The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-07

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well nderstond. The advertiser who
presents an attractive picture or ~
woman seated at the sort OF a desk
The has to sell creates III the mind or
Woman reader d mental picture Of
herself seated at a similar desk. IL
lis the psychological intiuence which
brings here to the store to buy q
dusic ha.; O psychologist cal effect up
on the efficiency or workers. Uncon-1
ton Of the plant IS greatly increased.
A piano lis *frequently found In a large
cigar actory. and sometimes singers
and other musicians are also intro
duced. The music Isl always fast. as
slow music retards their progress.
In Cuba and IN some of the factor
les in Tampa, Fla, operated by Gus
ban ci ga Il workers, q reader or eio-l
cutionist is sometimes employed in
stead or q musician. The reader must
have q clear strong voice and read
something having an active plot. Un-3
del. these conditions Il he work wifi
progress as rapidly is Will q musicaIf
accompaniment. The increased outs
put of the factory with either enter-i
stainment pays for, the expense many
times over.
s5 Just how the process ofs nterestingi
the mind tends to- promote physical
efficiency has not yet been worked OUT
by psychologists. Professor Hugo
GMtlnsterburg. the head OF the Harvard
psychological laborators, has said 4
Ill IS popular mistake or the bres-l
5ent Industrial system to create mem
tai starvation which SO presses down.
the life of8the laborers a 81 to deprive it
of all JOY in work and 10 make the!
Factory scheme Sat necessary and RE-
sretabIe eyi Other conditions would |!
bring about a much higher industria1f
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2 The psycllote chnologist5 is constants
~ sendeavoring to demonstrate that
whenever an Industrious energetic4
worker is unsuccessful in one kind of
work, he can be made efficient some
where else. Tt is only. i. matter Of tit-t
ting the man to the Job The Tomenst
workers in one department. OF a pen-f
Gil factory are required to grasp ali
dozen pencils at a time, no more. mol
less, during. one process of 4he man.
llfaeture- Some Women never were
able to do this, but when they We're
transferred to the department where
gold leaf was to be applied 20 thet
pencils, they became very proficient
The SOLUTION Of the problem of tnci
unemployment becomes more import
ant each year Mayor Mitchell oil
New York. ppointed a committee to1
give psychological test to The mem
who patrcnized the municipal lodg-t
ingsh house, with a view to ascertaining
their industrial possibilities. Thei
sBlnet test, named for the French psy-t
schologist who originated it, was ap-
piled to several hundred OF these men.
Binet's experiments were fl rst made
with children to determine tne deve1-
opmen to be expected from children
of ten, twelve and fifteen years of
age, and afterwards included adult
tests. ss4.5
The results of the tests made upon
the unemployed men OF New York
showed that a large proportion or
those who failed in the industrial race
We're to a degree defective in mental
lily, and therefore not capable OF -the
highest efficiency The answers to-
some of the questions indicated that
in many cases this def cheney had been
gradually developed by d long ex-
perience of misfit Jobs
That efficiency. III every variety of
occupation, is largely matter OF Mt
ting the man to the job, is the most
significant fact which psycilot echno1-
Bogy has proved: Everywhere in life,
the nfisfit is the ineffectual, and this
new applied science has wonde rful
work before it in teaching the cor
rect choice of svocat tons to the young
of the country, and SO conserving ef-
5ficiency.S
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