Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 19

MACHINERY IN U. S. PLANTS | ALMOST HUMAN, HERRIOT SAYS French Premier Tells of Trip Through Chicago .. Stockyards and Ford Plant—Praises Speedy Accomplishments in Other Lines. BY EDOUARD HERRIOT, among ourselves paralyzes activity. Premier of France. Even government departments are or- #rd No. II. ganized and act as industries. Years The mechanism of American pro- |aTé hecessary in our country to con- @uction has often been described. "No- | atruct o public building, a hospital, e body has done It with more author EDAROIL T8 EuyeETens CAoig ey SIS Shait Victor cambum lne W have never been able to modernize the > ARRY, s 7o national library, whereas in a few years Look, “The United States and France.” | (10" \liteq States has multiplied sump- If the law of progress is, as we be-| tyous public libraries by the thousand. lieve. to tend to make of man a|During months and months I could give guardian of machines; if the interest|a hundred examples. The most urgent of the employer, as of the worker, is | matters here in France wait their turn to liberate the on the table of an irresponsible emoloye ; if the advance of a civiliza- | The hardest determination is sterilizea {ly by the ef-|and neutralized. For the simplest mat- this direction, the|ter we have to await the opinions of . of special commissions, of min- of councils of state. The man s his life passing ana who in- n takes all the risks. It is of an old country which will not permit itself to be rejuvenated! It is thus that the most intelligent people in the world—the population of France shackled by a coalition of blind and deaf bureaucrats. Standardization fn United States. There is nothing like this in the United States. The practical never vields to the theoretical. One of my French companions was astonished at pressure supported by American e stems, especially, he said, be- fluing; * the uovementanofhiIt cause he had proven by repeated cal- EhersaRichon the iy . o | culation that it was impossible. There is a magnificent book to be| “g.fore everything, one must act quick- written with the title, “Philosophy |, “0® SO (oG SIS IVAE. A the ©f American Mechanis Te wonlal) B e e ob Gawinaice. o show how material things in this{ ypom T owe so much, explained to me young and abundant country tend to | o™ CRE e Ot SREEIEC TG o become alive: Byerything mi be| created to aid manufacturers in build- gdone quickly. The old saving, “Timeling. The factories have to be standard- s money." is today obsolete. If time |0 oo to a certain type in order were money T would buy that of the | gt SECH not succeed in one in- Joafer. 1 would get it when it is|gury they can be used in another. One cheap to resell it when it is dear of ‘tha wpanies founded 15 years impossible operation. The slogan ago h y_erected 250 factories. gugdernncopies LRSI The quarter in which they are located is How Time Is Saved. served by special trains. Merchandise Obviously, ity, much more than | arriving for the group is directed first 2 mental conception, has created these | to a sorting yard where it is redirected. methods. produce much, | In this manner the cost of transport is while labor It is for that | reduced to a minimum son, for example, that in their hc This continual search for a maxi- one finds a thousand little ingenioy um return for a minimum of effort ~ventions wh minate a ges as caused the generalization of an intermediars. It is that which does [ Taylorism. This law of the division away with the odiou 4 o 2 e d by Ameri- States can give to our sleepy routine many copious lessons. One scarcely ever there, as 1 about me, a personnel overbu d often embittered by the I ispensable telepphone fac Machines Almost Human. Machines a newed with necessary return. Some genfous that them with much intelliger ple one encounte reproduce, at th HAPPY HUNCH For breakfast or lunch, Is a hot plate of sausage. Good as can be. And for dinner or tea, With rich, brown coffee, There’s really nothing Quite so handy, you see. Pig, though I be, You'll quickly agree That my taste is a treat And my quality fine. And my price is so low, It’s a pleasure to know You can get me at good stores Just any old time. My flavor’s so sweet I'm delightful to eat, The whole family likes me From Dad right on down. So if, like the rest, @ You want only the best, Why Auth’s you will get All over the town. cans in complete detall. Victor Cam- bon described its functioning in the splendid steel mills at Gary. The process is the same, whether it is concerned with the output of pork at Chicago or the manufacture of motorcars at Detroit. Stockyards An Example. I have visited in my turn the fa- mous Chicago stockyards. One morning I crossed the wooden bridges above the thousands of pens in which were packed animals gathered from all the American plains, Here in this glant center was a whole spe- clalized city, with the streets dotted with horsemen, catltemen come from the plains to watch over their stock. What sinister ugliness! Wooden structures were wmingled confusedly with rough buildingy of red brick. Here also trains were everywhere. The sirens of the locomotives, the ringing of bells, the screeching of whistles assaulted the ear. And what a stench! Five great houses, Wilson, Morrlis, Swift, Armour and Cudahy, divide this domain a mile square, inclosing 60,000 workmen. Numerous acces- sory industries have taken their places at the flanks of the principal industry: Transformation of blood, manufacture of soap and of glue. utilization of wool and skins, re- search in the extraction of albumen from serum. In the Pork Factory. They showed me tho pork factory. It was the traditional sightseer's tour. Cries came to our ear: The unhappy beasts (they kill ,000 a day) which we saw a little while ago rooting in the earth of their NG pens, were brusquely hooked by one foot to the fatal wheel which raised them palpitating to the level of a trolley. Standing on his bleeder awalts thefr pa: a single movement he knife reaching the carotid and the jugular. The jet of blood spurts; the floor glistens with red spatters. A few seconds the animal palpitates; then, the jet exhausted, it becomes rigid and inert. In-only one of these bulldings the killer with his auto- matic gesture sacrifices, I was told, about a thousand animals an hour. Then begins the defile of the ani- mals before the various operators, each one of which has his special task. It is Taylorization pushed to its absolute limit. This one splits the chest of the animal with one blow of his ax. Another lops off his head. There is something pitiful in this slow defile. Six minutes after being killed the pig is completely prepared to enter the cold chamber, where it will remain 24 hours to lose its porky odor; then it will be stamped and go into the refrigerators, where it will remain another 24 hours. Here is the detail of the operation: The beast is cut into six parts, which broad conveyors carry toward the lower chambers. A white-clad negro, with two blows of his knife, cuts off the ham. Circular saws cut off the feet. A special knife, with a double handle, separates the loin from its greasy envelope. Rollers grip the prepared morsels. The workmen must follow, without losing a second the work of the machine. It |Is inadmissable that a tool shall work badly. In the smoking rooms the same division of labor and the same rapld- ity. Young, bare-armed women wear- ing pretty bonnets and, as is the custom, a little bit rouged and paint- ed, do this part of the work. 8o I passed a morning going fm elevator to elevator, a little bit amazed myself, assailed by the bitter odor of blood and by the_tepld emanations of the blade, foffowing the brick-paved streets among the formidable piping_and impatient to breathe the air of the\open, itself encumbered by the motor car, which has expelled the solid dray-horse. If & motor car is to be constructed., even though the end to be attained is totally different, the technique is ex- actly the same. To visit the Ford factory at Detrolt, long stretches of four-story buildings facing on an im- mense avenue, one has only to ask authorization and to wait, as in the antechamber of one of our ministers. The stream of visitors never ceases. An engineer leads meinto & hive em- ploying, he tells me, 63,000 workmen of \all nationalities, with a minimum wage of $6 a day. Writers have often described and even imitated the proc- ess, which consists in parading before stationary workers a deflle of chassis, which are completed, one might say, automatically, each workman having only certain gestures to make, always the same. Here, as at the stockyards, it is the machine which commands; it is the machine which is the veritable fore- man. I cannot say that I was struck with the organization of these fac- tories from the point of view of the wellbeing of the workmen. One has the impression that the aptitude of the effort demanded of them has sur- prised the creators of the enterprise. (Copyright, 1924.) Address Communications to President—2325 18th St. N. W.—Phone Col. 9855 f District Grocél'y Sociely Siorés THE D. G. S. STORES ARE WELL SUPPLIE INCORPORATED WITH GOODIES TO EAT FOR THE CHRISTMAS TABLE. VISIT A D. G. S. 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