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to the other émployees that the man in sole cuthority is the manager who in
turn is, of course, answerable to the park board or commissioner “ho hired him.

Now it should be obvious that a man with these qualifications
cannot be found without looking around considerably; and as a parallel to the
last statement, a man with these qualifications should be worthy of his hire,
One usually gets just about what he pays for in this world and the only too
common practice of hiring a manager who is also a guard end in some cases is
expected to watch the showers or the children's wading pool will lead to very
undesirable results - perhaps in some cases to serious accidents. What should
such a man receive? Such estimates cannot be made with any accuracy, but it
seems like $150.00 a month should be a minimum with larger communities
definitely higher, One small community in this state pays its manager $200.00
a month and feels that it is receiving fully velue fo? its money, It is my
belief that the most likely man to fill such a position will be a student or
a graduate of one of our better schools of physical education,

Proceeding to the guards, one must again analyze his needs. In
a swimming pool which is properly run, there are few occasions when rescue
work is necessary. Therefore, the question arises as to whether a guard should
be hired primarily on his swimming ability.

Some little experience with hiring guards has convinced me that
the highly expert swimmer (the Varsity letter man if you will) by no means
makes the best guard. Many times he has become too highly interested in the
competitive phases of swimming to the exclusion of all other considerations.

As one's guards are going to be mainly concerned with the enforce-
ment of regulations and the elimination of dengerous practices it ould be
wise, I believe, to place swimming ability in a secondary position and place
the ability to command respect, the willingness to enforce regulations - the
general ability to police in the first category. (If your guard has neither the
gamption nor the desire to tell off the customer when he is violsting regula-
tions, you will have a poorly run pool no matter how well that guard can stim).

Other desirable characteristics for a guard include:

First, he should be a strong swimmer.

Second, he should make a good physical appearance (necessary
because it is a characteristic highly thought of by public)

Third, he should have knowledge of and technical ability in the
techniques of life saving as laid down by the American Red Cross,

Fourth, should have tmowledge of and teaching ability in the various
swimming strokes,

Fifth, he should be convinced of the necessity for strict bather
regulations and knoledge of the reasons for it. (Explain to customer),

Sixth, he should have a high sense of responsibility and feel the
essential importance and dignity of his position,

Seventh, he should be mature (at least college age) (Salary -
indefinite, but should be about $100.00).

The characteristics of other employees is perhaps not so
important. Meny well run pools employ the men who placed below the guards in
the examinations for guerds as checkers, This is a device to train guards by
putting the checkers out in the pool for short periods “hile giving the regular
guards a relief. It works very vell. ,

The cashier (many times a woman) should of course be quick ond
accurate in her vork, she should possess a pleasant personality (as she is the
first person to contact the public) and should also possess some knowledge of
bookkeeping.

The better pools have attendants in their dressing rooms and this
appears a necessity if the regulations are to be lived up to. In these
positions the more mature individual is = prime necessity. A man or woman of
50 or even more seems to best fib this situation.