South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-24
Other Editors Than Ours
MEETING THE EMERGENCY
lBY MIMI M. No. of Thc Nigilnnl,

f. c. wells called the present var he War Of
Machines he had IL, mind the quantities of engines
small the bomb Inortars mine-thrOers 1sas-pro-
ectOrs airplanes and tanks employed in the actual
lighting But there is another in which
war OF Machines even more truly than that in which
the British novelist the term for on the
machines In the shops and factories OF the allied
nations depends allied vctOry-on the machines and
the who drive them.
As has been the case with each of her allies the
United states since It entered the war has had ~ i'm
crease stupendously the output Of its shops
This result is being accomplished by the enlargement
and increase facilities shops areldy ENGAGED
In the production Of products by the CONVEX
other work. problem Of multiplying the shops to
work in is comparatively simple one: more difficult
is the problem OF employing skilled worSmen 10 Hll
these shops.
Obviously quadrupl, our skilled worIlnlen
by methods Of apprenticeship and training fast
enough 60 meet the nations needs The old method
has been found wanting. IT consisted in taking the
raw unskied laborer into the shop starting al
simplest work that could De found. letting him
fight his way slowly and painfully TO the status of "a
trained mechanic Ii "a method which wasted the
three precious clements time, material and man-power
The training accomplished by private and public vo-
cauonal and technical schools brings better re-
suits, but produces small quantity skilled me-
chanics TO meet the emergency.
France found d. new Great Britain has adopted
it, And now America must get in 1ines already get
ting in line in fact with gratifying results. For the
new method is swift is is comparatively cheap.
It turns the grocer boy or the school teacher into
skilled mechanic with equal facility. is the method
OF the shop training school
shop training schools now maintained JOS most
Of the larger Woodworking plants engaged in manu-
faCtury OF products They spaces aside for
this purpose alone and equipped with machines Of
every type used in the shop proper. An expert me
chanc especially his aptitude for this work
is charge in each of these shops. and under him
ceived the under-traned applicants for work.
They assigned the types Of work which they
best seem htte and quickly and practically instructed
in this work at the very machines which they viii have
TO operate in the main shops They work with the
materials and the actual orders upon which the
shop Is engaged and the product their labors
comes part OF output OF the shop They are paid
hourly wage learners. and this wage increases
the skill of the learner enables him 10 increase mis-
output.
The results obtained i'm shop training schools
are almost beyond belief. The ideal conditions under
which man is taught TO handle his machine en-
able him 10 become skilled mechanic in small
fraction of the time formerly consumed in the old
method which ne picked up knowledge by bit
i'm the shop from such other workmen had time To
help him
For example. here. in a New Ensland shop is a
grocers mao, after weeks training. operating his
milling machine effectively and reading the blue-p prints
related his v,rlS. Here in Ohio shop. three
girls formerly employed In department store; they
are now operating heavy hand-tur lathes work
requiring neat precision and the length Of their train
mg required vadously from three to 10 days
Here is a particularly capable woman" says eN-
pert from one of the greatest American war factories
ably teacher. How long have yoO here ne
asks this product Of the shop training school i came
Yesterday. replies the woman who il working
turlet lathe
America needs skilled mechanics and needs them
creaty The shop training schools win supply this
need quickly and efficiently TC the employer they offer
method or Supplying the trained operat
without which n.s machines cannot run. To the iu
tdi,duaI sees'ue employment willing take plac,
be- sWoIua ranks OF those ploCldng thc ~ncgs OF
uat for the American Government tho sAop uaininl
i.,. lro,iie the opportusty Tor becoming without
undereoIng long period or training or probation
-kled mechanics worthy ol and Iecciving the won
drousiy high rates ot payment which trained labor
'roumaudins throughout the country today. And this
applies equally 60 the and old 81 an classes and
ct both sexes those with little sAil and 20 those
with none at an.