Arizona republican., 1918-03-11

department and engage in actual work This training takes place in room set aside for the purpose, where a class with several other recruits, she is given as much special instruction as possible. By the end of few days the instructors are usually able to tell whether she will make good or not.
 In this connection, one manu- facturer says that women between the ages of eighteen and thirty one make the best workers Girls under eigh- teen have not usually reached their maximum of physical development, and above the age of thirty one have become too set in their ways to learn new processes quickly or to adapt themselves to new conditions. This particular gauge of efficiency might apply equally to men, he admits.
 There is one great difference be- tween men and women mechanics, however which manifests itself early in the training of the woman worker. Women have no mechanical knowl- edge, as a rule. They do not realize the importance of dimensions, nor do they pay any attention to mechanical strength or requirements. They do what they are told to do, and never seek to question the reason for it. This is sometimes annoying in the beginning, but satisfactory in the end. since when a woman once masters d mechanical process her work is uni formly good whereas a nAn, who possesses a certain mechanical knowl- edge will produce uneven results. At least, this is the experience of one manufacturer
 Another manufacturer who has made special study of the psycho- logy of the worker, believes that clothes are one of the most import ant considerations in the employment of feminine labor He says that women are more self consciousness conscious, he calls it-than men. This accounts for their timidity before men in general and their temerity with man in particular. In their desire to attract the latter they make clothes their greatest ally. Hence, says this observing employer, the woman who is better dressed than her neighbors is always self-consci- ous and therefore less efficient, and the same is true of the woman who is not as well dressed as the others. The only way out of this difficulty is to insist upon a uniform.
 The uniform, of course, is the greatest safeguard against industrial accidents, but it also makes the fac tory safe for efficiency There is nothing like a plain blue uniform of some unfadable material to keeI pace in the factory. The women may object to it in the beginning, but 'il is a peculiarity of feminine psychol- ogy that women will accept any rul- ing, however disagreeable. provided it is enforced 'impartially and nu favoritism shown" is the interesting conclusion of this manufacturer psy- chologist.
 There is a difference of opinion concerning this point however. for another employer comes forward with the statement that women are not | as jealous as men, if there is a just | reason for the favoritism shown Thus when the management of his factory learned that one of the women workers was attempting tc support a paralyzed husband and three children and gave her a more remunerative job, the other womer | did not object at all, but congratu- | lated the management
 But from this it may be seen thai 1 there is a wide difference in the | psychology of the male and femaI,
 worker-a difference that must b,
 taken into account by all employers
 Some even go so far as to asser
 that there is a difference betweer
 women and women, the masculn, type of woman being much harde
 to deal with than the feminine type
 Still these difficulties encountered
 in the employment of women do no
 appear to be insurmountable, if on,
 may judge from the ever -increasin,
 number of women handling industria
 jobs.