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Died. Walter Rautenstrauch, 70, longtime Columbia University professor of industrial engineering, a founder-leader in the Depression-born technocracy movement (he abandoned it in 1933); in Manhattan...
Other signers of the statement were: Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Olin Downes, Professor Thomas Emerson, Judge Norval K. Harris, Dr. John A. Kingsbury, Professor Robert Lynd, Carey McWilliams, Professor Philip Morrison, Professor Linius Pauling, Dr. Walter Rautenstrauch, I. F. Stone, and Professor Colston E. Warne...
Professor Julius Lips started work on The Savage Hits Back* in 1929 in Cologne, where he was the curator-in-chief of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. After studying savages for years it occurred to him that the savages were also capable of studying him, whereupon he set out to collect all the native representations of white men he could find. By 1933 he was ready to put his notes together. In that year, however, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and preoccupation with other cultures than the "Aryan" became dangerous. Forced to resign, Professor Lips was finally driven...
...under professorial cover matters were getting hot at Columbia. In a few days Professor Walter Rautenstrauch, chief sponsor for Chief Technocrat Howard Scott, issued a countersigned manifesto: "We are withdrawing from association with Technocracy. ... A new organization under another name will continue research into natural resources and industrial changes." Thus Columbia put High Priest Scott and Technocracy off the campus...
Professor Walter Rautenstrauch, Columbia Technocrat, reasoned that machines have made "the substitution of kilowatt hours (energy hours) for man hours . . . inevitable." Dr. John Pease Norton, Suffield, Conn, financial writer, called for the use of an "Edison dollar"-one "Edison dollar" to equal 40 kilowatt hours. General Motors' Charles Franklin Kettering (see p. 55) cried: "We haven't 'overproduction' so bad as you think-every one of you wants a great many things he hasn't yet. But there really is 'under-circulation.' We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar...