St Johnsbury Academy - Lamp Yearbook (St Johnsbury, VT)

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8 THE ACADEMY STUDENT STUDENT BOARD 1940 - 41 Editor-in Chief Associate Editor Make-up Editor Headline Editor Headline Writers News Editor Reporters Barbara I Feature Editor Feature Writers Alumni Editor Literary, Books, Drama Inquiring Reporter Joke Editor Exchange Editor Art Editor Assistant Art Editor Sports Editor Sports Writers Girls’ Sports Editor Corresponding Secretary Columnists Editorial Staff Jr — ' i Howard Hawley — , Prescott Stearns Glendeen Samuelson Thais Erving ’ Robert Rosselot. Beatrice Decoteau Eleanor Murphy ’erry, Earla Lang, Dorothy Whaley, Joyce Perkins Cecilia McGuire William Paradis, Jason Granger, Anita Tegu Muriel McKee Editor Paula Wilcox Robert Rosselot Carolyn Strauch Franklin Barney Virginia Wilcox Kenton Mudgett Reginald Counsell GTenWtacDonald, Hubert Johnson Mildred Merchant Malva Macl'arlin Richard Boyce, Margaret Hooker, Joan White Business Staff Eugene Eliingwood Jack Cox Kenneth Gibson, Alden Sears, Wm. Lyster Lowell Letournqau Eleanor Conly Jean Sheffield, Gordon Bill, Evelyn Spencer Business Manager Sales Manager Salesmen Circulation Manager Advertising Editor Ad. Writers Frances Wheelock Beulah Sherry Joyce Sargent Betty Mollica Secretarial Staff Wilma Miles Shirley Lowrey Doris Kidder Frances Gillander Dorena Gentile Alberta Elliott Marjorie Carter Eunice Bovee

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10 THE ACADEMY STUDENT VALEDICTORY ESSAY EFFICIENCY AND THE LABORER “It is a big- assembly plant in a city of the Northwest. They assemble there the Bogel car. In the assembly plant everyone works on ‘the belt’. This is a big steel conveyor, a kind of moving sidewalk, waist-high. It is a great river running down thru the plant. Various tributaries come into the main stream, the main belt. They bring tires, they bring headlights, horns, bumpers for cars. They flow into the main stream. “The belt is boss. It moves always forward. To stand the pace is the real test. Special skill is not recjuired. It is all perfectly timed, perfectly calculated. If you are a body upholsterer, so many tacks driven per second. Not too many. If a man hurries too much too many tacks drop on the floor. If a man gets too hurried he is not efficient. Let an expert take a month, two months, to find out how many tacks the average good man can drive per second. “There must be a certain «t lard maintained in the finished product. Remember that. It must pass . ..on after inspection. Do not crowd too hard. Crowd all you can. Keep crowding. “It is a good thing to go thru the pL.n now and then, select one man from all the others, give him a new and bigger job, just like that, offhand. If he doesn't make good, fire him. “It is a good thing to go thru the plant occasionally, pick out a man, working apparently just as the others are, fire him. If he asks why, just say to him, ‘You know’. He’ll know all right. He’ll imagine why. The pace can be accelerated a little this year. The men have all got tuned into the old pace now. Step it up a little, just a little. “Now and then a man goes off his nut. He goes fantoed. He howls and shouts. He grabs up a hammer. A stream of crazy profanitj comes from his lips. ‘The belt controls me. It moves. It moves. I’ve tried to keep up. I tell you I’ve been keeping up. The belt is God. God has rejected me.’ “Sometimes a man, fired like that, goes crazy. He get dangerous. A strong policeman on hand knocks him down, takes him out. It is calculated that a man rubbing automobile bodies with pumice, makes thirty thousand and twenty-one arm strokes per day. The difference