(j) time and call loans; (k) calculations and payment of interest
on capital; (l) maintenance of sinking fund.
_Third: Up-keep of the Working Force, Buildings and Equipment._
(a) Heating, ventilating and lighting of the factory in relation
to its effect on the workers; (b) valuation for each worker of his
own physical condition and expert advice in regard to nutrition
and other physical needs; (c) care of motors and mechanical
equipment, care of belts, saws and cutters; (d) efficient
installation of motors, sectional drive and individual drive;
(e) disposition of sawdust, etc., study of exhaust fans and
construction operation and function.
_Fourth: The Economics of the Enterprise._ (a) The market of the
raw material--the study of the market in relation to grades, to
cost, to transportation, to quantity in cost of purchases, to time
of purchase; (b) manufactured product; selection of models
in relation to their use and their art values; their cost of
manufacture; relation to the selling price; the relation of cost
to quantity and quality; (c) the relation of the rate of wages
paid in the shop to rates paid in similar industries, to cost
of production, to needs of the workers; (d) necessary margin of
income over expenses for the up-keep of the plant, for its
extension, for the maintenance of the sinking fund and possible
contribution to the expense of the school; (e) the economic value
of the school to the work of the shop.
_Fifth: Art and Service._ The shop will not depend upon the pupils
in the school for models, but will welcome models which come from
the pupils as evidence that the shop experience is a stimulating
one. But it will be recognized that the pupils will have little to
offer on account of their inexperience and that there is a world
of designers from whom to draw and the shop is eager to command
the best models which are obtainable. There will be a Jury for the
determination of models to be manufactured. This Jury will
receive certain instruction on the subject of toys, and will be
responsible for making further study of the subject. But as has
been pointed out for the last ten years by Caroline Pratt, who
has given the subject scientific attention, toys are the t
of little children which, they use in their effort to become
acquainted with their environm
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