The evening world. Newspaper, October 7, 1919, Page 24

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919 ET : of OPPORTUNITIES vs IN THE SKILLED TRADES 7 pc Fifth of @ series of articles World by Mar 8, Watson, vocational expert who devised most of the trade tests used by the War Department during the war. oa three articles in the series were devoted to “Picking the Right Man f for the Job.” a ae By Max S. Watson 7 Copyright, 1919, by The Freee Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) i “a M I suited to become a skilled mechanic? } ‘ A ‘This question is being asked by a great many young men these days when the high cost of living turns their attention to the wages which mechanics in all lines are reoeiving. Such @ question can best be answered by dsking a number of others. fo These are the most important. {! Are you of the mental or physical type? Sa Are you willing to stand the dirt of a mechanical trade? : Do you like to wear a white collar and have clean hands? Will the difference in pay make ‘Do you find your recreation in physical activities or in study and books? yore ing would* be interfered with? Will you feel at bome in mechan- + 4p Seat work? i ;, An honest answer to these ques- o { es you are mechanically wuited to become a skilled trades- man. To do any job well you must} ¢ have a real liking for your work. barra f a Every job has its financial and sovial ehas does ‘ ie 8 repreetak?. because 4 Phases beside the consideration of] 9°Of what two metals is solder the future, A mechanic's job is not | made? 4 white collar job, You cannot have/ 10, What are the brushes for large nice hands and wear fine clothes. |clectric motors mado of? F5. Wt te not’ an Intellectual job, ‘There will be little opportunity to discuss art or music or literature and no time for social chats. Unless you will he content to work with your cde» Bands and work hard you should Qot become a mechanic. If you got eae" Your enjofment out of books and are _@ “thinker” rather than a “door” You should not become a mechanic. tf you have a mechanical turn «f mind and enjoy physical work and jec- Ngpeagerees eerpeier serious @: see* Bom to the ips of mechanical labor there is no reason why you ious we wo lM A "P ghould not learn a skillod trade, on & What wm the comparative oppor- tunity of the young man who starts “Im through the office end of a large yre Mndustriad plant and the young man who starta in through the machine bet ? Considering that neither one had any previous experience °°) mey will both start at about the Fen. Bame pay, from $15 to $20 a week. ‘Which of the two is most likely to get to the top first? A few years ago ev» the young man who started as a ma- | flocs ghinist would have before him from -~M ree to four years’ apprenticeship before he could be considered an all Around machinist, To-day the all around machinist is almost a thing ACC the past. His work has been “019 Bividef up into many operations and le handled by the specialist who can OPA tearn his job in a few weeks, If it tee piece work job the man who Marts at $15 a week will soon be taking $22 or $25. He will do the ~ « tame thing over and over until he ‘ ~ b@momes perfect in his work, It Bes < will be hard work and not clean and “ hot very interesting unless he has a ei0%° pealization of his part in the scheme 1M) 1 0fsproduction, sola » The young man who starts in the gre! Sloe will not advance in pay so rap- Sq Mdly, but he will learn business and ” dffice methods, His work may be *«(Airesome but not physically hard go e-file will have an opportunity to use 0} eohie head and he will not need to get [Pe bescctirey, feo. 3. ‘The opportunity for getting to the | 4" top favors the shop man. He comes i jx “late closer contact with the pro- in head. If he had the engincer- mind he may become a foreman, “ & department manager or a produc- If he has the com- { tent” ios manager. “Pe may become a high-class sales- - man because he knows his product The old saying that there is still _foom at-the top still holds good, and the man who has it in him can get wis bow he belongs in the first place. * guited for a mechanical trade, *” of the automobile trade. chanical ines » the man production or ge in the clerical vho can industrial plants of the country. ‘number of the following questions, direction; “What aro the Picking the Right Job For Yourself | Do you feel that your social stand- tions will help decide whether or nut inclined and ye obination of a mechanical-sales mind fo the top éither through the office or the shop, but he must start where There are many young men to-day 2, who want to become automobile me- tog * ans ghanics. Not oneshalf of them are f There ye) fa no basis for their desire except vree, that they think the line has a good +s future. No mechanical line holds a e _fature for any one who does not be- 7 2) Song in it and this is especially true There is no question but that there Sifrare more opportunities to-day in the tan find this woif congenial where is a t good future with many of the great * Mee 5 WM you are mechanically inclined you should be able to answer quite a which cover information that should be picked up through observation and “etnay. providing your interest tends called which + written especially for The Evening The first up for the hard work? 2. What 2x6 down to a 2x4? 3. After a crosscut saw has been filed what is done to the teeth? 4. What is the purpose of the sinali valve near the top of @ steam radi- ator? . 6. What kind of @ joint does a plumber make between @ lead pipo and an tron pipe? 6. What kind of olf do you use in mixing paint? 7. What do you do to bricks before 11. What does K. M. F, stand for? What is the unit of electrical ance? 13. What is the usual voltage of an ordinary house lighting system? 14. Which terminals are joined to- gether in connecting dry’ cele in series? 7, 15. What is used to protect electric ires in case of @ short circuit? 16. What is the iron pipe called through which glectric wires are run? 17. What material ig used to in- Sulate the small wires inside a tolo- phone cable? 18, How many cam shafts has a T head motot? 19. What regulates the height gasoline in the carbureter? 20, What is the name of the joint on the drive shaft between’ the transmission and the rear axle? 21, What is the part called between the carbureter and the cylinder? 22, How many valves has a cylinder, four-cycle motor? 23. What will form in the com- bustion chamber if oll leaks past the cylinder? 4. What make of carbureter generally used on a motorcycle? 26. What tool do you use to cut the threads on the inside of a hole in metal by hand? 26. What is the ordinary angle cf a mitre gear? 27. What machine turning metal? 28. Lf a gear turning 200 revolutions ber minute has 24 teeth, how many teeth must a gear in mesh with it have to turn 600 revolutions? 29. What ate doller plates fas tened together with? 30, What kind of saw do you use to out off a metal bar? 31, What is mixed with water to form acteylene gas? 82, What dev: has a steam engine to make it run at an even @pecd? 33. What is a furnace lined with? 4, What color light do you use in @ photographic dark room? %. To what color should iron be heated for welding? ‘ takes. This sounds like tall has just closed the girls of Gotham of | national honors. Most of the matches were in open water where the mermaids of Greater New York were a8 much at home ag the traditional duck. They clove the rough water like Ameri- can destroyers and left in their wako the champion amateur swimmers of Australia, piling up new national and international records. A new nalad queen was developed in Miss Ethelda Bleibtrey, a slip of a girl not yet seventeen. All she did was to win a national and several district championships, shatter! a number of American and world's records for free style and back stroke swimming, crowning her achievements by defeating Miss Fan- nie Durack of Australia in the ni tional 440-yard*championship. Miss Durack had been for ‘ten years the undefeated international leader and was generally believed to be the in- vincible Salacia of the Neptunian plain. Miss Bliebtrey swam, ure is is used for the open when she beat the Austra- lian, in 6 minutes 80 1-5 seconds, open water, swimming the 38 1-5 seconds; 100 ya How the Rent Profiteers Are Foiled in England 1SS ARLOTE BO « MISS ALS ETHELOA BLEILSTREY, BEHIND 1S MSS Coprrisht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York Byening World) is ia New York girl has @ knack of excelling in everything she ander- where is her superior for style, figure, beauty, clothes, dancing, -| Business and indoor and outdoor sports—of course we mean the home girl. Father Knickerbocker’s latest fame rests on the prowess of a lot of his ‘favorite daughters in natatorial sports. In the swimming season which strokes, free style and high and fancy diving, winning national and inter- free style, 300 yards in the pool in 4 minutes 18 seconds, She made her 440 yards in In back stroke, her records were: Fifty yards, | ‘ds, 1 minute How New York’s Girl Swimmers Won 1919 Championships Ethelda Bliebtrey, Charlotte Boyle, Alice Lord, Leslie Bunyan and the Smith + Twins, Ruth and Eleanor, Between Them Shared in Winning Championships, Breaking and Setting World’s Records Over Various Distances. Ro Miss ESE BUNYAN talk from the town of skyscrapers, but beat all comers in the back and breast 28 1-5 seconds; 100 metres, 1 minute 83 1-5 seconds. Miss Charlotte Boyle, one of the greatest water witches who ever buffeted the waves, captured new natatorial honors, winning two na- tional and three metropolitan swims. She showed a world’s record time for 5Q yards and 100 metres, an@ had the double distinction of defeating Miss Durack at the quarter mile and her companion and countrywoman, Miss Mina Wylie, at 100 yards, This was some feat and has never been duplicated by any fair swimmer. Miss Boyle's record for 50 yards, free style, was 29 3-5 seconds. She made 100 metres ® open water in 1 minute 16 1-5 seconds and 220 yards, open water, in 2 minutes 54 seconds. ‘Them there were other sea nymphs and naiads and nereids who more than* upheld the reputation of old New York. The Misses Ruth and Eleanor Smith, twin sisters of six- teen, shared honors in breaking breast stroke standards for various courses Ruth made fifty yards in open water, using the breast stroke,’ in 39 2-5 seconds, and 100 yards in the open in 1 minutes 32 2-6 seconds, + Miss Alice Lord captured ‘the junior national high diving championship and ‘helped the Misses Boyle, Bleib- trey and Leslie Bunyan to set a world’s record over the 400-yard course, Each took a relay pf 100 yards, and the aggregate was 4 min- utes and 59 seconds, Mrs, Bertha Tompkigs, Mid Helen Meany apd two little nymphs, Helen Wainwright and Aileen Riggin, thire teen and twelve years old, earned honors !n metropolitan and national swimming and diving stunts, The defeat of the antipodean nymphs of the sea and the several world’s record performances estab- lsh the Misses trey, Boyle, Ruth 4nd Eleanor Smith, Lord and Bunyan as international champions in their respective flelds, Most of these girl champions are graduates of the New York Women's Swimming Association, whose aim ts to promote interest in swimming and enable all girls and women to secure instruction at nominal cost and prac- tee ~ewimming for exercise and physical improvement, The most interesting part of the association is that it is carried along, supervised and supported by the girl | who was until recently, a crack long distance swimmer, and Miss Char- | lotte Epstein, who leads the water | polo tea:n Every known stroke is taught in swimming, the breast, back, overarm, Australian crawl and floating, and the girls are taught to protect them- selves and others In the water and guard against the danger of drown- ing. The champions take delight in imparting their knowledge to the be- «inners, and there has been already developed a group of Little wonder mermaids. Helen Wainwright, Alieen Riggin, Margaret and Gertrude Ederle, Lillian Stoddard, Dorothy Donnelly, GOING DOWN! Copyright, 1919, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) M’ dear Fellow Passengers on Lifo's Journey: Whither aro we drifting? Have you noticed the tmmense amount of alk we hear these days? In pub- © places men, and women, too, re ARGUING about this or that. What good is an argument, except vefore a judge? Do you suppose people will ever learn to say less and mean more? ‘This {8 not said in the spirit of criticism, but have you noticed that those who tire the quickest are the ones who TALK THE | n at Le IHE English people have found a new way of combating the men! profiteers. Old tramoars, that oan be purchased for as low as fifteen dollars, arefoonverted into homes like the one shown in photograph. offer an added advantage of having your ‘on ‘ MOST? Why do women come home ‘tired out?’ Why do business men come home SO TIRED they cannot play with the children? Look pack and see what made YOU tired the last time you “petered out.” Let us all learn to say less and contestants themselves, mostly youns women of the business world and high schoo! girl students, Mrs, Ber- tha Tompkins, who has been figuring prominently in fancy diving cham. pionghips, is supervisor of the teach- ing department, and has on her staff some of the best swimming girls in the game, although some of them have not competed lately, Among these are Miss Edna Cole, ihe president, who is a successful comestant in swimming and diving \J is wtill very youthful; Mra, Ade- ALFALFA \SMITH, “ ~ line Trapp Mublomberg, the Edith Youngley, tion. Katherine Brown and Irene Derrick are all girls rang- ing from nine to thirteen years who have won signal honors in competi- © TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1919 Is Man Brave by Nature? And Woman Timid > “NO,” SAYS DR. BEATRICE HINKLE, “EACH SEX HAS MERELY CONFORMED TO TYPE OPPOSITE SEX DEMANDED. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World.) W": is woman submissive, meek, impulsive, irrational, changeable, timid? Why is man dominating, forceful, stolid, logical, consistent, fearless? Answer: She isn't. Neither is he. Nor are sewing, housework, and the care of chfle dren the only really “womanly” occupations, On the other hand, ditch digging, banking, steeple jacking and manufacturing steam engines are not n&cessarily “manly” gobs. There are plenty of men who had rather cook or design dresses than do any of these things. In short, the world is irrational and old-fashioned in branding certain emotions and certain tasks “M.” end “F."—respectively, masculine and femfnine. And it is up to women to believe in themselves as human beings, instead of “woman- ly” beings, and then to teach men to believe in them. ‘Those are some of the stimulating ideas Dr. Beatrice Hinkle of this elty passed along the other day to the In- ternationa) Conference of Woman Physicians when she addressed them at the ¥. W. C. A. headquarters, No. 600 Lexington Avenue, on “The Arbi- trary Use of the Terms ‘Masculine’ and ‘Feminine.’ “How arbitrary?” I asked Dr. Hinkle, when I had captured her with considerable difficulty, after the lec- ture, for a few questions, “Do you mean that our belief in certain qual- ities and occupations as ‘typically feminine’ and ‘typically masculine’ is untrue and unscientific?” “T mean just that," Dr, Hinkle declared, with emphasis. “The world bas cherished a false concep- ltion of what women are, what men Jaré, and the world is just beginning to find it out. “For long ages man built up an artificial ideal of woman, To woman man attributed all the traits he wanted her to possess. He desired that she should be meek and sub- missive, that he might dominate—so he said meekness and weakness were her natura) characteristics. He liked to think of her as timid, and of him- self as her brave protector—so he at- tributed to her a ‘natural’ timidity and to himself a fierce courage. He desired to make his appeal to woman through the emotions—he valued her chiefly for her emotions—so he start- home, she too accepted it. If she Was not the ideal—and frequently she was not, by nature-ghe concoaled the fact and conformed to the ideal as nearly as possible. “Man also had to conform to the ideal of himself that he had ralsed. He had to be fearless, aggresstve, domineering, whether he wanted to be or not. Having created for him- self the role of superiority he was forced to play it. His pride would suffer nothing else. Even to-day a woman can stanu being called ‘mas- culine’ much better than a man van endure being called ‘feminine? “As I said in my lecture, differ ences in temperament, attributed to sex, are really a matter of type. The human. race is divided into ‘extra- verts’ and ‘introverts,’ with grada- tions between them. The extraverts are the aggressive, self-confident people who prefer action to thought. The introverts are the thoughtful, vacillating people. There are men of each type and there are women of each type. “Many men do not wish to be sa perior. They do not wish to be war- ke and aggressive, and they suffer tom the opinion that they must not be sensitive. Many women, on the other hand, suffer just as much be- cause they are supposed to be weak, timid and full of moods, when they are nothing of the sort.” ed the assumption that she was “Te swayed by impulse and feeling, In- But are there no distinctions, ex- capable of logical, consistent think- cept the ‘physical fact of sex bee tween men and women?" 1 queried, “I don't go as far as that,” ad- mittcd Dr. Hinkle, “I think there probably are secondary sex charac- teristics. .I simply maintain that we do not know what they are, and that we have established a false and arti ficial conception of them. ing. “Woman soon joined man in tols strange conspiracy. When she dis- covered that his ideal was the sub- missive, emotional, changeable, 1i- logical, shrinking type, that he cher- ished this type and wanted it in his ‘Love’s Three Great Hours DAWN—NOONTIDE—EVENING By Fay . Copyright, 1919, by The Pross Publishing Co. (The New Yirk Evening World.) | ane has divided love into epochs, the Dawn of Love, the Noontide of three delightful Love and the Evening of Love. In speaking of the Dawn of Love he “Little think the youth and glancing at each with eyes 90 full of mutual inteligence, of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external The work of vogetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leafbuds, From exchanging glances they advance to acts of cour- then to flery pas- say! maiden who ate other across crowded rooms, stimulus, tesy, of gallantry; sion, to plighting troth and marriage. Passion beholds its object as @ per- fect unit. The goul is wholly embod- Jed and the body |s, wholly ensouled.” But the Dawn of Love is only the It is only the sunrise of beginning. the bride’s and bridegroom's life Meantime, as life wears on, this faint slow of love becomes an actual, pene- Each becomes aware of the Each is @ development for the other, the man becoming softened by the feminine influence, the woman trating nay. the strength and weakness of other. “We must remove this artificifl ta- | ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ on the | feelings and activities of men and 6 | women. Such a tabdo of course bears |More hardly on the latter, Stevenson lecisanta wera. alwayer herueen |much more restricted than that of a the life to follow. There are many'man, We must stop telling human hard lessons and many serious ques- tions to answer, But as time rolls on the rough edges wear down, and beings to feel in a certain way or to work at certain things because they jare women or because they are for a périod of years things run on a| men,” smooth, level course. This state con-| “And to do that, you believe tinues through middle life and until we reach;the downward grade and begin to go down the hill, It is the real essence of happiness, the true goal, which, having attained and en- joyed, we can always reconcile our- selves with the thought that, come what may, “It has been.” It is the time when the goddess Happiness turns her smiling but evasive face . |toward us, and we deem this earthly life worth while. Middle life, matrimontalty consid- ered, occurs between forty-five and fifty-five years of age. It comes just at the time when a man and a | woman are ripe and ready for the wholesome enjoyment of al] the good things tn life, when selfishn has been wiped out by actual living, when healthy natural interests and habits are centred and established, when association has done wonders in de- veloping a more tender regard and woman must change the attitude of men?" I questioned, “Women must change their own attitude first,” she flashed back, “Un« ti! they believe in themselves as hu« man beings, how can they expect men to do so? I want women to be human, to be honest, to be them selves. So far a8 work goes, can't a. woman do practjcally anything, even now, If she wants to take advantage of her opportunities? The immediate future 1s likely to see women per= forming every sort of work, hereto- fore considered ‘masculine'—just as now we have plenty of men cheta, men dressmakers, men milliners, The one exception ts that I do not think there will be many women soldiers, tok she who bears life will not desire to take it” “And how about marriaget 1 asked, “Will it last, with the doing away of artificial distinctions be. practical and clear-sighted by the] 4 deeper love than mere sentiment | ‘een Male and female?” masculine influence, Each has 4] aione can inspire. “It ought to!” exclaimed Dr struggle within his own nature to] ‘his is the time when good, hard| !inkle. “Marriage ought to be finer meet the conditions of life, Childreti| serise and good comradeship count and more enduring than ever before frequently arrive and new lessons| more in a woman's category of | Whe the two parties to it feel they have to be learned and problems can be themselves, honest with each solved, The man must battle harder the woman struggle for his living, harder with her household affairs. and then before one knows it the dawn of love is over and the noontide of love has arrived, For the noontide of love’ Emerson “The world rolls on; the cir- All the angels that inhabit this temple of the |body appear at the windows, and all ithe gnomes and vices also, df there be virtue all the vices are known as Their once flaming segard is sobered by time in either breast, and losing in violence what it gains in bxtent, it becomes a thorough good under- says: cumstances vary every hour. such; they confess and flee. that the first few years of married| pendence upon the other than ever life are simply @ training school for! before, Business worries are over, charms than the glint of a stray log or the turn of an ankle; when ‘cledn life and good habits rank a man higher than wit and cleverness of speech, combined ‘with the presence of an Adonis. And then comes the evening of love, To this Emerson says; “Thus are we put in training for a love which knows not sex, nor person, nor pcrtiality, but which seeketh virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.” No doubt the average couple get the most enjoyment of their married life from the noontide or harvest moon of life, but the evening of love ts the prettiest, the final setting, the time when “silver threads among the gold” and quiet contentment reign, the time when couples feel more di other, keeping up no traditional bar- rier of artifice and convention, household drudgeries and the care of the children over, all duties but to each other finished, Frequently there will be little bickerings and human nature will sti assert its ego, Grandma and grandpa are just as apt to have their little tiffs as when they started out upon their honey- {ng in this month's issue of the Cene dued, there will be less passion and back of It all they really understand each other, Emerson reminds us that * ta in thé world which is or al ee be known, is cunningly wrought into the texture of man and of woman, "The verson love doeg to ug fit, Like manna, has the taste boo we have placed in the names ae