The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-19
Especial to The Democratl


 problem of industrial fatigue is a large one and little is known about it at presnt, D rHoward Haggard, Yale professor, said last night at a meting of the Foremen's Club at the Naugatuck Y. M. c. A. A din- ner was served and officers for the coming year were lected.
 Just one of the many factors connected with it has been investi- gated in the local factories, Dr Haggard said. He said an inves- tigation had taken place here to determine how often people should act. How ofter should you stoke the boiler" as the en- whether frequency of eating af- fects fatigue was also studied.
 Eating Is Factor
 Dr Haggard said that it was found that frequency of eating does affect fatigue. Among the interesting things he said during his talk and in response to ques- tions afterward were: "I believe we should eat five meals a day. It is better to eat five light meals meals. This country is the only one where people only eat three meals a day. In England they have mid-afternoon and mid-morn- ing tea. Eating in this fashion results in less industrial fatigue.
 Eating before going to bed won't hurt you if you eat the same kind of thing you would eat if you were going to eat breakfast. Nat urally a heavy meal of Welsh rare- bit and other such stuff will prob- ably give you indigestion at this time.
 "The danger in eating only 'snacks' during the day is that a girl will eat a couple of ice cream sodas and a salad, but not really take the Misunderstanding food that a renecessary.
 Walter Norton, factory manager, asked pr Haggard this question, "Why are athletes who look so pepyy on the football field so in- ert when they get into the indus trial fields?" To which MT Hag- gard answered, eff you wouldn't require anything more intellectual of them in the industrial field than is necessar yon a football field, they probably would not seem so inert"
 "Dumb Football Players'
 In response to question he said that the mental standard of the average athlete is not very high. five known some awful dumb football players, he said and drew a bigh laugh. MT Norton said, That's an awful thing for a Yale man to say", to which pr Hag- gard replied, "Oh, our football team Is intellectual"
 It has been found true both with adults and with children that when a man is consuming fat in- side of him instead of "coar' or carbon tissue, he works with 20 per cent less efficiency the speaker asserted. Children in an orphan asylum were treated and it was learned that for the first two hours after the meal the child was energetic because he was burning up carbon tissue, but an hour later, about three hours after eating he was burning fat tissue and an hour later was definitely hungry. The same results occurred with. adults.
 Men Work Better Here
 Locally it was learned that a man will work better after eating
 
 production was secured by having workers eat at approved times. He said that some of the cases he found here were almost unimagin- able, one girl subsisting almost wholly on cheese sandwiches and some had almost completely bad diets. diets lacking in the neces- sary vitamins. Much education in this line is needed, he said.
 He stated that mental impulse IS B. great factor in such industrial labor. Chauncey Garland, former president of the association. told him it was found in local factories that on Fridays when the workers know they can quit soon, the effi- ciency is higher than on other days ln@the week. He said that no mat ter how the workers try, they can not seem to secure the same etfl- ciency on the other days.
 pr Haggard answered this ques- ton by stating that 1t was thought a good idea to test a recent Yale Crew which won the Olympic championships to determine the energy put into a race. They put the members of the crew in row. Ing machine with pump attched in a quiet room and the experi- ment was conducted there.
 In this quiet room, pr Haggard declared, the crew could not row one quarter as hard as when they rowed against Harvard with the crowd cheering. They were just as tired at the end and trying very hard, but the mental impulse was not there.
 He brought a laugh by adding, "Of course, a man running away from a bull will run just as fast as if he is full of fat or full or sugar.. However, he will run more easily if he is full of sugar. pr Haggard said.
 Dr Haggard defined fatigue as rdiminished capacity for work as result of doing work. He ikened industrial fatigue to sort of filing cabint into which every thing but symptoms of dimin- shed capacity for work is thrown Perhaps we should direct atten- lion behind the symptom of Ia. Eigue at the condition intsead or he asserted.
 "DistractlOn' Better
 A better word than fatigue IS dis- traction, he said. Distraction IS lnything that diverts the energies