Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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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

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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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S. C. A. CASHIERS Top Row---Xlclicnzie. V. XV.ird. Vick. Miller. Jark, Schmidt. Second Row-Koloske, Baird. Hoeft, Dahms, Drcsdow. Muller. Smith. Schricber. Bottom Row-Zick. B. Brown. Hoeveler, Botcler, C. Ray, Alm. Cohan, Smart, F. Schultz, Russell. with the bottle machine: a new demand, some of the old glass blowers falling by the wayside, the balance, plus a detachment of youngsters, going on the machines. XVith the Owens bottle machine, however-which came later-hand blowers numbering 9,000 were replaced by 4,000 skilled machine operators, in a period of twelve years. Skilled men declined in this branch of the industry. Barnettes Hnal conclusion is that while in some instances, such as the lino- type. more skill is needed, by and large the effect of new machines is to reduce the skill of that particular process. Women and children operating power looms have none of the art of the hand weaver. We must remember that many of the articles produced by machines are new sorts of articles. unheard of in any other culture. They crowd in on top of the ancient family necessities of food, shelter, and clothing. Insofar as this happens, s. C. A. CAsH1ERs 'lop Row-Bugbee. Jark. Lumb. Neumann. Second Row-Lockney. Waite. Norris, Sawyer, McNaught, Gill Young. Third Row-l,ubnow. Torhorst, Magnusson, Volpano, Zillmer, Hoeveler. Stuhlman, Malagian. Bot- tom Row-YBlicsath. Blasing. Macomber, Schultz, Scrima. Badciong. ' ,N fi 1.-J 33 W as Page One Hundred