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Show MACHINES HURT MEN'S MINDS Dr. Herman Schneider Says Mental Lethargy Is Due to Mechanical Devices. Cincinnati, O. Dr. Herman Schneider Schnei-der of the University of Cincinnati in a report on New York vocational schools submitted to the board of estimates esti-mates and apportionment, said that mankind is rapidly dividing into "a staff of mental workers and an army of physical workers," and that the minds of the latter are becoming lethargic. The mental development of those who enter the machine-feeding occupations, he said, is the serious seri-ous problem that confronts the public pub-lic schools. "Energizing work is decreasing; de-creasing; enervating work is increasing," increas-ing," he said. "The physical workers are becoming more and more automatic, auto-matic, with the sure result that their minds are becoming more and more lethargic. The real menace lies in the fact that in a self-governing industrial indus-trial community the minds of the majority ma-jority are in danger of becoming less capable of sound and serious thought." He said that work on farms, railroads and in the building trades where the labor is done outdoors, is energizing. The labor of a tooimaker, locomotive assembler and cabinet maker, indoors is also energizing. But the routine of the garment worker, the punch press operator, the paper-box maker and the shoemaker are enervating. Plumbing, blacksmlthing and similar work also creates a mental stimulus. Schneider recommends that employers employ-ers be required to send child employes em-ployes between fourteen and sixteen to school at least four hours a week In the day time. |
