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Show i Army Placing Recruits in Suitable Places , SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 1 The plan !used by the United Stalis army 10 I place every recruit where ho would do I the most good is being tried in a modi-! modi-! fied form in Pacific coast industries by a group of former army officers, psychologists psy-chologists and specialists in vocational vocation-al training and employment problems, i These specialists have organized a non-profit bureau with Captain J. Da-jvid Da-jvid Houser, formerly chief psycholo-jgicnl psycholo-jgicnl examiner at Camp Kearny, as ; president. The organization has un-idertaken un-idertaken surveys of the employment (problems of the several large business houses including three big department I stores, a street railway company and several other concerns. It offers to give intelligence tests I to employes and applicants for posi-tioi'S. posi-tioi'S. to prepare scientific application blanks tor each concern, it seeks to eliminate excessive labor turn-over attendant at-tendant upon tho ordinary haphazard method of employing. Research work is being carried forward for-ward dealing with experiments in industrial in-dustrial democracy, profit sh.-.ring, plans for making the lazy employe won; and plans for established promotion promo-tion schedules, regular complaint channels chan-nels and other means for reducing discontent. j Wilford R Talbert of the bureau of j personal research of the Carnegie in- , stitutc of Technology is director of the , bureau here. The staff includes Dr. . Roy W. Kelly, director of vocational guidance at Harvard university; Lieu- tenant C. C. Stech, psychological exam- : 1 iner at Camps Dix, Fuuston and Logan; Lo-gan; Lieutenants A. S. Otis, psychologist psycholo-gist and statistical analysist for the surgeon general's ofrice; Major Lewis M. Tennan, professor of education at Stanford university, and Dr. Ira B. Crors, chairman of tlic economics department de-partment of the University of California, Califor-nia, consultants. nn |