Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-08-03
HIGH COST OF MANUFACTURING

No doubt every person has heard
and has found out that the cost of liv-
ing is much higher than il use to be-
The reasons for same are too num-
erous TO mention in a small space, but
one of them is the high cost of manu-
featuring. One of the causes is the
unframed mechanic, who does his work
by experimenting on his employers
material and uses his employers ma
chinery to do it with i'm the time he is
being paid while at work, so the en-
ployer pays for poor workmanship,
lost time and material. The employer
or company has to sell at profit,
therefore the public has 10 pay.
Where as if enough skilled mechan-
les could be found 10 think out their
work and lay it out before they do it
their time, money, labor and material
could be solved.
For instance if a man would go to
a company to have a gearwheel made
worth about $500 the company man
would figure about S1O0 for material,
Sl.00 for labor and S100 for profit.
The mechanic may waste the first
piece of material by not knowing how
to lay out his work, nor do it right, so
The company's profit would be lost and
the cost of labor also, so therefore
the company man would have to raise
his price or sell at loss; somebody
pays for poor workmanship. The
same principal applys to all classes Of
work, business or profession.
The only quick remedy is train
the brains to think the proper thought
beftting TO the work. There's no
need of everybody experimenting in
order to find out how to do a certain
class of work. Many thousands can
profit by somebody else experiment.
Sometime ago Thomas A. Edison
done some experimental work (of
course somebody must do it, but let
those do il who have learned how, and
have the equipment and the money, as
the Edison Company. Mr.. Edison
spent nearly $4,000 to find out how to
build the right kind of a street car for
his electrical batteries. Edison could
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thereby get his money back. A dis
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is made OF this car, before any work is
started and the changes are made as
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Books and instruction pamphlets sys-
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