The Harvester World: Volume 8, number 10, October 1917

              Good Way to Spend a Vacation

From a Letter to the Harvester World

I HAVE put in many years as a workman in forge, punch, wood pattern and experimental departments, and spent fifteen years as foreman and general fore¬ man, and I must say that the real finishing experience for a factory man is getting out as an expert and setting up machinery in the fields, at the dealer's store and oh the farms. Then and not until then does tbe foreman (especially of the forge, punch and shear departments) realize the full necessity that all work be absolute duplicates of the master samples or blue prints, absolutely alike when parts are cold and all shrinkages are done. This accurate work costs less at the factory and saves time and trouble in setting up, and then when the machines and implements are assembled they have their proper alignments.
I don't know of a better thing for a department head to do when his two weeks' vacatioii comes around than to put those two weeks in every year by getting into the game and going out in the field with a branch house field expert (one of the boys) and helping to set up the machines for the manufacture of which he in part is responsible. The foreman then will dis¬ cover that, first, he must know these little things that cause big troubles in setting up and operating. Next, he will realize that he cannot sit in his office and know things are going right. He will find that he must be on the floor and personally follow up every detail, and see to it that he has positive equipments for making positive duplicates — absolute duplicates. Then that foreman can call himself an implement department foreman, and earns his money by saving his pay many times over in time and troubles in the fields.
I don't know of a man of my age who has had wider experience in all lines of implement manufacturing than I—over twenty factories—and not until this last three months' experting, setting up various implements and machines, did I really fully realize the necessity of absolutely accurate work in every detail at the factory.

He was formerly engaged in experimental at the Tractor Works, where Moguls  ar but he is now Capt. O. B. Zimmerman, M. E., Reserve Officers' Engineering Corps, with head¬ quarters at Washington.

More Invasion

An enterprising Yankee came over to England and decided to open a shop in Birmingham. He obtained premises next door to a man who also kept a shop of the same description, but was not very pushing in his business methods, preferring to jog along in the old conservative way. The methods of the Yankee, how¬ ever, caused the older trader to wake up, and with the spirit of originality strong upon him, he affixed a notice over his shop with the words, "Established fifty years," painted in large letters.

Next day the Yankee replied to this with a notice over his store to the following effect, "Established yes¬ terday.    No old stock."—Tit-Bits.

Mr. Roosevelt will probably sit down and write Byron Hall and his wife a letter of congratulation when he sees this picture in the Harvester World. Mr. Hall is a molder at the Milwaukee Works, and he took the prize at the July picnic for having the largest family on the grounds. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hall are looking a little sour in this photo¬ graph. That is because they have one child that was left out of the picture.

The Girl he cared for
A Baltimore man was  speaking to a friend of troubles in general, when he sighed and said:
"Yes; the only girl I really cared for 1 couldn't have."
"What!" exclaimed the friend, "that doesn't sound very complimentary to your wife."
"Oh," the other hastened to explain, "my wife felt as badly about it as I did. You see the girl wanted $10 a week aud we couldn't afford to pay more than $8."
—Puck.