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machine forever unless he 50 wishes
There are grades In these automatic
operations, and in many of our factories
there is an opportunity through instruc-
tors, through trade schools to fit your
self for a newer and higher operation
There is opportunity, II a man de-
Velops the ability Of supervising, Of In
structing, Of managing, to go ahead
You are In shop where man Is
begged not only to consider the job he
is on but to keep an eye on the one
just ahead, that he may lift himself TO
that. His mind is not torpid, not starry
ing because of scientific shop organiEa-
ton &nd management. though 1t may
be for one of hundred and more phys
teal. social, psychological reasons. If NJ.
,Cailiaux would read the bulletins of
the admirable American Taylor Society
he would see that one of the problems
to which many Taylorite gives him
self with most devotion and enthusiasm
is how to arouse. the torpid mind OF
the worker-arouse hts creative energy
II he has It,
responsible, thoughtful organized In
dustry is aiming at in its relations with
men: he has In mind the cheap and
ignorant exploiter of a system not too
well as yet understood by managers
workmen, the public, but which in one
form or another is being actively and
progressively applied in every 'orle OF
our huge successful enterprises.
one Machine Alarms Caillaux.
Our organized machine Of producing
which so scares M. Caillatix, In its best
estate aims at arousing the creative
energy Of men, knowing that on that
depends its own future. That 1t misses
its mark again and again, that greed
complicates is opera lions, that 1t Is often
careless In its treatment OF the human
being that has not kept up with its ad-
vance, that it has an innuman practice
of throwing out men because they have
not seen what was coming and made
themselves ready for change-all Of this
is true; but more and more widely 1t
squares up to human as well rs scien-
tiflc productive needs.
M. Cailleux admits our shorter hours
and higher wages, but finds In them
nothing but an opportunity for his In
tellectually brutalized workers to use
the leisure he grants they get. in trivial
Il must confess that I almost said
vulqar-amusements That is. the
worker under our system has no refuge
in his short day except running about
in q car or going to movie" house
he Is too exhausted to enjoy anything
else.
well. M. Caillaux has never spent as
many hours as I have In American in
dustrial towns. He has never watched
as many American miners, steel workers,
textile workers pulling weeds In gar
den around q little house that they
were paying for. He has never seen
as many Of them as / have sitting
on the bleachers on Saturday after
noon cheering for their particular mine
or mill team struggling against some
other mine or mill team. He has never
seen as many of them as l have work.
ing for their town church-and going
to it, regularly.
Workers Ride in Own Cars.
To be sure, the worker has his car
and tens Of thousands Of them use 1t
n 20 to and from their work. 1t en-
ables them to live out from under the
smoke and dirt of the factory chimneys.
n enables them to have q garden and
tn cultivate 1t. M. Caillaux takes rap
at this garden, which he seems TO know
is cultivated in certain localities; but
he gets no Joy in the idea Of a man
living In what he thinks OF as an IN
closure of pumpkins and turnips!
well, have seen hundreds OF work.
trial center in the United States, and
never saw one yet in which pumpkins
or turnips or vegetables of any sort had
nm out the flowers: AS a matter OF
fact. one of the beautiful and interest,"
ing features of the garden In the better
developed industrial communicative
Industrial community which is the ideal
of the higher grade industrial organiZa-
tions-is that it specializes to such an
extent in daffodils and iris, peonies and
larkspur, hollyhocks and sunflowers that
1 have known more than one manager
of industrial relations. to view with
alarm" the tendency OF the workers to
overlook the opportunity they had Of
sunolvinR their tables with green Vege-
tables and Of putting down potatoes for
the Winter. -
Garden His Special Care.
No one can travel through the indus
trial towns Of this country, or through
the suburbs of industrial cities, without
realizing the growth of the interest that
vo,Ir worker has in his yard and garden.
In certain industrial communities there
seems to me to be as great ambition for
shrubs and flowers and vines as there Is
for q car or radio.
M. Caillaux says that he would much
rather 90 to q ravii1e, thicket than to
live among pumpkins and turnlps. Wen,
this American worker that he thinks Is
being SO seriously brutalized has, In his
better estate, not only pumpkins ana
turnfus, but crocuses ana Hlacs. And he
has his ravine and thicket too. His
car takes him there every Sunday ana
holiday. The car, IN the excursions II
makes POSSIBLE for him and his whole
family. has become d substitute with
hundreds of thousands Of American
workfnen FOR the saloon, which Yves once
his only social center. =.
The trouble with NJ. Caillaux. as well
as with many of us, is that we have not
discovered In American industrial civil
ization an Intention, q trend toward
anything except material wei being.
AS matter Of fact, our organized In
dustry Is shot through and through with
ideals for human betterment-the de-
sire that the worker and the Family
shall not only have food, shelter, leisure,
but that they shall have education. the