The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-10
Thirty Plants
 Represented At
 YMCA Lecture
Dr Harry Myers Stresses Human Side of Engineering Gives Advice on Type of Programs Officials Should Use in Manufacturing Industry


 the Industrial Foremen's club. Presi- dent William A. Carpenter presided: The speaker, pr Harry Myers or Dayton, Ohio, was Introduced py Waiter S. Berry, director Of training at scovill Manufacturing company pr Myers subject was Progress' People and Prosperity"
 pr Myers spent the entire day m Waterbury under the auspices or the industrfal committee of the Water- bury Y. M. c. A. He visited several factories and conferred with the ex- ecutiye heads as to ways and means of improving morale and production in local factories.
 Dr Myers has been working IF years on the thesis that Just as much progress can be made on the human engineering side of industry as has been made on the material side, if the same brains are applied to the job." pr Myers was for some years superintendent of the personnel at the Ohio Brass company, was then drafted by the Malleable Iron conn- pany of ohio and from there went to the Frigidaire Corporation of the General Motors. He is now free lance devoting full time to consulta- ton in human engineering prob jems. One half of his time for this year has been bought by the Ma tional Founders association for whom he is conducting a program of education among the members or tho association.
 A feature of last nights program was the competitive group singing participated in by the Seth Thomas Clock company, Chase Brass and Copper company, Patent Button company, Scovill company, and the Waterbury Brass Goods, all of whom had large and enthusiastic deiega- tions. The big delegations lined up as follows: American Brass includ- ing the Waterbury Brass Goods Corporation, The Metal Hose, anu the French Manufacturing company, 100; Chase Brass and Copper com pany, 85; Scovill company, including the oakville company, 50; seth Thomas Clock company, 40; Beards- lev X. Wolcott, Bristol company. and the Patent Button company 30 each; Lux Clock company, 35; Farre. Foundry, 23; U. s. Rubber company, 20: and smaller delegations from 10 or 20 other concerns.
 Dr Myers succeeded in draWlhg out from his audience great deal or earnest discussion. During the tlme when the speaker was trying to prove that the six things which stop a machine from working, also stop , man from doing effective work, there ,vas a good deal of '.give and take" hetween Dr Myers and his audience. Dr Myers spoke for two hours ana fifteen minutes and yet there were at least one half of the 500 men pres ant who would liked to have nm sneak another hour. After the meet ing had been adjourned and aIter inc long line of men at the cloan room had dissolved, cneck up ~ the big gymnasium revealed the ioi. lowing group still discussing pnases If fine speakers talk: Fred A. Jackle' ,n Walter A. Jarvis. and James "; w. sweeney of the Chase brass @1 @ Copper, company; pr Mliiceht o,,iii and Walter S. Berry or the scosll' Manufa curing company; Wa pI...a,, m S"nananv. Miss Ellen Davies of the Waterbury Manufacturing company and two representatives or the p,.idgenort Brass company.
 i,ast nights meeting might almost haar considered "vice-president ,,icht." Among those noticed by the writer were: Carlton w. Bristol, anu toward H. Bristol and Herman Koester of the Bristol company, leonard R. Carley, Patent Buttoh comnafy: Herbert w. Coe, Water- s.,ru prasa Goods Corporation; other eSacutives were: Fred A. Jackie, vorks manager of Chase Metal works: Edward P. copp, factory ,,anager of the Waterbury ManuIac- .uring company; William Q. Husted. sunerintendent of the Waterbury Manufactur company; Robert ?: ?: Booth and Melvin Wallace ol Reardsley Wolcott company; Y: ". Rurnes. Herbert s. Root, E: Y. Mar shall. William R. Adams. sannci 1T. Morgan. G. E. Smith. ana F. IT. Yates of the American Brass cou. .na nany: Forrest c. Purinton oI .e Patent Button company; Supean
 ,endent Frank Tracy of the inte.na s~ tional Silver company, Tsad Lusher, George k. Leggess, Gass Reuter-, John B. Goss. K. ", c,S 1oss' c Arthur Du Bois, and many other scoviii executives; Superintendent A. E cibbs of the Seth Thomas CLOCK comnany. Fred Lux, and Paul LUX or tha I.ux Clock company; J. Husse,l pntnam of the Waterbury CLOCK company. ,o,nced .overai Important meetings as Iol, lows: April IA. State lndustFia. saSetv Conference at New Haven, at svhich the foremen's club VIII pc ranresenfed by Walter Jarvis ana athers: April 16, an evening meet tng of inc Industrial Foremens clup at which Mark r. Seirsdale, vice, nresident of George s. May, Inc, VII, sneak on the subject "Manageriai Control and Wage Incentives Tor ops eratofs and Supervisors This meet inr will be open to any member oI inc Industrial Foremen's club. Guest tickets for those who are not mem .. bers of the club may be secureG ps telephoning to the central | M. v. ~,
 on May the next dinner-mee.,nts of the Industrial Foremens clup will be feautred by an iliustratea aa dress by F. John Shaw or tns "e1 s.,,,, inehouse Lamp company, Wno VIII discuss the effects of good hsh.ins on morale and production. =.
 rhe address of Dr Meyer was list- ened 10 with marked attention. He sah in part as follows: 4.
 .sit p is impossible for any man to work for anyone and do his work rl0hf if he thinks he knows a better way to do 1t and doesn't get chance to tse 1t. A nah must be given chance to express his ideas. Tell man why his Idea is no good or carry if out. That's the only thing to oo.
 Fun of Ewing
 ..The fun of living is in making something better. The greatest ea- durance contest in the world is ge.- n man goes to q foreman with q new itien it Isn't because he thinks he can handle the foreman's job better than inc foreman. Who makes the big- rest discoveries In the woridl 1t isn't the executives and 1t isn't the fore- men; it's the man who works.
 ..If man comes to you nine times