The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-01-17
MASS MEETING TO START
Efficiency Engineers from Emerson In
stitute of New York TO Address Ke-
nosha Gatherings on How to Re-
duce Losses Campaign Weeks.

The Kenosha Chamber Of Commerce
has completed plans for five weeks cam
paign to assist every business man in
Kenosha to a higher level of efficiency
and which it is believed will prove of
great benefit to every employer and en-
ployee of Kenosha and to the city at
large. The campaign started Friday
when l.. L. HI. Austin, an efficiency
man, from the Emerson Institute of ef-
ficiency arrived in Kenosha and began
preparations for the opening shot of
the campaign. Mr.. Austin has been
successful in this work and feels con-
tident that he will be able to help Ka-
nosha so that they may be able to pro-
duce to the utmost in this time of ma
tional demand.
The opening shot of the campaign
will be a great mass meeting in the near
future at which more than five hum
dred workers and their employees are
expected to be present. This gathering
will be addressed by George F. Barber,
president of the New York Efficiency
Club and Chief of staff Of the Emer-
son Institute. The exact time of the
meeting has not yet been set but it
will probably be held next week in the
Assembly Hall of the Chamber Of Com
merce. Tt is planned during the time
of the campaign to have one of the eff
fciency experts speak to the employ
ees of each and every factory in Keno
sha on the value of efficiency to them
selves, their employers, their city and
their nation.
In speaking of the new move Secre-
tary Kaiser Of the Kenosha Chamber of
Commerce said: "This is service we
are giving our business men to help
them solve their many problems. Their
generosity is certainly worthy of all the
help that we can give them. This new
department will offer the organized ex-
periences of the largest concerns in the
country and will define the most mod
ern methods of handling time, materi-
ais and equipment in order to increase
output and to decrease cost by elimi-
mating wastes.o
Kenosha is one Of many cities which
mas been selected by the Emerson In
stitute because it has marvellous oppor-
tunities for increased production. Ke.
nosha officials stated this morning that
the fact that these experts were com
ing to Kenosha was no evidence that
Kenosha industries were not as efficient
as in any other part Of the country but
was rather a compliment to the posi-
bilities which the industries offered
Wherever this movement has been car.
ried on, it has met with unlimited sue
cess. Earnings have increased and pro
fits have increased. The principles are
from tn pm of Harrington Emrson, the
well known efficiency engineer, who has
been employed by more than two hun.
dred of Americas greatest corpora
tions and who is known throughout the
industrial world as "the high priest Of
efficiency" He has done more to ex
pose the tremendous losses through in,
efficiency than any of the present day
| leaders in the efficiency movement.
The details of the campaign have not
yet been completed but it is certain
that they will be announced in the near
future The placing of this store Of ex-
| perience before the workmen and EN-
ployers of Ke1osha has been done thru
the Kenosha Chamber Of Commerce
and is expected to prove of great value
| to all of its members