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"A MAN IS AS OLD AS HE' SQUEALS." TRAINING THE MANAGERS
REVOLT OF THE JOBLESS MIDDLE-AGED.
SOCIETY FORMED IN THE UNITED STATES,
"A retired business man of Brook-ance of the pliability of youth and lyn; who prefers to be known underestimate the waste of the merely as Mr. - Action," is 'or- labour turnover."
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OF INDUSTRY.
MANCHESTER'S LEAD.
The haugural meeting of the Pottery Managers' and Officials' the North Staffordshire Trebnical Association was held last month in College, when an address was given Department of by Dr. J. A. Bowie, director of the Ad- Industrial
ganizing, says the New York," When middle-aged men in any Literary Digest, a revolt of the trade are good, they are pretty sure ministration, College of Tech middle-aged against the callous to be very "good," says the Dallas
nology, Manchester, on "Can In- dictum of business which adjudges Jees. And sometimes they need
dustrial Administration be taught men past 40 as too old to keep a job. Employers, who are frein our Colleges" He said that by pace with younger, workers," Same quently middle aged or better them-industrial administration he meant
pereons, according the selves, ought to remember that."
the study of the technique and pro- Brooklyn Engle, recently met at The Philadelphia Inquirer makes a blems of industrial management his call in the Prospect Park branch distinction between physical and with special reference to the in- of the Young Men's Christian Asso- rental powers, remarking that internal organization of mana factur- eintion of that city, told of their the latter. "a man of 30 or more ing concerns. In Britain to-day vain efforts to and work, and form should be at the very height of his there were over 95,000 empanies, ed an organization to fight the usefulness. The Winston-Salem with a total paid-up capital of over, prevalent idea that on his fortieth TwinCity Sentinel thinks that no £4,470.000,00€, and employing, birthday some awful change comes advises young people to live in a roughly, about 10,000,000 work- person should be old at fifty, and
way that will give them plenty of people. The technical, administra-
over a man to unfit him for new tasks."
"Mr. Action,"
Action's statement that he knows
The
yin at that age. Quoting Mr.tive, and commercial skill exhibit "Mr. Action" said he had him- men of over forty who could make in the governance of these com- self faced the uncertainties of hunt- good in 213,000-a-year positions, panics was of prime importance to log for work after the age of 40, and who cannot find the smallest the life of the community. and at a later meeting, with about opening, the Cleveland Plain calibre of management was the key 300 present, he helped to launch Deuter says:-
to industrial prosperity. what is to be known as the Co-
for operative Action Membership Cor is logic in, the doubt of employers deal about the necessity for mana
"It is not hard to see that there Had we got the best men
these posts? We talked a great poration, devoted, to "helping the as to the habits, ability, or char- elderly who need
work." Its netheds, we are told, will include auter of middle-aged people who es carefully selecting and train- helpful publicity for the unemploys are out of work. Often such doubts in their employees; did we realize that it was of infinitely greater im- ed and practical catering to the may be justified, but oftener cir-portance that we should select and needs of employers,
cumstances over which they have train the selectors? To-day indus Cheering tales of men and women who have no control have forced these people trial management was the prodigal.
con the employment market. They among the professions. having reached the fateful age own ineficiency, and the employer today were secretiveness and an are victims of fate, not of their great faults of British management were related at these meetings, but who is discerning, enough to recog unwillingness to learn. While we most of the stories were like that nize their capacity to give faithful, had some of the best managers in of the following letter-one of hun- dreds that came to Ms. Action competent, and highly intelligent the world, the average was decided -in which a former order-depart service may pick up a bargain." ly poor.
won spectes. in new fields after
ment manager writes --
The two
To make work possible for all
Dr. Bowie suggested that the who are set up an inflexible age remedy lay in requiring managers "I've walked the streets of New "init is not meeting that duty to study management before they York for nearly four solid months now for a job at any price. Busi-squarely. It all enterprises did attempted to practise it. A sa ness hires only youngsters to-day, it that paper adds, one would tematic course in industrial ad- celling them they have a future. gain, since the burden of support ministration would. teach a man In that way they secure workers at of those debarred would fall upon more in a year than he would learn such cheap prices that a man with the public, and industry would have in ten spent in the industrini a family just can't compete, Busi- to carry its share of the taxes." ness uses these youngsters up, and when they are to they in turn, will Snd that the future that business has for them is also out in the gutter to die."
"
scramble.
zare
The graduate entering Seeking for the cause of dia-industry should have the crimination against those on the facilities as the graduate entering shady side of forty, the New York commerce or public administration, World approaches the subject from and definite courses of study should another angle:-
be offered, possibly post-graduate, by our institutions of learning.
-
About 100
сол
"The increasingly popular policy Editorial Comment.
of group insurance unquestionably In 1924-98 the number of students Editorial comment is inclined to militates against the older appli- receiving graduate education in divide the blame quite impartially cants for employment. Here much business in the United States was among the employer, the job may be done by working out tables 80,000, in Germany 13,800, and in seeker, and society. Ferhaps it of graduated instalments to be Great Britain in the following year is the jobless men themselves, charged against the applicants 950. Mr. Hoover recently said that rather than the employers, who themselves according to their age. the enormous industrial progress ave suffering from the aged-at-forty But more may be expected from of the United States was due main complex," suggests a hard-boiled the growing tendency in big busily to the emphasis that was placed editorial writer in the Brooklyn ness to regard employment as not on business education, Bugle, adding: "A man is as old merely matter of supply and American universities and colleges she squeals." The St. Paul demand, but as something that has had schools or departments of busi- Dispatch also suggests that many its deeper social aspects. That ness administration. The move- of the jobless have put themselves there in need of attention to the ment in Britain was still young. on the shell. That paper goes en problem is established mathematic-So, far as specific instruction in in-
ally. Within forty years the death-dustrial administration was Many of those over forty may rate in the United States has been cerned, Manchester led the way, blame themselves for falling into cut in half. The army of middle when in 1918 a group of prominent the delusion that, having learned aged and elderly people surviving business men promoted and largely a trade, they had nothing more tin good health, owing to better financed a department of industrial learn and could live the rest of sanitation and the advance in administration in the College of The movement had their days on the little that they medical science, is far larger rela- had learned as a kind of capital. tively than it ever was before in since started in other contres, but Those who realize that there is the history of the race. These sur Manchester remained in the fore always fomething to learn in any viving testimonials to humaner ovenpation, and keep their minds living conditions and scientific pro- receptive and their self-conceit in, gress have been spared for little subjection, are less likely to com, happiness and usefulness if, instead plain in later years that they are of doing work suited to their not wanted. Many employers, are strength, many of them are con- mot free from fault in this connec. demned to rust away in idleness.-- tion. They exaggerate the import Manchester Guardian.
10 say :-
GIRL JEKYLL AND HYDE.
CONTROLLED BY THREE PERSONALITIES.
BABY TALK.
"Funny Eyes."
Technology.
front.
STAR
MR. CHARLES CHAMIER'S
The wineteen-year-old girl, now London Vaudeville. Company completely possessed by the person- ality and mind of a child of four, then tried to grab the doctor's spec- tacles, calling them "funny eyes," She scribbled babyish drawings.
THE NEW
with pencils The child knew noth- OUR CABARET
ing
of the nineteen-year-old Norma, An astounding case of a pretty would say, Can oo do that?" and talked baby language. She young American girl who was con
or "Me can do this The four- trolled by two-and at times by year-old child would, after a sleep, three-distinct personalities, and be suddenly transformed into the changed from one to another at a nineteen-year-old. Norma moment's notice, is related by Dr. Henry Herbert Goddard, Professor Leading doctors in the United of Abnormal and Clinical Psycho- ! States were keenly interested in the logy in Chio State University, in case, and a sensation was caused Two Souls in One Body" by the sudden development of a fpublished by Rider & Co.).
third personality in the girl. This The girl has now recovered from the doctors christened Louise. her strange mental breakdown, but the story of her illness and cure provides a Jekyll and Hyde story in real life, Her name is Norma, and the
put under Dr.
·Goddard's care following a nervous breakdown. She was then nineteen years old.
was
Louise seemed really to be a girl of nineteen for Norma, although nineteen years of age, had the mentality of a girl of sixteen. The voice of Louise was quite different from that of Norma, just Norma's voice was different from that of the four-year-old Pally.
AB
it
Hypnosis, drugs, and hight and day care gradually brought about a cure, and the doctors found that it was the Norma personality which represented the actual girl.
"Ihastened to the hospital de- partment to see our new patient, writes the doctor. As I stepped into the doorway she caught, eight of me, and shouted with a loud, boisterous laugh, Oh, there is Sarah. As I approached the bed side she greeted me in a childish recovered its energy to be able to careless tone with Hello. I said, keep the entire brain in activity," What is your name? To which writes Dr. Goddard..." We have she replied, Polly."
Try
"How old are you?'
"Four years.
"And what are you doing?' *Playing."
"The real cure took place when the nervous system had sufficiently
stated that the brain ecnsists of about ten thousand million brain cells. We assume that when one group of these cells is active we have the Norma consciousness; when an- "And she continued to play, pay- other, is active we have Polly. The ing no more attention to me than two are so closely related in a any four-year-old child might to an healthy person that one group sets adult who was not in the game," the other into activity.”
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