HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1933-01-26, Page 7i1HURSDiAY, JANUARY 26,
1933.
THE SEAFORTFI NEWS.
PAGE SEVEN,
WIHAiT x15 T!EICiHNIO'CRACY?
- (Recently a new word was flung i'n'to
the com'm'on 'slpeech. IIIc was "'Techno-
crecy," la. ward :oriiginally 'corned by
W. H. 'Smith, (Berkeley, 'Cele inventor
and engineer, to describe a new theory
df govelrnlm'enit. As rewivilfied it' became
a :sltonm oedtre lin 'America (add Moue-
ed intense interest in IEn'g'lanid. De-
ietnders ,Of the stat'us Ono lhestened to
seek` the Iflaws in the new threat 0P -
pearling in the (greets, (bait attack cen
Tres' Ichiiefly Upon iHtolvnard ISioapt, dir-
ector Of the (Energy 'Survey of 'North
A'meric'a. The. •article 'heathy is 'taken
from the 'organ of -Alfred E. IStmith,
'once iDeneoiceetic tc'andtidalte for the
presidency, !Mote recently concerned
with •the lEmlp'ire State 'Building and
now an editor.
Today our engineers report: iThe
United Stakes is much nearer a com-
'plete inudustnial (Collapse, 'a's a result of
the events oif'the last (three years, then
the .vast !mtajorilty of its oltizens real-
ize. IOvr enitrepireneuns and apolitical
leaders !have believed leo !siteadfesbI'
and for to l'on'g that !America is fin-
capable Of ?anything except •a c'onitinu-
ous .orewland rush to pnos'penilty and
ever-expanding development that they
'have been either 'blind to, or unaware'
di, the vast''teehnological '(ones,that
have been stea'di'ly undermining, ,par-
ticularly in'th'e'p'astt Itivio decad'es, ,our
present haphazard industrial system
of =Controlled p'noduatioai, competi-
tion and o isttnibubion, Sm order to un-
ders'ban,d 'this viewpoint of ITedhno-
cracy and Ito approach the !method Iof
reasoning Of its members .who see mo-
dern machinery carrying our 'sestet
'mech'an'is,m at ale ever increasing pace
it is .necessary to 'review 'briefly 'the
tremendous in'creas'e in, .speed' which
is ch'ara'cteristic of 'modern produc-
tion. As 'we view these 'facts 'we can-
t fail .to nate that as the 'maehtine
o
improves we 'came nearer and nearer
to the eli'ttnuia'tion of all human em-
ployment.
The !ancient !miller of Athens or
,Rome ground out in a day, 'between
thistwo crude milling stones, +a bat'mel
to . a barrel •arid a ha'£f of indifferent
flour, A modern mill in the `West 'pro-
du'ces 30,000 •barrels a day per man
with a !much shorter (day end a .much
better "flour. Put kr whom?
D
H, McInnes
Chiropractor
Of Wingham, will be at the
Commercial Hotel,: Seaforth
Monday, Wednesday and
Friday Afternoons
Diseases of all kinds success.
telly treated.
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A sih'oenraker tot 'ancien'' ,Rome 'to'ok
Sive 'an'd a half days to make a plain of
s'hto'e's_ T'he 7,200 shoemakers in the
Shotttva'kers'Gu'il'd of ;1Roanan 'days
would, .make only 7)300 (parr 'of shoes
in !five and 'a Ihaif days. The same
ntsniber of employees fin " a modern,
shoe iplant 'Would (produce 1595,000 pairs!
of shoes in (five ,and a ihalf days: But
for ?Medea?
1Th'e Ibeic'k-m!alkers !for over free-•
th'ou'sand y'e'ars never 'attained on !Site
average Of more then 4150 'brinks a .d!ay
Ter` man—'a day b'e'ing over ten hours.
IA. !mddern sttraigthtlline ctontinubus
bru!cc pliant will !predate 00,'000 'bricks
a day per man.
(Even a •century ago lone !man pro-
duced 25 .ton's of pig iron each year
while it took another .mean a year to
enechnce 800 tools of iron ore. 'In 01029'
20;000 tons ,per tmian ,per year was min-
ed on The Mesabi ,R'an'ge and in Mauer
weeks, !roved a greater tonnage than
that of the Khufu Pyramid' at 'Giznh,
while our .m'adern"btl'est'fu'rnace tech-
nique has. made it postsible 'for one
man to predate '4,000 tons Of :pig iron
Per annum.
IAi Iphotogntalph of .a .modern steel
rolling mill in fuit'o'peeation will show
a large plant !without a 'human being
on the -floor.
IIIc is after sober, s'aienitsfue ,review Of
such faots that our .engineers report
that we see ;faced with .national bank-
ruptcy and 'penhapls general chaos
within eighlteen'Imon'tits. 'This (threat is
revealed at a result Of the eresearches
of 'Techno'cracy, 'a 'funotional organiza
ion of engineers 'which Stas been
studying our industrial and agricuil-
neat complex for 'more than a decade.
The resu'l'ts ,of that study and analysis
which (for the first' time in'hu'man his-
tory applies a quen!titabive !measure to
.he social mt 'ch 'i t
0 1 e an sm, leads to an un-
qualified statement :that there is no so-
u'ti'on under a 'price 'stysltem.
(Our 'civilization is extremely depen-
dent on the .smooth 'functioning el our
high speed mechanism. .lif the flow l
of physical energy teased "(no coal, no
oil; no water power) our civilization
would I000l'laplse and we would 'starve
to death in twenty :days or :there-
abouts. Alt 'West ninety per eerie. ,of the
nation's population Would be rendered
helpless. ''What .wnou'kd 'happen in a typ-
ical town of 50)000 persons in the Un-
ited (Seeks is elasy to imagine. The
average taws could (barn in seven
hou'r's wit'h'out' a 'water supply; trans-
portation and cotnmu'nications !Would
be completely !disrupted; sewage eyls-
terns ,would ,break .down and' the sup-
ply of meats and other foods would
be gone within- a Week, New York
w'oul'd be on fire in three 'hours ,with-
out a !water supply. 'I•t has fresh veg-
etables On hand for 'forty-eight 'hours
and Other food for a 'few days longer.
Traffic. 'jams would make movement
of ,people 'impassible. 'Disease would
be rampant with no means' of treat -
Obviously, anything so important
to our .existence should be . operated
with elle grea'te'slt care. tBisit we 'h'a've
been attempting to operate the delicate
controls of a highpowered energy ,civ-
ilization 'with methods Shalt were
crude enough in the ox -cart days
uihen almost every 'home ; was self-
sufficient .end independent. Twenty
per cent of our .population(,is'!already
made :helpless by unemiployment,
How .nueh'farther in our decline''('aa1'd
our decline .has not 'been evalted. since
19219) will we have to go before our
ntvchin•e 'begins to fall to 'pieces? This
is the question which Technocracy
poses :for us.
(What is Technocracy? Alt present it,
is a ,group of enigitteers esgiagesi i'n..the
most exltens'ive :analysis of our bidets,'
trial and agricultural growth 'ever at-
toinp!ted. ITeahnnlorecy has its founda-
tions in an e'bensi!on of ,physics con-
ceived shortly after !the World 'War,
when produation in every line 'was
speeded up to unprecedented heighlts
and !toward 'a goal Where alt mam'polw-
cr could :be released'far 'w1ar. Service.
I1 was evident lo 'a.few engineers at
that time !that the type .Of high-powee-
ed equipment 'which ,they .were insit•a11-
ing
.would be far-reaching in itseffect
on our Social ',stbructure and that Ile
successful' operation of this equipment
would require a new type of social
control which 'would ,be endemic' to
;;he nature otf the equipment that was
being placed in use. They saw with
mathematical clarity that up 'tineil
1830, dtrr Tate ,of using energy in pro-
duction had nob really' passed the
",peed 01 an ox -carat but tliat we 'were
then in the process' o'f attaining the
speed of the airplane.
We itnust realize, 'Technocracy te'l'ls
es, that we 'have: ;rea'ohed 'bhe end of
an era, that the ,ftt'ttd'amt'e'nbal cause of
the 'depressioit is not political, it is
technological. On !this fact is predicted
B
bhe necess'i'ty of appreciating that the
only soliteioit to our difficulties is a
new era of teohutlology !where man can
master the gigantic Machine which
hats brought us to the alo'ee of the
most fantastic perao!d .in the hi's'tory of
our' small :world. II!t is not 'a flatter of
choice. The !Old orsaaibats in which we
have been 'riding 'h'as been patelaed up
until its use as a v'ehi'cle is almost ov-
er; •Technocracy is .doubtful that it is
is .even .good for another ,p'arade. Our
.present system, it 'tells uta, is fit only
for bhe s'a'ne m'usetern in .which are
housed the pathetically inad'egn'a'te
.poli'tical an•decono'm'ic theories of
Plato, Marx and the great host of pith-
er ,di'aguosticiams and pr:d'phets who
could' not conceive of such a 'hi'gh'ly
inlduatriiatiaed :society as''th'at fn 'which.
we .find ourseeves today and 'Fascism',
'Communism and ,S'otcialisin are like-
wise wholly inadequate to cope with
our problem.
IDS, an era ,passing? 'Read this pun-
gen't con'clus'ion reached by Techno-
cracy:
"The social system on this contin-
ent is being forced into .a.revusion and
revaluation of all its standards .of va-
lue. The 'standards of the price 'sys'telm
have been found wanting and an en-
tirely new set of standard's must :be.
erected in order :to deal with the phys-
ical 'cond'iti'ons th'a't leave arrived by
virtue of this 'hodgepodge created by
the imlpect Of technology on an did
and otiernoded social 'tedhniique. Amer-
ica is witnessing the Ipaes'ing of the
price system 'o'f production. We are
faced with the 'problem of having to
desert a sysfiem ,that has ,become orb-
solete and. alt !the same time of design-
ing a system .to takeits place."
What is a' price system? !By a price
system we meati any social system
having its mean's of exohange, and
hence its control of indu's'trial produc-
tion, founded on a co'mm'odity 'valua-
tion, As the engineers Have stated it;
"When in the process 'of social evolu-
tion all goods 'come to be evaluated in
ter'ms of one •eo:mtmodlity, be it 'wheat,
wampum, dogs' teeth, paper or gold,
the amount of this commodity 'ex-
c'hangeable 'for a'ne unit of any o'th'er
ooanmod'ity is said t0 be. the price of
the :Tatter. Any s'oci'al !system :using
such a basis of exchange we shall call
the price system"
No social state Of history has open-
ated on other than, a.pi•ce system, pre-
sent da'y'Ru'ssia being no exception.
It 'must be re•memibere'd that all mo-
dern:5nd'usttry has been operating und-
er this ander* price system, and that
if i'1 op.eraies successfully it must make
a m'oneta'ry Profit, :But if itidtistry is
to make a profit under conditions of
competition and the continuous dev-
elop'men't of improved processes, it
must .00urtinua'lly cut clown the costs
of producti'on, and it has been found
that the best •way of reducing these
in'ter:sd eesee' , r "-'duc'tiooi is by
means of tat' .e eiteXellete otaput
with processes as altoneedie 2'l can be
devised. Thus, under the price system.
the requirement to cut internal costs
to the minimum results in increasing
mechanization and a tendency toward
ever..decreasing loan hours of etn'ploy-
ment. !Take .the :m'antrfacturing of cig-
arettes, Machines were, recently ins -
which p:rodu'ce from 2,500 to
2)600 cigarettes a 'minute, compared
with the Iprevions maximum of '500 to
600 c:igareetes, a minute. 'Olbviously,.
the tobacco company using these new
machines cuts production costs mark-
edly, but the important factor is that
it permanently eliminates em'ploytneet.
'A. still more .fan'ta'stic 'illustra'ti'on is
an' incandescent lamp manufacture,
where elle man is doing 'today in one
h'ou'r as much as it took him ,'9,000
hours to do owl'.so short a time past
as. 1914, It; required 'only a force of
thirty-seven
anent •six weeks to build
'this 'hi'ghes'peend machine.
!Machinery in ,a'gricul'ture has ac-
complished almrost, the same feat over
a,period of .years.
Technological ad'vaneemet't in the
past twelve years has definitely shat-
tered all old social theory, from that
of the ancient 'Greeks, •throwgh .'Karl
Marx up to Veb'len.'It is unfortunate
that most :of''our present Sc'o'nomeets
are stilt fiourederin'g around ,with the-
oriesthat have become mere fol'is lore
in the last decade. Practically alt of
this social the'or'y made two a'ssn,nsp-
tions, loth uf.w'hi'ch arts. now invalid
in n•u'r dynatni'e' state o'f ,energy con-
version. The first was that 'thed!esires
of the c'i'tizens of any social mechan-
ism are unlimited, and hence expan-
sion of ;production to meet these !Wants
can
be pushed' to inlfiarity. The second
assumption was that hu'm'an labor was
a necessary factor in the production of
'wealth, aad therefore,the greater 'the
mailer of men at work the mare
wealth Mend's to increase.
ENDS Jan.
But Technology has advanced to
the 'point where a relatively smell
number of high speed michi,nes can
supply alt, of the wants o'f a grea
number of 'perso'ns .and easily tends to
over -production. The se,eond-assemp
.tion !appears ridiou'loue when it is real
ized that man 'hours per unit of pro
duct and the labor cost per unit ,have
dropped in recent years to level's up-
proaohing zerol'Soet is that our phot-
dgrralph of a modern steel 'rolling mill
in operation shows the plant without
a 'human being on the floor. There are
many examples of Targe • p'lants that
could run con'tinuous'ly were the de-
mand, sufficient with only a few oper-
ators at the 'controls. And yet some of
our demagogues ame stili 'talking about
"'return'ing to normalcy" and putting
our unemployed back to work in fac-
tories:
!What has ,happened is simply that
we 'Nave moved at a terrific pace
through the age of hand -operated ma-
chines -into the age of the •technolo'gii-
cal !mechan'is'm. The' m'achin'e of two
d'ecad'es ago was a hand400l exten•
cion which aided man in d'oin'g his
work, .bat wish man as the .operator.
The tech'nologi'cal niecha'n'is'm entirely
displaces man—'does all the work for
him—with one or more men at bhe
control's of an entire plant. (Forty
years ago •it was an occasion for
boasting ,when a new :machine was in-
stalled, 'which saved unpleasant human
labor. Now there isn't e'ee'u room for
more than half of our 14 million un-
employed if our .factories were all
runiriing at 1029 ,production—a produc-
tion 'rate which, fortunately,, does not
exist or we would be so deluged with
goods in a short time that our confu-
sion would be all the greater. Add to
this the fact that a large proportion of
our "factory equipment is ,obsdete,
ready to be strapped for something
more efficient! We have .the spectacle
of widespread efforts 'being 'made to
pat' men at work` where there isn't
work to be done and where machines.
are infinitely more efficient. Has no
one thought of letting the mac'hin'es
do man's work, andletting him rest
on the labors of his mechanical slave?
If you !want to know, how liar we
have gone technologically, bear in
mind that one hundred -nen in mod-
ern.piants working steadily could pro-
deece all the 'bricks the country need's.
Fit this case to other industries and
you get a glimpse of where we are to-
day. 'In pig iron ,production, one man
working one hour r can do what it took
him 650 hours to accomplish fifty
years ago. In a'gricu'lture one man cam
do in ane hour what it required 3,000
hours for hint to accomplish in 51040,
A still 'more striking example is a
Milwaukee plant with its daily output
capacity of '19,000 automobile chassis
frames and 34 miles of pipe line with
a total of 2021 men id the plant, O;ne
man riding in the control cab can do
all of the loading of freight cars which
are shunted up to the siding of this
factory.
Machines, have been used by man
since before 11800, but technological
nieclrandsins—the advanced' applica-
tion of engineering 'to the machine—
are less than two decades aid. The
machine displaced handicraft, but
technology has displaced handeoperat-
ed machines with one, twa or three;
automatic machines to the single in-
dustrial plant. Our first automatic
plant arrived in 19115, and since then
he advance (If efficiency in every line
has been so rapid that we haven'treal-
ized!, or, begun •bo realise, our extreme-
ly serious predicament.
We have been doing a lot of talking
about mastering the machine "but the
bare treth in' the matter of doing work
is that the machine has tnau licked so
long as he attempts to operate it un-
der 'the present methods of price. IIn
the light of these facts it seems ap-
paren•t that only a 'radical change of
immense proportions can pull its out
of the mise.
!Such are the claim's of Teoh•nocracy.
On the other hand, the goncra'1 public,
is inclined to deep its tongue in its
cheeky, in 'the l.nowiied'ge that such ar-
guments have been used since the
world began, and .as for the`ma'thema-
tical accuracy of the engineers, the
story is ret'a'iled of the professor who.
once declared earnestly:
"A'riehmetic is a scietioe of truth,
figures can't .lie. For itistance, if one
snail' can limed! a 'souse in 12 days, 1121
men ecu build it in one.
"Yes" itstenrupted a quickebrained
student• "Then 283 will build it in .one
hour 7,.280 tui one minute and
1,036,1000 in one second. And I don't
believe they 'could lay one lecicdc in
that ti•mel"
While the ipt'ofessor was stile gasp -
'rig, the smart "ready reckoner" went
cin
"Again, if one ship can cross the
Atlantic in six days, six ships can
cross it in one day, !I don't believe
that, either; so where's the truth in
arithmetic?"
A LITTLE BIRD WRITES OO'PY
There are many stories about Hor-
ace Greeley's han'dwri'ting, which is
said to have been ,the worst ever seen
even in a newspaper office. Perhaps
the !best of the yarns is the following:
There was !wily one compositor in
the Tribune office Who could read
Greeley's copy. One day while the
compositor was out a bird had flown
into the office, walked into some print-
ing ink and then on a nu'm'ber of
loose sh'ee'ts lying on the floor,
"Why," said one of the printers,
picking "up a sheet, "this looks like thee,
old ,man's writing. So saying, he fast-
ened the sheets together and put •them
on the absent compositor's case.
Presently the co'mpositor came back
and with a'11 eyes turned on'hirn picked
up the sheets and to the amazement of
the room started setting up the sup-
posed "copy." "
Presently, however, he hesitated at
a word and asked the man nearest him
what it was.
"How should i. know?" was the re-
ply. "You know that you alone can
read the old man's writing. Bet'ter
ask him," .
;Reluctantly the baffled compositor
took the sheet to (Greeley's sanotutn.
'Well," said the great man, "what
is it?"
"It's this word, Mr. 'Greeley."
.Greeley .snatched the sheet from the
man's .'hand, looked at • the alleged
word and threw himself back with a
snort of disgust. "Why," 'he shouted,
"any fool could see what it isl It's
unconstitutional.'
A OHEQUEREID CA'RE'ER
A suit for alienation of affections
against names A. Stillman, former
president of the National City Bank
of New Y'ark, whose .maribal difficul-
ties with bhe former Anne Urquhart
Potter resulted in sensational legal
actions over a period of 10 years, has
been filed by Luc Rochefort, a French
Canad'ia'n politician, it was learned.
IIn the face of the banker's blanket
denials, Rochefort :charges that Still-
man stole his wife's affections, taking
her with him on 'trips to Havanna and
elsewhere although he allegedly knew
She was a married woman.
'The suit brought by Rochefort, who
was twice unsuccessful candidate for
Montreal mayor, was disclosed in a
Brooklyn Supreme Court sitting.
The financier's lawyer, Ofalcolre
Sumner, charged the libel suit iva:s
brought in an effort to compel Still-
man ,to settle the 'alienation action out
ofcount to avoid publicity.
:Through Sumner, Stillman eninoun'c-
ed be would fight the case to a finish,
even though 'the suit promises to rival
the hisltari'c divorce battle between.
Stillman and the former Miss Potter,
who is now the wife of Fowler Mc-
Conmiclk, youthful heir to the Chica
go 'harvester millions.
iim fighting the case in court, Still -
Man's attorney disclosed Roc'he'fortll
alleges the banker in'ade lave to the
farmer's wife, lavished gifts of pres-
ents and money upon her and thereby
"completely alienated her from her
'husband."
In reply to the charges, Sumner de -
clawed he had Obtained affidavits from
Mrs. Rochefort and from her tno'ther,
Mrs. Family M. Baker, in w'hic'h both
were quoted as swearing Rochefort
not only encouraged the frien'ds'hip
between his wife and Stillman, but
"beuefileted financially by it."
'Sumner haserted Mrs. Rochefort
had not lived with her husband for
seven years prior to the time she met
the banker. Stillman was told, •Sumner
said, that slhe was a widow.
IIn the course of his detailed narra-
tive of the affair, in which he a'sserte'd
the Rochefort& had not had marital
relations for seven years, Sumner dis-
closed numerous detail's of S'tillman's
association with Mrs. Rochefort.
"It appeared," .Sumner said, "`that in
April 1932, Mr. and Mrs. Rochefort
and Mrs. Baker tvcre living in a snail
tht se-noo'm apartment in 'Lon'g Islam.
lOity with a Miss Hong, who was con-
valescing from an _operations.
"All
Of them were in an ititpecuati-
ogre con•cltti•on.' Lt was then' discussed
between 'Miss Hoeg and Mr. and 'Mrs.
Rochefort and Mrs. Baler th'a't Miss
Haug should invite` Mr. Stillman,
with whom slie was well acquainted
to visit her and introduce hint to Mrs.
lbo'chefutt. The evening Mr. 'Stillman
called he was introduced by \Mise
Hoag to Mrs. Rochefort as a Widow.
Rochefort with knowledge of the pro-
posed meeting, left the apartment and
spent the night in a hotel, afterre-
ceiving $5 from his wife with which
to pay for'ehe hetet room, Thereafter,
in talks between Mr. and Mrs. Roche -
fort and Miss Houg it was agreed that
Ma'rj'orie. Rochefort and the would
encourage S'tillmian to take them to
Havana and finance them in a beauty
parlor business. Me. Rochefort had
full k'nowled'ge from the beginning of
whatever relaiaotns' may have existed
between his wife and Mr, Stillman.
He had received from his wife at var-
ious times sums of money wthscth he
knew or ,had reason to believe she had
received from Mr. Stillman.
)For nearly 112 ye'ees now the amor-
ous and domestic adventures of the
ISIt?i'1'mans have amazed, intrigued, am-
used and entertained the civilized
world,
(IIt wns' 10 years ago next Marc'!• that
the fa'mi'ly lost all but the remnants
of privacy with the institution of Shill -
man's suit for divorce on the grounds
that he was not the father of "Baby
Guy" Stillman, now 114 years old.
!Stillman charged "'Baby Guy" was
the son of Frank Beauvais, an Indian
guide mu'c'h about the Stillman sum-
mer camp near Grande Anse, Quebec.
The legitimate paternity of the child
was upheld, however, by the courts.
Mrs. Stillman countered the suit
with the charge that her husband was
the lover of Mrs. "'Flo" Leeds, former
Ziegfeld Follies beauty, and the fath-
er of two children by her. She named
the children and the dates of their
births.
Ione of 'the Leeds babies -died at
birth. The other, Jay Ward Leeds,
was born in September, 1919, and is
still living.
IFor ten years the Stillman case
dragged through the courts and the
public prints, although Stillmae's ef-
forts to divorce his wife were first
checked at the first trial before Sup-
reme Oeurt in White Plains in the
fail Of 1922, whets divorce was refus-
ed. Stillman appealed to the higher
courts but they did not filially decide
against him until 1099.
'Meanwhile Mrs. Leeds filed a suit
for support against Stf1'lrttan. 'Mrs.
!Stillman backed her up with cordial
telegrams. Beauvais sued Stillman
for slander, asking $500,000 damages.
Stillman's yacht, the Wenonah, burn-
ed with a00000 's loss. Hcountry
�-• t Y
(home, Mondanne, alt Pleasantville, N.
Y. burned with $300,000 loss.
IStillm'an resigned his presidency of
the National City Bank, to be sus-,
:seeded by the present president, Chas.
A. Miibchell, His name was dropped
from Who's Who, which carried a
reference line, Mew—ever, for his father,
the late James A'lexan'der Stillman.
Ole and his -whole family were dropped,
from the social register,
(Then more publicity was added to
the family lustre when James °Bud)
Stillman, second' son, its 1927 mar-
vied Lena Wilson, the daughter of a
farineraluntlbe'rjock of Three River's,
Que., near the S+tillman's Canadian re-.
treat,
IThe family name stayed in the news
when Henry P. Davison, son of the
Late financier, married Anne Stillman,
a daughter.
Then the elder Stillinans went on a
"!hind honeymoon" to Euxohie. Mrs.
:Stillman came back 'psycho -analyzed'
and in love again with her husband.
,Stillman smiled happily.
'Then. quietly Mrs. !Stillman filed suit
for divorce again, and the sunt went
uncontested, In June the granting of
the divorce because known when it
was found that she had, at the age of
S1, miarrieid 33 -year -odd Fowler Mc
Cormjok, grand's'on of the harvester
magnate, Cyrus McCormick, in 1931.
!Stillman revealed then he had made
no settlement on his divorced wife,
but had set aside a $3,000,000 fend to
be divided among their four children,
including "Blaby Guy."
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