Henry Ford Trade School - Craftsman Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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December 10, 1926 The Artisan 3 SAFETY NOTES WE WONDER Boys Learning Work In Commissary Department Another deplorable accident oc- cured just a few weeks ago. One of our new students, strolled from his lob on the bench: in his wandering he tried to operate an arbor press. He placed his finger on the rack in the back, pulled down the handle and nearly severed the end of his finger. On Tuesday, another student strolling away from his job used a wood-chisel to pry a piece of leather from a wooden soled shoe, while holding shoe in his hand, the chisel slipped cutting a very ugly wound. Boys working on grinders should always wear goggles for their own. safety. It is especially dangerous to work without them on cutter or tool grinders. Always be sure you have a guard on your machine and that it is in the right place. It is not permissible to wear rings, gloves, or neckties while- working around any machine that is in motion. Frequently boys who dis- obey these rules are hurt when their hands or their personal attire are- caught in revolving gears or mechan- ism. Shoes with thin or worn soles are frequently the cause of cut and in- fected feet. It is a dangerous act to throw broken glass and bottles in the kitchen, and boys in there who do not think of those things at the time often receive- cuts, and must be treated at the hospital. Every month two or three boys come to the hospital as a result of running and tripping in the hall ways. The hospital treats an average of three hundred and fifteen cases a day. By being careful we could make less work for the First Aid Doctor. Always let an electrician do all electrical work; and when repairing or cleaning machines always pull the plug and place a danger sign on it until you are through. Boys working in the foundry Should never get their faces near the sand. Blow it away with the bel- lows, for it is liable to get in your eyes and cause infection. Don’t use mushroom headed tools while working. When entering a new department, get exact information regarding the fire exit, fire extinguisher and fire blanket. Always smother an elec- trical fire; do not use an extinguisher. In case anybody’s clothes catch fire wrap the blanket around him from head to foot, not from foot to head, or you will send the flames into his face, thus burning him severely You can ask any safety man how to fold the blanket again. These arc some of the elementary rules of safety. Watch this column next issue and learn more about safety. Le Pages Mr. Edwards: Do you use tooth- paste? Stular: No! None of my teeth are loose. WE WONDER, if the instiuctors in the Trade School were to receive a k-nickle every time they smiled, how many millionaires would be created—WE WONDER. WONDERING FURTHER—if ail the instructors north of the bridge would then be as hard up as ever. Here Is The Plan Instructors that never smile but frown instead would be permitted to contribute k-nickles instead of receiving them. In this way the Four Trade School boys, be- ( tween the ages of seventeen and eighteen, are now working in the; Commissary Department of the Ford Motor Company. The pur- pose of this is to give the boys clerking experience and to enable them to come in contact with the general public. Mr. Saunders states that all boys who wish to get experience in this line, will be given a chance to work- in the commissary. fund for those that smile would be kept up. Some instructors would be broke all the time. The staff doesn’t like the idea because it claims that there are too many profiteers among the faculty. Mr. Crawford would be smiling IMAGININGS OF SCIENCE Chapter I We live in a world in which cer- tain conditions of the atmosphere and the so-called elements sur- rounding our daily existence are all the time. Of course if this is given the in- structors to vote upon it would not go through, because it would revol- utionize their ideas as to how school should be taught. A few of the instructors have been interviewed and some of them threaten to hold out for ten cents. All suggestions on this matter should be signed and given to the parties to whom they pertain. Vareitv Boys Celebrate Birthday of Teammate Football Team Explores Reading, Michigan The Varsity football team en- joyed their rec.nt automobile trip to Reading very much. It seems that certain members of the team received warm recep- tions by their zealous team-mates, who, noon celebrating the birth- days of VOTS (coach) and PER- II AM (director) w'ielded the little paddle which now hangs in the “hall of fame” (in other words, the display cases on the third floor in Mr. Crawford’s office). After amusing themselves in this way for a time, the boys felt the exploring instinct and set out to discover things concerning the town, in behalf of the old inhabi- tants. They divided up into groups some of them going down one street and some down another, (two groups). A few of the more ven- turesome breke away from the main groups and began their tour of exploration alone. Of these, two of the boldest, Stein and Marchand wandered to the edge of the city and got lost in the corn- stalks. The police and fire de- partments searched 14 days and nights before they finally located the wanderers. (Watch for Next Installment) en‘irely familiar to us. From force of habit we are likely to forg;t that had Nature, for instance, been plann d under a different range of livable temperatures all the famil- iar objects of our daily existence would have existed under ent rely different forms. For instance, if the normal tem- perature had been 2700 degrees F. instead of 70 degre s F. and we had been constructed so that we cou’d comfortably endure that degree of temperature, we cou’d have gone sailing on a sea of molten iron in boats built of graph t? cr plumbago and have used oars of silica brick. Under these delightful conditions wo could place frozen lumps of cur sea of iron in our ice box s for refrigeration. Flat irons and stove lids worn Id therefore have been the products of the ice-man. The water with which we now are familiar, of course, could not exist in a liquid form, or even as steam, but instead, as a highly gas- eous state which we would probably be called upon to breathe. Certain other substances with wh;ch we are familiar in our daily life such as common stick sulfur, for in- stance, would exist in an ent'rely different physical state, although their ch?mical proper t;es wou’d be completely unchanged and we would be given to understand that an “allotropic” formation had tak n place. If we can now imagine ourselves as existing under the relative con- ditions described above, which arc “natural” conditions of some other world, it will be easy for us to un- derstand quite clearly some of the other allotropic forms of iron and steel than those with which we are familiar. Another of this series will appear in the next issue. Fistic Art Sleep: Fighting is all right, pro- viding you do it intelligently. Libby: Yes, but you can’t al- ways find a smaller man. MORE WONDER It was one week ago t’day, gen- tlemen, and it happened much in this manner: Twas after work and 13 hood- lums from the foundry were do- ing the chain walk down the main aisle. From the actions of the boys one would judge that they had been reading up on the lives of great men. Such as Jesse James and Dutch Anderson. Mr. Ebeling, whom it appears has a sense of humor, witnessed this (ir.mati? act of the foundrymen and got a huge laugh out of the oc- casion. Sh! Now com?s the villian and his henchman. Messrs. Crammer and Wilson see the boys enjoying themselves and immediately haul them into Sanders office and send for Ebeling to baul them out. Enter Oblong! WrIADS WRONG HERE? Cramm.r recites. His main objection being that it is Friday and there are 13 boys (Superstition). Ebeling turned to th? rowdies, “WELL WHADDA YA GODDA SAY FER YERSELF?” Libby said he thot it was good practice because they all expected to be prisoners some day. Grammcr said he had never been a prisoner and so he couldn’t be ex- pected to appreciate such tactics. Ebeling said, “Keep on. We all have the same chance.” A Hie claimed he had seen Cram- mer doing the same thing by him- self last Tuesday. So Oblong had to keep Crammer. Harold Wilson said he thot Cram- mer was getting a raw deal. And so he got to stay too. Note—Hamilton was in the line- up too, but he ducked when we saw Crammer coming. WE WONDER if: These boys from the foundry had really ap- plied themselves, for the 8 hours, previous to the aforenamed affaiir, they would have been so full of pep as they were. Monkey Business John O’Connell: It’s too bad Bryan died without seeing you. Jimmie H: Why do you say that? John O’Connell: He would have admitted his mistake about the evo- lution theory. Mr. Hawkes: “What are the constitU2nt of quartz?” Bright student: “Pints.” When a man brags of his hones- ty, it is always good policy to de- mand a receipt signed in ink when paying him money.

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2 December 10, 1926 3K£ GMi arfi Publication of the Student of the Henry I Ford Trade School, Highland Park. Mich. Vol. 1. No. 5 December 10, 1920 PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY $1.00 Per Year Single Copies, 7 Cents STAFF: Editor in Chief........James Humhcrstone Associate Editor..........John O'Connell News Department: Frank Berio Alex Allie William Vance William Toth Joseph Kisil Arthur Schultz Bernard Konopka Duane Matvey Publication Dept........ ....Adolph Eckert Assistants: Mike Borushko Robert Leisey William Winstanley Howard Hoeft George Steyskal Cari Kurz Business Manager...............Earl Tank Advertising Manager... Bernard Konopka Circulation Dept...........Phillip Zoufal Assistants: Arthur Brooks David Kay Steve Szalai Samuel Schmidt Faculty Adviser............Ix um Garden Classics or Jazz ? It was interesting to watch the re- action of “W” Section, on Friday, November 19, to the musical pro- gram given by our orchestra. This reaction showed distinctly the atti- tude of the American young folk of today toward music. The first program was classical with the exception of a lew popular numbers, and to all appearances it was a success with the student body. The second entertainment was planned as a combination of jazz and classical music with the classical music at the beginning of the program and the jazz following. It was very evident from the applause that the latter was by far in greater favor. It is not always best to give a per son exactly what he desires. It is true that to satisfy one’s immediate longing, one must have what one wants. Is it the thing, however, that is good for him? To cite one case of a great many like cases—Must one let small boys eat green apples if they cry for them? Darwin, though his theory is ques- tioned, was undoubtedly a great thinker and a man of superior intel- lect. It is he who once said if he had his life to live over he would spend a portion of each week read- ing good literature and listening to good music. A noble idea is ex- pressed in these words. To live a truly worthwhile life one must seek and enjoy the pleasures that embody the most beauty. The average Amer- ican who is always in a hurry is very prone to look at the sensational thing: and lose sight of the really big ones. True it is that jazz is a component part in modern civilization, but it is sensational and has no real substance. A person can listen to jazz over the radio for hours and receive no lasting impression while, on the other hand, a person who Ins found a liking for good classical music can be enrap tured by a good symphony orchestra and the results live a long time after- ward. Do s it have a lasting goed The Artisan effect, is a tost of the worthwhile things about us. The Trade School Orchestra is en- deavoring to be at its best by play- ing good, substantial music waltzes, the better popular pieces, and the lighter classics. The boys have labor- ed hard to elevate the standard of the school in this respect. It is for you that they are doing this. A Man and His Reading By Harry Emerson Fosdiek Something very significant has hap- pened to a man when he realizes that in books the greatest souls of the world will come to call on him as though there were no one else on earth whom they had to call upon. “What do you read, my lord?” said Polonius, and Hamlet answered, Words, words, words.” Many4 a modern victim of the invention of printing might say the same. With all the reading that is done, how few people know the experience which made Mrs. Browning say, “No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.” Some books are our servants. They run errands for us. They are men- tal drudges. They bring us- informa- tion ; they tell us news; they keep us up-to-date; they equip us for our trade. But the great books are not our slaves; they are our masters; we sit at their feet to learn. Ix ok, ’ they say, and looking, we catch new visions of life’s significance. “Con- sider,” they say, and considering, we are captured by a new truth and our spiritual power is multiplied. A man’s life is made by the hours when great ideas lay hold upon him and except by way of living persons there is no channel down which great ideas come oftener into human lives than by way of books. Said Charles Kings- ley. “Save a living man, nothing is so wonderful as a book. Many people shrink with a kind of modest reticence from claiming the greatest books as their own. They think that the great books are for scholars and specialists, not for plain people. Upon the contrary, the spec- ialist has his library of learned mes- sengers to run errands for him and for him alone, the engineer his books on engineering, the economist his books on economics, but the great books are for us all. They spring, not out of specialties, but out of the depths of the human heart. When Macbeth sins and his conscience faces remorse like a tide returning to a shore, wc all know what that means and whenever a great creative book strikes a deep note it is sure to be dealing with an elemental experience which is shared by us all. A signi- ficant day dawns in a man’s life when he says to himself, “The supreme books of the world belong to me.” Illuminating The Law The supreme penalty is called for when the car carries no head- light and the driver is all lit up. HANKING FROM THE BEGINNING Courtesy of Highland Park Slate Bunk The Birth of the English National Debt, and the Founding of the Bank of England (Continued from Last Issue) In January. 1672, when the Mint contained some 1,328,000 English pounds of bankers’ funds advanced to the Government, Charles II acted on the precedent set up by his father. In the pay of the King of France and conspiring against England’s safety, he had promised by way of repayment to produce a war between England and Holland. Like many another spendthrift he ran out of funds, and, completely losing his head (in the common metaphorical sense), executed his most brilliant raid upon the Mint, seized the funds, and closed the Exchequer, prohibiting its rc-open- ng in order to prevent the mer- chants from cashing their tallies. This famous raid has been known in history ever since as “The Stop of the Exchequer.” This seizure proved to be a seri- ous matter for all concerned. The money, though advanced by the bankers to the Government, repre- sented the fortunes of some ten thousand individuals who had en- trusted their funds to the gold- smiths. The bankruptcy and ruin which followed Charles’ raid was therefore widespread, and so serious that an attempt was made at par- tial reparation—an attempt which resulted in the birth of the national debt of England. Charles, in his proclamation closing the Exchequer, declared that the money he had taken would be retained for only a year, but his promise failed to come true. The Government paid six per cent interest in the seized funds for six years, from 1677 into 1683, after which these interest pay- ments stopped. No interest was paid during the following short reign of James II, and it was not until another revolution put Wil- liam of Orange on the British throne that real reparation came into sight. An attempt by the Government’s creditors to get restitution by action through the courts at first came to nothing, since it was ruled that Charles II. and not the Govern- ment headed by William, had made the seizure. Years later the House of Lords upset the court decision and partial restitution was made. Before the end of the litigation was in sight a plan of settlement, based on the creation of a regular Government debt and a bank of issue, was put before Parliament by an obscure Scotchman named William Patterson, who was backed in h's efforts by a number of rich London merchants. Taking advan- tage of the need of the Govern- ment for money, Patterson, in 1692, offered a plan whereby the credi- tors or their assignees would fore- go the interest on 1.340,000 English pounds owed them, and would ad- vance another sum equal to their principal if six per cent should be secured by act of Parliament, and the bills of the company be made legal tender up to the total amount. Parliament objected to the legal tender feature and nothing was concluded for a year or more. The plan was revived, however, by Charles Montague, Lord of the Treasury, who sent for Patterson, to whose assistance later came the astute Michael Godfrey. A loan to the Government of 2.000,000 Eng- lish pounds at seven per cent in- terest was contemplated at this meeting, but the low rate of inter- est seemed so preposterous to royal ministers accustomed to waste. nearly half the proceeds of a loan in extravagant commissions, that they turned from Patterson’s plan to other ways and means. Two years later the Patterson- Godfrey plan, revised, was carried through a scantily attended session of Parliament as a rider to the Ways and Means Bill. It emerged May 4, 1694. as the charter of “The Governor and Company of the Bank of England.” under the terms of which charter the company was al- lowed to lend the Government 1,- 200.000 English pounds, was auth- orized to issue notes, deal in bul- lion, and to make advances on mer- . chandise. Because the bill to which the Bank Rider was attached levied tunnage duties, the hank itself was long known as “The Tunnage Bank.” Thus England acquired a na- tional debt and a central bank of issue—unforeseeable fruits of the tyranny of the Stuart k'ngs. Another installment of this series will appear in the next issue. ■iiiiiaiiaiiinaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigiiaiia ■ ■ |Skates and Shoe; Outfits I $4.95 and up | ! FROMM’S ! : 1 3 9 7 5 WOODWARDl Branch Stores: I 14042 WOODWARD I 1442 BROADWAY 7701 JOS. 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I The Artisan December 10, 1926 Editors Visit Highland Park High and U. D. Publications On Tuesday, November 2.?, James Humberstone, the editor of The . Irtisan, and John O'Connell, asso- ciate editor, visited the Spectator, which is the school paper of the Highland Park High School. The following Tuesday, November 30, they visited the Varsity News, which is the University of Detroit publica- tion. While at the university they were taken to the U. of D. High School, where they met Jack Britt, editor of the Cub, the U. of D. High (taper, and spent a very profitable hour with him. They then went back to the U. of D. and remained until two o,clock with Mr. J. M. McGarry, who is the university Professor of journalism. The object of these visits was to get information concerning newspaper work from older publications. The Spectator was chosen for a visit be- cause for the last three years it has won the cup award to the best school paper in Michigan by th? Michigan Inteinat cnal Press Asso- ciation. LEAVE OUT THE JOKER Everyone knows the pestilent I “humorist whose delight it is to pass ou.t the explosive cigar, who pulls the chair from ur.d r any un- wary person foolish enough to re- gard him as grown up, and who fleds +he baby pepper-leaded fudg?. This joker is everlastingly in evi dence. Machine shops, power plants, foundries—wherever men work to- gether—know the breed. In in- telligence, the j k: r ranges from the pest who sends the apprentice for lef handed monkey-wrench to the murderous nitwit who s'nours ai a mechanic working in close and dangerous quarters. Were the jckjr a hazard to him- self alone it might be a service to the country to encourage him. He wou d very'likely be less a liability were a crippled body added to his crippled mind. But he is a stand- ing threat of injury to those around him, who are less gifted and iess original, perhaps, but who give their major attention to their Jobs. So there is just one thing for the wise foreman to do with the joker the instant he discovers him, and that is to havo a service-man escort him, as rapidly as practicable, to; the door. (Adapted from Asceyalyne Tips). Perpetual Motion Dodrs are made out of trees, trees; grow out of doors. Beauty Treatment Bill Gipse: Did you ever take the Carlsbad mud-bath treatment? Walek: No. but I played on Fcrd F eld a couple of times. CRITICS COLUMN In helping along the cause of the Artis ah and to fill space in th? critic column, I cannot help but comment on the harmony and good will shown by the instructors of the Trade School. They always seem fo remind me of the 57 Heinz vari- eties. . Perhaps it is because you can mix the 57 all in the same can and still have a fine relish. Thstt Is also an outstanding feature among the instructors. Altho each cne has a different duty to perform, ne wcu'd be useless without the other in the school of this kind. For his reason we are glad they har- monize as they do. But It would not be advisable to mix them in a can unless you had a tight cover and a rubber in between to keep cur heat treat instructor from Fak- ing out. Now that I have picked on Mr. Maeonackie, I will try to smooth things over by saying this for him, that he is a very capable instructor. Small grievances are sure to oc- cur once in a while, and it is an easy matter for one to be misled. For instance, a boy operating Hendy lathe in the gauge depart- ment reported a loose dog on the dutch of his lathe. The instructor had the boy issue an order to have it repaired. Where it reads “Na- ture of trouble,” the boy wrote, “loose dog, please rush,” and as- signed the order to Mr. Adams. The boy finally found Mr. Adams on the second floor quite busy with another machine, although not too busy to resist the. opportunity tJ bawl some one out. After reading the order he hot-footed it up the two flights of stairs three steps at a time, even forgetting that we have elevator service, which is rare for him. He went over to the in- structor and blabted out, “Listen here, Mr. Deitsch. I want you to understand I am running the ma- chine repair and not a dog pound, and if you have any loose dogs around here, send for clearing-house Smith. He gathers up all the loose things around here.” As I happened to overhear th? argument, I proceeded to be the fixer, and explained it to Mr. Adams that even he could under- stand that this dog happened to be a part of the machine, and Mr. Deitsch would likevte have him re- pair it. But he wa£,so; riled up that all he could cfjjake faces and could not ge| hi§ tongue in shape to say anything -, which seldrm hap- pens to - Mr- Dsit?ch. So Mr. Adams apologized and endeavorci o fix the dog. So you see, outside of a few inci-1 dents like this. I am glad to say the instructors get along very nicely together, which means a lot to the Henry Ford Trade School. ’ “Well,' I came, down with flying colors, anyhow,” said Jimmy, the painter, who fell from a scaffold with a pail of pairit in each hand.’ Shop Instructor Goes to Company Tool Room Mr. Howarth Draves, the popu- lat young shop instructor, has left the Trade School to study tool- making methods in the tool-rooms of the Ford Motor Co. He will later return to the Trade School richer in experience and training which he will in turn endeavor to g vc to the student's. Mr. Draves is a graduate of the Trade School and within the last year has been an instructor in the Machine Con- struction Bench, and Milling de- partments. New Lunch Room Formally Opens The opening of the new lunch room was celebrated with a big chicken dinner. Spaghetti a la meate, cake a la mode, aqua milk, ani fruit cock ail were served. Most of the boys had to walk only a short distance to the new lunch room, such as the boys on the mills and lathes and the boys in class having to walk only a quarter of a mile up and the same distance hack. Several of the boys fainted from salvation on the way to th£ lunch room. Several excellent speeches were mad? by some of the most promi1 nerit men. Mr. Sanders' speech was short but snappy. It is con- tained in these few words. “Up this aisle, boys. Hey, you, take this seat. Wa s youh number. Three twenty-eight? Don’t forget to clean this table before you leave.’’ -— - • Bruce’s speech was also sweet. “Hey, put the other apple back. Say, your face is familiar. Isn’t this the third time you’re here in the last five minutes?” If you believe this we’ll tell you some more in the next issue. Faculty Organizes Team Large Turnout Expected The members of the faculty are organizing a basketball team among themselves. This is an effort to spend a part of their wintry nights on a gym floor keeping themselves in fits for the hazards they encounter while dealing with the poor innocents. We wand r if this gym business is just an excuse to get out. Bye the bye, as a matter of information, there is plenty of opportunity for the rest of the athlefc members of the faculty to meet at the Willard School gym at Hamilton and Davi- son. on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Don’t forget your gym shoes. (Don’t forget your dress suit). ALUMNI CORNER The alumni Basketball squad is practicing regularly and appear to be a fast aggregation, one that will give the opponents a busy even- ing. There is still a vacancy on the squad, if you know of a fast player. Keith Davis and Peter Blok were recent visitors and enjoyed a visit thru the school. The Baby Lincolns will be guests of the Varsity football squad at the fifth annual banquet on December 9, 1926. Chuck Dunbar strolled in the other day and said that he had eight months more to do on his Navy enlistment, and said, “Never again.” A1 Brady and friend loaded up their Ford and camped out in the Upper Peninsular on the trail of all wild deer. Good fortune being with them, they both got a buck, Al’s weighing about 125 pounds dressed, which isn’t bad for the first time. They had quite an interesting experience, being snow- ed in, but A1 stated that while the big cars were held in the woods their Ford bucked the drifts and they arrived home with the eany ones. Harry Barkby was promoted and transferred to the experimental tool room at Dearborn. Wilfred Modjeski and Morman Klein have been transferred to the experimental laboratories at Dear- born. ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The season of 1926 is about end- ed and the Athletic association is .now offering the 1927-1928 tickets to the students at the reduced price of fifty cents. The Athletic Association tickets more than pay for themselves throughout the year. It permits you to witness all home basketball games, and gives a reduction on your excursion ticket to Bob-Lo on the annual field day. Besides helping to support your varsity team by getting the serv- ives of competent referees and um- pires and paying their traveling expenses it gives you who are rep- resented by the team the feeling that you are doing all in your power to help athletic contests in your school. Buy a ticket. Employer: “The position re- quires a great amount of mechani- cal experience.” Applicant: “I have owned a second hand automobile for two months.” Employer: “Accepted.” Father: “Son, what does this 60 on your report card mean?” Son: “Don’t know, father, un- less it’s the temperature of the room.”