Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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play bridge. buy more clothes than she needs, and make a sad spectacle of herself at so-called culture clubs. The poor woman has been left high and dry, after the children are big enough to dress and care for themselves-and there are not as many to dress as there used to be. The problem of the restless, neurotic middle- class woman is based on the fact that the machine has stripped her of her ancient skills. leaving nothing but boredom in their place. Nature has ever abhorred a vacuum. For those gainfully employed there has obviously been no decline in skill. The robot class is relatively far smaller than that of the old-time slave or serf. The modern farmer must know more than his ancestors, and much of his knowlf edge is enforced by the new machines-the tractors and the harvesters-he is called upon to operate. The psychological effects of these new skills are a more dubious matter. As Simon Patten has pointed out in his theory of product and climax, the old artisan saw the product of his skill culminating immediately before his eyes. Satisfaction came as he worked. The modern designer may not see the tangible product of his labour for months: indeed may never see it. Similarly much specialized work of the highest skill is only one tiny part of a great process, and often the worker has no picture of the whole process, or where his task fits into it. The machine has thus operated to split the psychological unity of work and result, and to take away a greater or lesser amount of the craftsman's completed satisfaction. On this score the gloomy prophets have a case, but it needs far more investigation before we can know how serious it is. The foregoing article is printed by special permission of the author and of the Macmillan Company, Publishers. -X 1 3 Page One Hundred Six

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To Our F0rqfatlu'1's- The Europcun Immigrants

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DISCOBOLUS fCourtesy of Brown-Robertson Co., New Yorkj Discobolus is a work of the Greek sculptor, Myron, who lived in the fifth century B. C. There are several copies of the statue which are found at the Vatican. the Massimi Villa at Rome. the Capitoline Museum at Rome, and the British Museum. DiscoboIus is wonderfully effective, and We feel as if we must see the throw made. and the tense muscles relaxed. before we can leave it. lt is an example of the highest Greek art in the representation of the physical frame and diflicult action. Page One Hundred Seven