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Scrap Sorting & Mongering:
"Scrap sorting is going to be one of the great sciences now. It is one of the typical social changes from the linear patterns of the honey-bee to the precessional circulatory patterns. To man’s old way of thinking he was going to build this building and it’s going to stay there forever. All the architects are that way. It was like a one-way street. But nature found that the metal didn’t get destroyed and so it resulted in the monger.
"The monger was sort of a low-grade character because everybody thought the materials had deteriorated, that the iron was all rusting and that everything would really rust and go away. But the monger was sitting in there and society found that things were not getting eaten up. Now the mongers are getting all their dung and really turning it into something. There’s a scandal now in Philadelphia about their sewage and waste removal because some of these guys are beginning to turn some of this tonnage into money. They had been throwing out the dung but now they are beginning to process it and they find that it really pays them.
“One of the big changes around here is when the monger is no longer a low calling. But the mongers tend to sit on it and”
