can toll exactly how many patterns or lath the operator 

 can and should turn out in a given period. 



It 7/ould "be absurd for tho engineer in chargo 

 of a structural steel plant to say that his subordinates 

 must be ablo to design and draw the specifications for 

 so many railwa-r bridges in so manj 7 " days and hours. 



In tho formor instance wo aro dealing with ma- 

 chines arid machine work puro and simple. In tho other 

 with individual thinking machines , into whoso work there 

 onter,. a thousand and one f factors on which the volume of 

 work turned out is dependent. 



Tho rr.ngor, or at least the District Ranger in 

 charge of an administrative unit is or should bo a think- 

 ing maohino and not a pieco of clock work. 



If e, rangor never touches his hand to a firo 

 tool from one year's ond to another his work is a success 

 if his ic the head that success fully leys out tho work 

 for his firo protective organization mon. Thero is of 

 courso a limit to this. Ho can ! t expect to "be orenpt 

 from all forms of manual labor; but ho should be an ad- 

 ministrative officer first and a da^r laborer second; an 

 individual thinking machine first and a pioce of mechan- 

 ism second. 



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