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zation of a working force; it is often this originality which 

 determines the success or failure of an enterprise. 



2. The Factory School. — The factory school has come into 

 existence during recent years. To our knowledge the first 

 school of that kind was established by a large corporation of 

 Dayton, Ohio, in 1892. This company was organized in 1884. 

 Its business increased from year to year, but it found its organ- 

 ization to be weak; its employees had no heart in their work. 

 The management conceived the idea of establishing a factory 

 school to teach the employees about the business and to interest 

 and encourage them. The first school met in an old church 

 which the company purchased and had fitted up as a lecture 

 hall. The lectures were illustrated with pictures, a plan which 

 has been continued in the company's schools ever since. On 

 July 8, 191 2, the company reported that it had for educational 

 use over 30,000 stereoptican slides and over 150,000 feet of 

 motion-picture film covering a variey of subjects. The school 

 long ago was removed from the old church building to a new 

 school hall erected at a cost of over $150,000 and with a 

 seating capacity of 800. This school is now divided into 

 about twenty separate divisions. The company considers that 

 this school is responsible in a great measure for its remarkable 

 growth. 



The first creamery schoolroom built in connection with a 

 private creamery was that of a large creamery of Omaha. It 

 was completed in 1911. In this room the superintendent, 

 manager, and directors meet with the employees to discuss 

 value of system, methods of systematizing the work, etc. Here 

 the employees begin to learn the value of thinking for them- 

 selves and to express their ideas in language understood by 

 others. 



Each subject taken up in a factory classroom before a group 

 of employees should be most exhaustively discussed by the 

 employees as well as by their employers and supervisors so that 

 before the discussion closes the subject is fully understood by 

 all. When all have a clear understanding of the work in general 

 there will be more harmony and better work will be done by 



