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149 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. v (1930)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0149 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD IN September, 1928, Mr. Edward A. Filene suggested to Dr. L. S. Rowe, at that time President of the Academy, that a meeting be held to discuss the Second Industrial Revolution. It was Mr. Filene's conviction that inevitable excesses would develop in the Second Industrial Revolution just as they had developed in the First but that many of them were preventable. He felt further that our knowledge of the excesses which grew out of the First Industrial Revolution would be of great value to us in applying preventive measures to the social problems of today, and would save us from being forced to devise curative measures after serious maladjustment had brought about acute distress. The speakers were all asked, not only to describe but also to anticipate, in discussing their individual topics. Countless facts were available-the book on Recent Economic Changes, for instance, had just been published-but little information was available as to what these facts signified-what the future might hold. Therefore, insofar as possible, the speakers whose addresses appear in this volume endeavored to interpret the facts, project them into the future, and point out certain probable trends which are likely to emerge. In some cases they tried to suggest definite measures to prevent excesses which would seem inevitable if we were to depend too much upon economic impulse unbalanced by social foresight. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields-economists, engi- neers, business men, educators, authors, statisticians, lawyers. They represent a cross section of American constructive thought-capitalists, socialists, labor leaders, liberals, conservatives. Needless to say, no attempt was made to influ- ence the views of the speakers or to maintain any superficial consistency. Not only were very different points of view requested and presented in the discussion of specific problems, but it was evident that the underlying social philosophy of those discussing certain phases of the Second Industrial Revolution varied greatly from that of speakers dealing with other phases. It is the hope of the committee who arranged the program of this meeting that this volume may prove of very real value in furnishing useful preliminary data for all those who are concerned with guiding this Second Industrial Revolution into the proper channels and preventing any undue evils from growing out of it. PERCY S. BROWN.

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