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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-56) “fhur spea the American “p€dple too seldom. His know!-. : edge is universal; his-wisdom :4s a product . j of vast experi- “ence with * great - affairs. +He does not .become a _ prey to the; =glogaps of the ‘moment nor does he -seek applause © and & we om promise “Sywith truth. 2. .- ; = -" Once ayear, ~; Sokolsky - ‘he might be. expected to “speak out and that is at his annual stockholders’ ‘ poration. It is unfortunate “that such an oceasion should - be limited to the few: listen- ers, who attend stockholders’ "meetings: such an address as “:General MacArthur delivered “this year should have been Lgraph. fo iz “The world is entering an “age of evolution greater than {ft has ever before known. Never in the two billion year chistory of himan life, -in the “five billion years in which ‘the. earth has spun through “the black vacuum of -space from the sun, has man’s fac-” ylty for learning “assumed ‘such immense new scope and “power, We are acquiring an “ever greater. degree of con- ‘trol and mastery over the “processes of nature. We are now exploiting, not only sel- entifically. -but practically, ‘the cosmic. energy. We are £ graduating from earthly to: versal ee | meet “ing of the Sperry Rand Cor-- =proadcast. I quote a para-- niv dimensions. ‘This; revolution ‘has ‘happened .s0- pauietly ~and naturally—with- <4) © By George E. Sokolaky GENERAL Dougiaa MacAr-. out ceremony or. tindue em-. 2 live to see the day wher we phasis, without great debate “will <be drawing energy not. or acid controversy—that we hardly know the exact in- stant that the change oc- curred. ‘The tick of the clock’ } sometimes sounds 80 softly - we do not hear it; yet we know the hour has struck. Vast panoramas will unfold wave, of a magnitude and di- versity not as yet fully com- prehended.: Machines and ‘mechanical devices will more and: more operate other ma- . chines in an endless growing . cycle, defined as automation, of labor-saving and multiple. production systems.” ° " TRULY, this is a descrip- tion of the fundamental rev-. olution of our time, a techni- -gal revolution which is chang- ing ‘not only our habits, but. our thoughts. This ‘technical revolution has now reached the phase when it must be related to economics and pol- {tics and international rela- tions. Se : Before the technical revo- lution fully influences us, its consequences will be ab- -sorbed by religion and phil-' osophy and we shall have & broader and better under- standing of our world. General MacArthir has a philosophic cast to his mind and delves deeply and pro- foundly into the inner mean-: ing of life. Thus, he says: * * -“Nuclear energy and elec- tronic advances casnot fail to bring an age of relative plenty. For the ‘first time there will be ‘provided the’ tools which promise ‘to man: kind the satisfaction of his. basic économie and material needs. Some of you may. well only from the sun’ but ‘from the tides and the winds; will be creating unheard-of syn- thetic materials; will be puri- fying sea; will be mining océan Sigore for basic min- erals; he ‘celebrating a life span of a hundred and before us, wave following -more years; will be launch- ing space ships to reach the moon; ‘will see poverty for the first time faced with pos- sible extinction. Living ‘stand- ards will be the highest, sci-. entific advances will be the: most revolutionary, world-af- - fairs will be the most éxcit- ing in all history.” : a 33, : i , . a Be et Se ee a NOT RECORDED ii AUG 7 1957 ee — ee ee Trotter ______— Nease Tele. Room —— Hollom.z.. _ Gandy Wash. Post and Bl. Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N, Y. Journal- American N.Y. Mirror N, Y. Daily News ——_ N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader : Date