved, and the banks shut down and
there was no work or little work for most of the people.
Then our nation and our states got together and worked