The daily morning oasis., 1920-01-24
Saturday Morning, January "a, 1920
PARALLEL BETWEEN MEN AND MACHINES


Recently the editor Of she Oasis visited the shop of
the Arizona & Sonora Manufacturing Company, In No
gales Arizona and with some interest he watched the
operations of of the machines there in There
was bolt cutting machine which cut threads upon bolts
so they could be screwed into nuts and with little
change the machine would cut into nut the CORES
pondng threads to receive the bolt; there was drill
press which took into its embrace bar Of STEEL and drv
ing back and forth along its surface sharp cutting
tool taking off thin shaving of steel at time the ma
chine gradually reduced the bar to the size and
required there was lathe which took long solid cylin
der of Steel and revolving it against sharp cutting tool
gradually reduced its circumference to the size needed
Eachof these machines required the attention OF trained
mechanic and they performed well the work for which
they intended but in each instance their perform
ancesi confined to a single operation. The bolt
cutter could do nothing but cut threads the drill press
could do nothing but trim flat piece OF STEEL the lathe
could turn down around piece Of Steel and no more Yet
they all great machines and serve useful purposes
Atte later we had returned to The Oasis office, and
stood for time watching the operation OF that marvel OF
mechanics the typesetting machine observing how it
wrought with apparent Intelligence almost human
how under skifu manipulation Of keyboard with nine
ty keys less than ninety different kinds of bits OF brass
each bearing the matriX Of letter character
leased at time at the will of the operator, from
stalls where stored into channels that convey them to
center arranged in words and sentences that
vey thoughts that breathe where simple operation
throws small quantity of molten metal into the atrix
thus assembled casting line of reading matter, that is
conveyed by another automatic operation to it's place
where goes from the machine to proof press and then
another operation strips the space bands from be
tween the words while long reaches down grasp
ing used line of matrices lifts to the back part of
the machine and slips the matrices cOnveyOr that
res them the back of the machine dropping into
its appointed stall each separate bit Of BRASS ready
the rounds again when summoned by the touch Of the key
board s9t
All through the range of mechanical appliances are
just such marvellous machines conducting multiplicity
OF operations with almost human dextery and accuracy
while there other machines simple in their operations
things them
tnuousy, such the lathe, drill press and bolt cutter
And as we unused over the differences between the
linotype and the LATHE there flashed upon the editorial
mind thought that the differences between these
iOus kinds of machinery not great the dferen
ces between various kinds of men.
III For example, there many men-lnilons of them
whose intellectual capacity and intelligence are so linn
TIED and so simple In operation that they may be kened
to the lathe and bolt cutter while there are others whose
native ability and intelligence with training acquired by
long and persistent effort only far complex
and accurate In operation than the linotype ntertype
One mind of limited comprehension and capacity can do
but few things and too frequently cannot do them We'll
the other with more comprehensive grasp more tena-
cious powers of memory capable of concentrated
thought with wider range of observation and keener
capacity for takngnote of resebances distinctions and
differences, command wider and more accurate
knowledge give to the tasks to which the mind may be
bent far greater power of performance and control
that makes that mind far effective and the person
atty in which it is carried far more efficient than is the
mind of limited powers and comprehension. 80
1t is in these inherent differences that the rule and
government OF the world possession of its property and
machinery, control of the complicated operations of
trade commerce and production have centered in the
hands OF limited few, and have left helpless the great
mass OF mankind with their simple minds, limited COM
prehenson and narrow range of efficiency @17s
That the rule and guidance of the more intelligent
and most highly trained in the world has not been
for the best always is one of the outstanding facts Of his
tory There has arisen feeling in the hearts Of the
masses that they imposed upon and profiteered
against unduy and unnaturally And all over the world
there is revolt against the rule of what is termed the
"burgeose." Es ha'fa'
In other nations, other centuries other times these
conditions have given rise to civic troubles strikes riots
and red revolution Formerly those revolutions were d.