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f'fpq either more employees or more
machinery equipment or both.
So long as the royalties paid by
manufacturers remain the same. the
machinery company receives no
more for use of the additional ma
chimes required to maintain produc-
tion of shoes, for the corporations
return depends not on the number
Of machines it leases, but upon the
number Of shoes produced through
use Of those machines. This is rec.
ognized by the shoe manufacturers
themselves, although it may not al
ways be clearly understood by the
public which is the principal bene-
ficiary of the corporations service.
The shoe manufactures today. inso--
far as bis machinery is concerned,
is getting more for the same amount
of money than ever before, and
the consumer benefits accordingly.
susy Branch Offices
Not only at the executive offices
in Boston and the Beverly facto-
ries is business unusually active.
but the same condition exists at
branch offices OF the corporation.
There are IA scattered throughout
the country, five being in New Eng
land. Each serves definite terri
tory, and shoe manufacturers call
upon them for new equipment, parts,
repairs, instructors and for assist
ance in solution of the many prob
lems connected with shoe machin.
cry, factory construction and ar
rangement. Under direction OF dis
trict agents at branch offices the
corporation has available hundreds
of men who are sent out In response
to requests by telephone and tele-
graph. Service and speed must go
hand in hand, for the loss is great
when any part of a shoe factory
stands idle.
Never before have the branch Of
fees t'een confronted with so many
calls for service. Requests Off in
structors for green help, for exam
pie, are taxing the agencies service
to the utmost. Today many more
trivial matters have to be handled
than bigger things, because opera
tives in shoe factories are trying to
produce more in less time and, in
their eagerness are neglecting some
things themselves. Personnel at
branch Offices during recent months
has been considerably increased, and
it is more than probable that it will
have to be increased still more
Necessity Mother of Invention
Throughout human history in each
crisis, upheaval or extreme necessi-
ty, relief and a way out have Eeen
found in most cases through inven1
tions of some kind. Now, in very
many cases, invention is synony-
nous with machinery. The remedy
of the short cut, the advantage of|
rapid action or applied force, aFs
the causing of multiplied result, i'd
obtained through a mechanical con
trivance.
Through its experimental depart
ment and corps Of inventors the
United Shoe Machinery corporations
constantly seeking improvements
and new mechanism which will make
its product still more effective
through increased capacity and i'm
proved quality. So far as humans
possible it aims to anticipate manu-
facturers' needs and to be read,
with q solution for new machiner,
problems.
One Of the interesting things abou
the working Of the human mind i
that it so frequently pays no atten
tion to that which is near at hand
How many people in a Thousand
when they purchase a pair of shoe
give a thought to the machiner
which made them, the inventiv
genius which devised the machines
the business genius Which mad
them them 60 cso7lmrlmrlgercial-and lrlmrlge all to th
financial lpan a advantage sqpntage of the 'individus
shoe wearer? The shoe probier
today. vexatious and expensive
it may be, would be far more 8
were it not for the several hundrel
machines "a chi perfected ana standardize
which are available and within reac
Of all who are or may desire to b