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books, magazines, and newspapers. Staple sizes, standard grades, set routine are all part of the big machine process into which human activity and equipment are being fitted, with happily increasing emphasis on the health, comfort, and happiness of the individual. Each profession aims to standardize its training, its terminology, its equipment, its data, both numerical and descriptive, its code of ethics, and to fix standards of quality and performance, — showing that standardization has a breadth commensurate with human activity.
A simple example of standardization is the orchestra. The instruments are of standard size and form, and when played together they must be standard as to performance, that is, tuned to a definite pitch, say 435 vibrations per second for alto A. If the pitch is standard, instruments shipped to any part of the world will harmonize with local instruments tuned to standard pitch. Here standardization is simple — a single number and the unit of time.
Measurement is the heart and soul of standardization. The optician with his standards can adapt the measured curvature of the lens to correct the measured defect of the eye. In a structure measured strength must fit measured stress, as a glove fits the hand. We now measure not the size alone but the quality as well, for quality is as truly a test of fitness as size. Each property must be of right magnitude and the group of properties must be proportioned and combined to fit the uses to be served as the contour of a key is shaped to fit the recesses of the lock. For quality is not a vague intangible property. It consists of a group of definite properties, each having a distinctive magnitude. The combination fixes the specific quality and may be specified in terms of measurement. If each property in the material is given a numerical magnitude in terms of units of measure, we have set a standard for the material and are enabled to measure its quality. The pertinent properties are separately measureable and this gives us the means to control quality.
Standardization must be built upon the solid rock of science, for science is standardized knowledge. Noble examples of standardization are found in history, but only recently has it come into flower in a manner that is transforming our standards of progress. Standardization is not, however, a transitory stage to be passed through. Far from it. It is to be a continuous enterprise. Its function is nothing less than the conscious control of mechanical evolution. Chance has hitherto played such a role that a new era is reached when we unite to standardize progress. Standardization must imply progress. As long as progress is possible, standardization must be free to grow apace with science. If it means fixity we should avoid it, for fixity in a progressing civilization is an anachronism. Steady progress through standardization is the true aim. Such standardization should unite two elements — the tendency to conserve progress and the pressure for new progress. These two tendencies do not conflict if we avoid the usual tendency to let the good become the enemy of the best. No value is lost if we keep the good only until