While the social and economic doctors are holding clinics over the ills that have flowed in the wake of the industrial revolution, some attention may profitably be given to the question &dquo Wherein will industry humanize itself?&dquo While we are pondering over the whereabouts of the dividing line that separates those industrial evils which can only be eliminated by a greater degree of paternalistic government regulation, from those other evils whose eradication is so profitable that it can

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... fely be left to individual initiative, it may be worth while to point out some spheres in the industrial field where more eflicient management is just beginning to realize that there has been an unsuspected under-appreciation of the human resources. In other words, this article will attempt to point out at least one chief field where management is cutting down its own net profits by its failure to show sufficient consideration and regard for its employees. To some extent management has been led into a general under-appreciation of the human factors by the development of machinery and the resultant simplification of tasks. Not long ago, I heard a nation-wide authority on the subject of the human side of industrial management, draw an analogy between war and industry. In war, before the invention of gunpowder, cannon, etc., the individual in battle was of supreme importance. Victory depended upon the strength and number of individual fighters. With the gradual &dquoimprovement&dquo of our implements of destruction, from the days of the bow and arrow to the present seventy-five millimeter guns, the individual, as the winner of battles, has seemed to lose importance. The power of war machines came to accomplish a destruction apparently beyond the efforts of either man-quantity or man-quality. However, the experience of the present war has shown that, while the big guns can knock to pieces any fortification, there are relatively few places where the immense guns can be satisfactorily mounted.