BOGNER PLANS UTOPIAN FACTORIES FOR NATION

Included in the many dreams of how the post-war world should be are a wide assortment of ideas for rocket planes, super-autos, revolving houses, and international organizations. However, the angle of a better place to work in is often shelved in one's mind with the realization that work is always distasteful and that it can't be helped.

Only with this war are some of the leading manufacturers learning that better working conditions produce contented workers who turn out more and better products. Walter F. Bogner, associate professor of Architecture, has summed up the ideals of many industrial planners when he proposes a single story, fresh air plant where workers will perform their tasks to accompanying strains of soft music and purring hums of moving machinery.

Nor would the fair sex be excluded from this paradise of light and beauty. "My plant," asserts the architect, "would definitely have women. In this war they have proved themselves a great boost to morale of the workers. They add a touch of beauty to any plant."

Added to sumptuous powder rooms would be "safety" clothes having "real style" because, according to Bogner, "women in pert, natty uniforms spruce up a place."

Light-Colored Walls, Celling

Aside from general improvements such as-better and nearer living quarters, modernized cafeterias, and factory play-grounds, Bogner's plans include a novel system of coloring. Ceilings would be the lightest part of the plant, to give maximum effectiveness to the long fluorescent lamps running the length of the building, while walls, though also light, would be slightly darker than the ceiling. Machinery, formerly only gray, would be painted with a newly developed warm color except for danger spots, which would be a flaring scarlet.

These light colors, including which floors, would not very readily become grimy because an intricate system of pipes and ducts could be installed to draw off all dust and debris.

In this utopian factory, Bogner believes that instead of pampering the worker such an ideal situation would "build an his self-respect, interest, and loyalty to his place of work. The fundamental realization of this age is that machinery in spite of their great potentialities, these and these men must be treated as human beings instead of as more machinery.