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CHRISTMAS SPORTS PROVIDE THRILLS
Machinists 46, Tailors 20
In the first day of games the schedule was made out
to give everyone a chance to compete in the holiday
shop events. The machinists, auto mechanics, black
smiths, nurses and practice house girls sided together
to do battle with the tailors, shoemakers, plumbers and
the junior cooking girls. The competition was keen
between the teams and sensational tactics were pro
duced in the sports to make them interesting. Boxing
and wrestling were among the events that were eager
ly awaited by the fans. The machinist’s side defeated
the tailors with ease to the score of 45-20.
Machinists 40, Cooks 26
In the second day of games the machinist repeated
victory by nearly the same score of previous day. The
cooks siding in with the barbers, bakers and beauty
culture girls only won the wheelbarrow race, boxing
and the basket shooting contest.
Farmers 30, Carpenters 36
The farmers, engineers, draftsmen and the junior
cooking girls met in combat with the carpenters,
prevocationals and the senior home ec department. It
was a close battle and the carpenters nailed the farm
ers in the pen by the hair of their chiny chin chin.
Carpenters 36, Printers 30
In the most closely contested game of the holiday
events the nailers just chipped the type faces enough
so the razzing that would of been poked at them was
invisible in the local paper. One of the high lights of
the games was the tug-o-war which lasted a little bet
ter than a minute. The carpenters had inches to go
to win when the printers then got their second wind
and struggled with all their might to ooze victory for
that event.
Finals: Machinists 40, Carpenters 26
In the final game of the tournament, New Year’s
day the mighty machinists downed the carpenters over
whelmingly to win the championship.
Two good
events on the program was the terrific slugging match
between Sam Shoulderblade and Louis Jamison and
the light pro tactics used by Homer Settler to defeat
Aloysius Jefferson in the cranium cracking contest.
Shoulderblade and Jamison put on an excellent ex
hibition of boxing. Shoulderblade won the decision
with the most facial punches.
THE LESSON OF THE DEAD LINE
I had called to interview one of America’s great
generals of industry. He was a big, genial, friendly-
man—chief of a fifty-million-dollar manufacturing
group with thousands of salesman in the army be
commanded. He was a genius for organization; had
a reputation for getting resu” .. Men envied him the
name he had built.
When we were through there came a twinkle in his
eye and he remarked:
‘ ‘I began as a reporter on a daily newspaper. What
I learned in those days has helped me much each day,
through all my life.”
“What was it you learned?” I asked. “Dead Lines,”
he replied. The great industrialist put match to cigar
and leaned back.
“I learned, early in those days, to respect the Dead
Line. I learned that at a certain moment each day
all my work had to be done. At that unchangeable
fraction of time the job must be over It could not be
missed.”
“At a certain minute the copy had to be in. At a
certain minute the type had to be set, the proof ready,
the forms locked up. At a certain minute the presses
had to start. Trains never waited. The papers had
to go out. ’ ’
“When I got into business life I found that few
men understood the meaning of the Dead Line. It
was not a thing in their consciousness. They did not
finish. Tasks piled up. Correspondence and mass of
details were left over to the next day. Tomorrow was
always a good day, or the next.”
“Without my sense of the Dead Line, I often think,
I might have been just another private in the ranks.”
“If any man should come to me and ask me for my
most prized secret, this one thing I would say to him.”
“It is the Dead Line. Make it your whip, your
spur, your goal; make it a part of your daily conduct
and find a place for it somewhere along with your
religion. Never forget the Dead Line.”—Lester B.
Colby, in The Informant.
VOCATIONS
WHY I CHOSE CARPENTRY
By Gilbert Glen
I selected carpentry to be my trade, because it ap
pears, in my estimination, to be one of the most clean
est, healthiest, and a most benefical trade one can se
lect.
The knowledge of the trade seems to be unlimited.
It has been proven that one may learn quicker and
better methods of construction, woodworking, and
the other branches of the carpentry trade, after fol
lowing it for many years.
If he considers to make his living from the various
branches of agriculture, it is a great saving and a
great help to be able to build for himself, it is worth
all the years one may spend in learning the carpentry
trade, to be able to build your own home to your
liking.
I consider it a very fine opportunity to be able to re-
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