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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1938, Page 11

The noble freemen of ancient Greece averaged only two slaves each, and yet they created the greatest culture in human history, writes “Clearway” in the “Christian Science Monitor.” By 1930 every man, woman and child in the United States had the approximate equivalent of 100 slaves at his command, and yet he had failed to attain “the abundant life” enjoyed by the ruling class in ancient Greece (although his potential general standards were higher). The trouble with the 100-slave citizen, it seems, is that but an infinitesimal portion of his “horsepower slaves” are available’for creating wealth —by far the greater majority being employed in running motor vehicles and household appliances. But now, with the announcement by General Motors of an expected mass production of small Diesel engines, a revolution in mechanical “slave-pow-er” seems imminent, for this new Diesel “power package” permits the employment of new slaves directly to the business of creating wealth. Is this the new industry we have been waiting for to re-tyre the economic wheels?