Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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OTHER SENIORS MAJORING IN VOCATIONS BRISK. JEANNE 11285 HARDIMAN, HOWARD QIZBJ MCCAEEREY, LEROY HZBJ BRUHN, CATHERINE CIZBJ KIRCHOFF, IRENE ROBEL. ARTHUR CIZBD CORY, LYLE LYNCH, ARTHUR SCHIEWITZ, MELVIN GEBHARDT, BETTY MASCIA, JENNIE TRIGLOFF, NVALTER CIZBJ WOH'AHN, MONA emergency. CFiremen have driven great trains long miles, with a dead engineer beside them in the cab.y Indeed so highly skilled does a fireman become that he is seldom fit for any other kind of job-except that of engineer. There are some 200,000 railroad trackmen in the United States. They have to know how to build and repair switches: to lay and relay rails: tamp ties to hold elevation and surface: flag trains according to a complicated codeg make adjustments to switch points: install frogs and guard rails, make emergency repairs to telegraph and telephone wiresg build and repair fences, inspect track for spreads, sinking fills, swinging, heaving, and buckling: learn and apply the formulas for shrinkages and expansions in rails due to changing temperatures. Each man has, at the same time, an immense responsibility for human life upon his shoulders. They are Usentries who guard a front 250,000 miles long. Day and night in baking heat or driving blizzard, trained men patrol the railroads' right of way. Finally, new machines are constantly being introduced into their curriculum - tamping devices, fCourtesy of Jose GoroELid'2OSgc'iZtjry of Public Education, rail Saws, Welders-and I 1 a 1 This fresco is an example of the enormous rhythm, the sullen eachf Oper-atlng lnteulgence must and volcanic color, and the moody power of Orozco. It is one ' ' ' of a group of murals by Diego Rivera and Orozco in the cor- betlncreasgd' thls OCCu.pat1On' ridors of the National Preparatory School, Mexico City. 314111 Vgflgg dlfggfly Wlth thg A T amount of machinery. The skill of toolmakers is far greater now than in the old handicraft days. This art, how- ever, is very highly specialized. A generation ago, a good machinist would tackle any job in the shop, but now the man on the milling machine hesitates to T undertake a task on any other. Mr. Colvin notes a growing lack of fundamental mechanical sense among modern toolmakers, due to specialization, together with increasing skill. The art of the silversmith is a very ancient one. The machine cannot displace the craftsman in Tn, ,--,,....1L, --,.,,., . , Y . , ' ii Page One Hundred Three

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stimulated the crafts. Large scale industry has provided certain old trades with the means of keeping alive and even of expanding. It has created and nurtured a large number of new handicrafts which flourish side by side with it, and which it has neither the will nor the power to absorb. In short. regarding the whole field rather than one isolated trade, there is no conclusive evidence that the machine is seriously reducing the number of skilled hand workers. Rabinowitz looks for their survival for an incalculable period in the future. Let us now turn to the new skills, never before seen on land or sea, which the industrial revolution has called forth. If. as conductor or engineman of an extra or an inferior class train running in the same direction. you held an order reading: No. l Engine Z5 will run 20 minutes late A to C, and lO minutes late C to Z, what time must you clear No. l at C? . . . In case the left back eccentric rod should break, what must you do? These are two questions from the examina- tion papers which all locomotive firemen must pass. A Hreman has to learn all about forty- four types of locomotives, and at the comple- tion of his training, must be ready to take the engineers place at the throttle in any TANS. EUGENE THOMAS, RUTH Cardinal Star Staff 4. THOMAS, ORA GRACE Entered from Oconomowoc High School TBZEGSNORNIA G. A. A. l. Z: Girls' Chorus 3. VARLEY, EVERETT Baseball 3: Track 4: Agri- culture Club 4: Stock Judg- ing Team 3: Volleyball 3: Cross Country 4. XVAKEXIAN, JUNE G. A. A. l. 2. 3. 4: Class Captain l: G. A. A. Board. Treasurer 4: Girls' Chorus 1. 2: Laf-a-l,ot 3. 4: Girl Reserves l. Z1 Session Room Banker l. 2, 3: Prom Com- mittee 3. Home Ee. Club 1. THOMPSON. CLIFFORD Orchestra 3, 4: Band l, 2, 3. 4: Session Room Banker l, Z, 3: Year-book Staff 4: Prom Committee 3: Head Bank Cashier 4. TROEMEL, ELIZABETH G. A. A. l, Z: Year-book Staff 4. VETTO, MARX' G. A. A. l, 2. 3. 4: G. A. A. Board 3. 4: Girls' Chor- us 4: Session Room Banker Z: Student Council l. 2, 3. 4: Class Officer, Secretary 4. WlEl-CfI, JOSEPHINE G. A. A. l, Z, 3, 4: Girls Glee Club 1. 2. 3. 4: Girls Chorus l. 2: Laf-a-Lot 3. 4: Girl Reserves l. 2: Ses- sion Room Banker 3. 4: Year-book Staff, Secretary 4. XQ ,' Page One Hundred Two

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sterling silver work, but it can enor- mously assist him. lnstead of chasing a bowl with his own muscles, he now uses a hammer driven by electricity- but as heretofore he guides its every stroke. ln background work, the machine can improve the craftman's performance: an automatic gauge can be set for strokes softer and more even than human eye and hand can emulate. ln the manufacture of airplanes, as we have seen, the craftsman is still the major factor. Skilled cabinet makers, instrument makers, painters, carpen- ters. planing mill operators, welders, tinsmiths, coppersmiths, seamstresses HARVEST -work with the best of inspected materials upon a ship whose individuality they come to know and love. This is the game for me. Do you think l could ever go back to house plumbing after watching a ship I worked on, hop off? said a young plumber's assistant. Four hundred persons following twenty-one trades take 18,000 man hours to build a three-motored plane. Their pay is high: their working conditions admirable, their adrenalin active by virtue of the flying kick. . . . Somehow they put me in mind of the builders of Chartres. It is sad to think of mass production hanging. like a sword of Damocles, above their heads. The Fisher Body Corpor- ation used to employ the finest class of skilled workers. When it was bought by General Motors in l9Zl, many skilled occupations were displaced by machines, conveyors, and repetitive, specialized work. The sword had fallen. XVhile the building trades are the outstanding example of the craftsman defying the machine, the situation has begun to change, particularly in steel construction work. In the last generation the art of the mason, the carpenter, the bricklayer, has suffered an ever-increasing dilution with common labour plus machinery. Steel frames, artificial stone, new metal ceilings, doors, casings bases, shelvings, new paint compounds-all have driven building construction more and more into the factory, leaving less and less upon the job. The craftsman is turning into an assembly man-bolting together the standard parts which the factory makes. But the analogy cannot be pressed too far. Meanwhile a galaxy of new machines has appeared to aid construction work-pneumatic riveters, electric welders, stone chippers, hoisting engines, power picks, grab lines, convey- ors, concrete mixers, gravity towers, cement guns, paint sprayers, floor scrapers, nailing machines. To operate these devices, new skills are required, of which that of the steel bird referred to earlier is one of the most dramatic. Page One Hundred Four