Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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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

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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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the factory does not affect the hand worker. He goes marching along, side by side with large-scale industry, doing his time-honoured tasks of tailoring, house- building, metal-working, what not. Rabinowitz, writing in the International Labor Review, Hnds that it does not seem to have decreased, either absolutely or even relatively to population. His careful study makes it appear that the Jeremiahs have been talking through their hats when they bid us, with tears g streaming down their faces, regard the dying artisan. There are more artisans today than ever there were. This is certainly true of Europe, but more dubious for the United States-for which Rabinowitz has no figures. Machines, strange to say, far from reducing the aggregate of handicraft work Qagain in Europej have increased it. Their first effect was to reduce it, as the plight of the English artisans shows, but as the Power Age gained headway, inventing countless new processes and articles, additional tasks for the hand skills appeared. The factory machine does part of the work, leaving expert hand trans- formers, finishers, dressers, fitters, to link the process together. Furthermore, the factory has produced invaluable aids for hand workers in the form of sewing machines, knitting inadnnes nunor ddven hand uxis,and so SAi'1.Es, FRANCES QIZBJ G.A.A. 4: Girls' Chorus 3. SCHOBER. MARY SNYDER, DOROTHY STIER, FREDERICK Football 3, 4: Baseball 3, 4: Agriculture 3. 4: Stock Judging Team 3: Meat Judging Team 3. STORK, DoRis i G. A. A. l, 2. 3: XV Wearer 4: Girls' Chorus 2, 3. Page One Hundred One SEWNIG, JOSEPHINE G. A. A. l, 2, 3. 4: Girls' Chorus l. 2. 3: Home Ec. Club l: Session Room Banker 2. SHERMAN. ESTHER Ci. A. A. Z, 3. 4: Ci. A, A. Board 3. 4: Wears: 4: Prom Committee 3: Stu- dent Council l. 2, 3, 4: Class Officer 3, Vice-Presb dent. STEVENS, JUANITA Entered from Tower Hill, Illinois. STIER. ROBERT Football 3, 4: Baseball 3, -I-1 Class Team 3: Agricul- ture 3. 4: Prom Commit- tee 3. SUGDEN, HARRY Orchestra 3. 4: Band 33 Session Room Banker l: Head Bank Cashier 3.