The Washington herald., 1913-11-30
Dung WOMEN
/ TO PASS TESTS
ysical Fitness for Positions
m Bureau Of Engraving
to Be Decided.
lie FOR APPLICANTS
Is Being Perfected for Determining
They Have Strength to Stand
Work on Heavy Machines.
lie FOR APPLICANTS

lung women who desire to work in
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
he future will have to pass series
ests to determine their physical and
fous capabilities in terms OF horse
er II the plans of the Public Health
Fice and the Civil Service Commission
x out
lis does not mean that any clean
in the Bureau OF Engraving and
ltfng is contemplated. II does not
IN that in the future the Bureau OF
travtng and Printing is going to be d
e where only the elect may ind work
merely means that, in line with the
sress In all directions nowadays,
lie Sam Is going to insist that those
.rfng his service shall be qualified to
I'd the strain.
the past il has been found thar
e Of the women who entered the
ice of the bureau as printers assist
were untitled physically to bear the
in of standing up at their work and
ig machines that sometimes require a
siderable amount OF strength to ma
iIate
system to he Worked Out.
has been decided that the Public
hth Service and the physicians OF the
Service Commission shall combine
/ efforts toward working out sys-
of tests that will weed out from
large number OF yearly applicants
Ie who are not capable physically Of
bling the duties required
lese tests, simmered right down to
r final analysis, will be to de-
hine just the capabilities of the many
licants in terms Of horsepower, in
kr that the ability of the young wom-
hay be compared with the work they
have to do in the same terms In
eh work is computed
| preparation for the formulation of
le tests there has been an extended
Istigation Of the entire system Of the
kau OF late. and especially Of the
X that new employees are required
10. the majority of the women enter
ibureaa as printers assistants, and a
tiers assistant may not sit down in
lcourse of her days work. but stands
her feet from start to finish
ke Investigation to determine just
IL a day Of this sort of labor means
terms of physical and nervous en-
expended has been a long and
tplex one. The problem Is affected by
Nv different considerations.
he Public Health and Civil Service
omission physicians for some time
4 been working on a report tnat viii
kody recommendations regarding a
tem to be used in the tests
I. BENJAMIN S. Warren of the Public
lith Service. said last night that the
brit was not complete and he could
discuss any of its details before 1t
been submitted to Surg. Gen. Blue. |
something Of the system that is be-
considered was learned from another
rec.
this new plan is adopted by the au-
rites each applicant will have to
Through a test of physical strength
endurance that will represent on a
nature scale a days work in the Bu-
d OF Engraving snd Printing And,
brding to the result, the applicant Will
accepted or rejected
hat is, delicate surgical instruments
machines will be used and Will be
listed so that they will register the |
roxinate effort required to run each |
he machines on which the girls work. |
he effect of these devices on the nor |
constitution is a known quantity. |
" are TO be applied to the person to |
examined under a number Of varying |
ditions. If the applicant fails to
oond in the normal way to any one |
The tests in the proposed series, Il will 1
known, therefore, that the work of
bureau would be deleteriuus and the |
licant will be rejected.