El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-14
STANDARDIZED PATTERNS AND VAST
OUTPUT DON'T ALWAYS BRING Joy

CONDITIONS IN industries such as labors demands cost
y Of material uncertain markets, difficulties Of financing
are bringing about still further Standardization Of pat
than the United States has known heretofore
With this tendency toward Standardization Of patterns goes
the constant effort to increase output to stimulate guam
uy production as means OF reducng unit costs OF nu
fscture- Necessarily the problem Of marketing undergoes
Changes for instead Of trying to sell many different articles
the Manufacturing world is trying to sell larger quantities
Of fewer patterns.
The result Of such changes may be favorable to money
making but the race loses something nevertheless. Hu
any enjoys in proportion to the correctness as vel as
the diversity OF Its tastes, ana not merely II proportion 70
the quantity acquired consumed square meaP for
an educated body is not vast helping Of tEO three
staples but rather suffcency IN considerable variety
Similarly IN all the activities Of life pleasure in
BY surfei deadly dulness but by the stimulus Of
seeking the unusual and the true and choosing at VIII
among many offerings
OF all the differences between American and European
life and esthec standards which strike the comparative
student there is more notable than the fact that
Europe has much more various life than America; that II
Europe there greater variety in things and in ways Of
using things; much greater variety in tastes, and In ways
Of indulgng tastes.
Europe has not yet standardized her patterns widely
adopted quantity production. This is to be taken in
figuratiTe wei a literal sense.
The suggestion may apply equally to objects, and to
persons In the average American community there is
opzratveIv small choice One Is expected TO do OF not do
certain vel defined things must not depart from the
accepted ways Whether IN conduct in choice Of fur
uishings for home, in selecting Of amusement
We Americans are largely standardized
For thing, costs abominably to depart from the
GCan1srzed patterns II plan house, every time we
suggest the least thing out Of the nut the architect smiles
and VANS the contractor smiles and warns, the workman
smiles and vans and reluctantly after another
must give up al Of long cherished little preferences and
take what get within the standardized price. But
IN many communities Of the old world there pat
tern Everybody seems to have just what he prefers
This partly result Of industrial system,
great factories and closely organized labor If
wants wrought non g in Spanish town for example,
ne walks couple Of blocks down the street. makes rough
sketch toT an artisan ana gets his gH at ta- Pe In
fs country It is huge price for design OF elaborate
otaogs and prcs from $500 to $4,000 for window OF
g gate.
Il We want bit Of carved stone OF an artistiesIly
bound book special piece Of furniture it is to send
1000 niles foT Il or perhaps import woren to do it. and
pay half years income. But in any little town Of the
old world, hand these things neghbor and
watch him while be works joyousiy creating something
which be prizes as part Of himself.
We have movies, and other things, but after al
the largest esHte and dc not know how to make
fun for ourselves primitive peoples do primitive
from our standpoint Of "sffieiencyF).
And IL education certainly offer vide variety Of
induce young charges to take that joy in digging and
deTIng for immortal truth, the primitive educa
catonal systems and educators do. We may teach
youths to make living but do teach them how live?
Cthohcty OF TASTE vide intellectual and spiritual con
facts liberty Of choice free trade in ideas-msybe we
think these Characteristic American traits but some
times is disposed to doubt It. Canned art canned
music canned furniture, canned history, canned anuse
nsuts, canned literature, canned 1noraBwe are either
easily pleased, else easily terrorizsd
And now the word goes out from the experts in "ef
ceny that must drop at least half Of our patterns
and double the output Of those that left ia order to
restore economic balance.
We to be determined to standardize patterns IN
human minds and spirits in office fixtures window sash
and paintings for hotel Hobbies
al the patterns saved after the elimination process