Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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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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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.

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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