Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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l892. Skill in this connection means the loss of an opportunity to sell an acquired manual art at a price which would have obtained if machinery had never been introduced. The industrial revolution ruthlessly destroyed skill as so dehned: nearly all the crafts were battered if not entirely undone. But this only disposes of certain sorts of dexterity. Granted that they were ruined, did not others arise to take their places? They did. Consider the skilled intelligence needed to design, build, install, repair, and inspect the new engines and mechanical devices. The skilled machinist, boilermaker, toolmaker, engineer, fireman. plumber, electrician, made their first appearances on any stage. Nleanwhile great numbers of the class which, in the earlier dispensation, would have been common labourers, diggers of ditches, went to work tending machines. Their tasks were repetitive and simple, but many observers believe that they took a step upward in the ladder. They had to know more than on the old job. One odd thing, says the editor of the American IVIachim'st, about the introduction AlL'RDOCK. AGNES HZBI NEFF, ALICE G- A' A: 11 Gm Rfsffvfs 1' 3' G. A. A. 3, Cardinal star staff 4. IXICRRAY, HELEN 612135 G. A. A. l, 2. 3: Class Captain 3: PARI, JOSEPH Girls' Chorus l. 2: Laf-a-Lot l. 2. 3: Girl Reserves l: Session Room Bank PENDOWSKI, EDWARD Agriculture Club 3: Model Aeroplane lXlL'RRAY. AlARGARET HZB5 Club 1, G. A. A. 2. 3: Girls' Glee Club 3: Girls' Chorus 2. 3: Laf-a-Lot Z, 3: PERKINS, LAXVRENCE Cardinal Star Staff 3: Year-book Staff 3. Class Team 2: Track 2: Student Council l. OYERHOLT, CHARLES Basketball 3: PERREN, EMMA Skating l. Z, 3: Tennis Z. 3: Golf l, 2. 3: G. A. A. 2. 3, 4: Session Room Band 23 Boys' Banker 4: Year- Cmlee Club 3: Q' book Staff Dramatic Club S- qsenior Editor, 2. 3: Class Play 4, P Om Com- 3: Session Room '. r Banker 1: prom mittee 3: Office Committee 3: Assistant 3. Model Aeroplane Club l. W 4 3 . ' 1 ir' pr.-.. Page Ninety-eight

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Top Row-LEIPSKI. VIOLET: G. A. A. 2, 3. 4: Girls' Chorus 2, 3. LESTINA, HELEN CIZBD: Girls' Chorus 2. 3. LUPNOW, VIOLET. LORIER, GEORGE: Agriculture Club l, Z, 3: Class Play Asst.: Year-book Staff 4: Prom Committee 3: Stock Judging Team 2. LUTHER, BETTY: G. A. A. 3, 4: Cardinal Star Staff 3: Prom Committee 3. NIAYNARD, TI-IEA QIZBJ. Bottom Row-NICNULTY, MARY: G. A. A. 3, 4: Girl Reserves 1. MCNEIGHT, ADRIADNE: G. A. A. 3, 4: Girls' Chorus 3. MELVILLE, EARL: Track 3. MILLER. BLANCHE LIZBJ: G. A. A. l, Z. 3: Girls' Chorus 2, 3: Girl Reserves l, 2. MONTVILLEBLANCHE: Girls' Chorus 3, 4: Home Ec. Club l. MUELLER, LORAINE il2Bil: G. A. A. l. 2. 3. 4: Wearer 4: Girls' Chorus 3. 4: Orchestra l, Z. 3, 4: Laf-a-Lot 3: Home Ec. Club 1: Girl Reserves l, 2, 3, 4. motions, We should have plenty of cause for alarm. The muscles must be used, the hand and eye must have opportunity to coordinate or something will surely go to smash. The vast majority of medieval artisans merely followed designs made by master workmen-even as We find it in the Orient today. The level of monoto- nous Work under machine technology for great classes of occupations is held by Mr. Beard to be not worse, but better than in the handicraft eras. Compare, he says, life in the latifundia of Rome or the cities of modern China with the life of a machine worker. Those who are prepared to sacrifice the standard of living for millions to provide conditions presumably favourable to the creative arts, must assume a responsibility of the first magnitude. Certainly many of the skills of England were ruptured when Watt's engines began to pound. Handloom Weavers, chain and metal Workers, tailors, cabinet makers, Were driven first to reduce their prices, then to sweat the labour of all the members of their families, and nnally to the Wall. The destruction of the labourer's only capital, his skill, is one of the most pernicious effects of machinery, and when it happens, there is and can be no remedy: still if the changes are gradual, the evil consequences are not so great -wrote Professor Nicholson in Page Ninety-seven

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of machinery is that while it is designed primarily to accomplish the transfer of the skill of the expert hand operator to a mechanism, and thus permit the employ- ment of a less skilled and less expensive operator, experience has shown that its introduction is accompanied by a general improvement in the type of worker. More brains are needed to keep the machine functioning than to handle a shovel. Meanwhile Henry Ford is convinced that the number of skilled craftsmen in proportion to the working population has greatly increased under the conditions brought about by the machine. Barnette finds that certain inventions, far from being introduced gradually, come relatively very quickly: eliminating hand work in a few years. The stone- planer was fully introduced in seven years: the linotype in ten, the bottle- making machine in six. But the use of the machine, even at its maximum development, is always narrower than the entire handicraft: some marginal hand workers remain. The linotype brought a roaring new demand for printed matter and the linotype requires a skilled man to run it. The hand printer-if he was not too old-became a linotype operator, while many new men were broken in, leaving more skilled operators in the industry than before. The same thing happened Top Row-PLEHN, HERBERT: Baseball Z, 3: Class Team 2. 3: Cardinal Star Staff 3. PORTZ. ANDREW: Agri- culture Club Z, 3. 4: Stock Judging Team 2. PRESTON, IRENE: G. A. A. 2, 3, 4: Wearer: Girls' Chorus 2, 3: Dramatic Club 4. PRICE, CHARLES: Cl2l3l Baseball 2, 3: Class Team 2, 3: Orchestra l, 2, 3: Band l. Z. 3: Agriculture Club l: Session Room Banker: Prom Committee 3: Class Oflicer, Secretary 3. PRICE, MILDRED: l, 2, 31 Class Captain RADUEGE, MARTHA. BOIZEOI11 Row-RANKIN. EVERETT: Hi-Y Club 3. RHEINGANS. Fl-RUMAN. ROBERTS. HONVELL fl2BAlI Agri- culture Club l, Z. 3. 4: Baseball 3, 4. ROBERTS, HUGH HZBH: Agriculture Club 3. 4: Session Room Banker 3. -1-. ROBERTS, ROLAND HZBJ. SAVATSKE, ELAINE: G. A. A. 2. 3: Girls' Chorus 3, 4. Page Ninety-nine