About thirty years ago, when the linotype typesetting machine was beginning to be quite popular, the compositor, the man who set type by hand, was greatly agitated. He thought that every linotype. machine that was installed in a print shop would throw two or more compositors out of work. He, in common with other printers, had an idea that in a few years there would be no need of a hand man.

One day two or three boys, apprentices in the pressroom, were discussing the problem when one of them, a feeder, said, "Well, we will never be out of work on account of a machine picking up sheets and taking our place as feeders."

Since then much progress has been made in printing machinery, and among the many inventions are several machines that automatically feeds one sheet at a time into the press. Our Printing Department has recently installed one of these machines.

This machine, known as the Miller automatic feeder, will feed various kinds of paper ranging from tissue to thin card. It will do more work and give better register than can be secured by hand feeding.

The accompanying illustrations show the feeder at rest, also in operation. During the process of make-ready the feeder is lifted up and to the right and is out of the way of the pressman. The make-ready and all other adjustments are made in the usual way. This being finished, the feeder is let down and the necessary adjustments are made. The machine is started and it will run all day without stopping, unless some unforeseen diffculty arises; all the attendant has to do is to keep the machine supplied with paper.

The principle upon which the machine is built is "suction." If this principle or force is well understood there will be very little difficulty experienced in operations.

A great many people think that suction is air pulling or drawing. This is a mistake. Air cannot pull. We may pull on a string a stick, or a chain; but we are not able to exert any force by pulling on air. On the other hand air has a wonderful force

when pushing. This force is used to push the sheets, one at a time, against feet which carry the sheet to a position where a set of grippers catch hold of it and drag it to a set of guides where it is held until the printing is done. Another set of grippers, called delivery fingers, catch hold of the sheet and drag it out of the press and deposit it into a jogger, where it is automatically straightened and is easily removed from the press ready for the drying

racks.

PRINT SHOP NOTES.

There has recently been added to our equipment sixty cases of new type. This includes many new faces and we now have several complete families, including Cheltenham and Caslon.

During the past month we have had good attendance at all classes, both day and evening. There has been much sickness, but attendance has been very good.

Mr. Cornell reports several new members in the linotype class.

Love: Note.

Mr. Lovering's Linotype class is very popular and his department is filled to capacity, there being a big demand for Linotype operators from all over the north

west.

Mr. Hagglund's class is running along in good shape.

Mr. Mitchell's class in composition is larger than it has ever been and is still growing.

On January 12 and January 19, we held open house to men in the trade, when lectures on color were given by E. G. Robb. Both the lectures were well attended. The interest shown by those present and the requests to have more lectures on this sub

ject indicated that there is much work that we can do along this line.

A BOOST FOR DUNWOODY.* The Institute has a strong and growing outpost in St. Paul in the classes organized among the employes of the St. Paul Gas Light Company, known more commonly as "St. Paul's Gas and Electric Company." So far these classes have been but we hope to see more activity in other confined to the study of electricity only, lines as well before long.

The first class was started by Mr. Meyers, about a year ago. We now have two

classes, ably professored, wet-nursed and

tutored by K. J. Mertz and A. W. Buell. than whom there are none than whomer in the business of spreading electrical information.

We all took a night off, January 22nd, and visited the Institute headquarters, on the Parade. Chartered a couple of these here high-speed sea-going motor busses and held our breath all the way to Minneapolis. which wasn't much of a job, as the trip took just about that long. Some of us were sea-sick when we arrived, but the feed spread out in the private dining room put that out of our minds.

Mr. Drinkall (what a tantalizing name for these days) led us through the mazes of the plant, showed us the boiler plant, the drafting rooms, the gymnasium, the classrooms, the blacksmith shop, the auto shop, the welding shop, the machine shop, the carpenter shop, the bake shop, the print shop, the testing shop, the wiring shop, the motor shop, and answered all our questions without batting an eye.

When our shopping was done he put chocolate icing on the cake he had been dishing out all evening-took us down to the Institute Club Rooms and turned us loose on pool and billiards and bowling. We didn't make any high scores, but we made a lot of noise and kept it up until

the mankillers called at ten bells to carry us back to our own beloved burg.

Hard-shelled oldtimers of either city say that Minneapolis and St. Paul don't have much use for each other. Traditionally, the saintly city is the city of brotherly love for everything but Minneapolisand anything Minneapolis doesn't want she dumps into the river to gum up St. Paul's water supply. Well, if she should make a grievous mistake and let the Institute come floating down, we'd fish it out and move the Capitol over to make room for it right where everybody could see it. Or, if you want to swap, we'll give you the Capitol and throw in Summit avenue and the River boulevard.

*The above article was written by a student of Dunwoody in one of the classes carried on in St. Paul in Extension work in the plant of the St. Paul Gas Light Company. It is published here because it shows what one student, at least, thinks about the work carried on by Dunwoody in our sister city.

DUNWOODY FILM SERVICE.

Four years ago, arrangements were made with the Bureau of Commercial Economics, Washington, D. C., whereby moving picture films of an industrial and travellogue nature were to be circulated by the Dunwoody Institute. Dunwoody was designated as a distributing center in the northwest territory for this service.

Previous to the appointment of Dunwoody Institute as a distributing center, the films were furnished direct to schools and clubs in this section by the Bureau of Commercial Economics, the films being sent out on a circuit basis and shipped from one patron to another.

Under the new arrangements with Dunwoody Institute films were shipped in lots to this institution and distributed to the various points from this center. Under this new arrangement, the film service has grown and at the present time we have some twenty-five patrons on our circuit.

The conditions under which this service is offered are, that the exhibitor must pay the transportation charges to and from

Dunwoody Institute, that he will use the films on a standard motion picture projector handled by a competent operator, that he will make a report on the attendance to Dunwoody Institute immediately after each exhibition, that he will return the films to Dunwoody Institute immediately after use, and that he will charge no admission fee to the public, and allow no collection to be made either before or after the exhibition of the films unless he is given permission to do so by Dunwoody Institute. This service is free to any organization providing the above rules are carried out.

Last season some 175,000 people viewed the films as circulated by this institution. These films are of considerable value to schools and training institutions, and all such organizations should take advantage of this service as the cost is very small in comparision to the amount of educational value received.

The following is a list of the films available at this time:

As yet no mathematician has derived the single formula which will enable us to locate in a moment's time any and every bit of information we may desire. We still must inquire and study to find the “elusive” fact or to solve the new problem. The best that an education can do for us is to give us the ability to connect past experiences with present needs; to enable us to work out for ourselves the problems of today with the knowledge acquired yesterday. By means of this faculty we can make use, also, of the knowledge of others. It is at this point that the books help us.

The library is a shop where we learn to use books. We find here the gazetteer, the dictionary, the encyclopedia, the handbook, the text-book, and the current periodicals, each with its limitations but each serving its own purpose.

In preparation for the Industrial Science lesson, should I want to know what "resonance" is, I would most certainly consult the chapter on sound in a physics text-book. It is true that I would find the word in the dictionary, and in the unabridged dictionary very full definitions. of the word in all its applications, psychology, physics, and physiology. The text book would be preferable because

the explanation of the term, there, would be complete, simple, and would not introduce extraneous ideas. Again, take the subject of concrete ships. To look in a book on shipbuilding or even to consult the general encyclopedia would be futile, for the wide use of concrete in ship construction is of such recent date that we must rely on magazine articles for information on the subject. The periodical index which constantly adds new subjects is valuable in such a case. Handbooks hold a wealth of material and for ready reference are much to be preferred to texts upon the special subject.

It is only by constant use, persistent searching, that we can kno wbooks and their worth. The "browsing" habit is one that should be cultivated and when we can say that we have at least a "browsing" ac quaintance with this book or magazine we have gained a thing that will be exceedingly valuable in the years to come.

To paraphrase the advertising slogan of a well known confection, we can say of books, "The more you read, the more you want to read."

BOWLING ALIBIS

Every time I bowl out of my turn I make a strike.

If it wasn't for the ten pin I would average over two hundred.

How could I expect to deliver my ball right when the fellow up before me wears rubber heels?

Every time I get called to the telephone it means a split or error.

The ball hit my ankle.

There were too many bowling and I got cold before my turn to shoot. My thumb stuck.

My foot work was bad. Someone walked across the runway just as I was ready to start my delivery. The pin boy swung his legs and got my eye off the pins.