New Britain herald., 1925-11-20
URGES NEW COURSE
 IN TRADE SCHOOL
Automatic Machinery Operation Desirable, Flanders Declares

WSlrdDle, FldlQe(S DeCldr&
 Contrary 10 the general impress sion the young mechanic entering the trade today makes 0 mistake if he does not take up the study of automatic machinery operation, ac- cordng to Ralph Flanders, former editor of Machinery" and now gen. eral manager of the Jones and Lam son Machine Co.,. at Springfield, Vt. MT Flanders addressed a gathering of mechanical men, factory eXecu- tlves, and engineers at the opening meeting of the season of the New Britain branch, Amrlcan Society of Mechanical Engineers, last evening. The meeting was held in the state trade school and opened with n chicken dinner at 6:S0 o'clock. At the close of the session Mir Flanders was asked what he thought about the student mechanic going into the automatic machinery phase. He was told that industries In New Britain would like to have the state trade school teach automatic machine operation to students but that the state board of education did not favor 1t.
 "The state board of education Is approximately 100 per cent wrong," commented the speaker. "The young man today who studies nothing in a machine shop but an engine lathe and drill press is driving up blind alley with nothing at the end of 1t but stone wall covered with broken glass bottles"
 MT. Flanders stated that this is the age of physical comfort and au- tomatic machinery. He explained that automatic machinery makes possible transfer of skill" When D skilled tool maker makes an &C., Curate gauge and puts this gauge in 10 the hands of man with no skill, he is transferring his own skill to the man without skill" he said.
 He said mechanics, like religion, also has its liberals and fundament- als. The liberal is the man who be- lieves great inventions are the re- suit of regular and natural order of development or evolution, such as "the survival of the fittest," while the fundamentalists think great in- ventions are the result of divine inspiration.
 Evolution of Machine
 He created considerable amuse- ment by describing the evolution of q machine. He said: "The designer turns out what he thinks is what is wanted. Then the customer adds an improvement on one side. Later he puts an improvement on the other side, then he builds modifi- cation of both and by the time he gets through he's got an incom. !. prehensibe monstrosity of stru. ture that little resembles the origina machine. Then the designer rede' signs the machine to adapt it tc the customers Improvements, tho customer thinks of new jobs ht wants the machine to do whicf never were thought of before, ant te whole thing starts all ovel again."
 A large nhmber of stereopticor views of automatic screw anc chucking machines and engin' lathcs were shown and described Among them were some multi spindle screw machines made b! the New Britain Machine Co, -N Brown X Sharp the National Acm' Co.,. Cleveland Co.,, Davenport ant other plants.
 He told his hearers that as { fellow inventor he sympathizet with inventors. Designing the in vention is not nearly as difficult a the job of putting it into practica use and putting it on the market He said: There is no operation that is possible or wise to do all tomaticaIly for which from 50 t' 200 inventors could not be fount to devise some practical way to dt it
 Putting the invention into prac tical use is the hardest step. N young man ought to think too wei Of himself if he is an inventor "v"n if he is q good one. I fee sorry for him. Chances are agains of himself if he is an inventor . gets onto the market his plant ha had 10 go through reorganization and the original packers have los their ownership, It seems heart jess and cruel and I would like t srn some way devised whereby will not be necessary"
 Chance for Inventors
 Two inventions for which tn ! world is waiting and which hay not yet been completed, he sait are typewriter into which a per son can talk and which will auto matcally write the conversation O paper, and an automatic cotto picker which will pick the rip cotton. pass over the cotton whic is not ready for picking and no