let go in a real man's size kick- -a process which must work over and over again without fault or failure, a designed process carried out with forethought and study. Experience tells us that before the young man can get the job he wants, a definite and designed career must be laid out ahead of him. It might be certain grammar schooling, several years of high schooling, a decision as to vocation, special vocational study, an apprenticeship, and finally the job. It might, on the other hand, be much more intricate than this, but whatever the process be, it must be given its due forethought and study. At sometime in mankind's history the word "luck" appeared, a word probably more dangerous to success than "failure." In the general scheme of things, too many young men hope for luck in getting the job, trusting to the whim of this fatal process rather than planning and designing a career. In was once told that a planned career was like a railroad train; some accident might cause a delay, but the actual destination never changed. Of course, it does not follow that one should always stick to one job or spend all his time in the vocation for which he is training, but he must stick to his planned career. I once made a long tour with a “onelunger," one that had a "regular kick," whose "cough" announced its approach from afar. But I had a hard fight to gain the destination. More recently, I covered the same territory in a modern popular "four-lunger" and marveled how it was that I "imagined" such hardships on the first trip. But I was "HITTING ON ALL FOUR." I had equipment to carry me over the top that wasn't thought of in the early days. I didn't have more than I needed, but enough for a comfortable ride. So it is that the average mechanic goes out into the garage world with a mind as one-sided as the power thrust of a onelunger and looks around helplessly for a job. Always his chief aim seems to be to find one that pays the most at the start. Does it ever occur to him to analyze the nature of the problems that will confront him? Does he know whether the parti cular garage that employes him is conducted by men trained in the technique and philosophy of modern business? Or is he starting in on a "dead-end" job? No. of course not, for he lacks a "common understanding of the business." My simple researches indicate a great need for men to handle the complex nature of the automobile industry. Yet in spite of this there is a large army of "mechanic floaters," men unable to hold a job or unable to obtain a job. Why? They believe, like the early owner of the onelunger once believed, that four cylinders would be an awful nuisance for "think of all the valves one would have to grind, to say nothing of the spark plugs to clean and other complications." Such a fellow never had experienced the sensation of "hitting on all four," maybe never will. "How is one to design a career?" you say. That is where each man's inventive genius is brought into play. He must work this out himself for he alone knows what favorite gifts of nature impell his mind to seek to obtain his desired station in life. If he possesses, still further, some talent, which is nothing more than a peculiar aptitude for being molded or directed to some specific employment, he will be encouraged to hurry his career plan along. Technical heads and chiefs of modern mechanic plants are unanimously agreed as to the proper specifications for the "motive energy" for "hill climbing" on "all four" and give such as these: Get as good a common school education as possible. Pick a vocation with care. Carefully plan the start of your voca tional training. Start early to read books on your vocation. Stick to your vocation. Read all the business and trade journals on your vocation that you possibly can. If you get training in your vocation don't leave it "half baked." Don't take the first job open along your vocation unless necessity demands. Occasionally joy ride on arithmetic, English, and scientific subjects to keep your "hand in." Pick the first job in the firm that has the best chance for advancement, even if at the start it is poor pay. Baking Department By J. C. SUMMERS, Department Head. The Baking Department has a very heavy enrollment (seventy-five students) and it has been necessary to turn over another class room to this department. Messrs. Morrison and Pirrie, who are with the American Institute of Baking, are devoting two hours every day to related class room instruction and lecture work for Dunwoody students in the Baking Department. The co-operation of these two men, who are experts in their line, is a very happy result of the working arrangement between the American Institute of Baking and the Dunwoody Institute. In fact, the entire working plan between these two agencies, viz; American Institute of Baking and Dunwoody Institute will result in most efficient instruction in this department. The present sugar shortage is very seriously affecting the bakers, many have al ready been forced to curtail and in some cases discontinue the making of sweetgoods such as: Pie, doughnuts, cake, pastry, sweet rolls, and coffee cake. This lack of sugar is also very seriously affecting the quality of bread. While it is possible to make bread without cane sugar, still without this substance it is only possible to make an inferior loaf. Malt syrups and sugars are now in great demand as substitutes for cane sugar. Bakers have for many years in the past used these malt products to advantage in small quantities but have found it inadvisable to substitute them entirely for cane sugar. Malt sugars and syrups are made by converting the starch of grains by means of acids into this form of sugars. Many brewers are now finding the manufacture of malt products a very profitable business and are converting their breweries into malt factories. Mr. Elmer T. Fegan has been added to the staff of instructors in the Baking Department. He has had excellent training and experience and comes well recommended. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota in chemical engineering, specialized in photography and milling chemistry, and holder of B.Ac. and M.S. degrees. Since graduation Mr. Fegan has spent two years in the Washburn-Crosby Company and Haward laboratories of this city. The Christmas holidays were saddened for two of the students in the Baking Schools, Messrs. Childs and Manewal. Mr. Child's brother was seriously injured in an automobile accident and lived only a few days afterwards. Mr. Manewal was called home several days before the holidays to the bedside of his father, who was operated upon. He withstood the operation extremely well, but pneumonia followed which soon afterwards claimed him. The instructors and students of the Baking Department deeply sympathize with these two boys in the loss of their relatives. Mr. McKinzie, a representative of the Ward Baking Company, of New York City, recently spent several days in this city on business, during which time he visited Dunwoody Institute. Mr. McKinzie is a graduate of Ontario Agricultural College and was referred to the Ward company by the head of the baking school about a year ago. He has been with them in their laboratories and plants studying Arkady, a yeast food manufactured by this concern, and is now on the road introducing this product to bakers. Mr. McKinzie is very enthusiastic over his present work and promises to make a very valuable man for the Ward Company. Mr. F. W. Nelson and Mr. Chas. A. Wat The Liberty Yeast Company is now erecting a large yeast plant in Midway and expect to have this plant operating very soon. This plant will prove of great interest to the Baking Department, since it will afford an opportunity for the baking students to visit the factory and study more fully the manufacture of yeast. One of the members of this concern, a university man, is a member of our evening class and expects to have several of his men join the evening classes. The members of the old baking class returned to school after enjoying a pleasant vacation, with renewed determination to more diligently apply themselves during the remaining two months of their course. These men are promising to become leaders in the baking industry and fully appreciate that there are big things in store for them and that for prepared men there are prepared places. Mr. Wm. B. Grothen has been added to the instructional staff in the Drawing Department. Mr. Grothen has had some advanced technical training and has had considerable drafting room experience, and we believe that his services will be of value in this department. The members of the American Institute of Baking are now meeting classes daily which makes possible the giving of a more ters visited Dunwoody Institute recently, thorough course in baking. Mr. Nelson is head miller for the Scott Mr. Walters is the President of Keystone Baking Company, at West Bridgewater, Pa. Dunwoody is glad to have fathers visit the school as often as found possible. This assistance in the class work is fully appreciated by Dunwoody. SOMEBODY BLUNDERED. "Get me a can of beer," were the first words spoken by Murphy when found," testified Brandt. "He was given. a pail of water instead, and almost immediately after drinking it became unconscious."Milwaukee Sentinel. Drafting Department The requirements for two kinds of drawing in an industrial school, viz; shop drawing and mechanical drawing, are very heavy and the growth of the Drafting Department has necessitated larger space for the work and additional instructors. In the large space now assigned to the Drawing Department, the two distinct courses in drawing are given: ials. Boys in this course are also required to put in some work in the Machine Shop, Blacksmith and Electrical Departments, and Building Construction Department, inasmuch as mechanical draftsmen must have a first hand knowledge of some of the work covered in the above shops. In laying out this course in Mechanical Drafting, it has been planned to take care of, not only those students who wish to go into the drawing room, but, also, those who wish to work into the positions of "non-commissioned officers of industry." EGOTISM 1. The practical shop drawing course is largely by pencil and ruler or free hand, and with some orthographic and some isometric projection, and largely from actual shop subjects such as : Parts of machines, fittings, and other pieces with which the boys are working in the shop. 2. On the other hand, the mechanical drafting work is somewhat more technical in nature. In this course students will receive special training and more advanced applied mathematics and strength of mater- yourself."-London Opinion. Unlucky Motorist (having killed the lady's pet puppy): "Madam, I will replace the animal.” Indignant Owner: "Sis, you flatter The Wood Working Class making more instructors' desks. Electrical Department L. R. DRINKALL, Department Head. Boys! Take a look around the shop. There are machines there you haven't seen, quite a few of them, for I found that 50 % of the students can't name the make of one machine used in power work, and we have quite a few, not only A. C., D. C. motors, but generators as well. There's a few switchboards too that are worth noticing, four especially; the automatic control board, by Mr. Drinkall's office, the big D. C. switchboard, the big A. C. switchboard, and the old Edison wooden switchboard. All will give you a good many hours work before you can get to understand them. The following are a few of the alternating current motors and generators, all are 60 cycle machines and three phase. Under the General Electric machines there are induction motors: Two 220 volt, 10 H. P. motors, one connected to a type N. R. start compensator and the other to a type 54 H. controller. Three 220 volt 3 H. P., 1800 R. P. M. motors connected to a type 7 H. controller, a three pole, double throw, fused resistance switch and the other one to a type N 1 Alis Chalmers' potential starter. We also have a general electric repul sion and induction motor for 110 or 220 volts, 9 amperes with a speed of 1740 R. P. M. This motor is connected to a three pole, double throw, double fused knife switch. The Emerson repulsion and induction motor is also for 110 or 220 volts, is good for 2 H. P. and has a speed of 1750 R. P. M. This motor is also connected to a starting switch. A North Western Electric Co., squirrel cage motor of 3 H. P., 16 amperes and speed of 1750 R. P. M., also graces our shop. This motor is connected to a big oil switch guaranteed to stand 2,500 volts. This is by no means all of the A. C. motors or generators, but the rest will fit in best when the big switch board is finished. Our 10 K. W. motor generator set has just recently been put to work again. This machine is run by a 15 HP, 220 volt, three phase motor and delivers direct current at a constant voltage of 125 volts. It is now connected to a two panel switchboard with instruments showing the input in volt amperes and kilowatts; and the output in volts and amperes. Mr. Peterson has a crew getting another D. C. switchboard wired up. This we hope to have in operation in a couple of weeks. Cloninger and Haggquist, working for Mr. Timpte, have just got the voltage regulator mounted. It's a good job and looks fine. Mr. Swartout has some of the signal wiring group building thermostats. The A. C. Machinery Section is rapidly approaching a working condition under the direction of Mr. Timpte. ALUMNI NOTES Harry Smith is now working for the Minneapolis General Electric Co, in the motor testing department. He lives at the Central Y. M. C. A. Oscar Olson is installing farm lighting plants for the Farmer's Electric Lighting Company of Aberdeen, S. D. Clifford Dalton was home for Xmas. He is doing general electrical work for the Mobridge Electric Co. of Mobridge, S. D. Ray Hultgren surprised us the other day. He has been with O. W. Carlson doing electrical wiring. |